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neoscarlet13 · 7 years

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Neo Speaks:

(This is copy-pasted from my TCFA writer’s journal...)

Well, it's official....I'm horribly sick. But this shall not deter me from my mission to listen to "Chill" from the Undertale soundtrack whilst drinking hot tea and contemplating the fundamental laws and nature by which our universe is governed.

I'm now just going to rant some philosophical nonsense here....

The purpose of philosophy is to go beyond scientific evidence and experiences to examine the nature of things that are beyond our reach by the use of our human ability to apply logic and reason to some things in order to learn other things. "From one thing, know 10,000 things"-Hanzo Shimada (Overwatch.....and also probably someone else whom he's quoting). Philosophical thought exists to logically form bridges between the gaps in scientific research, and in some instances, can almost appear to be science itself. However, philosophy is not science, though in a way I suppose you could call it science in a "virtual universe" from within one's own mind. If we consider science to be a systematic methodology for calculating knowledge by use of careful examination of our surroundings, then philosophy must be the syntheses of knowledge by use of memories and recordings of science within the mind whilst also substituting rules for certain systems in a manner that seems logical. Before I have stated that universes are created within artists' minds, and each of these universes have sets of rules and guidelines for which they follow. For instance, the concepts of Utopia and Dystopia have come from the imagination of individuals who have substituted today's societal laws with ones that they believe could evolve over time from the decision making of us humans, either in a positive or negative light. The imagination itself is perhaps the most important thing when it comes to philosophy, for a well-tuned imagination can open the gateway to an unfathomable expanse of knowledge from a truly infinite number of created, artistic universes. The human ability to "think" is truly spectacular, a treasure to be protected indefinitely. But is there any difference between imagination and basic thought production? If we take the human body to be that of a machine, as many of us do, then...what exactly is the function and purpose of thoughts, reasoning, emotions, imagination, and so forth in the question of how do they work and which part of the body do they come from? Over the many thousands of years that man has walked this Earth we have come up with numerous philosophical systems to attempt to decipher who we are and what our purpose for living is in the grand cosmic scheme of things. None of these philosophical systems are particularly wrong, but...it would not appear that any one of them is fully right either. If a philosophical system can be accepted by every single person in the world as having at least some truth to it then it must be a true philosophical system.....

One very crucial thing to point out here is that, we do not necessarily need to understand how the human mind operates in order to trust that it operates in the most true and righteous manner available to us as living, intelligent beings. What I mean by this is that we do not necessarily need a firm concept of "Truth" to be able to tell that something is True. Even if we as human beings are flawed, then that means the rest of our environment is flawed for allowing us to even discover the things that are wrong with us. So taking this into account it is 100% certain that we can say that a philosophical system that makes sense in the wonderfully unique minds of every human being must indeed be true according to the nature of the universe itself. It is by this rule that my philosophies are born, and by which I stemmed other important rules. One of these of course is the rule that "every thing has an influence on every other thing." It is a very simple rule, yes, but one that is undeniably true because every human being in the world could, at least in part, agree to it. This is mostly due to the fact that this rule is the basis for human communication and the transference of knowledge, as well as Evolution itself, one thing evolves from the best of another thing because it is influenced by a variety of factors that make up Life. But what is life? And what is death? Is there anything before life or after death? What is the true purpose for each of these ideas existing? Are we even able to answer such profound and complicated questions? Truly these are basic...well, not "basic" questions, but they are the questions that every philosophical system makes an attempt at answering because they are fundamental questions that all humans strive to answer for themselves or, in the case of Religion, with the help of others. On the subject of religion, humans not only form religions to band together with like-minded individuals for the sake of survival, but even for the sake of their own sanity. With questions such as the ones above consistently buzzing around inside one's head, you'd truly go mad! Which is why I believe people form religions, in order to provide some answers to the questions we seek, as well as to protect one another through community efforts. I personally am not religious, not because I don't seek the comfort in answers, but because I stubbornly wish to establish my own answers. Stubbornness and the desire to prove that one's thoughts are above all others is most certainly one of the fundamentals of being a philosopher, because without such a drive, you will have no way of judging whether or not you have hit the end of your road of thought and have found all of the answers.

