Trying to be more personable....

I'm trying to be a little bit more personable with this blog and use my other blog on WordPress ( michaelsidneywelch.com ) as the forum for my reflections about the absolute/relative.  My life is a mess at the moment, my lovely car having been totaled in an accident for which I got a ticket and my not having the funding for a comparable vehicle but still needing one to pursue my active involvement in the world of relativity. I should not have listened to my spiritual director in Jerusalem back in 1977 when I informed him of my decision to go and live in a cave in the Judean desert. "O no you're not!" he said and I obeyed. If I had followed my own spiritual inclination and spent the last 40 years in contemplation I might have it all figured out by now, instead of which I feel that I am at a major crossroads in my life and need someone to give me direction. Aaagh!!!

Why am I concerned?

Why am I concerned  about the confusion in so many minds about the distinction of the categories? I hear the term "absolutely" bandied around so much that it becomes sickening. The same goes with the common usage of the terms "immortal" about works of art, and "infinite" about possibilities, but by far the most egregious is the use of "absolutely" which some of my acquaintances use to emphasize commitment two or three times in every conversation. These all signify a confusion in the minds of the users about where they are living and ultimately confusion about life itself. We live in a finite universe within which everything is relative. There are no absolutes, nothing is immortal and possibilities are finite, limited. The sooner we come to earth in this universe the sooner we can begin to realistically confront the problems that human lack of understanding have manufactured and human confusion is propagating.

As I have tried to show in my works through the last twenty years there is an absolute reality which is transcendent to the universe of relative actualities which we rationally inhabit. This absolute is the material nothingness within which the universe exists, within which it is expanding, or, to use a more modern term, inflating. When the absolute eventually becomes actual within the universe, the relative universe will, of necessity, disappear. http://michaelsidneywelch.com

The power of the absolute

Modern philosophy descends into the nothingness feared and hated by the atheist existentialists, whereas to the spiritual consciousness nothingness is nothing to be feared. Absolute zero is in fact precisely the power of the absolute which abrogates and annuls all of relativity, the entire material universe conceived by the fallen murderous intellect of killer man. The material universe emerged out of nothing and into nothing we shall return, into a nothingness that is spiritual, eternal, infinite and absolute, characterized by morality, love and peace.

absolute / relative

We live in a world of relativity, a universe of relativity, and yearn for the absolute. Each individual human soul is faced with this dilemma, to be determined immediately by relativity or transcendentally by the absolute. The relative is everything, the absolute is nothing. The choice is between existence and being. The end of all philosophy, consciousness sifting through the stuff of existence in search of meaning, is the discovery of the nothingness of being. It is the nothingness within which the universe came into existence and into which it is expanding, the nothingness of life, of spiritual being. The choice is clear. The absolute has come to us.

What to do !

Having published three book in this century developing my philosophical and theological insights, books which no-one ever reads, books which my editor informed me were written in a manner to discourage the reading of them but which contain some valuable insights and information which can assist a reader in wading through the negative waste in the world and arrive at a positive outlook on life, I have concluded that I should concentrate my literary and philosophical output in the form of blogging.

I have two blogs at the moment, this one, "absolute reflections", and one named "the serious life" on Wordpress (michaelsidneywelch.com) which I opened several years ago but have sorely neglected. This blog I hope to fill with narrative and the other blog with my reflections.

"The serious life" has already garnered several followers since I began to fill it again with short reflections so my hope will be to gather a small readership and disseminate my manner of thinking in absolute terms to a larger following.

being and non-being

The easiest intellectual categorization that can be made is surely that between absolute and relative, between being and non-being. To the intellect, as to the senses, being is nothing. Being is the nothingness within which the universe emerged and into which it is expanding. The material universe, the actuality of existence, is the attempt to negate the reality of being which is absolute and cannot be negated by relativity. Relativity is therefore confined within the expanding universe where being enters into a relationship, a conflict, with non-being. Being is not the negative in existence!

Relativity is not the truth!.

The inverse square law of gravitation,which states that two bodies attract one another with a force whose strength is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their distance, is constrained within boundaries set by general relativity for a specific average density of matter, so that gravity causes the curvature of space-time as the universe of matter constantly expands. This is a theory which fitted the universe of known facts in the time of the theorist, as does the theory of relativity in our own time. Since relativity is not absolute it is therefore not true but is merely a step on the way to a human understanding of truth