Pure speculation

Is this a prison this planet? Perhaps this planet is a prison. There likely is an explanation why we’re here for it seems to make sense that there would be an intelligent reason. Perhaps it’s a journey to become better morally that we’re apart of on earth. That might be part of the search and our estimation of what truth is we undertake imperfectly here.

Many ideas bring with them different experiences in life adding to a complicated picture. When out of all those experiences ideas are hostile to one another that is one of the ways perhaps that the plan behind life deliberately prepares for. Maybe out of the confusion the truth is sought, not by everyone, but by some of the people of each time period. Those people might wonder if there is a God and consider morality and what it’s importance really is. They are perhaps the part of every generation that comes along who draws the nearest to the truth and finds a way to move on.

 We wonder what’s important and are sometimes free to decide. We are looking and asking what is relevant. Our behavior requires that the purpose of life be settled. Our determination says it matters for something. We struggle with a need for an ultimate answer.

The truth is not entirely self-evident however. What really overarches our life and what ultimately matters is in dispute. If there is a God with a will for us then that journey discovering Him would be relevant and if there is no God it wouldn’t mater. 

Part of the genius of the uncertainty is that it’s pulling our will between positions. Being in this state of uncertainty some of us are tempted strongly to dismiss morality altogether. We’re tempted to even strive against it and against a Gods very existence. Alternatively we may strive to defend an existing God.

The struggle is part of the unusual freedom we have. It’s curious that we have this freedom but what if it’s an illusion and we’re not really free. When I say not really being free I’m questioning how our minds interact in the world in the pursuit of truth and if we’re ever truly free to judge reasonably right from wrong or truth from error in that “freedom.” True some of us seem to do that, at least they come up with answers that appear better then others. But in truth or in finding ultimate good do we ever have the ability in that freedom to choose for ourselves right. What about questioning freedoms ability to navigate even a partial amount of decisions with insight or to have even a partial ability to be truly free enough to decide something in a fair way.

Morality has extremes too, at one end of the extreme immorality, on the other end oppressive morality. What’s in the middle ground might be where what’s best is. That answer is disputed among man. If all this we’re a part of has an intelligent purpose behind it then that purpose happens, perhaps tactfully, not obviously, through allot of chaos. It’s perhaps through those chaotic clashes of civilizations, ideological struggles, and personal battles for peace and belief that a number of people may find their way elevated to positions of self-awareness.Their truth, maybe not perfect truth, perhaps, despite being not perfect, has a compassion and dignity necessarily cultivated by life by God through human existence. That better self they arrive at might be a valuable discovery and part of a plan.

This is all pure speculation that life puts us here in a prison. It is curiously a home surrounded by insurmountably vast and incomprehensible distances. It is a place where becoming just, fair, kind, humane might really matter for our ultimate escape through life. Who would want a bunch of uncommitted people who were defiant of any form of guidance or conviction about what’s right or good disrupting the better world to come. Here is not that better world. As full of beauty, creativity and genius as the world is this world was not destined for perfect peace or rest. Thrown into the chaos of earth are viruses, plagues, storms, famines, wars, venomous snakes, man eating lions and a total uncertainty where we are. Also however self-evidently this world clearly points to a creative genius behind everything and that power has an ability and capability to do something for us mortal people that is unfathomable and that is unleash unending creativity.

Perhaps we are a planet of rebels who defied the path to fairness and the great good who knows that ultimate good. Now we stumble and stagger through an uncertain world in an uncertain place. If we come to understand God and His nature and adapt ourselves unto His will we might then escape. The sentence for not finding Him who knows but it may be many life times spent stumbling. In that search for truth ideas will plot against us. Rebellious other prisoners will quell and stifle out hopes and attempt to rob our peace and jeopardize our escape. Whenever we think we have an easy road ahead of us toward freedom forces will make it near impossible for us to win our freedom.