"Oh he's really lost it this time..."

Yes friends, I'm back to the blog, to once more give voice to my creed of life is meaningless!

So this is what I'm thinking about today...

Perceivable existence is nothing but metaphor and symbolism.

This is the conclusion that I randomly came up with while I was studying for a Calculus test tonight.

For example, math seems to pride itself on being the most fundamental of disciplines, upon which all other scientific studies are based. To explain that statement, it could be said that behind the study of psychology, there are biological principles. But behind those biological principles, there are chemistry principles, and behind those chemical principles are principles of physics. Yet behind physics and everything else is the foundation of mathematics.

Math seems to be what it all boils down to. Yet what is the force and foundation behind math? Math is just a bunch of symbols and figures. But the math itself is not these symbols and figures, it's something far more abstract. It's the rule of the universe, but what IS that? Logic perhaps? More likely logic is simply another form of mathematics...

No, this foundational law of reality is something intangible and unthinkable. Occasionally we choose to label this unknowable force as simply "truth". It makes us sound profound, and also makes us feel better about the unfortunate fact that this alleged "truth" is completely unknown to us, except by the symbols and numbers we use to harness it.

However, contrary to popular belief, providing a label for something in no way implies that we have an understanding of that something. More often it just allows us to toss around lots of meaningless language in our endless attempt to define this thing we call "truth".

It's unknowable. We could all stand to be a little more humble and a little less pretentious in our claims of knowledge. You Christians out there, stop pretending as if you could possibly ever truly know the mind of God. He is an infinite being. You are not. It is as simple as that. Instead, take joy in the fact that God is unknowable. It is our eternal privilege to enjoy this truth of His nature. and it is the nature of God, that is this mysterious metaphysical rule of the Universe which stands behind every other principle. We cannot know this nature, we can only interpret it through symbols and metaphors.

Example: When we say "God is love" or "God is mighty" or "God is good". We run up against the problem that the concepts of love, goodness and strength, are merely symbols of God's nature. Traced back to the derivative meaning, It becomes a redundancy, that goes more like "God is God", or just "God is". Since existence itself derives it's being from God, we cannot accurately ascribe any facet of existence to God without the entire logical progression blowing up in our faces.

It's craziness...

Now I'm kicking myself, because I just wrote a completely aimless blog post, stabbing at so many interesting points... and just threw it out there like so much intellectual vomit... All for the sake of not doing this Calculus homework. Meh...

Philosophy must truly be the deepest form of procrastination ever conceived by man...

And that my friends, is the truth.