What is meant by the word, “God”?
Let’s start with the word “I.”
When any of the following words are spoken: “I believe in God, I don’t believe in God, I love you, I believe the world is good, I believe the world is bad, I am hungry, I am grateful, I am happy, I am well, I want, I hate, I fear, I hurt, etc.“….What do we mean by “I”?
A Look in The Mirror
Are you the entity that screams when poked, or are you the choice-maker participating in a world where getting poked is inevitable? Is life happening to you, like caged veal, or are you an active participant in the world you live in? Are you the choice-maker or are you the recipient of the choices made by something/someone that you’re blind to–––by a thing you’re not in contact with? Is your story defined by what’s happening to you, or by the actions and outcomes that you create?
When you refer to yourself as “I,” are you referring to the body–––the flesh that will one day die? Consider… if your arms and legs were lopped off, there is still an “I.” If you were dismembered, you wouldn’t refer to yourself as “I minus arms and legs.” You would still be John, not “John minus arms and legs.”
Therefore, “I” is the chooser, and simultaneously, “I” is the set of choices made toward upholding the body––– choices that include upholding the environment that sustains and nourishes the body. “I” is the thing responsible for upholding what is both inside the body and what is outside the body–––outside= of that which the body is dependent upon, that in the environment which sustains the body.
(Sharing your food with friends, family, or teammates equates to storing your food in other people’s bellies. Reciprocity over the course of time is what human survival has always been. We are not only connected to those whom we survive with, but we are connected with our food supply and to the land that gives birth to that food. Ex: We must protect our soil and water supply = protecting the body’s survival).
“I” is the thing that chooses.
“I” relates to both the internal needs of the body
and to the external needs
of all the people, places, and things that sustain the body.
If human existence has always depended on things external to the body, then that which is outside of the body, is also “I”. It’s simultaneous. Our body and its environment are inextricable. Is it a fact that the body is dependent upon things external to itself for survival? Yes. Is it a fact that everything that exists, stands upon the existence of that which pre-exists itself? Yes. And…everything that our bodies need: water, oxygen, animals, plants, etc. are themselves dependent upon other things that support their existence. Just because the relationship between the body and its environment is not obvious or immediate, does not mean it is false.
Meaning
The choices we make are each fueled by a WHY. In the psychological range between 1) an utter disregard of our relationship to the things around us of which our existence depends on, to 2) the most thorough respect for our interdependent relationships to the things around us, what word best describes this range? Would you say that MEANING is a word that describes the degrees along this range? The degree of respect, the degree of depth of our perceptions (of our interdependent relationships), depicts the degree of meaning one lives with. (If you were to subtract “respect” out of the word “meaning,” there would be no meaning to the word “meaning” at all.)
If I ask you to define the word, “word,” or ask you to tell me the meaning of the word “meaning,” or ask you to define the word, “definition,” you would have to start by first defining the word, “I.”
If “I” has no meaning or concrete and objective fixed point of measurement, then how can you be held accountable for any of your statements whatsoever? (A topic in Orwell’s 1984) If words are used only as a short term Nazi hall pass that buys you another meaningless moment of delayed death, another moment that makes you feel temporary reprieve at the expense of everyone and of all that keeps life’s meaning alive, then what dignity will your inevitable death bring you? If you’re without a life-affirming reason to lovingly hand down your DNA coupled with a life-affirming story about life’s meaning, then what value or meaning can you possibly hold? What will your death mean if you live in a pool of meaninglessness? What will your life have meant? If you have no love-of-life and no means by which to transfer that love-of-life to your children, then what value do you bring?
Reason
The most warped and subverted minds believe that they live by “reason.” They believe that reason trumps story, and that they themselves have transcended “story” as to live in some holy palace of reason. They think of themselves as using reason for its own sake. However, reason is a mere tool, a tool that helps to hold the pieces of a story together. Story doesn’t hold reason together, applied-reason helps hold a story together. Story precedes reason. Even if reason is being deployed poorly, the story it aims to serve, remains fixed. Anyone who believes they live by reason (self-identity with reason, instead of with a story), is blind to the story they are serving. They are robots, humans who have been robbed of a soul. (Every Dostoyevsky novel is filled with these mindless monsters.)
Would it be more convenient if people existed without the need for a WHY, and instead fueled their actions by reason alone? Yes, this is why we deploy robots. Robots do this perfectly. When human life is dedicated to convenience or to total efficiency, (efficiency devoid of humanness or beauty), such is a life drained of meaning. (Every slave-master and totalitarian regime will convince their subjects that convenience and efficiency -at all costs- is a virtue. “Reason and Progress.”)
Every choice that we humans make is measured against some fixed point of reference. This means that every choice will have to be measured against some purpose/meaning/motivation…..a motivation that asserts a belief to the positive. (Every action is a choice). Positive equates to time. Time means an intended movement towards the good. That movement over time is STORY! Thus, story is inescapable, time is inescapable, choice is inescapable, meaning is inescapable, unless you have become a robot. Reason exists only to fulfill a story, the story does not exist to fulfill reason. Reason is not necessary, but story is inescapable. Reason is helpful to the degree that one loves the story they aim to fulfill. The history of our choices and the outcomes those choices produce…. become our story.
