Now, I’m pretty sure someone has written something similar to this before, but this is an idea that I recently came up with when I was thinking about an individual’s belief in God.
Since I don’t have my essays here I’ll give you a gist of what I came up with:
I like to equate the physical reality as a linear road that exists in an infinite space, so that’s what I want you to imagine. For all of us, we live on this road and it’s what we’d call nature, physics, “reality” that sort of deal. Now, for people that believe in a mostly paternal-like deity this road is surrounded by a bubble, so there’s no concept of an infinite. Only a black and white and a goal, which is that bubble. The bubble is the set of morals and ethics that are established by the belief system. The bubble is the omniscient presence that keeps the physical world in check for them. This presence, for these people is entirely real because they can perceive it. They feel a certain amount of comfort because of it and it pretty much holds their lives together. This bubble acts as the “spiritual goal” because even though they travel the road from beginning to end they are elevated into the bubble after the journey on the road is finished. This bubble also limits these individuals, because it only allows for a certain amount of “spiritual growth.” Which means that they will never achieve a higher state of transcendence, if there is such a thing… The believer in a God is limited to the bubble, so they grow to fill that bubble in the span of their lives. Abiding by the system of rules that are in place through the particular belief systems merely exist as a positive growth within the bubble, while the opposite tends to pull the individual back into the world, which is why most monotheistic traditions tend to frown upon “worldy” practices. Another explanation might be that these individuals aren’t willing to accept a concept of an infinite, because of the amount of uncertainty that’s associated with the concept, and thus this bubble acts as a protection that keeps them to a certain extent grounded to the reality and yet allows some sort of spiritual growth, which for the majority of people is a necessity.
The Atheist, however, lives only on the road on dismisses the possibility of the infinite, focusing purely on the aspects of the road and the rules of the system that is the road. For the Atheist, there is no spiritual growth period, the only growth that the Atheist allows is on the road. The Atheist’s sense of right and wrong, the code of morals that they seek, these attributes are attained through common law and societal standards… morals for the most part are established through history which in turn were mostly established by scripture and religious doctrine. But for these individuals, there is no function of morality beyond that of maintaining a balance in the physical world. I.E. world peace based on cooperation from nation to nation, person to person, not because these actions are necessarily dooming that individual to some horrible fate in an afterlife, but because it is the established “right” thing to do.
For the spiritual person that doesn’t necessarily believe in a “God” that watches over the world and its inhabitants there exists the road and the infinite space. This allows that person to expand spiritually infinitely, thus allowing for a higher and higher undefined state of transcendence. These individuals are not limited and for the majority of them there exists no true concepts of right and wrong or reality and illusion. To them all is reality and at the same time all is illusion. These individuals will mostly accept and abide by the rules of the objective reality yet they are also aware of the infinite subjective realities and the idea that each has its own spin of things in the world.
Love,
Spec
Since I don’t have my essays here I’ll give you a gist of what I came up with:
I like to equate the physical reality as a linear road that exists in an infinite space, so that’s what I want you to imagine. For all of us, we live on this road and it’s what we’d call nature, physics, “reality” that sort of deal. Now, for people that believe in a mostly paternal-like deity this road is surrounded by a bubble, so there’s no concept of an infinite. Only a black and white and a goal, which is that bubble. The bubble is the set of morals and ethics that are established by the belief system. The bubble is the omniscient presence that keeps the physical world in check for them. This presence, for these people is entirely real because they can perceive it. They feel a certain amount of comfort because of it and it pretty much holds their lives together. This bubble acts as the “spiritual goal” because even though they travel the road from beginning to end they are elevated into the bubble after the journey on the road is finished. This bubble also limits these individuals, because it only allows for a certain amount of “spiritual growth.” Which means that they will never achieve a higher state of transcendence, if there is such a thing… The believer in a God is limited to the bubble, so they grow to fill that bubble in the span of their lives. Abiding by the system of rules that are in place through the particular belief systems merely exist as a positive growth within the bubble, while the opposite tends to pull the individual back into the world, which is why most monotheistic traditions tend to frown upon “worldy” practices. Another explanation might be that these individuals aren’t willing to accept a concept of an infinite, because of the amount of uncertainty that’s associated with the concept, and thus this bubble acts as a protection that keeps them to a certain extent grounded to the reality and yet allows some sort of spiritual growth, which for the majority of people is a necessity.
The Atheist, however, lives only on the road on dismisses the possibility of the infinite, focusing purely on the aspects of the road and the rules of the system that is the road. For the Atheist, there is no spiritual growth period, the only growth that the Atheist allows is on the road. The Atheist’s sense of right and wrong, the code of morals that they seek, these attributes are attained through common law and societal standards… morals for the most part are established through history which in turn were mostly established by scripture and religious doctrine. But for these individuals, there is no function of morality beyond that of maintaining a balance in the physical world. I.E. world peace based on cooperation from nation to nation, person to person, not because these actions are necessarily dooming that individual to some horrible fate in an afterlife, but because it is the established “right” thing to do.
For the spiritual person that doesn’t necessarily believe in a “God” that watches over the world and its inhabitants there exists the road and the infinite space. This allows that person to expand spiritually infinitely, thus allowing for a higher and higher undefined state of transcendence. These individuals are not limited and for the majority of them there exists no true concepts of right and wrong or reality and illusion. To them all is reality and at the same time all is illusion. These individuals will mostly accept and abide by the rules of the objective reality yet they are also aware of the infinite subjective realities and the idea that each has its own spin of things in the world.
Love,
Spec
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