how do we understand experience…
this has been one of the key questions of the last
400 years, since Descartes…….
is there something “beyond” experience?
in other words, is the metaphysics possible?
is there experiences beyond what we see, hear, taste, touch, smell?
we have love… that is something beyond something we see, hear, taste,
touch or smell…and love is one of the strongest emotions we have…
it drives much of the human experience… either searching for love or
rediscovering love or keeping love……
we are not the only species that loves… we see animals that love…
dogs are unconditional love, cats, uh, not so much…
but we see animals loving their friends, their offspring, humans…
so we know love is a trait born in the past, born in evolution…
because so many animals show love…
we know that love is a value… a value that gives meaning to our lives…
without love, for many, there is no point to life…
newborns who don’t experience love in their first year,
quite often die…love is just as neccessary as food, water, air,
shelter to human beings…
but our sense cannot detect love… it doens’t have a physical presence,
but it does clearly exists…so does that follow because we cannot detect
love with our physical senses, things exists like god and heaven and angels
and hell… the metaphysical, the after physical… things that
exists but cannot be detected by the senses…
the existence of one, love, doesn’t mean the other, god, heaven, hell,
angels, exists………
I know love exists because I have felt it, still feel it, and hopefully will
continue to feel it with my wife and daughter………
from an evolutionary standpoint, love makes perfect sense…
it helps maintains the species, it helps keeping the family and society
stable…love is a benefit to society and the species… it helps society
and the species grow and adapt and change… it is a stable factor
in the many systems we belong to……. love will not create profit
and it will not increase the GDP, but it will give us the stability
to keep society functional…and thus love has a value beyond
just being in love… it creates stability in society, in the system…
just as hate destabilizes society and systems…
but we still haven’t answered our question, because love
exists, something we cannot see or hear or taste or touch or smell,
doesn’t mean love doesn’t exists…so does it mean our metaphysical
concepts like god, heaven, angels, satan, hell exists?
I would say no… simply because our society/our culture can exists
without the concept of god, heaven, hell, satan…… we need love to exist
but we don’t need god or any other such concept to maintain order in society,
to grow our society, to preserve our society…… in fact, I would suggest given
history, to hold such thoughts as god, heaven, hell, satan is to destabilize
society… it creates an us vs them mentality… that we believers
must rid society of those who don’t hold the same belief as we do…
we must eliminate those who don’t believe as we do…that mentality
is a danger to society as has been shown by history, time and time and time
again…….love benefits a society, this is fact… the believe in god damages
a society, this is seen every single day… since the beginning of time…….
we can survive without belief in god and angels and hell, but
we cannot survive without love……… these practical matters show us
what is important……… and love is important and belief in god is not…
but why is the belief in god so strong in so many?
I would suggest it is part of the myths, biases, habits, superstitions
and prejudices we are taught as children… it seems real because
we have lived with them our whole life… retrain children to
not having god and within a few generations, the belief in god
and angels and hell and satan, will no longer exists……
now recall part of the myths we were taught as children is
the myth of Santa Claus… and children believe, truly believe
that such a person really exists… but then we discover the truth
and it hurts at first, but soon, it no longer a thing knowing that
Santa Claus is no longer true or is not real………. we live… and grow
and prosper even though we don’t have a myth, a habit like
Santa Claus to hold us………and we can see this myth, this superstition
every Christmas… we can see movies and tv shows and commercials
with Santa Claus… just because we can imagine it, doesn’t mean it
exists………
and this figure of Santa Claus is far more real then the concept of god or
angels or hell or Satan…
so why do we hold in god and hell and angels?
I have suggested it is because of our hope in
the Deus Ex Machina… we hope for justice/ equality for all…
and having god/hell/angels/satan is one way to hold on to
our Deus ex Machina… which give us hope for the future…
that justice will be done…during our lifetime…
in the end, one can say that we cannot disprove god or angels or hell
because one cannot disprove a negative… we cannot show that
unicorns did or didn’t exist because we don’t have any unicorns evidence…
we can show dinosaurs existed because we have dinosaurs fossils…
but we cannot disprove something that didn’t exist in the first place…
how would you go about proving unicorns existed? you can’t…
and the same for god/angels/hell/heaven/satan…you can’t disprove
they exist or don’t exist because you can’t disprove a negative…
but you can prove that love exists… because we can feel
the effects of love in our very actions… we desire and search
for and live for, love…this very drive shows us that love, even
though we cannot see it or hear it or taste it or touch it or smell it,
we can feel its effect on us, every single day…the need for god is
the result of our childhood baises and myths we were taught…
not because of something we can feel inside of us…
need more evidence, think about how in cultures believe in different
religions, different gods…and some don’t believe in god at all…the
belief in god is the result of education/training/indoctrination…
but love, it doesn’t matter what society you live in or what
is your situation in life, you still need love…and love exists
regardless of one’s education and one’s training and one’s culture…
but the concept of god changes depending on the society…that
is the result of our childhood indoctrination…love is evolutionary…
it is the result of millions, indeed, billions of years of evolution……
the belief in god does not stand upon evolution… it is taught by
society in response to society needs… not because it truly exists…
it is not just the direct evidence that leads us to the conclusion
that god/heaven/hell/angels/satan doesn’t exist’s, but the indirect
evidence that tells us the story of why and how we believe in god…
we have evidence for the existence of love, but not for god…
we have experiences that tell us that love exists, but not god/heaven/hell…
Kropotkin