Existentialism Experiment

"This is a basic approach towards Existentialism, created to provide a source for inquisition into the matter."

The concept of Truth.

(Created on  ‎December 2, ‎2015, ‏‎22:01:50)

             If we ponder upon the characteristics of Truth, we find that truth is consoling to us. Truth is the expression of the tangible, the possible. It is concrete and constant at all times. This invariability of truth relaxes us. We cherish nothing but the truth. We seek nothing but the truth. Truth is standard to all life forms. All perceive and comprehend it in the same way. It is same to all, common to all. Truth is everything to us- the beginning and the end. Truth can be verified at any time. But why does truth relax us and what exactly is Truth to us?

            We are convinced that there is always a beginning and an end to all the things, because we live in a world where things integrate and perish for change to occur. Life forms undergo degeneration, and newer life forms are born. Truth can never be denied, but the umpteen methods of interpretation of  truth introduces nuances in it. Everything in this universe tends to acquire stability. Life has to wither, as Nature dominates it. Everything has been in tune with the nature, and ought to continue abiding the same. The constancy of state is the real end to things. Some even believe that this world is made of nothing, and there exist antipodal pairs of elements which on recombination, become null and void. Each cluster and coexist to form Existence, and are separated from each other by some force, or the effect of distance, or something which overpowers their tendency to recombine. This might be due to their  most prior nature to seek convenience, seek stability, even if they have to consider their incompleteness as completeness for that. Laziness? May be. We humans, due to our long association with this play of Nature, can only conceive a beginning and an end of things, just as we can conceive space not more than three-dimensional. Thus, Cycle was discovered, where an end is a beginning, and we later found that it is actually a prevalent machinery of Nature. For us to conceive and analyze Cycle, it has to have a span shorter than our own life. Day and night, recurrence of seasons, pain and pleasure, crest and trough, hunger and satiety were the things we might have observed to understand Cycle, periodic or non-periodic. Thus, Cycle in nature comes out be a compromise between the Will to Activity and the Nature's tendency of stability. Would it be prudent to even imagine that Life efforts against the Tendency to Stability to assert existence? If death is the ultimate goal, what is the significance of Life?

            I just found myself having employed a term- the Will to Activity- what must be that? Is it an opposing device to nature, or is it just Nature antipodal to the Nature we know? Our universe expands every second- that is Nature. Its constituents are moving farther from each other. Can it be two forms of nature stretching our universe so that each acquires its uniformity in its own sphere? A game of tug-of-war to keep the antipodal two far apart that they may plead substantiality in their own regions of dominance? Is each one trying to achieve immortality? if this happens, then we should observe that our Nature would one day have biased cycles. This just might be nonsense or fantastical discourse.

            In our conception of infinity, we express our inability to record the beginning and the end of a process in eternity. When things exist beyond our epoch, we are bound to think of infinity. Thus infinity is not a quantity but a concept, that we are uncertain of the beginning and the end of some things. Imagining infinity generally consists thinking of greater than the familiar and recurrent quantities and ending up thinking of a number or a distance that is of difficult and annoying proportions, thereby giving up.

             There must be two kinds of infinity. One is the linear infinity- As we have in our minds that the beginning and the end are two extremities of a process. This sort is difficult to imagine, and impossible to conceive. The second one is the circular infinity, where the end re-assimilates into the beginning- a cycle. And that repeats, and is easier to conceive.

Points of difference between linear and circular infinity.

Linear

* Consists of a beginning and an end at two extremities, and the observable present between the two.

* Born out of observation of life processes when seen individually.

* Events falling on the line ought not to repeat.

* Cannot explain the origin and the cause of our Existence.

*Difficult to conceive and validate.

 

Circular

* Consists of a point where the beginning and the end coincides and events lie on the circumference of the loop.

*Born out of observation of natural changes which are cyclic and span a lesser period of time than human life expectancy.

* Events falling on the circumference should repeat at every cycle.

*Gives a possible explanation for Existence

*Easy to understand this form of occurrence.

 

            The Zen Existence, the Existence Lord Krishna sermonizes about in the Gita, and the Buddhist Existence, all fall in accordance with the Circular Infinity. Only those things that take birth shall die. Things that do not have a beginning, can never be ended. We are born again in some form. Whatever happened today, might happen again in some extended continuum. Cycles never end, as there is a balance of orientations, of energies. But the Circular Infinity we humans might attribute the mechanism of our existence to, once we comprehend this concept, might have a pause in the farthest future. The sun would consume the whole of its fuel one day, the earth would stop rotating about its axis one day due to the inertia of the earth's water. But that would happen far after our millionth generation stops pacing on our beautiful lands. Any Circularity that has too big the circumference compared to our scope of vision, effects almost as Linearity at one point. The Earth is round- we have known, but the ground we stand on appears flat, and acts like the same. So the colossal processes, celestial for example, which we hypothesize as Circularities require time far beyond we can invest for their circular realization. They just act as linearity for us. Circularity has never been proven, but it is perhaps possible to shorten the span of a Circularity relevant to our cognition and observe the changes and the succession of events, and then apply them to bigger Circularities.

                                             

Author's Note

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