Does reason give our lives meaning or does meaning give reason-itself a reason to exist? Reason needs a WHY! Which of these is primary? Which comes first, reason or meaning? Reason is a tool to be used …..it is used to serve a meaning that preexists. Reason is the crayon that colors in lines that already exist. Yet, every totalitarian regime aims solely to make us blind to those lines. For those people who have been made blind by totalitarian indoctrination and propaganda, such people still have crayons but can only color on an empty page, a vacuum, just swirling circles of nihilism. Ask them why they don’t kill themselves? The answer? Rage and hate. They won’t say, “rage and hate,” they’ll say, “hope for a better tomorrow,” or “justice,” as justice is a term they hide behind, which is evidenced by their cowardly “virtue signaling.” Every MSNBC and CNN watcher has been shaped by a concerted subversion effort that has destroyed their minds. Such fascist media-hives are the places where they congregate. (Ask such people what the difference is between journalism, propaganda, and activism, and they will never have considered the difference, they have no idea how journalism can become hijacked. This hive is a cult. If propaganda and brainwashing didn’t work, there would be no such words invented to describe these things.)
What’s more important to you, 1) survival, or 2) nurturing the relationships that support your survival?
Will you one day meet your death having fulfilled a storied life? Was your story fulfilled? Did you focus on survival alone, at the expense of the life’s relationships (earth, community, nation/ those things that have supported your survival)? Have you taken for granted the gifts you’ve received? Or have you nurtured those relationships and thereby enjoyed the meaning of having nurtured them? As we face death, the story is everything! Death’s inevitability makes the relationship between time and meaning REAL!
What is the measure of a person’s character? And by what fixed point is a character measured? At what point does a person go from feeling that their life’s meaning is measured by what they feel they’re owed, to a life-meaning defined by what they feel they owe? If one has no respect for the relationships that sustain one’s life, then they feel they owe nothing. They become very busy thinking about what they’re owed. Resentment poisons their entire experience. This is what every leftist revolution is based on. “Justice” is the code-word of the death-cult. For them, the invisible fire that keeps the family, community, and nation warm, has gone out.
“Meaning” is the invisible substance that is felt, experienced, and understood the moment one realizes that existence is dependent upon a web of relationships that demand our participation. (Broken minds self-identify by their personal style and pleasure preferences. An intact and initiated adult self-identities with what they feel they owe in exchange for having been supported by a web of Earth/Human relationships. An initiated adult realizes that they themselves play multiple roles simultaneously in helping hold reality together. The degree of respect and dedication given to these simultaneous roles equates to the sum total of a person’s character and, this character is itself, life-meaning. Contrarily, sensory and stylistic preferences are not germane to a fully formed adult identity.)
Meaning = acknowledging our most necessary relationships, then devoting ourselves to them. Meaning demands that we nurture and respect that which sustains us. What is a life worth if it is lived without meaning? Look around at the hollowed out people who live as mental slaves, who suffer the darkness of nihilism….people gullible enough to vote for those who have enslaved them.
Meaning is love. It’s an invisible substance. When we fall in love with the glue that holds the (interdependent) nature of reality together, then we become conscious of our role(s) in holding reality together. To the degree that life is deemed beautiful is the degree to which the role is deemed dignified and life-affirming. Such is the basis of a positive identity.
GOD
The choices, actions, efforts, and feelings that come with upholding the relationship between our body and the people, places, and things that sustain the body, is what becomes the meaning of our lives. Our respect for the fact that existence requires our participation, a participation that serves these simultaneous and intersecting relationships, is meaning, is humanness, is life. The meaning, the “why,” the desire to participate, all emerge when we have gained a respect for the undeniable truth of these necessary relationships. This is meaning, it is invisible! This invisible meaning is what is meant by GOD. (This is why my pets don’t relate to God, and why meaning-based humans do relate. Seeing all the simultaneous systems that hold reality together and seeing our simultaneous roles in those systems, requires a complex brain, not a lizard brain.)
The word, “I” is our bridge between the body and its choice in upholding its simultaneous relationships. The simultaneous nature of “I,” its multiple roles, its multiple loyalties, its interdependence, and its feelings of indebtedness, is meaning, is God, is the single point where the body and everything external to the body, meets. This single point is where the multitude of the many is distilled down into the one…. This is “I” perceiving God. It all merges into one, while simultaneously remaining as the many. Holding both, is uniquely human.
The moment that we see all the relationships that feed us, the relationships that thereby require our participation (making choices in participation), is the moment we become activated as humans. And this is the moment that we fall in love with existence and with the fact that existence exists, and thereby we realize that existence is good. At this pinnacle moment of awe, we need a single container or a single word that refers to our simultaneous roles in all our simultaneous relationships, altogether as one thing. (The many down to the one) that word is God.
