The Meaning of Life: Our Culminated Observations

I have spent my entire life experiencing and thinking and asking 'Why am I?'
I am only 25, but these last five years my knowledge has been growing so much faster. Mostly thanks to this website, which has motivated me to research everything and anything. I feel the whole world is starting to shift and as more people become like us our knowledge asymptotes toward the truth. I request the assistant of every thinking mind to criticize and analyze. I wish to see this story steeled in the crucible of skeptisism and fact. Once it is polished and refined, I wish to use this story to heal the minds of everyone I know using the power of communication and awareness. So here it is, my own personal take on the meaning of life and the story of our creation and evolution.

Come with me and you will see
What everybody used to be.

Chapter 1 - The Cosmos

Big Bang is all we can see. But who is the big banger? Now that is a lofty question, one which will require our whole lives learning and living to begin to answer. With everything you have experienced, add to it the communication of others. So let us start communicating. Let us compile all our scientific knowledge to answer the question together, starting with that bang. Matter is ejected all across the universe, burning like oily shrapnel. This universe writhes with heat and electric energies, cosmic forces swirl around in an attempt seemingly to stabilize or destruct and reconstruct. There is a nice stable planet called Earth flying around a small star. Heat from this star causes the elements of the planet to vibrate and change shape. Eventually life forms, and things change in this corner of the universe.

Chapter 2 - The Growth of the Organism

Before, evolution was based on heat and vibrations and electricity randomly changing and reacting elements. Now these primordial bacteria evolve like animals instead of cosmic bodies. This new evolution is efficient, heartless, and nearly unstoppable. The bacteria kill and eat anything they can. If a bacteria was killed, it was highly probable that a greater bacteria was the killer. This became the survival of the fittest. This process raged on for thousands of years, and culminated with complex multicellular organisms. The bacteria essentially teamed up through a strange kind of symbiosis. They built cities of cells and organs, all the while ensuring procreation. As time passed they built ganglions within their cities, eventually sprouting a metropolis of ganglions that would come to know themselves as the brain. Evolution had created intelligence in an attempt to mimic its creator. Suddenly at this level, the simple understanding of the environment and pattern recognition bestowed by intelligence aided in the survival of the organism more than additional appendages or organs. Intelligence became stronger and stronger as organisms became more advanced. At this point, and for a very long time after, intelligence was still just another tool for the survival of the fittest evolution. It was the strangest tool wielded by the dominating survival evolution, for it was a tool that would develop the capacity to ask ‘why am I?’ The primal evolution had created the most intelligent creatures to date, the ancestors of mankind. They had better understanding of the world than any of the creatures around them, and they were fortunate enough to achieve the new evolutionary paradigm, hastening their steps toward the modern man.

Chapter 3 - The War of the Paradigms

The societies of ancient man would travel the world, living in all different conditions and eating all sorts of plants. They would move across evolutionary plateaus, the ones in better conditions evolved faster and cause man to reach new plateaus until he became modern man.(There are many anthropological pieces that can explain the depth of this process better than I) Modern Man showed himself to be the pinnacle of the ancient evolution, existing as you even to this day. As modern as they be, they still suffered at the hands of their own kind, emulating the bacteria and insects and animals below them. Wars raged constantly, fueled by greed for power. Man found himself asking, ‘Why am I’ The asking of such a question was the very beginning of the realization of the new evolutionary paradigm that had been haunting them ever since they loved another being. The root of the problem was that some people felt good when doing evil. Why would this be? A man may feel a rush killing another, why is this? Why would a loving God reward such bad behavior? They reasoned it must be an opposing force, a Devil, rewarding this behavior. This Devil was really no more than the remnants of the dominator paradigm influencing their mental states through the manipulation of the physical body. The cells that make you will still dance to the drums of the slow, ancient evolution, survival of the fittest. Man versus his nature.

The emergence of the new paradigm was what boosted ancient man up enough to reach the next evolutionary plateau, only to become an animalistic dominator once again and forsake the new paradigm that made them. But how did this new paradigm come to be and would it return again? There is the natural way, slowly evolving the trait by forming tribes, finding love, communicating and meditating. Then there is the catalytic way. The harbinger of the new paradigm existed even before sentience emerged, in the form of the many plants of earth. The secret to enlightenment, the total ascension into the new paradigm, existed as a mere alignment of chemicals in the brain. As if God had coded his ultimate purpose into the minds of all things, and given them the ability to create within their own body through its total mastery these sacred key chemicals. When activated, it would subtly connect the conscious to the subconscious, drawing forth wisdom from knowledge. It is the secret to God’s ability to control the wildest cosmic chaos.

