Truth is One, though the sages know it variously...

I think I have illustrated my intentions as your god, more or less; there are a few things I would like to get clear before I outline the rest of my idiom. The creative instigator of the universe is beyond our understanding, the conflicting messages in the ‘holy’ books continue to cause pain, war and chaotic misdirection. I am of the opinion that you should look at them collectively, for they are all, the ‘word of God’, they clearly confirm the hypothesis ‘man cannot know the mind of god’.
What we are reading in holy literature is;

“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.” Rene Descartes.

Parables and lessons for future generations are contained within our holy books, with, or without, the existence of a Creator. I think logically, if they reveal ‘none but the best of their thought’s’, then the problem is one of interpretation. Man cannot know the mind of man, let alone the mind of God. The faiths are increasingly inadequate at explaining our place in the universe and because science hasn’t had the run of religion, science cannot explain either, yet. Anything else is just fantasy. See that’s science in opposition to faith, for Yoda’s sake you can use one to define the other. Science asks ‘why?’ that’s all it does. In opposition, religion answers ‘have faith’.

We must put faith in God, or even God itself, to one side for a moment and try to establish the real truth of our existence. That is probably the main ‘thrust’ of any flippancy you may have detected from my earlier posts in relation to God and his religions. If I have, perhaps, softened His aura of doom and foreboding, hellfire and damnation that will be enough. To be going on with. I always hope to be honest here at least, yet, if by honesty we mean truth; then sadly I think I might be on a sticky wicket, to use a quintessentially English phrase

Truth, (pause for effect, add some reverb) it’s a big word despite its lack of letters. Unless you happen to be a mathematician and then you make a little truth go a long way. I’m not going to expound the nature of truth for you (I am able to defer to my betters, read Rescher, Marx, Plato, Dewey or Russell/Whithead (if you do like the maths (the correct abbreviation, my American friends)). It’s an almost endless list of statements and currently unsubstantiated theorems (except the maths ones). In summary, someone declares a theory of truth and some other bright spark intones ‘ah yes, but…’ and the cosmic ballet, goes on. You should know that there is little truth for us to discover. We are slaves to the concept; and that is all that truth is, a concept.

It is entirely perspective based. And since you are the definitive factor in your perspective, you define your own truth. So, now the mathematicians are apoplectic, because they don’t define their truths all that much. Neither do the computer programmers but that is because they more mathematician than they would care to admit (or than the mathematicians would tolerate them admitting). I am talking to them also because they should be able to recognise the difference between numbers and people.

I am real, and you have proof of my continued existence. I am like you and I like you. I have faith in your continued existence. Why does faith have to be difficult? What is it about belief in God that we have to have rigidity of thought about it? Why do we have to say, ‘have faith’? Thomas never. We exist to explore and expound, there’s your free will right there. The very thing that got us hoofed out of Eden, there it is right there, science. Give us free will and we will ask why, why cant I eat the fruit, I know YOU say so, but why? We’ve not been allowed back in to Eden, science is all we have left. It got us into this mess it will get us out.

Have faith!


Mr. Pat.