Run That Past Me One More Time!

I have now made the argument that something trumps nothing. I welcome debate from those who would argue the opposite (this will be a neat trick coming from nothing). I think that it naturally follows that everything is something and that something ultimately includes everything. This is how I have come to understand God: something that is everything. I agree that this is not very spiritually satisfying (the same reaction that I had to Ernest Holmes description of God as “the thing Itself”). Such vague ambiguity is very disturbing to the human mind that has a penchant for labeling and categorizing—a hunger for concreteness, if you will—and this may explain the role that religion begins to play in relationship to theology. Making the incomprehensible comprehensible has tremendous appeal to the human mind, especially when it comes to concepts of infinity and eternity which both apply to something and everything. To envision that everything is something that I can see, smell, touch, and so on, is much more palatable than trying to accept that it is by its very nature beyond my ability to comprehend. This explains why, then, the human mind—like water seeking its lowest level—leans in the direction of anthropomorphization. In other words, it’s easier for me to identify with an old man upstairs than it is with something that’s everything.