The Wise Turtle Speaks

Sometimes it’s important to go back to the basics when there is conflict. Sometimes it’s useful to clarify the definition of the terms you are using, so that everyone understands what we’re all talking about…

Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: god
Pronunciation: \ˈgäd also ˈgȯd\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German got god
Date: before 12th century

1 capitalized : the supreme or ultimate reality…

If we stop there, and leave out all the “explanatory” stuff that each religion has offered (which comes after the ellipsis up there, and which begins with the word “as” in the dictionary), and just stick with the more open ended fundamental definition of “God” as simply being “the ultimate reality”, we discover that by it’s very definition, God clearly exists.

When we consider this, we discover that God is essentially the name some people use for the idea of the laws of nature, the structure of the universe, the ultimate truth that is all of reality.

Of course, everyone finds their own theory of what those laws are, what that structure is, what that ultimate truth is, what all of reality can be, along with their own theory of how it all came to be, which is where people’s opinions vary the most, and where people most diverge. But the fundamental idea of God is shared by nearly everyone, this is where nearly all people converge.

My personal belief is that God, The Ultimate Reality, is the first law of thermodynamics. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it simply moves from one place to another, from one form to the next, through the dimension of time, as we perceive it, pulsing like the ocean waves inward and outward and inward and outward as matter contracts and expands from solids to liquids to gases and to plasma and finally to pure energy, and then back again to solids.

For every thing that is destroyed, something new is created. For me, God is the structure of reality that continually creates from what has been destroyed.

How about your own personal belief of what The Ultimate Reality is? Are you ready to share that with the world?

Also, what other terms in our world do you see surrounded by conflict for which it might be useful to clarify the most fundamental definition that everyone shares?

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