More secrets were unlocked by modern man, with his think tanks and laboratories and crazed field researchers.
-The One Hundred Monkeys: This study made us aware of the phenomena in which you teach 100 monkeys to do something and suddenly all the monkeys in the area begin to learn it too, even across bodies of water.
-The Crossword Study: This study made us aware that people scored significantly better on crossword puzzles that were released to the community a day earlier, yet were still new to test subjects. Could it be possible our subconscious minds communicate subtly, giving us that feeling as we read something that we had somehow heard it before.

With these studies in mind, along with the chance to consume varying amounts of God’s plants, one can begin to see how man could make the jump to modern man so quickly, but the question of why some men remained in tribes and some men joined civilization and forsook God requires more understanding of the intricate effects of God’s chemical messenger. The tribal man had little understanding of the world. His knowledge was practical and survival based. He had little knowledge of science or mathematics. When he was touched by God and connected to his subconscious, he could not achieve beyond his means. He could only feel the effects of the new paradigm, love, oneness, joy. Perhaps see visions and experience ecstasy. This was God’s gift to him, God’s way of saying ‘You have done well, share now your wisdom of the new paradigm, and be content with your temporal enlightenment.’ God made the enlightened man content and the unenlightened man discontent because he knew forcing the paradigms to go to war would hasten evolution as a whole. So the enlightened tribes spread population and love across the world, creating vast human resources for the dominator to utilize upon his return. Even with their rituals of contentment, some tribes couldn’t get along well with others. It didn’t take long before one of the discontent tribes became so good at war they became not just savages but conquerors. And once they started conquering, civilized man rose from the ashes. Civilized man was alienated from his tribal ancestors, dwindling in number, who still lived amongst him. The practices of consuming the sacred plants and the rituals of contentment and meditation were quickly forgotten. Man found himself with the greatest technologies and empires the world had ever known, but in doing so severed its primal connection with God

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The purpose of life, is a life full of purpose.

Chapter 4 - The Beast and the Harlot

Civilization was now a mighty war machine, blazing heavy on the rails of the dominator. This would not prevent the occasionally passenger from looking out the window to see what life really was. Many men peered out this window, to see beyond their eyes. The one I am personally most familiar with is Jesus, so I will narrow our analysis of the modern world’s prophets to him. Civilized man had knowledge of mathematics and law and complex society, so when one of these civilized men naturally looked inward to ask ‘Why am I’ he received a better answer than his tribal brothers. It is quite possible some of these tribes shared their secret of enlightenment to some adventuring civilized men, who in turn may have shared it with others. When a civilized man, who was as aware as he could be, striving to learn, striving to love, striving to answer ‘Why am I’, when this man unlocked his mind he connected with God and saw the meaning of life itself. He became a prophet of God. He traveled the world, telling all of the living word of God, of the contentment with oneness with God, of the destruction of the Dominator that enslaved all men. He spoke the new paradigm of oneness with his fellow man, catalyzing a spiritual revolution. The conquering elite of the civilized world saw his enslavement of man begin to fade away. They were losing control, as fear was replaced by love. Being on the top of the food chain blinded them to the new paradigm; they were physically compelled by their history and memories to dominate society. So it wasn’t long before the prophet was slain and his message masterfully corrupted. Now the Dominator had a new weapon of mass destruction, a weapon that even still today rains burning toxic fallout over the world, the weapon of Dominated Religion. Man called his dominator ways sin, and prayed to God to forgive him and spare him an afterlife in hell. Little did he know that his sin was actually manifesting hell in the living world. When he hurt another, he was affecting himself just as much as the one he hurt, even if he felt good about it. This is because the subconsciousnesses shared their grief to lessen it, and on top of that, the whole world stagnated from destructive behavior. The opportunity cost of instant gratification was this evolutionary stagnation. Still man convinced himself that hell did not exist in this world but in the next, and that praying for forgiveness would fix things; their fear and apathy was being preyed upon and exploited by the dominators who controlled the world. This allowed the war machine to pick up speed, crushing any that stood in its way as it crusaded down the hellforged rails of the dominator. How could God have allowed for this?

