The Good The Bad and the Ugly, an analysis of nonreligion and the origin of the universe.

I'm not here to tell you about my life, its just way too boring and somewhat normal, nah. Rather I'm here to just put my mind out on a page for all to see about issues that I feel are important. They'll be biased, opinionated and often completely wrong, but hey, that's just my insurance statement in case i piss you off, if any people ever read this that is. I wont research my facts, i wont often press the backspace key, and if you re a grammar-phobe (ocgd) look away or be forever scarred.

OK, down to business.

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein)

Religion?? One word that i feel affects people in odd, amazing and downright ludicrous ways. I often find myself pondering over the existence of a god, philosophically trapping my mind in an unwinnable game with itself. The topic, i find is just, well a little bit too spongy to tell you the truth to ever have a definitive answer, but ill give you three possible scenarios that could well exist as i speak, one close to home, one middle ground and one that's just way over the top but unusually plausible.

1.)The Good: God had a defining in the creation of the universe, but hes still an asshole. (this is what i feel may be the answer;agnosticism.)

God is righteous, God is great, all knowing... yadayadayada, we've all, at some point heard this lecture from TV, radio or that religious friend we may have. But i say screw that, you read the bible, you know that god is a selfish spoilt little child who slaughters the innocent when they go against his word. There's even some image going around the net with a graph displaying god vs Satan's kill count: God 1800, Satan 12.

I say god is flawed and that Christianity, (all religion for that matter) is blind, i say hes like you or me, good and bad, all mixed in and i say he honestly couldn't give a crap about what you re doing right now. Honestly do you give a crap about an ant?
When you obliterated that poor fly on your kitchen table, did you feel remorse? No. Because you are a far superior being, its a natural fact. If god existed we'd simply be bacteria to him, he'd be that powerful. I propose that god is more human than we give him credit for.

Take this into account. When you idolise someone, you take in all his positives and reject his negatives. When 6 million Russians were deprived of food and forced to starve during Stalin's reign, people thought that Stalin, their god, would save them, it could not possibly be there shining beacon of hope against poverty and western dominance. Well sorry guys it was, and well, umm a lot of you died because of him.

An extreme example i know but you get the gist, people will only focus on gods positives and reject his negatives, to the point where people become blind.
This is why i reckon, we have free will, god cant be screwed making us all happy, so he'll just leave us all here to fight it out ourselves, doesn't necessarily mean though, that he didn't create our universe, i think god may just be a curious being with a passion for science himself, and that's why he created our universe, or rather its laws and starting point.

Now we get sciency, consider the uniformity of the universe, consider the power of the constant in physics, the uniform precision of the periodic table in chemistry, the precise laws upon which matter bows down to and cannot change to. Its as if the universe is one gigantic puzzle made specifically for us ( and other intelligent lifeforms) to go run amok in and discover. Also think of the fact that where did all this crap around us come from, at the beginning before time and space(the singularity).

The precise laws and origin point to what i believe can only be one thing: a creator, and a damn smart one too. The universes mechanisms are just too perfect, it has to have been guided by a hand, but not a righteous hand. We may just be an accident of gods wonderful explosion of time and space, not his primary concern of what goes on in the universe.

likelihood: 8

2.)The Bad: God played no part in the universe's creation, and our lives mean nothing at all.
(If you're religious you may be offended by this, but then again that's just proving the point of this section even more..) (atheism)

OK, now to jump into the mind of a pure atheist.

The big-bang theory holds some ground, except for the fact that where does the infinitesimally dense and hot singularity come from? Lets just see for a minute here, in this part i cant say it was God, so I'm going to go with our scientific understanding just isn't up to scratch yet. After all the recurring theme in history is "what the fuck is that??" "O that things the will of goooodddd" then 20 years later someone proves it scientifically that it ain't and makes a fool of godman, see fossil record, redshift, earth is round etc etc... so lets assume that this gap in understanding follows a similar trend.

Humans are notorious for jumping to assumptions too fast, often resulting in dire or hilarious consequences, ill give you some food for thought, how insane do you think ancient Greek or ancient Egyptian religion is?? I bet they thought our modern religions are totally insane too.
This goes to show the insufferable gullibility of what people will do to hang on to something after we die, they will believe anything.

That's why there probably is nothing, religion just maybe a manifestation of our ultimate insecurity of death so much so, that people are willing to sacrifice themselves for it (see definition for waste of life). Religion targets the innocent masses and gladly laps them up to play to the tune of order and following a blind chorus . Maybe, religion is for those too afraid to think for themselves? Who knows these things, after all if religion would have its way, every person on earth would be dead, because at least 4 of the major 7 religions are told to 'punish' non believers:
Islamic extremism, IRA, crusades.

Science it seems, has strived for the answer, maybe that's just it, science may just be the answer, after all, it hasn't hurt us too much so far now, has it? The laws we have derived so far in our short existence relating to science and the universe have given us modern society and a deep and rich understanding.They have also given some concrete (in the sense that there is evidence for them) answers to possible origins of our universe, however incomplete they may be.

Plausibility: 6

3.)The ugly: A personal theory that interests me because of its crazy implications. The artificial universe. (ermmm philthinkstomuchism? Matrixism)

Until a few years back i thought that the above theories are plausible and may just be the answer, until i thought about the following:
OK you re at your computer right? Right. In 30 years we've gone from room sized things to the mega machines that you re on right now, the universe has been around for 15-20 billion years i think according to modern measures. If we last even a million years, our computers should theoretically be, by then, powerful enough to create 'artificial universes' a la matrix style. Some philosopher on TV i saw also was intrigued by this (cbf looking him up) and proposed that the likelihood that we are living in the real universe is 1billion to 1, food for thought hey?
So some guy may be looking at you right now without you knowing it, scary if not insane...

This also shows that people will look for answers anywhere that pop up conveniently, an irony to religion i suppose, after all computers have popped up conveniently, lets make an origin theory about it!!

Plausibility: anywhere from a straight 0 to a 9.99999999

So there you are, 3 alternate theories of mine to conventional religion that will probably make you angry or hopefully make you think, whatever way you take it, hope you enjoyed it :)