The most predictable response whenever people actually address my analogy and realize it is a logically irrefutable argument for God is a demand for me to explain why the truth matters. Of course, if someone sees the logical consistency but has trouble applying the new information, that is a reasonable response. It is unreasonable to try to use such a question to continue the argument.
It implies truth has to be appealing in order to be accepted. Relying on our capacity for delusion is a dishonest form of debate. The truth about God is good news. Even in the way it could be seen as bad news, being forewarned is better than being blindsided. It gives you an opportunity to course correct.
Accuracy > Appeal
Chances are, if you need to be catered to and seduced into believing something, the truth isn’t what you’re seeking. The happiest of truths cannot compete against the fantasies of someone willing to accept their delusions as fact. There is no virtue that would provoke such a demand. Fact is better than fiction, but fantasy makes better stories.
Certainty is great, but the power to edit God is intoxicating. Understanding God in a way that remains faithful to why God is unimaginable keeps our descriptions from being contradictory, but a God that could potentially share your morals, race, or gender is more relatable. An Absolute Creator of an absolute universe that gave you the capacity to perceive it all positively through worship is the greatest blessing possible, but a superpowered best friend pulling strings in the shadows has more flair.
Afterlife: Fact vs Fiction
To be without any negativity would leave no need for positivity, but the idea of Heaven as abundance in pleasure without consequence from over-indulgence sounds more enticing. For others, the lack of positivity is the worst experience possible, but the idea of Hell as burning without death is more terrifying. Those who deny any event after death say we return to nothing without realizing the “we” is our awareness and that “nothing” is Infinity.
I’ve had people try to argue that my ideas about Heaven and Hell require assumption and speculation for acceptance. My conclusions aren’t just the most reasonable based on what we know; they are the only rational conclusions possible. Here are the things we have reason to believe with no logical reason for dispute:
- Everything finite will cease to exist at some point. We don’t know when or how, but the law of non-contradiction shows us that something finite cannot also be infinite. The process would be just as unimaginable yet logically sound as creation.
- The Absolute has no equal or opposite, so only the Creator can be the Destroyer. The only way for anything to cease to exist would be through a return to God.
- Because matter is inert, we know whatever makes us autonomous and self-aware isn’t composed of matter. The end of our awareness is a distinct event that must take place after material death.
- We cannot imagine what Infinity is like, so our best finite conceptualization is extreme abundance beyond comprehension. The Absolute can be seen with a negative and positive perspective even though It’s neither. This impending Destination for our awareness can be seen as bliss or torment.
Flipping the Script
I am not arguing that whatever activates the flesh can remain active after death. I am saying its end of individuality is a separate event that can only occur with a return to God. Death doesn’t end the existence of your body, but no one thinks I’m saying the matter it’s made of will not cease to exist after death.
I make no promises or assurances that we will have some form of awareness of our end. I just point out why it is a logical expectation. Sports teaches us logic isn’t always a good tool for predicting future outcomes, but the only motivation to even hope for non-awareness is an inability to see Heaven. There is no logical line of reasoning that would feed such hope.
The capacity to see the bliss of an “Eternity with the Absolutely Infinite and Perfect” without anything you are familiar with transforms how you view life’s experiences. You don’t sacrifice life’s joy for some promise after you die. You are calibrating your lens on life according to the only event that will definitely occur for all.
If it turns out we will not be aware in the end, we will never know. During our lives, we would have used the knowledge of our final outcome to use absolute value to perceive life positively. There is no loss.
Some may say this is some attempt of self-mental manipulation. It is. It just doesn’t require or cause delusion. Whenever you have doubts that what you believe is right, you don’t wish and fantasize. You think logically and objectively.
God’s True Appeal
Ultimately, the truth about God is more appealing than imagination and personification or rejection because of its positive impact on the worshipper’s life. If true worship is a prioritization of affection, then we all worship. Some gods come with statues and stories. Others don’t even get recognition. Our options for such objects of high affection are the Creator, the created, or the imaginary.
Whether you invent a buffer from your deity or not, worshipping something that can be gained or lost leaves too much of your emotional well-being to external circumstances. This type of love can lead to stinginess with yourself when you have and a strong sense of longing when you’re without.
Delusions and figments of the imagination can be used as pleasant escapes from unpleasant reality. I don’t understand how living in fear of reality is an improvement. Basic information can threaten your entire world view and you can’t possibly enjoy a reality you have to lie to yourself to get through.
Worshipping the Creator of all that we will witness and experience uses absolute value to unlock the power of positive perspective. There is a certain spirit of resilience and gratitude that comes with constantly being able to find the positive in what seem like negative situations. The person who sees the blessing of something as inevitable and scary as death carries an unmatched inner peace with them wherever they go.
Amor Fati Without the Numbness
In Stoicism, there is a concept called amor fati. It means to love your fate. A part of its discipline numbs the practitioner to life’s pleasures. Understanding and accepting God is to reality what zero is to math and with God is Heaven or Hell achieves what they seek without numbing anyone to life’s joys.
If you are able to wrap your head around the fact that to be with the Absolute and Infinite is the only way to true bliss, the how and why of it can unlock the power of positive perspective in almost all situations. It works in life like absolute value brackets in math. You can see the desirability of things or their lack thereof but focus on them without bias. What seems bad is a challenge of some sort, and what seems good should be savored. It allows you to benefit from duality in life and death.
What’s Next
Zero was discovered centuries ago. It should have been used to understand God long before now. Some people have hinted at the connection, but shied away from following the logic to its conclusion. It is a blessing to be able to gain such clarity. You can’t keep ignoring something so simple and compelling.
Don’t just accept it. Debate it, but do it honestly and objectively. Have doubts? Challenge it, but do it directly and logically. The only real way to see that what I’m saying about God is correct is to combat it and lose. That can’t happen if you ignore or misinterpret me.
Intellectual Righteousness is the thinking man’s religion. It’s based on two facts and one opinion. Those two facts are: God is to reality what zero is to math and with God is Heaven or Hell. The one opinion is you should remember those two facts.
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