I am all
all that was
all that is
all that ever will be
and yet I am nothing
the winking, blinking
connecting thread
between potential
and actuality
yet upon all things
I reign the fire
of transition
and neither the
potential nor actuality
will survive me
and memory
only holds a
distorted shadow
of my true greatness
as I wash over it
like a subtle breeze
nothing is left
yet everything is here
there is no such thing
as yesterday
Author notes
Our minds cannot comprehend the true nature of time. Past is only a memory. Future is an imaginary thing created by man. All that exists is a single self-contained moment that folds into itself. The same now that marked your birth marked the beginning of the universe. This now is the same as every other now, yet never the same. We can only think in comparitive terms, and since we have nothing to compare it to, we cannot conceive of the truth of time.
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- Loose yourself into Largeness by Thoughts-of-Soloman.
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Congrats for the Gold. Very well deserved
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Much Impressed!
This is certainly the kind of language which is of the 'I' and of which there is only the One and Unique.
I read:
Reality, God, The Absolute beyond definition, the 'Nameless'.
The 'order' through which potential is revealed, (divine order).
God ever beyond conditioning, all conditions return to Him in their non-existence as particularities.
True Magnificence beyond any possible fixing in thought.
Since this is All, then all known 'things' emanate from here, as there is nowhere else.
All is still present, there is no 'where' else for it to be.
In the 'face' of Sheer Being all particularisation is destroyed, it cannot exist beside it because there is no beside it, it is All.
Temporality is secondary, since it is a product of relativity in the 'created world'. Reality is not conditioned by this, when considered at this 'level' and this is much why minds of science often fail to grasp conceptions reaching to this.
'For now is past eternity and now is future eternity and now is past time.'
There is no creation from nothing. All is as it is, always was and always will be.
Well my friend, I find your descriptions or rather 'pointing' most sound and well informed, to a degree that arouses my curiosity!
This is clearly a well educated write and you have transcended the 'Largeness' of my prompt in a way which I confess was not expected... WELL DONE!!!
There are questions to make though, which takes us back to the 'prompt'.
Where do you understand yourself to stand in this?
What are the ramifications of this to you, as an individual given to stand in a place of witnessing and acknowledgement? You have given us an excellent expression of most sound theology, but how does one 'meet' this?
I have posted your comment first, so that there is more of a chance to respond, obviously only if you so wish.
Very happy to read this
Much thanks
Sol
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Also... as a safeguard here, I realise that you haven't used the G, o, d word and I don't want to be accused of putting something in your mouth so please excuse me adding...
From a message previously written...
God, please take the word and give it to the name of a pudding or something!
I think it ends up being this word because it the only one, in English, which isn't a particular 'thing' or 'description', it really can mean anything you give it. Unfortunately it has, I agree, been so misused to represent the notion of a 'thing' as many have wanted to have it and who in fact I believe are too stubborn to even realise their own doing so.
The word 'nothing' again wont work because again it's relative to 'thing'. I still think that 'Sheheit' is the best English can offer as an alternative.
For me, 'God' isn't in relation to something aside from itself.
Not above, below, inside, outside anything... apart from itself.
Literally All IS God and this, even though many eyes have different perceptions and even these, only perceive through God and all worships God by being itself an exposure of itself as none other than 'something' revealed by God. There is nothing but God. This is my 'God'. God limits Himself and appears as all things, is the same as all things and yet ever transcendent from all things and beyond any qualification.
I think this may be different to the way the word is more commonly used, especially when you consider that many regard people as things and in which case they inevitably make God a thing. Definitely make God a thing in relation to people and this is separating, false and nothing other than polytheism, because they have divided and made two where there is only one.
God is the people and is everything and there is no other existence besides this One existence.
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Well. Let's take the last thing first.
"God", to me, is information. The difference between inanimate matter and living tissue is the information that they contain. That information itself learns to become self-aware. "God" then becomes nothing more than the mechanism by which this information transforms inanimate matter into life. In his Cognitive Theoritical Model of the Universe, Chris Langan states that the universe itself is a mind. I think that he is right, but his language is incomplete.
