Dueling Realities

Realities is a most challenging subject for this blogger precisely because his many thoughts do not originate from any reality unless one considers a certain mental state suspended in a day dream a reality.  Whether his ideas on realities can be substantiated as realities is not a question to be answered; rather, by merely putting his amorphous thoughts into words, they have been collectively transformed by the force of sheer will into some form of reality that only the blogosphere has time and space for, and it is in this non-judgmental dimension that his dream-like realities can almost be real.

In this space, life can be seen as having two principal realities: original and artificial; the third is a hybrid of the two, and the rest are their derivatives which are numerous and continuously changing which do not allow for meaningful itemization and classification.

A reality is original if comes from God and has not been altered.  It is artificial if it is a product of man's imperfect imagination, often made worse by his selfish and ineffective ad hoc organization and inappropriate motives, contents and conduct.  A hybrid reality is an original reality altered by exploitation and contamination, and its resultant existence is nearly impossible to eradicate.  A derivative reality is a complicated inextricable mess.  It is pervasive like an invisible mist that envelopes the world's inhabitants from which there is no escape.

Original realities are beyond man's understanding or his ability to duplicate.  They are from God, and only God can change them.  They range from an ordered universe to an ordered planet, and from natural birth to natural death. These realities are accepted as part of existence.

Existing within God's realities has never been good enough for man.  His first ancestors, Adam and Eve, had rejected God's perfection embodied within the Garden of Eden, a place of plenty and eternal youth without suffering and death.  To this day, man has ambitions that are far beyond his acceptance of God and God's gifts; he wants to continually improve upon what he has been given.  He wants his own artificial realities, and has by his God-given intellect continually come up with inventions and improvements that are tainted by his pride and greed, that would eventually lead to his own demise.

Man's artificial realities range from inventions of primitive weapons needed to hunt for food to having new and advanced weapons of mass destruction. [1]  The hybrid realities include genetically modified crops that are causing the collapse of bee colonies. [2]  Examples of derivative realities are the still unknown long-term effects of consumption of genetically modified foods, the constant undercurrent of stress in living in a corrupt and terror-filled world that is unstable economically and geopolitically.

In the midst of all these noisy and growing man-made realities caused by man's missteps and miscalculations out of greed and pride, God remains at the center, a source of strength and stability, a place of peace.



[1] Does it not amaze anyone that man can go to the moon, explore outer space, destroy the world in minutes but is still unable to rid the world of diseases and disease-carrying vermin?
[2] http://naturalsociety.com/37-million-bees-found-dead-canada-large-gmo-crop-planting/