Everything, Everywhere, Every time Is An Experiment

 

 

All life everywhere is an experiment.

The Biblical God has always struck me as crushingly bored.  He creates the entire universe, the Earth and everything therein in six days and then on the 7th He rested.  So come Monday morning what does God do then?   And day after that?    And on and on throughout eternity.  BORING!

 

But instead of that myth, what if GDW set off the Big Bang and then watched how all matter formed and then how life started and how it changed over the endless years.  Perhaps GDW pokes at it now and then, but largely lets things evolve.  Now this is a deity I can follow.  Not judgmental and exceedingly patient, a being that is beyond our ability to understand, a compassionate deity that transcends dichotomous thinking.  Beyond gender, colour, status or aspect, beyond our notions of good and evil, GDW allows us free will to decide our course.

 

Does GDW Know Everything?

Yes and no.  Again using the maze analogy again.  GDW is the maze, its paths, height, depth.  As we make our way through the maze GDW knows where each choice will lead, but does not know which we will pick.  Once we make a choice some paths appear while others vanish.  There would not be much use for free will if the Absolute already knew everything we are going to do.  

And The Experiment? 

 'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not 

the same river and he's not the same man.'   

(Heraclitus, 500 BCE)

This elegantly simple observation from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus sums up the experimental nature of all creation.   While I get out of bed everyday, it is still an experiment.  I have never been this old before.  I have no idea if I am going to stand or fall when my feet hit the floor.  And the same is true for everything atom of the universe.

I relax by watching a lot of Air Disasters on YouTube and after a crash there is a common refrain "but the chances of that happening are astronomical!"  But never zero.   No matter how high the odds, they are never zero.   This applies to all accounts of luck, both good and bad.   I don't know how luck is distributed in the maze.  Perhaps that is a bonus test set by GDW just for you.