How Can I Not Love This World?

As time progresses, I become more and more impressed with the Greeks who recognized the λὸγος, the underlying structure of the universe, in this world.

Geometry is equal parts math and art, and all I can feel is a childlike-awe when I realize that the study of math is the study of God's grammar.

I wrote many months ago that God's grammar was "let there be light", and so he did. The prologue of John does an incredibly sophisticated theological move: he says that the λὸγος != God, but the λὸγος is orientated and moving towards God. The study of mathematics is the study towards God.

One theory of what enabled the Big Bang to happen is that a vacuum existed. This implies that non-being is not a thing, and that somehow even being has a necessary structure. The 'nothing' we imagine is, in reality, something. Nothing cannot be.

It seems like the universe 'wants', in a metaphorical sense, equilibrium. Life arose very early into this universe's existence; it may be that life itself is a dissapative structure to accelerate this equilibrium. Life itself is necessarily conducive to entropy. Everything trends towards the heat death, or perfection.

As the Greeks realized, there is undeniably a necessary ordering of this universe, divine or not.

All I feel is unadulterated wonder.

There are equal parts beauty and horror in the indifference of this universe. We somehow experience the world itself, even though we are just mathematical variables. Imagine an equation, but the variables know they will be reduced into the ultimate answer eventually. It is inevitable for them to feel both wonder at their consciousness and horror that they are transitory nothings.

A problem with modern life: hubris. We know nothing, yet we act like we are an advanced species. Call it God, λὸγος, or whatever you wish; it is only fitting for us to worship this necessary being.

Also, why do we fight for permanence? Even in death we do not let go of this life, which is evident in cemeteries. We replace our blood with formaldehyde and bury ourselves in concrete holes inside of sealed boxes. We try anything to avoid the decomposition of existence into non-existence. Our stubbornness to not participate in the necessary cycles of nature is both endearing and deeply misguided.

A good amount of people might think, "If we come from nothing and return to nothing, then there is no point in our actions today." It is only appropriate for us to recognize that, from the sheer chance that we are active participants in a miracle, necessitates moral action and non-harm towards others.

Our love for our life should extend towards our love of other lives. It is the same experience just with a different orientation.

If the λὸγος is orientated towards God, then we are orientated towards the λὸγος. This is the foundation of Stoicism.

Those were many words to say, "I love this world, and all that is necessary under being."