This is like asking what mountains are for, or what trees are for. A child may say a tree's purpose is to scratch the back of large beras or mammals in the woods that can lean up against them.
Thanks Heis
So if I understand correctly there are millions and millions of events taking place around us everyday and the fact that I gave meaning to a hundred or so synchronicities and co - incide - ence s is actually a lot more probable than I originally thought and is actually an illusion.
No I think that pretty much resolves my questioning I think I have a much clearer view of things now thanks a lot everybody.
But does the universe actually have a plan or is it really just cause and effect and that is just the way it happens? is there a reason for matter to decay to give birth to new life? Perhaps god just engineered the world and let it be, and maybe he wasn't the most intelligent engineer so we see flaws in the design, but he made it work. And perhaps the death of stars gives way to black holes which collect matter and once critical mass is reached there is a new big bang, and so space and time are eeternally transforming. But I am seriously beginning to think that it is just cause and effect and things just happen the way they do.
Of course I know that is a grand simplification and that there is a lot more involved, but I'm on my phone and don't feel like explaining the entire universe lol, if you wanted to cite everything it would be a 1000 page book just to explain the basics of biology, let alone the other Sciences.
I wouldn't expect anyone to explain all processes of a subject which has already been discussed for countless millennia. That would be a fools gambit. But just over simplifying the matter shows a little disrespect to the subject also. It is as simple as you described. In a way. But it seems to me as though you are going down a hopeless route of thought and expectation. There is no such thing as perfection. It is an indefinable structure which changes with every whim and thought. There is a plan for everything. Nature has shown us that. Tomorrow can be your greatest day. Your worst. Or you might just die in your sleep tonight. Who knows? Does it even matter? Not really cuz right here. Right now. Your reading my post. That's all that matters.
We have the ability to think freely DaSprout and by sharing opinions and going down this "hopeless route of thought" we can further our understanding of physics and metaphysics, there are subjective truths after all. You have expressed metaphysics very well in this post and I am learning; I am just asking for your opinion what is wrong with that?
There is nothing wrong with that at all. It's just from your posts and your route of questioning. I can detect that certain emotional undertone. Espespecially since this paricular thread began with your friends death. Which may actually be suicide. There is more to life. But sometimes you just have to accept it and live it.
OK I understand that. The thing is I have spent the last 8 years of my life trying to stop thinking, now that I have mastered Zen I am looking to expand my mind and sharpen my thinking skills. I am an autodidact I have very little formal education and so I look for people more intelligent and more educated than me to help me learn, by asking for their opinions and debating. You should of seen how ignorant I was just 3 years ago before coming on this site. I honestly have to thank @tyler.durden and @Heisenberg for revealing my ignorance and allowing me to extinguish it. I owe a debt of gratitude to you guys you taught me a lot thank you.
Just wanted to point it out to you DaSprout this is an argument from incredulity; just bc you can not possibly imagine it being any other way does not mean that is the truth. For instance I was once stuck on the idea that the DNA code absolutely had to be formed by an infinite intelligence, I'm gonna try to find a good article on it that explains how it may have formed it does not include any higher intelligence and actually makes a lot of sense and seems more natural and intuitive.
