Tor on Marathon

Being a programmer is fun ! Many things are based on logic, on knowledge of a certain scoped knowledge-material… and then the task is to be creative and find solutions to stated, explicit requirements. Pretty easy, basically, at least after the many hours of studying and learning are over.

Being a Philosopher stinks 😉 You may think and write stuff your whole life… and you may never find out if it was worth a damned penny at all. So why – WHY – at all care to think or contemplate about anything ‘deep’ during your lifetime ? No, no, no… go for the money, fame and sex … and enjoy the ride all the way to the graveyard, right ? Perhaps.

Well…maybe not. Maybe we have in our nature as Human Beings to become philosophical about life and the meaning of it at some point in our lives. So… good news.. for your lazy guys out there, I have created a small piece of vb.net programming that will spare your some efforts. Go on, give it a read and a tought.

Dim GodExists As Boolean
Dim ScienceIsTrue As Boolean
Dim PhilosophicalHeadline As String
Dim Conclusion as String

If GodExists = True and ScienceIsTrue = True Then
 PhilosophicalHeadline = “God exists ! All questions or metaphysical considerations are irrelevant if God exists. Period !”
 Conclusion = “God Exists and let’s Mankind play around with Science. However, God may or may not determine (at any point in Time) to ‘make new decisions’, ultimately underpinning the true permanent consequences of the Natural Laws as we know them.”

Elseif GodExists = True and ScienceIsTrue = False Then
 PhilosophicalHeadline = “God exists ! All questions or metaphysical considerations are irrelevant if God exists. Period !”
 Conclusion = “God Exists and Mankind has fooled itself in the persuit of Science. We know truly Nothing at all (even though we think we do).”

Elseif GodExists = False and ScienceIsTrue = False Then
 PhilosophicalHeadline = “God (or the equivalent) does not exist. Only matter counts in the Universe. However, Science is also not what we think…”
 Conclusion = “God does not exist and Science is a fallacy too. We think we know stuff, but we don’t… and we have no afterlife or heaven to rest in. We are really F***ed !”

Elseif GodExists = False and ScienceIsTrue = True Then
 PhilosophicalHeadline = “God (or the equivalent) does not exist. Only matter counts in the Universe. Science is giving us the correct perception of the Universe.”
 Conclusion = “God does not exist, but Science accounts for the matter and Natural Laws of the Universe, the Biology, the Chemistry and so forth.”
End If

Surely, in the Europe the last conslusion seems to be the most popular. However, I think that all philosophical discussions begin with the question ‘Does God exist ?”. 90 % of the Earth’s population believe he does. What do you think ?

The Nature is not Perfect. There is no such thing as a perfect crystal or a 100 % ideal weather forecast 😉 Well, there is not.

We Humans tend live by the Illusion of ‘Perfect’. The perfect life – the perfect education, the perfect house, the perfect partner, the perfect carreer an so on. However, all things only lasts a brief minute on the great Timeline of the Universe. Perfection is a short joy, at best. Perfection is an abstraction, perhaps a fatal one. You may waste your life in the persuit of it – instead of enjoying the real world and your life as it is. 

What is the use of being a perfect mouse in lieu of the concept of ‘Cat’ ?

Similarly, what is the joy of being the perfect human considering the concept of e.g. cancer ? The concept of war… of poverty… of racism…of not having a chance in life….of loosing your loved ones ? Not to mention the unavoidable concept of Time, the great force that transforms the World and our experiences each second, ultimately taking our lives and bringing us back into the great circulation of matter (and, perhaps, who knows, Souls). What is ‘Perfection’ in these contexts ?

Having reached a certain age and experience I have decided how the World must be. The World as I know It.

This World is the perfect World not only to me but to the whole World. For generations, people all over the Globe will copy my World. Megastores with ‘Tor Rønnow’-items will replace common trade as we know of it as yet, people will buy clothings like I have etc. and bookstores will contain only one book, the book of My Thoughts for everyone to read and follow. Darwin will be replaced by me and the law of ‘The Survival of The Most Similar’. Everyone must be like me ! Then, I feel safe.

The World as I know It is advanced to such a degree of Perfection that no progress can be made. My World offer no new possibilities and allows no variety in neither taste, personal habits, preferences or lines of thought. Why should it ? My World is already Perfect ! At least, I think so.. and you should never challenge that.

Thus, for eons and eons to come, My World will be replicated and relived again and again… by millions and millions of humans. No change is ever needed, The World as I know It is home safe and can perpetuate itself forever.

But wait a minute – what happens if I change my mind ?

The whole World changes !

The Danish Philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard once wrote (essentially) that ‘if you label me, you kill me’.

What does that mean ?

My take: That we should always acknowledge the incredible power of change, adaptation and development that we humans are capable of. That we are not static. 

• Label me lazy – I am energetic tomorrow
• Label me stupid – I may have powers of which you do not know
• Label me fat – I may begin to work out and shape my body
• Label me ugly – I may be beautiful to someone else
• Label me – and you kill yourself too ! (my ‘add-on’) 

Surely, in the modern and media-made world it is extremly hard not to label, in general. But once you begin to catch yourself in doing it… and once you begin to stop the labelling… you find that you are set free… and are able just to live.

You see, that is what we do ! Behind all the merchandise, all the fancy cars, all the expensive jewleries, all the hard-won marathons (oh yes !), all the perfect and polite children, all the impressive carreers and alluring CV’s, we all just live. We do not need justification or allowance. We all have the birthright of breathing.

So… do you really live ? Or are you just alive … spending your time labeling, spending your time defending your labels ?

Well, in that case… you’re already dead. Bad choice !
Change it ! Who gives a crap about ‘the others’ anyways ?

Change !