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While it's in my head, really.
The system exists.
I've had this described as an Article of my Faith. Heh. And I rather suppose it is, at that. Faith because I have no proof, only a bone-deep conviction that smacks more than a little of desperation. *smiles faintly* But it is an article of my faith. I do believe it. I rather think I have to. Otherwise I'd go quite mad (naturally this assumes that such an event has not already happened - a questionable assumption, really).
The system exists. There are rules in operation, a cause-and-effect to all things. A multiplicity of them, it's true, and the overall system is not a monolith, but a vast and intricate interlocking of myriad smaller systems into a whole, with certain rules underlying. Many of those rules we can't see yet, don't understand, and then we think it chaos, but the rules exist, they really do, we just can't see them. There is an underlying rationality to all things. Everything has a cause. Everything comes from somewhere, some confluence of factors in the interlocking of systems that gives birth to that thing, in that time. There is reason. The system exists.
I think that might be the closest thing to a Grand Purpose that I understand. To exist. To have come from somewhere. To be presented with a world that has a cause itself. To interact with that world in such a way that satisfies the system inside you, the internal rules that govern you. To have a reason, even if only in causation. My purpose is to exist as part of the system. I'm not sure ... what else is needed. I was caused. I exist. I have internal reason. I interact, and in doing so perpetuate causation. I become part of the confluence of factors, part of the system, that causes things. That perpetuates existence. That is ... satisfying. That is ... rational. *smiles faintly*
The system exists. There is reason. I am part of it. This is, perhaps, the sum of my faith.
It is not a bad thing to believe, I think. Heh.
The system exists.
I've had this described as an Article of my Faith. Heh. And I rather suppose it is, at that. Faith because I have no proof, only a bone-deep conviction that smacks more than a little of desperation. *smiles faintly* But it is an article of my faith. I do believe it. I rather think I have to. Otherwise I'd go quite mad (naturally this assumes that such an event has not already happened - a questionable assumption, really).
The system exists. There are rules in operation, a cause-and-effect to all things. A multiplicity of them, it's true, and the overall system is not a monolith, but a vast and intricate interlocking of myriad smaller systems into a whole, with certain rules underlying. Many of those rules we can't see yet, don't understand, and then we think it chaos, but the rules exist, they really do, we just can't see them. There is an underlying rationality to all things. Everything has a cause. Everything comes from somewhere, some confluence of factors in the interlocking of systems that gives birth to that thing, in that time. There is reason. The system exists.
I think that might be the closest thing to a Grand Purpose that I understand. To exist. To have come from somewhere. To be presented with a world that has a cause itself. To interact with that world in such a way that satisfies the system inside you, the internal rules that govern you. To have a reason, even if only in causation. My purpose is to exist as part of the system. I'm not sure ... what else is needed. I was caused. I exist. I have internal reason. I interact, and in doing so perpetuate causation. I become part of the confluence of factors, part of the system, that causes things. That perpetuates existence. That is ... satisfying. That is ... rational. *smiles faintly*
The system exists. There is reason. I am part of it. This is, perhaps, the sum of my faith.
It is not a bad thing to believe, I think. Heh.
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