January 15, 2010

Balance. We often overlook the importance of balance. We become wrapped up in our side of things and rarely are we placed in situations that spark our awareness of the opposite; but as the physics I never studied, dictates: "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Conservatives believe that God created the world. Liberals ascribe to the notion of evolution and science. I've been told that there is no happy medium. I beg to differ. To me, God is science and science is God. How is this possible?... Easy. Through balance. While I've always struggled with the notion of God as a bearded man in the clouds who has a son and at one point impregnated a virgin, I also can't fathom how people just cease to exist after death. (Afterall, energy can not be destroyed.) I think we're all just fabrics in a giant quilt. We like to tell ourselves that we're dominant over this world and this universe, but I think we're just small parts of a greater picture. We're just here to establish balance. Some of us hang left, some of us hang right... but we're all essentially complimentary opposites. We are black & white- polar but paired. People have always asked "if there is a God, why does He let such bad things happen to such good and innocent people?" I think the question is valid but flawed in its logic. If we think of the universe and the stream of events that make up life as a bigger picture, we realize it's filled with lots of bad and lots of good. For every machine gun patent, there is a patent on a new vaccine. For every war there is a steady increase in general global population. For every loss there is a gain. I don't think God is as one-sided as most people make him out to be. I think God is balance. This Higher Power that we all long for is both Satan and Christ, wrapped in one. Now, I don't know if this is written in a mathematical formula that runs the entire universe. Maybe God is a series of patterns constructed of complimentary opposites? I just know that we are so often at war with each other over opinions and personal preferances. We shouldn't be killing one another over politics or religion; because esentially we're all here to create a balance and keep the gears of this universal machine turning. Esentially, we're all here for each other, and none of us are here for ourselves.