The word “I” is meaningless until it connects to existence’s undeniable reciprocity and interdependence. When that connection is made, then meaning, consciousness, story, time, and destiny are born. If we deem existence as good, then we will look for a word or a container in which to put our gratitude, our gratitude for the whole of life/existence, and that word is God. Those who are grateful for life -in its parts- and -as a whole- need a word that describes that we simultaneously exist between the parts and the whole, and that altogether it all supports our existence. Only when we affirm life do we discover a need for a container in which to put the enormous load of gratitude that we feel. (Subjective idiot-logic would say that because we don’t feel the earth spinning at 1000mph, or because we don’t feel the earth traveling 67,000 mph around the sun, that neither are true. Some people live deep inside Plato’s cave of slave-logic, as does my dog.)
What is God?
God is the container (a singular word that contains the multitude of interdependent relationships/ items), a container that’s reserved for our debts-of-gratitude, gratitude for our having been given the opportunity to serve the multiple roles/relationships that sustain us/I.
By us/I, I mean the body and all that its existence relies on, internally and externally. Those who hate life, who have no respect or knowledge of all that sustains body and soul, have no need for God, because they have no thanks to give. They live their imprisoned life-sentence only to attain some reprieve from what they deem as horror. This is how/why totalitarian rule takes hold. Only people who hate life will arc towards a “supreme leader” that promises social order and candy.) Mentally enslaved people hope that social solutions can be accomplished without having to establish all the aforementioned essential human meaning. As I see it, meaning itself is the anchor–––meaning is the cultural sun around which an intact and sane group of people orbit. Totalitarians build on meaninglessness and sell their gullible subjects a promise of relief, at the expense of meaning!
Those who resent having to participate in serving all of life’s reciprocal roles, are Godless, are thankless. Contrarily, those who see all the beauty in life’s interdependent relationships, who see life’s moments as opportunities to serve those relationships, see the whole of it, thus simultaneously see the invisible bonds of reality. Seeing the container and seeing what it contains, the many and the one, all simultaneously, becomes immediately distilled down into one word, God. Existence is not passive or singular. Existence requires participation and we must participate in simultaneous roles. The desire to fulfill these roles simultaneously, is meaning. Meaning is invisible, it is another word for God. (Those who live without meaning are always the godless.)
God= the invisible substance, the glue of our relationship between the whole of the environment and the parts. God is meaning itself!!! Does meaning exist? Is there such thing as meaning? Well, if you see no meaning, then you have no need for a God-shaped bucket in which to put your thanks, thus you have no need to name the bucket or its contents… (like my dog has no need). If you can’t see the bucket, then according to you, the bucket therefore doesn’t exist. Those with no recognition of the bucket or the bucket’s contents are the same people who can be convinced that the world does not spin at 1000mph. Like my dog, she only believes what she sees right before her eyes, she can’t be convinced of an earth spinning at 1000mph. Those without the bucket believe they are the center of the universe. Narcissists and nihilists, which is why through history they repeatedly murder millions. Lizard brain.
The quality of one’s life is measured in the relationships they’re part of, part of in the reciprocity acknowledged between 1) one’s choices (the WHY) and 2) all the environment that sustains one’s continued ability to make those choices.)
Why would a person feel ok whatsoever about life or its meaning if what they give their attention to…is their own immediate bodily self? This thing they call “I,” this thing that they believe is connected to “reason,” has no fixed point of reality from which to measure from. Reason must start with a fixed point of reality, and those who have no perception/realization for all the interdependence of life’s relationships can have no fixed point of reality or meaning. (They feel they are owed. They are blind to all the relationships that support their existence, they don’t see the beauty and therefore don’t realize what they owe.) Their ability to reason is absent of the most important ingredient of reason (the fixed point), thus their “reason” is not reason at all. Is there anything on earth that exists of itself, anything that is not a functioning part of a bigger system? Does not everything participate simultaneously in multiple systems, ecosystems, etc.? Imagine someone calling themself an expert at measurement, yet the measuring stick they hold has no noticeable or standardized beginning or end? It has no fixed starting point, no zero, no one. Such would sound like the world-famous person who says, “I am the science.”
Can we place in list order the hierarchy of interactions/relationships/systems that we exist within, such that these relationships deserve our commitment in upholding these systems? What is the consequence of our being ignorant/disrespectful to those relationships or systems? Where does life meaning come from but from our fulfilling the roles that serve those relationships? What comes of a culture who is left blind to those relationships, a culture that has forgotten the sacredness of those relationships, thus has replaced relationships with that of seeking comfort, safety, and amusement?
If you ask me to listen to your words and ask me to treat them with respect, then tell me what a “word” is and what you mean by the “I” that wants your words to be considered. If you are able to do so, then you are probably a person deeply connected with meaning, with awe, with paying your debts of gratitude, with God.
If your brain works, you can also tell me what a woman is.
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