Life is a dynamic phenomenon. The quest (for 'meaning') here is to identify and describe
Its goals and dynamics (or means), I think.
Cultures and subcultures are social 'games' which derive from
shared understandings in this regard.
Here's the one I am playing (excerpted from my treatise, "What Did Jesus
Really Mean?"):
"I addressed the same truth
analogically in the book, titled Godspeak 2000, which I completed in 1999 by way of saying:
Your life is a part of all Life, much the way the movement of a molecule in its membrane is an integral component of a drum’s total excitation. What you know as Life-on-Earth is the conjoint response of our global ‘drumhead’ to a cosmic ‘drumbeat’, partly a function of activity stemming from the sun itself and partly a function of planetary movements. Like a tuning fork, but with much greater complexity because of the tremendous multiplicity and mutuality of our involvement, we all ‘vibrate’ together in reflexive co-motion. Beware, however, as in the case of any purely mechanical analogy, this too may be misleading. The ‘drummer’ in our case is actually The
'Spirit' which lives in and animates everything and everyone everywhere everywhen at once. It’s not like our sun and/or our planetary configurations are especially causal, in other words.
Every aspect of Being, including ‘you’, is an influenced and influential, hence functionally integral, aspect of
The Flow* of
Creativity,
* without exception.
[
* Note: these asterisked words reference the same features of Life that Jesus
metaphorically alluded to as ‘the Son’ and ‘the Father’ (which many also think and speak of as
Christ and
God, respectively), just in more action-descriptive terms I think.]
That being said, it has more recently struck me that developments in the field of modern computer systems may provide us with an even more illustrative model for the universally creative, feedback-loop based interfusion of
The Essence (i.e. 'Spirit') of
Creativity and
the Life of every individual and amalgamated aspect of Its expression. To explore this proposition, imagine if you will that the
main aim or goal of said
Essence’s ‘program’ – the
primary motive (i.e. 'desire') ensconced in its ‘source code’ – is to
maximally express and thereby experience
Love and Joy, to Joyfully express and experience Love and Lovingly express and experience Joy to the greatest possible degree in every possible way, or something like that.
*
[
* Not that this is the only available supposition, mind you. Many, for example, think and feel that the expression and experience of
Power and Success is Life’s
prime imperative and so believe that maximal actualization and experience of these (i.e., of Power and Success)
must be The Cat’s Meow (idiomatically speaking). However, since I myself most keenly enjoy recalling and vicariously reliving the loving and joyful times I had as a child, and as I continue to spontaneously resonate with the ‘
Spirit’ exuberantly displayed in the antics of the (unadulterated by conditioning) young of many species including ours, also having deeply appreciated ‘returning’ to expressing and experiencing Love and Joy after sometimes lengthy dry-spell detours and digressions therefrom, and having gradually become more and more thoughtfully impressed by Jesus’ saying things like: 'Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.' (Matthew 18:3); 'Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall
endure [i.e. that
keeps on being loving] unto the end, the same shall be saved.' (Matthew 24:12‑13); and 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.' (Matthew 25:34), the proposition pertaining to the expression and experience of
Love and Joy which I put forward in the preceding paragraph is the one I
believe to be and so suggest
is both the most pertinent and the most propitious in the long term.
Next, to picture the activity of the
Living Entity of our
Creation (i.e., of ‘the Son’), imagine a universe-sized network made up of an infinite array of banks upon banks of computers matrixially web-strung together by way of both parallel and series connections, all simultaneously, individually and together, multi-processing the above referenced Love and Joy ‘program’, with each processor and every amalgamation thereof functionally outputting the ‘solution’ it ‘calculates’ will most probably yield the greatest possible
Love and Joy ‘result’ in its case (as far as it can prognostically project, that is), which ‘solution’ then
operationally functions as input in relation to any and all associated processors to whatever extent they ‘calculate’ it to be relevant to their own Love and Joy process, such that said
output-n-
input data-packet sequences co-actively ripple and reverberate around the network, sparking
Love and Joy focused perceptions and decisions (i.e., experiences and expressions) which conjointly determine what takes place here, there and everywhere in ‘the body’ of said
Entity* over the course of time.
[
* “In
Him we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28) is how this was articulated by one who conceptualized said
Entity as being the (male) ‘Son’ of
The Spirit of the universal (male) ‘Father’ of Being, two millennia ago.]
As it ties many otherwise disparate, often apparently functionally contradictory aspects of
Life’s process together in ways which make sense to me, I proffer this
Love and Joy ‘program’ being universally, round-after-round multi-processed on a network of ‘computers’ model as potentially being of significant navigational assistance to others who also aim to holistically
optimize the
progression of
Life in and around themselves, as I do."
blessings
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