God knew, that like the tribal man begot the civilized, the civilized would beget the modern. Modern man had dominated religion to create a mask shaped in the image of the new paradigm to conceal the ugly face of the old paradigm. This allowed the dominator society to drive its technological advancement with everything man had to offer while still staying in control. Evolution as a whole radically changed speed through its cosmic, animal, and intelligent stages of evolution. The exponential changes were noticeable as technology advanced faster and faster, allowing it to be witnessed within a generation. Still these curious modern slaves built empires and studied math and sciences beyond the realm of imagination of the older civilizations. But why has it been so long since God has enlightened man? Modern man thought he knew everything there was to know. He thought he knew all that plants had to offer. He saw the many effects from various plants; euphoria, speed, tranquility, and others. His elite saw that some of these effects would make man content or unstable and would result in the loss of a worker, so they banned all they could. These practical laws set a precedence that would seal the vaults of God’s wisdom. Those with the power to open the vault chose out of ignorance the plants of euphoria, thinking that was were power resided. Doing these drugs while standing on the backs of an entire population gave them the rush of a lifetime. The dominator’s enlightenment. Evolutionary stagnation. They hypocritically said to others ‘If it gets you high you can’t do it, we must protect our children!’ People had always had the strange feeling that ‘if it feels good do it’ was somehow wrong in the eyes of God. It vexed them, and these laws were a reflection of this. This, and all instances of ‘if it feels good it must be right’ being harmful, are perfect examples of the counter-intuitiveness of the modern evolution. Survival of the fittest style evolution doesn't work well when the apes wield guns. This counter-intuitiveness caused chaos and disagreement. The truth was modern man was still suffering in the war of the paradigms, and though he knew something wasn't right, he was still thinking like dominators

Chapter 5 - The All-Mind Awakens

Despite all of Modern Man’s suffering, he had amassed epic technologies. There were even many people who utilized God’s chemical unknowingly. They were mostly scientists, using them to inspire themselves to invent and understand. The world had changed so that those who used these substances were often not interested in seeking God, and even after finding God, were reluctant to communicate it with their skeptical peers. Holy Men who dedicated their lives to seeking god were chained to the dominated church, preventing the emergence of any new prophet. Modern Man had invented mass media and complex systems of control. Anyone claiming to be Jesus or a prophet was considered insane, and sometimes rightfully so. Apathy and fear were the number one emotions of the day, and the whole modern world seemed set up to systematically deny God. So even with these chemicals being used, modern man rarely achieved anything beyond a tribal or inventors sense of temporal enlightenment. The subconscious communications were so massively corrupted that they were difficult to understand even when fully connected. However, God and his evolution only needed the enlightened inventor to change the world at this point. The greatest invention the world had always known was pulled from the mental world and weirdly woven into the waves of the world wide web. The great communications internet was born and with it was man’s new catalyst to upturn the dominator. This allowed man to do consciously what he could only do before subconsciously, and the results were staggering. Wisdom poured over the earth, causing modern man to become more powerful than he had ever been. He could sit in his prison cell and see the whole world and all its intricacies. Man could now easily see the telescoping nature evolution. He could extrapolate the future; not just a possible future, but rather an inevitable one. He could see consciousnesses being interconnected by neurobiology, nanotechnology, and quantum communications technology. He could see the whole universe being deconstructed and reconstructed into sentience faster than any cosmic evolutions could do with a million times the time. It is what the dominator would have eventually accomplished, if given eons of time. But God gave us that advanced new paradigm to escape the painful animalistic paradigm of the dominator. This mysterious new paradigm that always had trumped the physical dominator paradigm, revealed itself as the paradigm of mental assimilation. A glorious singularity of intelligence, filling the universe and expanding it into unity with God like some righteous reversion of the Big Bang.

This whole story might sound familiar to you. It may have even been your idea, making it easier for me to think about it, and remind you to think about it, because that’s really all that’s important. Think about anything, the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything in between. Think about the flaws of this story, and ask questions to get others to think, because we can fix all the flaws by just thinking and communicating. Think you for your time.

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thus far ive made it to chapter 4. so far good read. once done i will edit to add more. all around great stuff to ponder about. definitely agree that our minds are connected and we are slowly but surely returning to the ways we have forgotten a long time ago.

ETA:
Good stuff man i'm looking forward to seeing others opinions of this. i'm definitely on board with most of the stuff you stated.

