Spirituality

So recently I’ve had several similar conversations with people on the vague topic of spirituality.  Normally these are not conversations I would have with people, but somewhat as I merge into the social group of my room-mates, it’s inevitable that I talk about deep/personal things with both my roommates themselves as well as any friends of theirs (who are becoming friends of mine of course) who I see regularly.  It’s all a part of Creating a Common Culture as an aspect of making friends.  The conversations tend to run in a similar vein, though that may be because I have a tendency to dominate some types of conversations.  I don’t think I’m directing these things though; most people do seem to have some opinion on the matter and are ok talking about how things might or not be (they do not need to necessarily have any sort of religious belief based on how things may or may not be, but they probably have ideas about how reality might function.)  It seems most people I talk to believe there is at least some sort of spiritual energy or world which currently we cannot understand or define.  It seems to be an acceptable thought to people that we may never be able to define or entirely understand this other side of things.  I’m not entirely sure what my point in bringing this up is.  I guess I’m just surprised at how many people are willing to admit the possibility that there is more to living and life than what we can explain in conventional terms.  More so, most people will even say they believe there is some sort of energy, maybe in ghosts, higher god-like beings, or spirits.  Usually this is about as far as the conversations get because we begin to enter the touchy grounds of religions and beliefs beyond simple philosophy (which is essentially what talking about the possibilities is.)  I do usually mention that I am Christian just so the other person knows where I’m coming from and what I think about things.  Just as with being surprised at how many people accept spirituality, I’ve encountered no hostility at all to my being Christian.  This pleases me as in the past I definitely have met some serious aggression at my openly admitting to being a practice Christian (not that it really bothers me, I kind of expect it.)

            I’ve also been finding that I can blend in much of my education into making a good case for there being not only “higher beings” but there being certain gods or possibly even a single god/God.  A lot of it rests in other things I’ve discussed in other blogs, but in short, if there is infinite matter/mass/material in the universe (and modern physics suggests there is infinite material) then every arrangement of things which can happen must happen.  Most of these arrangements will be outside our understanding or otherwise be very unstable and might not last so long.  But again, given the infinite, some of them will last forever despite being hard to “understand” or any lack of stability.  Next, if any sort of “descent with modification” (as Darwin would put it, since I’d like to avoid the loaded word Evolution,) takes place, then given infinite possibilities, something will develop with change toward things which humans can’t understand.  Maybe some beings could live in the magnetic fields of stars or in the semi-liquid crusts of giant rocky planets.  These would be tricky for us to grasp.  Maybe, further yet, some being lives in energy patterns.  There has been research which suggests certain energy patterns can be made in such a way that they contain their own energy within the very pattern they form.  As example, imagine a battery that stores energy, but the battery itself is made of energy, instead of some sort of physical stuff.  Personally, I think straight from the “anything that can happen must happen” idea it’s clear (a) god/God COULD exist.  That’s the definition of “anything.”  But some people need convincing.  Anyway, and I don’t know any good argument against this so far, if anything must happen, some sort of being which has the ability to alter what happens on a significant scale must exist.  Mind you, “significant” would be pretty big, probably affecting entire galaxies if not all of reality.  This seems like a god to me.  There’s more explanation than this, but I know I don’t usually read blogs that are over about 500 words just for my amusement and this one is 750+, so I won’t keep any of my possible readers any further.