Is unconditional love - Reality or myth

This is a topic I've thought about considerably and have figured out a few concepts on the subject. First lets see what can be called 'unconditional love' in the true sense:
"It should be love for a person or something where no conditions apply for your love to be present" (my definition)
Let us elaborate this with a few examples:

1- Suppose Tom loves hamburgers (he thinks unconditionally) so is it unconditional love? It can be but it should be able to withstand the following tests; will Tom still love hamburgers if he's had too many, will he if he's sick and nausea-sous, will he if he finds out that the place where he got his favorite hamburgers used to make them out of dead dog meat ! etc etc

2- Suppose Ben loves Carly, may think unconditionally, so does he? may be, but he would have to love her no matter what the case or situation. Like what if Carly is found dating another man? What if Carly's face gets burned by acid? What if Carly kills Ben's beloved mother? And suppose Carly just ignores Ben and lives her own life, gets married has kids, gets old. Will Ben who's a nobody to Carly still love her when they're 60 yrs old with their own families and they have never seen each other in 40 yrs ! ?

I think unconditional love for humans is too difficult but perhaps not impossible. But there is someone who can and does love unconditional forever and ever that's God.

Mystic poetry, hidden secrets

People have long forgotten, once great poets.

“O frenzied lover!

Take a drought of love’s pure wine…

Proclaim the secrets of the old wine seller,

And like the flute bring a message from the reed bed.

O call of the marching bell awake !”

By Sufi Jalal-u-din Rumi (1207-1273)

 

“I turned away from the world where sustenance takes the form of grain and water” says the falcon. “The solitude of the wilderness pleases me, for I was always a hermit by nature. One must shun the garden-dwellers, they have such seductive charms! The wind of the desert is what gives the blow of the brave it’s effect in the battle.

“I am not hungry for pigeon or dove, for renunciation is the mark of a falcon’s life- to swoop,withdraw and swoop again is just a pretext to keep up the heat of the blood. The East the West matter to the pheasants. The blue sky,vast and boundless, is mine”

By an old philosopher.

How did life originate? Abiogenesis or intelligent design

Please if you don't know about Abiogenesis the read it at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

How did life originate ? By evolution ? NO. At this moment the HYPOTHESIS is that Abiogenesis caused life to originate by some random mixing of chemicals in primordial soups resulting in some early form of CELL etc.Why is it still a Hypothesis even after years of research and experiments?

Lets bring in some facts:
From wikipedia:
"A fundamental question is about the nature of the first self-replicating molecule. Since replication is accomplished in modern cells through the cooperative action of proteins and nucleic acids, the major schools of thought about how the process originated can be broadly classified as "proteins first" and "nucleic acids first".

What do you need to make even the most basic form of life? Either some specific protein or some specific nucleic acid.
Use some logic what are the chances so many amino acids or nucleotide monomers would be formed in one place?Suppose they were all formed in primordial soups what are the chances they would arrange in a specific 1000 long sequence?Why can't they arrange in any random sequence? Because even though infinite sequences could be formed only a very small fraction are actually useful. Even if one amino acid in a whole sequence is changed the protein becomes dysfunctional as in many diseases.

We agree that a rock is not living, that a certain degree of complexity is required for something to live. We have agreed that a television is complex but it is not living and cannot replicate, hence a specific complexity is required for life.

Suppose we take the protein first view then this complexity could be like a specific protein sequence of 1000 amino acids.
Note: I being a medical student realise that in reality the process for replication is extremely complex even for the most simplest living thing but here we are going on suppositions of scientists to probably meet the minimum requirements.

Lets do some Maths:
How many years since the Earth was created = 5 billion years = 1.5768 x 10^16 seconds

What are the chances you would win a 10 digit sequence lottery? If you know maths it you'll calculate around approx 1 in 10^10 chances

What are the Chances you would win a 1000 digit sequence lottery = around 10^1000

So even by the simplest of sequence it would take 10^1000 chances to make a simple protein by chance.
It means that ever second since the Earth was created you would be doing =10^1000/1.57 x 10^16 = 10^984 chances ! that is every pico (10^-12 sec) second it would be taking 10^972 seconds !
And chemical reactions are mostly very slow.

