THE NATURE OF REALITIES

The beamishboy has thought long and hard about life and God. In my earlier blog entry, I spoke with some asperity about the total lack of evidence for God's existence. That is true and I can say nothing to correct that statement.

But does anybody expect evidence for God's existence?

I now have an answer for all this. To understand where God stands, we need to understand the nature of reality. No, I'm wrong; we have to understand the nature of realities. There are as many realities as there are different beliefs.

Most people, particularly atheists, can only think of one form of reality. We shall call this common reality. That Obama is the 44th President of the US is in the realm of common reality. No sane person would dispute that. The facts, as we know them, I mean those that are not disputed are a part of common reality. Whales are mammals, water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen molecules - these are all real.

Most of science falls within common reality. However, some aspects of science remain speculative. For example, the String Theory is not believed by all scientists. Neither is the multi-verse theory for the origin of the universe. All speculative aspects of science are not a part of common reality. They are speculative and once they have been proved to be correct, they enter the realm of common reality. Sometimes, science undergoes some changes. What was THOUGHT to be common reality may be found to be erroneous and it gets booted out. But that does not mean that science is inaccurate.

For most people, there are OTHER REALITIES. I'm not saying that everyone should force himself to believe in other realities. It's just that some people do. Those of us who believe in realities that are not a part of common reality should be honest about this. We should not pretend that it's real to everyone. It's only real to us because we CHOOSE to believe in it.

How many forms of realities are there? There are as many of these realities as there are beliefs in the world. Some beliefs have died but their realities are still there - locked mysteriously in the realm of the supernatural. What about religions that conflict with one another. There's no problem. The different realities are very different indeed. There are different realities within even the same religion.

Can any of these realities (which are not common reality) be proved in any way? Absolutely not. If they can be proved, they would immediately form a part of common reality.

Wouldn't that make religion extremely personal because its reality depends on what individuals believe in? Of course, religion is absolutely personal. Attempts to convert others are definitely wrong. People who try to convert others have mistakenly assumed that their religion comes under common reality and that's plainly wrong.