Musings on the Universe, God and Duality.

As for God and why He lets people suffer, the basic observable thing about the Universe is that God invented the idea of Duality. It is absurdly present everywhere. It is so present that we take it for granted that there simply isn't a way to make a universe that didn't have Duality...but we cannot know, because we cannot properly imagine a universe of true Triality or Quadrality (or more), although we can and do imagine that perfection for some reason is Monality. God must have noticed that in order to make Light pretty impressive, He had to make dark. To make Warmth a good feeling, he had to make cold. To have Good be of value, and to be sought after, there had to be something to compare it against, evil. To make Joy the utter triumph that it is, there had to be pain. And to make Life a treasure that should never be taken for granted, there must be death. Some philosophers, various writers, and a Twilight Zone or two have taken on the notion of immortality...that when granted utter freedom from death, apples eventually taste like dust, sex has no pleasure, drink is no longer intoxicating though you may get drunk, and the simple joy of love of your friends, your spouse, your children...all of it has no meaning anymore. Whatever else is, God is the inventor of Duality...and since we live in His universe, I think we should give Him the benefit of the doubt that He's a great deal smarter than we are, and that the idea must be there for a reason. For every piece of matter, a piece of antimatter. And perhaps, though I am by no means certain, for every tear cried somewhere here, there is laughter and joy for those moments elsewhere. And vice versa. I do not know or even think that they "echo" in reverse, I think simply that they auto-balance. And I do not know or think that they do it identically in space-time. The universe does not operate in instants, it operates in eternity. It, including space and time, are not the linear things we see, but they are in fact One Thing. Duality is simply part of the Oneness that just IS. So, on balance, over nanoseconds, or eons, all things balance...dark and light, sorrow and joy, death and life. So that each thing we value is something we KNOW to value.