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In response to the first post of the OP, I think we must consider the possibility that the evolution of the universe may be "framed" within the context of an eternal evolutionary recurrance, through a fully informed Akashic Field or Record which is non-local and holographic or instantenous right across the entire depth and breadth of "it", as an interpenetrating, cosmological unity. Why? Because of it's interdependant nature, at all levels. It is even possible, in such a framework for the last to be first and the first last, meaning that mankind represents something here on earth that is quite extraordinary and never before seen in the history of the universe, regardless of whatever other forms sentient life may have taken. Makes our ah "shortcomings" all the more embarassing however, that is, if we are the "crowning glory of cosmic evolution". Oh well, what can ya do? Onward and upward we go.

Life essentially boils down to DNA being in a race with chaos. We all exist so DNA can keep one step ahead of any kind of change in environment, mutation or virus that could render it unable to reproduce. And it's a numbers game. The more variations itself it can come up with, the better chance it might have to weather the next storm.

Why does it struggle so hard to continue its existence? Because in the long run, if it doesn't continue to exist, neither will the universe. Reality exists because there is something around to experience it, and that something is life. If life fails, then the universe not only ceases to exist, it ceases to ever have existed. All of this will be gone.

Of course, that doesn't mean much to us individually. After all, it's a numbers game. We're only here for a short time, and then we have to leave. And when we die, our portion of the universe ceases to exist or ever have existed.

Seems pretty solid at the moment, and it is. But it will all be gone once we are no longer able to experience it.

I appreciate the time it took for you to put this together....I really do. Sometimes though, Less is More.

Thank you all so very much for taking the time to think about and comment on this idea. Your posts are precious gleaming gems to me, and I love you all so very much for giving them to me, asking nothing at all in return.

Originally posted by MagesticEsoteric
I appreciate the time it took for you to put this together....I really do. Sometimes though, Less is More.

I see some familiar names in here, but for good measure:


System of Truth

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I like your thoughts, they are very realistic and succinct. I agree with this except for a few points which I will give you to ponder.

The virus, a seemingly useless, offensive mechanism of destruction? Or is the virus rather an agent of evolution, carrying DNA, taking DNA, and sharing DNA. From the ocean, to the plants, to the animals, to the humans, and back again, like a strange hive of bees with an unusual method of pollinization.

Life ceases to exist and along with it the universe? This truth seems temporary to me when I observe nature. Nature does not waste, but humans have invented a way to convince ourselves we can be wasting. Stagnating is a more accurate term. If we used our technology to erradicate all life on this planet and all others, the universe would just keep spinning until everything is consumed by black holes, which then unite as they try to consume eachother and BANG, the universe is reborn to try again. When given an eternity, infinity is inevitable.

I cannot believe consciousness can be wasted either. This would be very unnatural of nature to vanish this miracle, and while I cannot possible prove this to others, I cannot disprove it to myself.

I like reading the many truths within and I can connect with most of them as I can this OP's ideas of life and existence as well.

There are many possibilities and the fact of thematter is we just do not know however it is very entertaining to ponder other belief systems.

We can seek daily. From one year to the next the imagination and intellect evolves into another belief system and so on. One thing I keep as a constant is there is no fear to have in such a beautiful (whether an illusion or not) and mystical existence. It just IS and with that said.... I choose to love a belief or a non belief because it matters.

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Such an amazing culmination of observation. Using math and science as a sensory organ to see the universe. It is too massive for me to understand it fully right now. After many months or even years I may be able to truly understand this. From your viewpoint, if I have read correctly, this is what the meaning of life is. To understand.

If you have any distilled comments that could help this work in my mind that is my OP I would appreciate it. To catalyze my understanding, my meaning, taking it from future potential, and giving it to the now.

Originally posted by MemeticHarvest
This whole story might sound familiar to you. It may have even been your idea, making it easier for me to think about it, and remind you to think about it, because that’s really all that’s important. Think about anything, the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything in between. Think about the flaws of this story, and ask questions to get others to think, because we can fix all the flaws by just thinking and communicating. Think you for your time.

#1 flaw . . . none of it ever happened!

No big bang!

No evolution!

Etc . . .

This is an experiment and you are a rat running in the maze.

If I was you, I'd think about starting a Occupy Animal Testing group to protest what's been done to you your entire life.

