Something / Nothing: Incredible Life

How incredible is life? Very incredible.

Have you taken a moment lately to notice the magic of laughing with a friend, the taste of a raspberry or the feeling of kissing with your lover.

A few years ago, I asked myself that question: how beautiful, incredible and special is life. I had an intuition that I could use reason to figure it out. So I asked if there was a way that I could be 100% certain, and all of a sudden, the idea of God / No God came into my mind.

It seems that the importance of life lays in the fact that all of life is either made by God or a greater energy or it isn't. Why is that important? Here is how I worked through it using a mixture of daydreaming and reason:

If after dying, God appeared and asked me, "Robert, how did you enjoy your time on Earth". I would say it was good. And if he asked me if I would have acted any different if I truly knew I was his son and everything around us was him. This would have caused me to pause but I believe my answer would have been yes. I would have looked at life different and stripped off any boundaries about what is possible.

The second option: If right before dying, you realized, there was nothing else, would you have lived your life differently? Look around you at everything you can see and feel. There is equally as much possibility that this was a fluke but what an incredible fluke. We laugh, we cry, we breathe, we love. If there is no God, it is truly magical what we are experiencing and every moment is infinitely precious.

If we take these ideas as truths and not as a theory, it is quite powerful. Either we are children of God or we are a very unique occurrence in a vast universe. Either way, it says that life and we are very very beautiful.

Have a beautiful day :-)

Comments

[James P.]

Hi Rob-

Never really thought of things that way. It is interesting. It is true, there really are only to options. Take care.

[Stephanie]

Thanks for putting this stuff up Robert. It is really nice. I couldn't find any other posts. Is the new?

[Michel]

Hi Robert,
Interesting posts. Here's my take on both of 'em.
Miraculous life. Darn right. Recently I was toying with some ideas of my own. Blew-me away. It took two people to make each and every one of us - a mom and dad. No escaping that. Isn't that special? No?! Well, when you think that it took four people to make them-i.e. two sets of grandparent-so that you could be made. More? Well, if you go back just 110 years or so, roughly 5 generations, which means that it took 32 people to make YOU. If just one of them had not existed, been hit by a bus, or not been in the mood - you'd not be here today. If you go back 15 generations, well, it turns out that it took 32,768 people. Just one glitch - poof you're gone, you don't exist. How long did it take, roughly, for you to arrive after each of those people paired up - only about 345 years. What is really mind blowing is that you can go back several hundred thousand years...or all the way to the first humans.

Ah, shucks, I've written enough. Guess I'll 'argue' with you next time on the idea that life is so "wonderful" - I've written enough as it is.

Cheers,
Michel

[Robert H]

Hi Mike,

It is pretty incredible when we think about just how many variables brought us here and all of the experiences those people had before us.

Robert