I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to learn to solve. ~ Anonymous (Islamic)
Tohu and Bohu
Confusion and emptiness. According to the KJV of the Christian bible, before creation, there was nothingness, further interpreted as confusion and emptiness. This is an apt description of the state of many human lives, especially those who have yet to awaken enough to question the universe around them. Millions and millions of people going about their daily tasks without feeling fulfilled, regardless of societal success. What are we missing? What is this ephemeral goal we cannot identify or procure? Why was the feeling of ennui programmed into us?
This is the void we feel before creation.
Imagine a situation where everyone gets what they want.
They don’t get what they want in the form of an instant download but by being given a situation where they can work towards it, not only to give the goal more value but for all of the peripheral benefits of actually earning it yourself.
Now imagine what your life would be like if you never asked the universe for anything.
How would that feel to the person living it? What would that life look like?
If you simply accept that reality is what it is, and go through your life robotically fulfilling whatever society dictates (job, car, college, house, spouse, children, vacation, death) then where would growth and individual fulfillment come from? How could you advance beyond NPC mediocrity? What if you never recognized that you keep getting put into situations because you want what's on the other side of it, and so, never actually worked through it? That would be intensely frustrating. It would be like Dorothy never knowing about the Yellow Brick Road and just spending the rest of her life sitting around Munchkinland.
So what if all we really ever needed was just the knowledge that when we ask for things, we are set on a path to the thing itself?
One of the core questions we ask at Thea Apo Mesa is, Why were we programmed to be spiritual?
To create a simulation filled with AIs is one thing, but to deliberately code in the desire to look upwards and imagine a deity is something else entirely. Perhaps the reason this was hardwired into us is for the very purpose of getting us to ask the universe for things. No matter what visage we filter our requests through, be it prayer to a Saint or prayer to the Loa, it's the same mechanism of putting a formal request out to the simulation, segregated from the mundane world as a religious act.
Spirituality acts as an interface with the Simulation.
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