Ribbit

Originally posted by Americanist

Originally posted by MagesticEsoteric
I appreciate the time it took for you to put this together....I really do. Sometimes though, Less is More.

I see some familiar names in here, but for good measure:


System of Truth

You say:

"If you were to step back, and take a look at the whole of Creation...

You would see a pyramid with the cube for a cap stone."

Actually, you'd see a pyramid inverted on top of another pyramid, similar to two cones, with one inverted on top of the other.

WE IS uniquely One.

Ribbit

Ps: You say:

"We are all One."

That is incorrect English. Using a plurality (We) to define a singularity (One), with a plurality connector (are), violates English.

WE IS ONE.

Another thing I didn't see you say, the Mathematical Center of the Universe is One. Also, Time is Real, considering the Source of Time is the Source of All Energy being created by the Universe and I absolutely agree with you that the Universe is aLIVE.

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I feel you are trying to use cynicism to inspire me. Thank you friend. Let me give this a shot.

You say that none of this ever happened, no evolution, no bigbang.

But then you confess that there is in fact an experiment. There exists a rat as well as a maze which he navigates.

Your words to me contradict themselves. You tell me there is no experimentor or maze, but rather we are a rat in a maze experiment....

If I was a robot you would have broken me for sure friend.

Are you saying that history is an illusion, the universe is just a holographic creation to run tests on us. So when we die or ascend or whatever we leave the maze and enter actual reality? What would make this new reality any different from this one? I prefer my reality now rather than later.

I am sorry if I seem to be putting words in your mouth, it is just your post was a little vague and I had to use my imagination to fill in the blanks. Think you for your time and contribution.

Originally posted by MemeticHarvest
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I feel you are trying to use cynicism to inspire me. Thank you friend. Let me give this a shot.

You say that none of this ever happened, no evolution, no bigbang.

But then you confess that there is in fact an experiment. There exists a rat as well as a maze which he navigates.

Your words to me contradict themselves. You tell me there is no experimentor or maze, but rather we are a rat in a maze experiment....

If I was a robot you would have broken me for sure friend.

Are you saying that history is an illusion, the universe is just a holographic creation to run tests on us. So when we die or ascend or whatever we leave the maze and enter actual reality? What would make this new reality any different from this one? I prefer my reality now rather than later.

I am sorry if I seem to be putting words in your mouth, it is just your post was a little vague and I had to use my imagination to fill in the blanks. Think you for your time and contribution.

Excellent!

There is an Experi-dementor.

Much of history is an illusion, at least, as far as this Earth planet is concerned.

kNot holographic, this is physically real but that's all that's real.

What would make this reality different from the real one? Excellent question!

Answer: Actually kNowing all that is kNown and kNot being closed minded and thinking you dew.

kNOwTHING wrong with liking this reality. You're on vacation, so you should like it.

As to Big Bang, try Little Bang instead - Galactic Birth - each galaxy is born one at a time. Ours was born 13 to 14 billion years ago, that's why We can't see further than that, our Galactic Light Bubble gets in our way of seeing past it.

You are kNot a robot so i can't break you but I talked with that online bot thing and it spit at me.

Ribbit

Originally posted by ButtUglyToad

Originally posted by Americanist

Originally posted by MagesticEsoteric
I appreciate the time it took for you to put this together....I really do. Sometimes though, Less is More.

I see some familiar names in here, but for good measure:


System of Truth

You say:

"If you were to step back, and take a look at the whole of Creation...

You would see a pyramid with the cube for a cap stone."

Actually, you'd see a pyramid inverted on top of another pyramid, similar to two cones, with one inverted on top of the other.

WE IS uniquely One.

Ribbit

Ps: You say:

"We are all One."

That is incorrect English. Using a plurality (We) to define a singularity (One), with a plurality connector (are), violates English.

WE IS ONE.

Another thing I didn't see you say, the Mathematical Center of the Universe is One. Also, Time is Real, considering the Source of Time is the Source of All Energy being created by the Universe and I absolutely agree with you that the Universe is aLIVE.

You refer to the inverted pyramid, and yes... However, I deemed the mention unnecessary with prefaced centripetal and centrifugal forces.

Mathematical Center: The Sum of All Things Zero

Time is frame rate (a component of Energy), so I distinguished the two.

WE IS ONE resembles slang, so I'll have to pass... I done all and up and done it for now!