Someone pointed to me that all you would need would be some self replicating crystal and the rest would be taken over by evolution.
Here are some problems in the view:
1. Most scientist (as you saw on wikipedia) don't have this school of thought. Why? Because you need to know biology before arriving at hypothesis.
2. Suppose we agree it was a crystal then it still faces the same problems as the 'protein first' or 'nucleic acid first' view faced.
Because we can all see that no one has ever seen or produced a self replicating crystal, and the crystals we have seen or know about don't replicate, so the logical deduction would be that such a crystal would be one in an infinite possibilities as a protein or nucleic acid are. So the same concept would apply to defy it.

Another view that was presented was that how many lotteries are being played since the Earth is so Big?
Well I did some more maths to show that using the Earth's weight and the atomic mass unit you can calculate that the Earth has around 2.34 x 10^50 atoms, so even if there was a lottery played on every atom in this world (highly illogical) you would still be doing 10^922 chances !

So here you have LOGICAL, SCIENTIFIC , MATHEMATICAL proof that random chance cannot create specific complexity such as life.
As humans can create complex objects like a television and that random chance cannot not form a television similarly random chance cannot form life (which humans cannot create even) and hence an intelligent creator is definitely required.
If you agree to this point then we can further discuss about who this intelligent creator can be but otherwise it's pointless to go further.

Any questions? please comment.

Some people might incorrectly suppose I'm talking something about the second law of thermodynamics and probability mixture, well for them they would be disappointed to know that I agree with them that a system can undergo a decrease in Entropy, so what? Doesn't prove anything.

Top 10 killers of inocent people - see the stats

1. Mother nature: killing since the beginning of time natural disasters have surely killed innocent people in billions !

2. The World wars: killing around 16 million (world war 1) + 60 million (world war 2) = 76 million people ! (a strong contender for 1 st place)

3. Joseph Stalin: Killing around 14 million of his own people.

4. Adolf Hitler: Killing around 11 - 17 million people during the holoucast.

5. Us military : 2.2 million Vietnamese killed in Vietnam war + 1.2 million killed by US bombing in Laos and Cambodia + 100000 died in Iraq war + 140000 innocent civilians in Hiroshima + 80000 innocent civilians in Nagasaki - Japan Nuclear bombing.

6. Saddam Hussein : Killing 0.3 million Iraqis (also 0.7 million Iranian militants - not innocent)

7. Islamic terrorists: 3000 innocent Americans killed in 9/11 attack + 700 Americans killed since 1970 + 56 innocent London citizens in London suicide bombings + 4 Israelis killed by Hamas rocket attacks + lots of other small attacks which make breaking news everyday let's say totally killing 50000 innocent people, most of these would be among countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, India etc

8. Israel: Killed 500 innocent Palestinian citizens in Gaza bombing + nearly 10000 Palestinians killed since year 2000.

Now I know that I've missed lots of other figures (mostly tyrant rulers) but let's leave them out because now-a-days these are the more important stats.

I also know that I haven't been very accurate in stating all details BUT the main point was to give and overall estimate (you can see references at end of post).

Leaving mother nature you will see that two BIG killer Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were tyrants killing there own people averaging 12 million people ! another in this category is Saddam Hussein who killed nearly 0.3 million Iraqis.

Next comes American troops, they start wars and invade other countries killing innocent civilians in the process, they like to drop BIG bombs on whole cities of civilians, infact America is the only culprit to have used nuclear warfare killing 220000 citizens and give a everlasting impact on the health of subsequent generations. Another small player in this category is Israel who also likes to bomb cities full of civilians.

Then we have the terrorists, I've only included Islamic terrorists as everyone hates them (including myself) and non-Islamic terrorists seldom make much serious news. They are very consistent players they keep at small scale attacks taking out an average 50 civilians at a time. They biggest attack was probably 9/11 attacks but it took merely 3000 lives (not much compared to the BIG GUNS !)

Lets not forget about the World wars killing around 16 million (world war 1) + 60 million (world war 2) = 76 million people ! what more can I say.

Is Joseph Stalin a Muslim or Adolf Hitler ? Were the world wars started by Muslims ? Is the US military Muslim ? No they are not !

Who did Saddam Hussein kill ? Muslims of his own country !

Where do terrorists mostly attack ? Muslim countries !

Who was the ONLY culprit to use the Atomic bomb = America !

Who stops other countries from developing nuclear power = America !

Lots and Lots of Irony !

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hussein.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/globalterrorism1.html

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/deaths.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

Location of heaven and Hell

Every curious mind wonders about heaven and Hell. People state that it is scientifically unrealistic for heaven and hell to be present.

