Tor on Marathon

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 !

Propelled by a discussion at work getting almost out of order (almost !), I feel obliged to write something on Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem (read stuff here).

Basically, this theorem implicates that any mathematical system cannot be fully described within itself and that it will always ‘end’ on being based certain axioms for which no formal proof exist. The philosophical consequence of this is interesting, I think…well, more precisely, my thoughts are:

… if the collective human-made collection of mathematical sciences always boils down to the ten axioms, then the modern science in principle could be ‘false’ or not exhaustively described. There is probably no practical consequences of this, since our everyday experience and modern world does not see the theorems contradicted… nor would we want to. Science appears to ‘work’ and to be explaining everything in our practical, everydays lives, yes. The scientific methods are valid, yes (in apparent contrary to various ‘spiritual’ and religious ‘claims’…).

However, in the context of the existence of multiple (and unknown) dimensions or even the existence of God, I think this debate is interesting… because the Theorem, in my point of view, excludes the widespread and to me superficial assumption that ‘Science’ is ‘proofed’ and ‘Religion is fraud’. On the very large scale, nothing is finally proofed ! … and we should be humble to that observation ! or at least reserve the possibility that our science is neither describing the Universe exhaustively nor correctly at the present time.

And would that not apply to any Time ?