Why do I believe in God? (Part 3 of X)

It is remarkable how much I screwed up my life, missed all trains and was sleeping on the subway bench like a hopeless bum. Well not literally but you get the metaphor, right? And I was still able to stand up and fight my way through memories that dragged me down, lost chances, lack of hope, devastating pessimism and all other lollipops my life stuck in my cheek. Like a bad movie line, darkness hits people once in a while unless one is incredibly lucky. Some are swallowed in, others feel like at home. But me — total hibernation. That went on for years. Actually 4 years… Total de-socialization, life-o-phobia, unrepairable cynicism. Yes, that was part of my recent history. I am now experiencing a major lag which I can probably even blame on celestial misalignment, but it all breaks down to me. “Me” is the fellow I should ask about what happened.

Why do I believe in God? (Part 2 of X)

Having talked in Part 1 about my views on implications of quantity on simplicity and complexity, I will now concentrate on the concept of existence in general. Normally, people can’t imagine God as just another tangible entity. We all do have our own representations of Him based on widely accepted social perceptions, religious interpretations, personal imaginings etc. With doubt in His existence come agnosticism and atheism. But how can one be sure that He exists? Should one base beliefs on sacred texts? Or legends? Science maybe?

Haven’t posted in a while

Even though I’ve got no visits to my blog, I will continue adding my thoughts here. Who knows, someday this blog may be in the news for X reason. The truth is that lately I am so busy with work and everything that I am getting fed up with it. I have virtually no life and all I think about is how to secure my future. So many trains I missed in my life, I stopped for a moment and thought if it really is too late for anything. But the truth is that it is never too late as long as we are alive. Even though I am not a truly religious person (I seldom go to church), God has helped me in every way to fix what I messed up earlier. As I’ll never convert this blog to whining over my personal life, I will stop here with that, for my and everybody’s sake.

Why do I believe in God? (Part 1 of X)

Frankly, this question is what made me to start this blog up in the first place. A simple question like this is doomed to no simple answer. On the other hand, it really depends on your understanding of the difference between simplicity and complexity you probably carry from your kindergarten days. I won’t try to shake your world on that one. But, in my humble(st) opinion, simplicity is a main building block of what this world is all about. What more, complexity is but a superset of simplicity and subject to interactions as such. To make it more clear, we constitute nuclei of what we know as a “society”. Therefore we are simple, but the system we form with other humans and interactions we make is what makes it complex. If we apply the same scale to ourselves we open up another level of both physical and mental complexity. Ultimately, we can break it down to protons, electrons and neutrons – the indivisible unique entities we are made of. It is safe to assume that quantity is, in part, responsible for the existence of complexity as a concept. But, isn’t this derivation just another interaction, now at the conceptual level, employing a concept on concepts? How is this even possible? An equivalent in engineering would be using a tool as a building block of a machine rather than using a tool to build a building block of a machine.

I’ll end this post here. It will all fit nicely when I get to Part X.

Stay tuned!