Understanding our place in this universe(November 19, 2008)

I realized something today while trying to get to class, there might be some forces in this physical world that I can’t control or totally understand. My car’s clutch cylinder is now squirting brake fluid into my vehicle instead of helping shift gears. I went from panicking to frustration to anger and then started laughing how something so small and mechanical could change the day at hand and more than likely the near future. This incident got me thinking, should I accept these varying forces with bliss or confrontation. First I must analyze what these forces are and if they even exist without human interpretation. Not wanting to get into quantum mechanics, I will generalize the concepts as much as possible. Some forces that come to mind are gravity, wind, the sun, chemical reactions and wear and tear (my car) to name a few. These forces of nature can be managed but not controlled, so we must work with these force to find a middle ground. I can safely conclude that we are enslaved by these forces. People might tell you don’t stress on our dependence of these life sustaining forces, it’s just a histrionic anecdote it’s sophomoric. These forces must act on something because if they didn’t would we know they exist and even more so, would they exist at all. For example what is gravity if it has nothing to push? A tougher question, is gravity still there when it has nothing to act upon or anything to observe it?

There is a relationship between all these questions, 2. In a way the number 2 can be the answer to the universe instead of 42, as in the book “The hitchhiker guide to the galaxy”. Two times twenty-two gives you forty-two, so they weren’t off by that much. The number two is the universal explanation for why things exist and happen. Nothing can exist alone, not us, not God, not the forces of nature. Matter must be acted upon and observe in some way and I’m not always talking about observation with sight, things can be observed with sound, smell and touch. As human beings we think in extremes, forever, beginning, and infinite. We shape our questions the same way, where did the universe come from, where did God come from, how long is eternality? It almost seems that there is something universal about it. We can build a trillion transistors to simulate weather systems and display images within the scope of our imagination. Transistors are objects that can hold a charge or not hold a charge, and using these states on and off, 1 and 0, we can arrange the patterns to do anything. So why can’t our current reality be just that, a binary state. A binary system is a number system based on two numbers, 0 and 1. I know enough about computer science to know that those patterns of ones and zeros are pointless without an interrupter. Who is the interrupter for our reality us or God? The answer is both; everything must work in pairs (2’s). Who is God without us and who are we without God?

Taking this theory as truth for a moment, how should we now look at our enslavement to these forces? We should take great joy that we EXIST and are able to make both spiritual and physical relations with our surroundings. If you believe that our existence is over once we die, these forces might seem as a threat but they aren’t. These forces exist just like you and I, they need us as much as we need them. Death is just a change we must all make to keep our connection to the universe.