A Theory of Everything

 

This is something I've been working on for years. A full discussion can be found here.

Everything is what it is, and is also the opposite of what it is, at the same time. Everything we experience is symmetrical waves on an otherwise still pool. This explains everything.

I'm sorry this is so long, but I feel it needs to be. See if you think it's worth the effort. I will make any further posts much more concise.

Probably the best way for me to begin explaining is with examples.

One person might see a glass with some water in it as being half-full. Another sees it as half-empty. So which is it? My answer - it's both, at all times. To mirror the theory, it is what it is, and is also the opposite. To extend the thinking to everything is not immediately so simple. But it works, to amazing effect.

If each glass-observer develops interpretations of the universe based on what they see, we get divergent perspectives. Yet those perspectives were actually based on the same thing. Consider that each of our total world perspectives are similarly based on our previous and subsequent findings, and you begin to see those perspectives as nothing more than lattice-works of deceit. There is no such thing as perspective, except in our minds. Just as there is no such thing as time.

Whatever thing (any thing) is in question - the glass in this case, therefore has properties in common with quantum theory. We don't really know what the glass is, and can only report it's appearance at any given point. Or, if we do know what the glass is, we can predict what it's appearance will be at any point. What obscures this vision is our tendency to set early impressions in stone, often forever more. It's a question of our need to settle for answers as to what anything really is. How could we live without doing that? More on this below.

I believe this also explains the origin of faith. E.g.: Our general faith that an apple will fall downwards when we drop it. It does seem to do so every time. Science describes the reason why, but science also knows that the apple could most certainly fall upwards, for various reasons (like, say, some metal was embedded in it, and a magnet was used to pull it upwards).

So do apples fall up or down? Both, at the same time. Mostly not the same apple, but even that could happen. Such dualities, as pondered in quantum theory, and now according to my theory, are not what we previously thought they were. We thought they were an impasse, and that we had to accept an inability to see more than one key property at a time. Not so.

I propose that my theory covers everything, or that's the goal. But it's just a tool. A new paradigm for assessing, well, everything. So is it anything more than some kind of philosophical adjunct? Absolutely. Once the theory is fully realized, it inevitably gives us a whole new way of understanding and interpreting everything. From the finest details of science, to the highest metaphysical concepts.

Now, with the above in mind, if you start playing with it, you'll find that the theory fits with everything in some way. It may appear to be different ways at first, but really it's not. The way I've been testing it for years is to always be asking if there's anything I can't consider in this way. There hasn't been.

To refer back to quantum theory; it centers around having to accept that we can only know probabilities, not absolutes. If you're thinking that quantum mechanics only apply to the sub-atomic realm, well that's not really true, and it actually doesn't matter anyway. It's only the essence of quantum thinking that we need here. The dualities, so says my theory, are not necessarily problems. They also represent choices. Choices that in fact we humans need to be careful NOT to make. Making such a choice is an act of denial. Denial of our inability to "know" anything for sure.

Has it occurred to you, that when asked any question, wherein the asker seeks a binary judgement in response, you falter, because you instinctively know that any such judgement is flawed? For example, "Was the movie good?". Chances are you felt it was good in some way, and bad in another. Either you settle for, and give, the closest answer - it was good, or it was bad. Or, you begin to explain how it was both. Something else to think about - if you actually thought the movie was all good, you definitely missed what was bad about it. I mean, it cost you $12 and two hours to see, didn't it? And so on. So far, I haven't found a situation that doesn't get entangled in this trap.

So how could we live without faith of any kind? Referring back to my theory summary, if we could all live without faith, it would be equivalent to eliminating all the waves in the pool. In our real world, all is waves; our waves, started by us, and amplified by us. Interference everywhere. We're never going to get very far if we're constantly caught up in all the confusion.

You want tolerance, peace, unity, and all the rest of it? This is the way to get there. We would all wake up and realize that we know nothing. Our very thoughts, all of them, are worthless. They're just echoes of all that confusion, preying on our minds. If we got it straight, we would have no need to think about anything at all. Why, then, would we ever have needed such advanced brains? Well, we would never arrive at this "right view" without them. Of course, it doesn't mean we'll stop thinking; just that our subconscious competencies will change drastically. We feel the need to "think" about our part, our influence on, or our influence from, everything. But it's not necessary.

If you're getting the hang of it, try this: Knowing what you now know, consider that everything I have said here is both true, and false - that's the law. It might seem crazy at first, but if you work through it, you'll find it's true. And false. It's probably not good to over-think it, because it's like peeling back each layer of an onion, looking for the part that can't be peeled back. Ain't gonna happen. But again, it's us, as the uninitiated, needing constant reminders that we know nothing. Stop it - you don't know ANYTHING!

And finally, for now, if you don't know anything, then according to my law, you also know everything. Right now, I'm just looking for people who can relate, and who might contribute to pursuing it.

Thanks.

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