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An engaging conversation about why the universe began – its purpose – and why that purpose degenerated into the current randomness. Will purpose ever be restored? How can you, as an individual, ever escape random living? Join the dialogue and be challenged!
- Sales Rank: #1966764 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-21
- Released on: 2012-11-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
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A Gifft from the author that could change your life
By Peter Kline
Everybody Loves Raymond could be the most successful and helpful sitcom series ever produced. Each episode explores some aspect of family life that often causes misunderstanding, trouble, and a general deterioration in the overall quality of life. Dramatizing such experiences in the guise of comedy creates enough distance from the pain in one's own personal experiences to allow viewers to step back and ask themselves if the solutions that finally arise in the episode might give them some insights into how to do a better job of resolving the conflicts that their own family life so often generates. Throughout the history of drama, comedy has been at its best when criticizing human behavior without making those who can benefit from the resulting insights too uncomfortable to use what they have learned from the drama to resolve some of the conflicts they have to deal with themselves.
Nevertheless a friend of mine was unable to watch this show because he found it so similar to his own family experience that it depressed him to watch it.
This is an example of how we too often tend to flee from our problems rather than think about them long enough to give ourselves a chance to discover alternatives to the hellish dilemmas we all too often allow ourselves to drift into.
In one of the episodes of Raymond, perhaps the best of them all, the mother says to the father, "Ray, our daughter is asking questions about how babies are born. I think you need to have a talk with her."
Ray, of course, doesn't want to, but finally realizes he has to bite the bullet and explain to his daughter, who is now old enough to know, how babies manage to make it into the world, where they emerge alive and kicking.
All does not go well, however. Ally, the daughter, already knows "all that stuff." What she wants to know is not how babies are born, but why are they born. In effect, she wants instructions on what she is supposed to do with her life, now that she is old enough to begin thinking about making choices and accomplishing the kinds of things that can make you especially glad that you are alive.
From that point on everything becomes increasingly tangled, as one by one the adults realize that none of them has the slightest idea how to answer Ally's peculiarly vexing question.
The idea we get from this episode is that most people live lives that (to them, at least) are basically meaningless, because they do not see any overall purpose in whatever it is they spend most of their time doing. There are occasional exceptions, of course, but by and large the whole question of "what am I here for?" seldom gets addressed - probably because so few of us ever think about it. We seem to be too busy trying to figure out how to solve the problems we've got now to spend our time wondering what we want to make of the opportunities that life inevitably offers us.
For example, some people on seeing a homeless person standing near the next red light with a sign asking for money conclude from this that they are there to help that person. The majority, however, are simply annoyed that such a person is there bothering them and making them feel guilty.
Meanwhile, we occupy our minds with things like how to pay the bills, how to find a better paying job, how to deal with the problems our children are having, and how to stay out of trouble with the IRS, the police, and the criminal elements wandering around in the streets.
Henry David Thoreau expressed it this way: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
What, then, might the purpose of life be - just in case anyone does decide to think about it?
Part of the reason that we probably think about it as little as we do is that for more than a couple of centuries, science has tried to convince us that we live in an accidental universe, which automatically rules out any purpose in life, other than whatever goal we choose to pursue for our own personal gain or satisfaction, and with no guarantee that we will eventually be successful at it.
This is like trying to create a corporation that has no CEO. Unless someone is responsible for setting the goals and standards and procedural processes, a company cannot simply invent itself. For example, one person might think the company ought to manufacture automobiles, while another might think it's supposed to create weapons of mass destruction and a third might think it's in the book publishing business. We are almost intuitive in understanding that any endeavor that is to be successful must have a well defined purpose, set of objectives and agreed-upon ways of meeting those objectives. However, we too seldom take the additional step of applying this wisdom to our own lives.
In addition to that, if many companies are supposed to be the basis for a large economy, there have to be rules and regulations for proceeding in such a way that the overall effect of the various companies is a cooperative process of making life better for everyone who participates in that economy.
This should make it clear why it is that an "accidental universe" couldn't work effectively. Such complexity as nature is made of would be impossible without some kind of thought process behind it. We may not know how it works, but to firmly deny that purpose is in any way involved is to replace common sense with carefully designed and often vigorously propagated ignorance. After all, there are uncountable ways in which purpose, if it existed, might manifest itself, and it's quite possible that no current scientific studies have uncovered any of those ways.
Thus it cannot be true that nobody believes that the universe is in some sense a purposeful enterprise. The vast majority of people in the world today believe in some sort of benevolent creator, no matter how much scientific progress encourages various attempts to talk them out of it. However, the fact that science, which provides so much of the basis of our practical enterprises, discourages the "naïve" implications of any sort of religious faith, is the fountainhead of influence on what we believe in a practical sense, necessarily creates a kind of confusion that discourages the development of a consistent set of values and purposes based on the way human nature actually functions to achieve its best results.
The failure to support in an intelligent way the development of a set of behavioral standards derived from centuries of observation of human nature so that the majority of humans will achieve clarity of purpose is perhaps our society's greatest failing. It fails to take into account the need for fostering relational insights and purposes that heighten the quality of life for everyone.
In Vern's book we start with the idea of a creator who has purposes and wants to share them with his creation. The creator sets forth certain standards to guide the humans he has created, but also allows them free will so they can judge for themselves how they would like to contribute to a developing universe.
Gradually the humans drift away from the idyllic conditions that were established for them at the beginning, and from then until now, we have been torn apart by conflicts that arise primarily from the lack of a creation of mutually shared purposes that, properly developed through using the fine intelligence we were given could bring us all together in the pursuit and support of common purposes. These would naturally vary a great deal from one another in that they would be directed at different aspects of a wide range of legitimate purposes.
