What Is Eternity: Could Reality Be An Accident?

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Clarence said:

But God must know the answers to all possible questions, right? Does that mean we could also know them if we were to reach the most Absolute level of Consciousness and Omniscience? Or would we need to completely forget about ourselves, with no possibility of remembering, to access such answers? But then, it would mean the same as being unable to know.

I don't understand why we can know so much about the macro level but so little about the micro level. This is really weird, as they are both One and therefore deeply connected.

That was my a priori framing as well

But it doesn't seem to the case for me as far as my Awakening process go, a posteriori.

At least when you're going into the trascendental, consciousness saturated, Infinite axis, you understand EVERYTHING but not every-thing. Those things emerge as limitations in the consciousness field, as figmentations of it, the intelligent interplay of Reality or Maya is like unravelling a never ending Knot, understanding comes just for more questions to arise, there is no end in the macro as in the micro, but with the former you kinda get a high level shot that includes every-thing and with the latter you get insight into a thing that as well goes on for Infinity. 

[Ero]

15 minutes ago, Davino said:

you understand EVERYTHING but not every-thing. 

That’s a good way to frame it. Reality is like Indra’s net, i.e. fractal (you can zoom forever without losing complexity) and every level of abstraction reflects the Whole. If you are God (zoomed out) then the human micro (zoomed in) is so insignificant that your consciousness doesn’t register it.

 

19 minutes ago, Clarence said:

@Ero For example, why are we human and not another species? Why do we live in a material world and not another kind of world? Why were we created with such limitations, mentally and physically? Why are we so unconscious and evolving so slowly as a species? Why did we come into existence the way we did, and what was that way exactly? Why are we on this planet specifically and not another?

All amazing questions I hope to grasp in this lifetime. My suspicion is you need to traverse up and down the layers of abstraction from human to God and back to begin understanding it. There doesn’t seem to be a trivial answer, because any answer is only true at a certain level of the “fractal” that is Reality, whereas these questions incorporate the full ladder, i.e they will be multi-linear/ multi-dimensional and relative.

[Clarence]

@Davino But why couldn't God know? If God was fully unlimited, an impossibility to know something would be a limitation.

I understand that God can choose to forget (when taking a human form, for example), but couldn't a part of God, a "higher part", know absolutely everything, such as why it created this reality the way it did or why and how this human came to exist as it does?

It doesn't make sense that such a major thing would exist, yet "no one" would know how or why it happened. I believe there must be an Intelligence above knowing things we don't.

From my perspective, the impossibility of reaching this knowledge while in human form doesn't prove that it's impossible for God to know it in any way.

[Inliytened1]

On 1/7/2025 at 4:08 PM, r0ckyreed said:

Not that I agree with the argument that reality is an accident, but I can’t help but entertain the atheist perspective of reality being an accident. 

Here’s a thought experiment:

How long would it take for you to flip a coin on heads 50 times in a row?

You see, life seems improbable because we are seeing it through a finite amount of time. But if you have eternity, I don’t see how it could be improbable for life. Eternity means that every permutation of reality is possible. You can flip a coin 50 times in a row on heads. It might take you 73767282818387473881827373 trillion years to do it, but you can do it and it would be as if no time has passed because eternity means no time.

So, how could the creation of life not be like flipping a coin 50 times in a row? Of course, the issue with this argument is that for “accidents” to exist, there has to be Existence. Existence is a necessary condition for accidents to exist.

Sure, it might take the Universe billions of billions of years just to develop humans capable of reasoning in a similar way that I could flip a coin 50 times in a row. But the fact is that existence exists. An atheist doesn’t understand that accidents and randomness are properties of Existence.

I would argue that there can be no accidents given an infinite amount of time. Me flipping a coin 50 heads in a row is inevitable under the concept of eternity. The only thing limiting me in flipping a coin 50 times in a row is me having a limited amount of time. But if the Universe has unlimited time, then it is inevitable that life exists no matter how improbable it may seem.

Existence is life.  You're creating a duality by saying there is existence (consciousness) and life (consciousness) Consciousness is eternal 

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