My tea has now sufficiently cooled to drink with reckless abandon. Most likely due to the slight breeze my overhead fan is producing since I turned it on a few dozen minutes ago. In our particular universe there are two individual sets of rules; those pertaining to the physical realm and those pertaining to the spiritual. Laws of physics, chemistry, biology, thermodynamics, heat and energy transfer (such as my tea cooling), avionics, and electronic systems are all part of our physical realm. However, laws pertaining to the spiritual realm are a little harder to comprehend due to the nature by which we all assume we are fully in the physical realm which, we are...but that is not to say there is no connection. People all over the world and all throughout time have declared themselves as to having some sort of supernatural powers or having seen some supernatural event. And though science can, and has, debunked many of these paranormal cases, there are still a great number that have yet to be resolved. To understand the laws of the spiritual realm one must first have a common knowledge as to the definition of a spirit itself. Many philosophies will tell you different things in regards as to what spirits are, but all of them have similarities... These similarities are as follows; spirits are the essence of human life, they are what makes man different from plant or beast, they are released upon death, and they typically retain the image of the person from which them stem and or the environment in which they are created. Yes, it can be said with certainty that these are not the only rules nor are they shared unanimously amongst all philosophies. But these are some very basic philosophical depictions as to what a spirit is. Hmm, let me start on a different path to try and define what a spirit is... In its most simplistic of definitions, a spirit is any un-observable set or rules or patterns by which are created by something that is alive or changing (such as the environment itself) and that carries knowledge as well as having this knowledge influence the affected environment or being influenced by the environment. And note that the way I use "environment" here is that the environment is all of the patterns and rule systems within a generally set radius of physical space, though this radius can change relative to the subject at hand, whether on a community level or a cosmic one. In example, a home environment includes all the information that your parents teach you, their emotional fluctuations, monetary income, the objects which you use to interact and gift to one another in your genetically related or unrelated "family", and even the rules that your family follows when interacting with one another. Note that the environment itself can include both physical objects (house, money, working human bodies, pets) as well as unseen informational structures (emotions, conversation, learning, experiences, memories of familial gatherings and events). Just because it is unseen does not necessarily make knowledge and information a part of the spiritual realm, mostly because information can be stored to physical, scientific devices such as computers and music disks. In fact, let us entertain this idea for a moment...that spirits are the systems in place for which knowledge and physical events can influence one another, even if from afar or in obscure or indirect ways. Think about it, supernatural and paranormal abilities almost always have to do with interacting with one's environment in a non-traditional manner. Imagine all superpowers; strength, speed, flight, x-ray vision, breathing underwater, invisibility...every last one of them changes an established rule of the physical universe as well as interacts with the environment in a new or unprecedented way. Truly spiritual energies are the basis by which the rules of the physical realm are written and rewritten, as well as how many rules can affect and influence one another.

Now the final question here tonight is just as you might expect from any such philosophical rambling; is there a life after death? The rule established above that every thing is influence by every other thing on applies to established "things". A "thing" or concept can gain establishment once it is undeniably true as discussed even further above. And for the sheer fact that nearly every philosophical system and religion believes in something after death must mean that there is indeed something after death. The real problem is determining what that "something" is. I have my own theories, as do many others, but the real problem is all of the conflicting theories. Heaven, the Reincarnation Cycle, Hell, a realm of spirits and monsters, yokai, ghost world societies....truly the list of possibilities goes on and on. In my personal beliefs, I firmly believe that when we die, all of our knowledge and life essences gather into a form that can sustain itself as a living force within the spiritual realm. Put very simply, I do in fact believe that we turn into ghosts when we die. This belief stems from so many thought concepts and other influences that I can't even describe why I believe this way any more....though truly, the "why?" isn't so important as the question I'm above to impose...."What happens and where do you go when one turns into a ghost?" Again, put simply, I don't know. I can only speculate. Though at this point, I wouldn't really be shocked if ALL of the ideas mentioned above were true. Every one of them has a potential to be true because numerous people believe in each. Whether our ghosts go to Heaven or Hell or some demon realm or turn into yokai or join the reincarnation cycle....who can really know? If you really want my personal belief...due to the nature by which the spiritual realm is overlaid with our physical reality, I don't believe we actually go anywhere. I believe that our ghosts are free to wander the universe that we already live in, albeit from a different perspective now that everything is operating on spiritual systems and rules rather than physical rules (though since "knowledge" and "information" seems to flow so freely from place to place, person to person, through various spiritual influences and pathways...it is likely that our ghosts, made up of all the knowledge and essence that we already are in our minds, can fly around much in the same way. Even with the recent discoveries of quantum entanglement, perhaps our ghosts can even duplicate their information or fragment and shatter themselves all across the cosmos). However, this is not to say that once we die we are faced with an endless expanse of what we already have in this life. I believe that, much like we humans use knowledge to create architecture and buildings and schools and vehicles, I believe the ghosts in the spirit world may be able to learn about their spiritual "environment" in order to build and create ghost cities and cars and societies. Who is really to say that they haven't already done so? Perhaps once we all die we will be rewarded with a hero's welcome and a nice red carpet rolled out for us....red like the blood that spills from the body and carried your ghost along for the ride and into the next life. Whatever the case of the afterlife may turn out to be, I certainly wish the best of luck to you all, and perhaps one day we can meet one another's ghosts and share some nice ghost sandwiches and ghost tea while listening to "Chill" and lying on the floor feeling like garbage.

Well, goodnight to you all. And thank you for joining me for these philosophical ramblings.

-Neo Out

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