The
Purpose of Ageing
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First up, on the subject of
ageing, this page represents my personal insights into this amazing
process. I have a perspective that has arisen from my Sociology
PhD currently being pursued through the University of Western Sydney.
My PhD thesis deals with the nature of nature and the nature of human
nature. In other words: what do the basic dynamics of this
physical universe tell us, and what kinds of dynamics are these -- are
they all only physical, or are they all (the measurable
physical ones and also the more qualitative and less physical dynamics)
representative of much deeper meta-physical foundations and
motivations?
As well, I am studying the orientation of human nature, and in
particular I am concerned with why the paradox exists between the
seemingly limitless creativity of the human mind and its seemingly
limitless destructive inevitabilities.
The Creativity of all of Nature creates Time, wallows
in Time.
All elements within nature communicate with all other elements like a
huge Web of Being ranging beyond our ability to measure distance, volume
and time.
This is diversity, and this is creativity and life, and time appears as
a function of this massive Life that sparks about in a kaleidoscope of
power and neverending variability. And yet, for all this
magnificence, what do we see ourselves doing? What are we humans
best at? We appear to be programed to insult Time through
assaulting Nature. For, if
diversity is eliminated by our actions, then life disappears and time stops.
We, as humans, have affected Time locally by our destructive actions on earth
(Professor Valerie Brown 1999, pers. comm.)
We humans, borne out of this life-giving creative
matrix have a mind-boggling problem. We fantasize outside of the carefully
crafted prescriptions set by nature. This seeming incongruence
leads us to destroy. We are CREATORS WHO DESTROY (the title
of my thesis).
There is (apparently, logically) a Creator who created every-thing. You can call this Great Spirit whatever you like, but He/She/It/They stand outside time... and is/are not religious. It is we the mad masses, the unfortunate ignorant, who allow ourselves to arrogate submissiveness to this Great Spirit when we demand that
this puny God is on our side. It is we of the perennial mental retardation who suffer from an inflammatory sense of purpose that assumes God-like powers and prerogatives when we do not have such qualifications allowing for such flights of fancy as we are susceptible to ventilate on frighteningly grand scales, such as the noted dementia of:
And yet, for all the chaos we exact upon this blighted planet, the Great Spirit is in control and has a
strange purpose for our weird dementia! Given that a physical human without an adequate guide book, and with an imagination that is, therefore, without
prescription and formative wisdom is predicted to behave badly, then that human should not be made immortal in the first instance. Now, what a disaster that would be! Poor character and immortality would be a mistake, and an expanding population of mentally retarded who were also
wildly insane and might potentially decide to remain as such for eternity would be extremely messy. One could here mention
a Luciferian-type character and his band of fallen angels: a cast of poorly developed characters who couldn't cut it and rather thought that rioting was the best way to have fun, expend limitless reserves of energy,
and advance the cause of (their blighted concept of) "progress".
We may say here that the Great Spirit
might have made a mistake in creating immortal beings who had not yet set their character. If we do, then we must also admit that the Great Spirit might just have been learning something new if indeed the creation of a population of spirit beings was, in fact, a new experiment. That can realistically be seen as logical, and also generous. To grant immortality to a new spirit being is a generous act. Commendable. Some apparently turned out to be successes, while others chose the 'dark side' of the force.
Now, if the Great Spirit was smart, then He/She/It/They would not make the same mistake twice. However, being all powerful, that Spirit would also have
ultimate total control over all created beings and would not allow anything to happen that was not a part of a
grand plan, albeit perhaps a revised plan, or one devised at the outset
with precautions and sub-clauses and "Plan B's" incorporated.
We mortal humans appear to be the central focus of that revised plan.
It seems to me that ageing provides we the mini-creators with a stopping mechanism for the development of permanently fixed bad character
and destructive ineptitude (like a limitation clause in a contract, we
have had a limited lifespan attached to our existence). It also serves to humble our arrogance, for increasing debility through ageing takes away the energy we might use for unlimited naughtiness. As the physical elements of personal power and the potential for unseemly behavior are gradually stripped away from us, we are left only with the faculty of reason. We may sensibly reason that power without education and appropriate caution causes much damage, hardship and destruction. Bhopal is a case in point. So is the Exxon Valdez. If even the faculty of reason is removed from us, then our madness serves to demonstrate clearly to others that the human mind cannot tolerate unlimited quantities of alcohol and other drugs, or that chemical contamination of the embryo will not produce a viable human being, either in body or spirit. We are to learn from these demonstrable errors of
judgment in terms of how we apply our imaginations to the themes of 'progress' and 'advancement'.
If our lives are cut short by genocide or accident, then those left alive will note that true human potential must therefore be reserved for a later time. Our lives are short, and our religious themes almost always center upon the afterlife. Given that the Great Spirit is immortal and has already created immortal beings, then we must be in line for a resurrection at some point. A resurrection is what you do with a physical being who needs to continue their education under different circumstances. In other words, the Great Spirit's creativity is occurring in stages. We the humans of the
Era of Massive Mistakes are to be given the opportunity to live again. We will remember our errors and the errors of mankind. We will see how we blundered along without true understanding. And we will note that 'God' exists, and that He/She/It/They is/are not religious!
We will note that we, as humans, were religious rather than being realistic, and that our religions, like our technological obsessions, were destructive and genocidal.
Ageing is not for
sissies (as Bette Davis said). It is a lesson in humility.
It says we cannot be promiscuous without love forever. It says we
can't create totalitarian empires and deny the indigenous societies we
have displaced their rights... forever. It says that the arrogant
will not be arrogant forever. It says that this imperfect physical
existence is nothing compared to what will be on offer... later,
a marvellous something that will last... forever, and which will be...
perfect... finally. It says that even the most monumental insults and traumas
of this life are there as lessons. And that these lessons should
be valued for what they teach us now, and for what they will
teach us later when we will understand that which we fail to
understand now. Ultimately ageing teaches us to
value the value of character (all that is left after the body
disintegrates), because good character is the most precious creative act
taking place right now in all of the limitless Universe.
A resurrection will renew the opportunity to grow.
This is not religion, it is a logical requirement for the existence of
human life and human intellect in a Universe bursting with meaning and
design. Design cannot exist without a designer. To believe
that design has no author, you must -- in fact -- be religious, and illogical, and irrational. To be incapable of putting
design together
with forward purpose, you must be delusional.
And yet, even delusion shows us that the imperfect covers up and
destroys the truth (in order to generate fabulous surprise later!), but
that this imperfection, like mortality, is a temporary state, one that
will be swallowed up by the forward purpose that we all suspect, to one
degree or another, exists.
Please also see:
www.lessons4living.com for
important information on this subject (an immensely helpful website!),
as well as
http://poisonedpeople.com/ironwill/links.html
for hundreds of links to other websites intersecting this issue.