The universe is only in the mind. We are only able to perceive that which our mind perceives, in the manner it is intended to perceive, or parameters within our reach yet not intended. How much more is there to perceive than we are capable of? There is no way to know. We can only deal with the model of the universe we can create cognitively. This creation singularly accomplished is self. A perspective.
Yet the information contained in DNA transcends self, and is, through sharing of our ancestors back to the origin of the information, universal. This universal information is "God". If I was going to describe it in one sentence, I would say the containing set of all sets of information.
As for my place in all of this, the information is self-aware, but needs to be tended to, as it lives in an utterly impersonal abyss too difficult to be tended to by any one being, as the moment is not static but ever transitory. The evolving of a plethora of perspectives was no accident, as the more varied the perceptions within acceptable parameters, the better the information returned and the better adaptations can be made. In other words, the information is creating the universe, because the universe is indeed a mind, as nothing exists outside of perception.
Let me clarify that last statement. The state of exsistence is a state of recognition. A rock, as far as we know, can not exist by claiming to exist. Without the information that it exists, whether it exists or not is completely unknown. From my perspective anything completely unknown is impossible to include into my concept of universe. Only by my recognition of it through sensory perception, or by some other source of information, can I include it. Perception can not conceive of that which is not perceived. It is an impossibility.
So we can safely divide the theoretical into two parts: That which is known or within the set of things that can be known, and those things wholly unknowable. By the definition of cognizance, the second group cannot possibly be part of the "universe" as it is possible to be known. Therefore, the "universe" by necessity must only contain things that are part of a mind.
My conscious mind is limited to things verified with language, or more accurately reason. Yet, I can easily witness events which are outside of the parameters of what my reason considers verifiable. This is not because the events witnessed are not true, but because the mechanism for verification has not kept up with the experiential understanding contained in my DNA database. In other words, reason is a redundant system in its infancy which is, by itself in the overal scope of things, a step backwards. When we start believing in the synthesized creations of false verifications such as the concepts of past and future, we are diverting backwards from our original path.
This is the original sin described in so many religious texts. Paradise was walking with God, in tune with the information in our DNA. With the advent of language and reason, self awareness took a giant step backwards by believing in what it could personally verify over what had been given in the DNA database. Personal experience and individual reason trumped collective experiential understanding of millions of years of continuous life.
But, even this is most likely an intentional development. Of course, as with any development in informational code, it is practically a blind attempt to make a huge leap without knowing how. Therefore, progress is intentionally made slowly so as to avoid total failure too quickly. So, we are in that transitional phase between where God is aware something needs to be done and coming to the true understanding of exactly how to do it. Conscious self-awareness is a bold experiment to undertake, and history is littered with sucesses and failures.
So, eventually, the information source will recognize the true answer and the unsuccessful answers will be overwritten, as the transitory nature of the moment is mirrored by the transitions of the information.
So, the meaning of life: personally, collectively, individually, is to learn to find the balance between the operating systems of the mind, so that once the formula for making the new system an improvement is found, it can be incorporated into the moment in order to further the perception and expand the information base, therefore expanding the universe.
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Thank you...
I do intend to respond after I have caught up with the further pleasurable duties regarding the contest.
Sol
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Wonderful write, Allan and so very true. The time we feel passing on Earth is only in our minds. Time passes cosmologically as the universe expands, but the time as we think of it on Earth is all relative. I liked the part of potential and actuality in this piece. It made me think of physics and of how there are always many potential states of existence until people zone in on one state and the experience becomes actual and real, at least in the individual's experience. Thanks for sharing and best of luck in the contest.
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This is a wonderful entry to the contest and very thought provoking. I believe it is not that our minds cannot comprehend the true nature of time. I think we do confuse things sometimes. The concept of time should be discussed on several different levels: scientific,physical, psychological, philosophical and biological. Each level should be dealt with separetely than we will be able to give an understanding of the concept of time as whole. This was indeed very clever piece though..best of luck my friend
Ruby34
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I enjoyed reading your poem. Im not sure which I liked better the poem or the notes, I guess I really like them both. You are such a wonderful mind. Best of luck with the contest here, Vickie
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Very! ... much thanks for your entry into this contest.
All the best with the judging.
Sol
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