My opinion:

They surely are located somewhere, but where is not exactly known but even I could make a couple of scientific guesses beside all the other not so scientific ones:

1-) May be it's out side this universe, it's outside the expanding boundaries of time and space. Science agrees that the universe is expanding since the Big Bang ! But where is it expanding to ?
May be outside this universe is a state without space or time (because these are present in the universe only). In this state we come into an ecstatic communion with everything and we experience eternal bliss and serenity and that is Heaven.

2-) May be a billion light years away from here there is a huge glowing Giant star a million times larger than the sun. It's surrounded by rims of millions of planets each within the living zone of this massive star. Each of these planets is unique and beautiful with wide fields of grass and flowing rivers of milk and honey and with trees the size of mountains and the mountains even larger. The sand is of musk, bring joy and no tiredness to the feet which walk on it, the breeze is cool bring a refreshing aroma with it. Then there are green hills the size of continents on which you could lay forever, watching the pink clouds bring drift across a blue lake pouring a sweet rain to make the water even happier than before.

Then there are other planets and asteroid belts present near the star some being fiery hot and full of deep trenches and thorny trees.

3-) May be it's right around us, in another dimension or maybe several other dimensions. Science and mathematics agrees that there are at least 12 dimensions!

The point is they could be anywhere because God created them and He can do what he pleases.
It's up to us to either make it to Heaven or Hell.

Bruce lee's quotes of wisdom and philosophy

Here are few of my favorite quotes from Bruce Lee. Very good food for thought !


"All types of knowledge, ultimately self knowledge."

"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing."

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. "Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."

"If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love."

"Thoughts are things."

"The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think."

The timeless moment. — "The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time."

"Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."

Seek to understand the root. — "It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming."

"What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds "body feel" and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity."

"The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality — to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle."


Try to digest these for now and think about the insight this man has to life and reality because of his devotion to a form of art and not by doing some PhD.
I know from experience that when you involve passionately in anything (and I mean anything!) be it studying, boxing, football, martial arts, singing, acting, writing, climbing, swimming....... anything..... you start to get philosophy out of it, the deeper you go you start to deduce things about life and reality you start to understand the similarity between that sports, arts etc and Life.

You can always compare a real situation to a similar situation in that field in which you have become philosophically involved.
Hence you become wise in life as a whole just from the experiences in that particular field.

I fore example get philosophy, experience and insight mostly from my soccer playing.

The reason behind Greek mythology

Natural phenomena
What is rain? Why does it rain? Surely you know the answer that water evaporates from seas, lakes and trees it forms moisture at an altitude and condenses to form larger drops which are heavy hence fall as rain.
Our knowledge about rain is no more than 500 yrs old. And yet it has been raining for millions of years ! Then how did people living 5000 yrs back explain this phenomena?
You may say that people then would not have attempted to explain it, then you would be wrong ! Because rain too much or too little affected the physical and economical lives of primitive people more than it affects ours. So the intellectuals among the ancient did try to explain these natural phenomena.

Greek Gods and goddesses
The explanation put forward by the Greeks was of the supernatural in the form of gods. These gods worked just like the government where Zeus was the chief god (like the prime minister) and he was assisted by other smaller gods which were more specialized in certain fields like:
Athena - the goddess of wisdom and justics
Apollon - God of education, healing and music
Demeter - God of agriculture, grain and bread
Ares - God of war and battles etc ( for more info on greek gods check this site: click here )
The Greeks believed that the tensions and conflicts between smaller gods caused the changes in natures activity on earth. Thus excessive or insufficient rain was the decision taken by gods.

Ceremonies and rituals
People thought that drought and less rain meant that the gods were angry so rituals were made to please the gods. The nature of the ceremony or ritual depended upon the type of effect the people wanted, fore example:
Imagine we are greeks living in 5000 yrs ago and our gods occasionally relax and have fun and parties ! now if at a party a glass of water or wine is broken or spilled it causes rain to fall down from the heavens. So if we want less rain then what type of ritual would we develop ? May be we say that people party less in hot weather so the rite would have people lighting fires and indulging in energetic dances so that all this produce heat which would cause the gods to stop partying !

Conclusion
Two important functions were performed by these mytholgies:

1. They provided supernatural explanation of the natural phenomena
2. They reccomended rites and ceremonies by which humans could interfer with nature's decisions and overcome natural disasters