All this seems so clear and obvious as Vern discusses it that one finds oneself emerging into wonderment that so much chaos developed when so much coming together towards common goals has always been possible.
This realization is like a curtain going up on a great and mind enriching drama: the possibility of a human history that would move straight towards an ever more deeply unified set of experiences that would augment the growing capacity to purposely realize the highest achievement of human well being. This would include happiness, mutual caring, and all the other things that virtually all of us spend our lives quietly wishing for but despairing of ever seeing come alive. How wonderful it would be if we could collectively focus our attention on these important aspects of experience instead of devoting ourselves in such a narrow search for money and power as opposed to a wide range or satisfying experiences and relationships with family, friends and occasional strangers.
The amazing thing about this situation is that all of us are very much aware of many different kinds of problems in the world today.
Here are some of them:
Massive inequalities of opportunity between different groups of people.
Criminal behavior by some that can destroy the lives of others
Diseases for which there is no cure.
Destructive processes that are not properly controlled.
A tendency for most people to feel more afraid than courageous, more contempt for one another than love, more of a tendency to want to compete with their neighbors than to join together with them in solving problems.
We have all lived with this situation so long that we have learned to take it for granted. Nothing that we are taught in school shows any indication of helping us bring about a happier and more balanced society for all of our friends, neighbors and even enemies to live in and enjoy.
This suggests that we don't really believe that the purpose of life is to make ourselves and others as happy as we can, to protect them as well as we can, to create new and better things for them to enjoy as well as we can, and so on.
In the course of a lifetime of reading I have very seldom come across a description of this lack of purpose in our species. It is as if we are doing the best job we possibly could at surviving, when, in fact, we are mostly focused on trivialities and tend to be defensive about our faults rather than trying to correct them.
Now, at long last, at the age of 76, I have finally read something that enables me to see the above problem for what it is. It's as if all my life I had lived in a dark room and someone had just turned on the light.
In his book Purpose In A Random World Vernon L. Grose describes his own life in contrast to what it would be like if he were constantly aware of a the purpose behind everything that he does. This is an extremely effective approach to endowing us with a sense of purpose that can enable everyone to lead a long, happy and productive life. Keep in mind that we have free will, which means that everyone can accept or reject the opportunity to live a life of purpose. This means that purpose is voluntary and must be chosen, rather than being forced upon us without our consent.
By describing his own life in reference to this process (he does not claim that he has lived a more purposeful life than anyone else) and, in the process, alluding to many things that have happened throughout history that show no evidence of purpose in the sum total of human behavior, he has succeeded in making it clear (to me, at least) that we really do not have to choose to live in an "accidental universe" but can, instead, think deeply about how our species would behave if all of us chose to demonstrate with our lives the kind of purposive behavior that would make us feel a deep understanding of the value of our individual lives, as well as those of everyone else.
Part of the problem is that, even from a scientific point of view, Darwin got it wrong when he seemed to suggest that the dominant mechanism of evolution is "survival of the fittest." That implies that all creatures compete with each other for a long enough life to be able to reproduce and that only those that can survive that long are "fit" to reproduce.
Many modern biologists have shown that this is a very naïve point of view. To understand why, consider what happens in most professional sports, for example, football.
Almost everything that ever happens in a football game is cooperation, not competition. The "fitness" of a football team is not in the supposed "fitness" of its individuals. (Whatever that might be has never been satisfactorily defined.) It is in their ability to cooperate with each other so well that they can overpower the collective cooperative abilities of whatever opponent they are playing against.
Now, with this in mind, consider the fact that you have at least ten trillion cells in your body (only a tenth of which are there because of your DNA). By and large they get along with each other perfectly, because if they didn't, if they were fighting among themselves, you would be dying of cancer, or some similar predicament.
If the ten trillion cells in your body can cooperate as well as they do, what keeps the seven billion people on earth from cooperating to the same extent?
As Grose explains it, they fail to cooperate because they have no sense of purpose that all can share in, the way the members of a football team know how to share a common purpose, even though no two of them perform exactly the same actions in the course of any game.
Today's scientists understand cooperation on a cellular level, as well as on a species level. Whenever we see a flock of birds suddenly shift direction, we know that the command to switch was a decision somehow shared by the entire flock.
There are many things in our own bodies that demonstrate this kind of cooperation. Somehow, the cells in your body and the cells in your food are able to find each other in such a manner that the molecules and atoms of the food provide the individual cells with what they need. This can't happen by accident, anymore than Amazon.com could connect millions of products with their purchasers simply by accident.
The fact that we have no satisfactory scientific evidence that can explain how we got here doesn't mean that we are therefore forced to assume that the universe has no purpose. We can just as well assume that its purpose has not yet been discovered.
Meanwhile, if we evaluate our own lives, we can use the information that is increasingly becoming available to us about how our minds and bodies actually work so that we can work together in a way that makes the most of the human potential that's available to each one of us.
Because I feel very passionate about our as yet undeveloped ability to rise to this challenge, I am extremely grateful that Vern has written the book that helped me to see the need for this and its probably solution much more clearly than I ever have before.
I believe that if you read this book, it will change your life in a way that will greatly please you.
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Purpose In A Random World
By Duane
A very captivating, exciting and well written book. I could not put it down. An adroit allegory of the truth, reminiscent of C. S. Lewis and I can not recommend it highly enough.
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