Chapter Fifty Eight: A Mere Statistic

To the well-organized mind,

death is nothing but the next great adventure.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and

the Sorcerer's Stone

It is going to be very sorrowful to realize, indeed, that, after God has made everything in this universe (including those being invisible in character), he will leave it all alone only to perish, let alone allow it to painfully die, define further the extended nature of chaos, destroy itself by an impending implosion affecting individual psyche to be caused by the fatal combination of such important particles of the cosmos, and let life goes by in a super tiny planet called Earth, to be conclusively certain that this human experience is an existence only derived from a sudden cosmological event, as if everything happened by accident.

However.

God, by definition, is too wise to be mistaken, and too loving to allow these terrible things to transpire to the created as well as to the living. Man's search for the motivation to pursue mercantile activities and commerce has taught him that life can be managed, and can tend to it in a well manner, that economic affairs can be planned, that resources can be allocated, some of which is to be efficiently used as raw materials to serve for another utility, that life is to be savored and lived to the fullest, that there is joy to be experienced in a complicated existence, and that the perfect order and the thoughts pertaining to sorrows and suffering are a simple matter of perspective.

In short, God's ultimate design for life is sustainable, balanced, and purposive.

If something is to be learned from all these chaos and distraction, one individual may intelligently infer that nothing in this world happens by accident. Everything has been planned from the very beginning, that all creation serves a particular role in the world, and that man's pusuit to define himself as an existing being is divinely inspired by his inner longings, and that God's benevolence is shown in his complete provision of the needs and wants avaiilable for stewardship.

For the divine, life is an artistic expression. It can be interpreted in many diverse perspectives, but one may still marvel by its beauty and madness.

If, in the interest of fairness, the universe can be elucidated as something that can be held as a simple inquiry of material things and observable phenomena (by way of science and nothing else), then man's thoughts as a result of his sensory experience can never capably differentiate the philosophical thoughts pertaining to the importance of the presence of duality, and to be able to embrace the fullness of the vital concept of paradoxes.

Even the correlation of fortune as it relates to the constellations of the heavens point to an unavoidable realization that most ideas that are peddled in all avenues of knowledge, which can adequately be found in literature and the certainty of philosophical thoughts, has an inspiration of its own accord.

Not really persuasive and generally accepted, but almost.

So, what triggered the metaphysical underpinnings of such pedagogy?

If not from the divine, then who is responsible for all of these variety of ideas inside the rational mind that create both peace and madness? Like conserved energy, someone must have pushed the universe's own button, and activate its very own mechanism.

In further contemplation of all of these premises, whose thoughts permeate the deepest longings of the created and the creation, tapping even to the cruelty of emotions? What kind of rhetoric are to be picked by a thinking being, determining what is good or evil? What qualities define which is which, and in comparison to other definition or concept as a matter of causation and correlation?

Only a person, based on his learning and his wide gamut of experiences, can adequately understand the complexities of life, methods, thoughts, and beings, considering, perhaps in retrospect to the introduction of the scientific concept, is a direct result of the combination of genes and DNA that created intelligence in the human person, by way of evolution or the passage of time, which is, of course, not too far behind from the truth.

But is the mere possession of intelligence enough to live a fulfilled life? Will man eventually discover the deepest meanings of the natural world simply by being intelligent enough to understand the mere statistical inference of experimentation subscribing to the scientific method?

Yet, one may definitely oppose this absolute idea that man's development as both a thinking and a social being had come from the basic premise of accidental certainty of the circumstances, for such reckless thing is impossible to exist. Because, in the context of behavior and the psychology of learning, a rational being must be trained, must be led by example, must be nurtured in the most appropriate manner, and must be molded into a complete being he needed to become.

For instance, languages spoken by humanity developed for many billions of years, by man's own clever way of utility and learning, even before the birth of the Christian faith.

But not all that exist can be seen. Science must have evidence that what it explains must be conclusive based on the number of occurences in statistic (most conclusions employ the metric of probability), and that is its most fatal flaw. Imagination exists only in the mind of the human person, like an idea for an abstract painting or a narrative of a beautiful fictional place, but it cannot be asserted to be actually existing to the satisfaction of scientific inquiry for lack of physical evidence.

An Elf as illustrated in many storytelling has no exact physical features (just yet), and a fictional world cannot be found on a map in an exact and definite location, simply because art can only come from the inspiration of the divine, and the artist does not reside in his own art work, like, a beautiful painting, for example.

For the sake of argumentation, if life indeed happened by accident, then it follows that disorder is, in fact and in truth, to be found everywhere. Yet, in order to find purpose from all of the present chaos, an individual must be guided by reason, and not by the neurotransmitters reponsible for the feeling of the survival instinct. It is wisdom that makes life endurable, enjoyable, and worthy of emulation.

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