Post #32 "Seeking Purpose"

Of course, the question of what is the purpose of human life has been asked throughout history. Has there ever been a satisfactory answer? Has not religion been looked to for the answer? It is true that many do look to religion for the answer, however it seems that as time moves on, fewer and fewer people accept that religion has the answer. A survey may reveal that what most people would demand of life would be happiness. Actually the goal of happiness seems to be the most easily accepted way of describing the goal of perfection, all leading, through the desire to be perfect. to the desire to become God. Or is it? Is the underlying case for happiness that which conquers what we fear most?

Let's probe deeper. What is the root of our longings? What does this desire to become God come down to? Is not Fear at the basis of our identity? Going back to the mythological stories of the Angelic Battle in Heaven and the Garden of Eden, what was the immediate reaction of the principle characters to what resulted from their Choice to become God? Their plan did not work out according to their desire. The result was far from what they dreamed of, desired, and Chose. But we can see, can we not?....that what was desired, to become God, was an utterly impossible hope. Somehow in the process Intelligence realized, or should have realized, that something went wrong. The very essence of what it means to become God never occurred; in fact the opposite resulted because what was desired is what IS desired-Time is nebulous. Immortality, the most desired and envied attribute of God did not transfer to Intelligence. Strangely, the desire has not been eradicated but seems to have been genetically implanted and entrenched in consciousness. The Choice was and is, the choice of all consciousness. This makes sense, of course, as consciousness is as consciousness in Collective Consciousness. Some religions recognize this as the Original Sin. Surely this primal fear stirred the primal waters of precreation into a churning chaos. Creation occurred as the result of fear, fear of not becoming God, of not becoming Reality, meaning fear of not overcoming mortality but, instead, by entering mortality-the elusive realm of Creation. How could there not be chaos? Was not the idea of god, gods, or God born of this fear? Is this what determines our god/God? Are not our gods that which we worship?.... Worship, as in appeasement, to save us from mortality?