Why does our universe have fixed set of laws in a particular way?

[Nahm]

@Member

For the experience. No point is needed. 

[LastThursday]

3 hours ago, An young being said:

I agree that laws make life beautiful and possible, but why not something different now and then, isn't life too boring with the same laws?

The bit in bold is the real reason I think you're asking the question.

The short answer is no.

The longer answer is that it's all about perspective or framing.

When you're disengaged from something or feel separated from it, it's very easy to judge it negatively or to dismiss it as not being interesting. Life becomes boring and dull when you're not engaged with it. The are several ways this could happen in my experience. I will add the caveat that I have in no way solved all these problems for myself:

• You are not engaged with the present moment. This means that you're not experiencing the full majestic force of reality, instead you're distracted away from it.
• You are too engaged with thought and you're not being "present". Thinking is a poor substitute for reality. It also distracts you from paying attention to what is really happening around you. It's like watching a movie whilst scrolling on Facebook, you're missing most of the action.
• You are too engaged with maintaining your identity and story. This is a tricky one. Basically your ego is getting in the way. Your ego is a rabbit warren of interconnected ideas and memories and on and on. Your ego is constantly grabbing your attention and distracting you from reality. Most spiritual work is really about damping down the ego, so you get a chance to engage more fully with reality.
• You're stuck in a goal or future oriented mindset. In other words you're never "here" you are always striving to be "there". This habit is ingrained from society, it's very hard to escape. It also disengages you from reality.
• You're not "letting go". More accurately most of us hold on too tightly to things in our lives: people, possessions, memories, identity. This causes suffering, which in turn consumes your attention away from reality.
• Your job or habits means you're stuck in a rigid sitting posture looking at screens at close range most of your waking life. This consumes all your attention and your body suffers, giving you negative signals.

All these things are really about attention. It's very possible to shift your attention so that you are more fully engaged with reality and this means it will be a lot harder to judge negatively or to dismiss it as being uninteresting.  When you truly pay attention you'll find that reality is astonishing and very very exciting.

 

Edited July 21, 2020 by LastThursday

[seeking_brilliance]

who cares? you can do whatever you want in the astral realm, a less 'dense' realm of consciousness. Why do people complain so much about the physical realm? You literally can experience both. Each one compliments the other and makes the other more valuable. 

[Leo Gura]

7 hours ago, Member said:

If we are able to cure any ailment or disease via placebo

We aren't. Which is why drugs exist.

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, An young being said:

I agree that laws are relative, but what might be deciding which kind of laws exist where?

LOVE!

[Member]

3 hours ago, Nahm said:

For the experience. No point is needed. 

But without goals there's no experience.

18 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

We aren't. Which is why drugs exist.

Maybe we are and we don't know how it works.

[Nahm]

@Member

Picturing you at age two already with a task list of goals in hand. ? 

[XeRnOg]

What is space? Is space truly empty? If space is empty then how can gravity bend it? And if space isn't empty, then how can we occupy it? If space isn't empty but was made empty, then would time stop?

[Member]

8 hours ago, Nahm said:

Picturing you at age two already with a task list of goals in hand. ? 

Life always needs a reason to be, no matter if it's only about survival.

[zeroISinfinity]

4 minutes ago, Member said:

Life always needs a reason to be, no matter if it's only about survival.

Well we do have to came up with something. I mean we can sit in cave or blasting ourselves off to Infinity with 5 meo. 

So you know I write my own story. 

[Member]

8 minutes ago, zeroISinfinity said:

So you know I write my own story. 

That's a wise thing to do. Will it be the greatest story ever told?

[zeroISinfinity]

8 minutes ago, Member said:

That's a wise thing to do. Will it be the greatest story ever told?

Ofcourse it will. Have my dog. She just barks but her bark  Reveals all wisdom I ever needed. 

Never got it from fellow humans?! Even candle was useless. 

Edited July 22, 2020 by zeroISinfinity

[commie]

56 minutes ago, Member said:

Life always needs a reason to be, no matter if it's only about survival.

No, it doesn't.

[Member]

1 minute ago, commie said:

No, it doesn't.

Lol life isn't simply just "because", the cause is being. Without a cause, nothing exists. So you can fight against the reason of life if you want as it makes no difference. Life goes on nevertheless.

[zeroISinfinity]

Now I want to be US senator. Dunno is that possible for me and want to enter US senat riding horse holding my dog in my arms. Cool story. 

I really am nuts. Time for 10 points intervention that's for sure. 

Well Serbia is just small of a country for my Greatness. OMG man just... 

Edited July 22, 2020 by zeroISinfinity

[zeroISinfinity]

Truth vs backstory/life. You sound so nuts and delusional with this thing. 

No wonder people crucified Jesus. 

Edited July 22, 2020 by zeroISinfinity

[commie]

50 minutes ago, Member said:

Lol life isn't simply just "because", the cause is being. Without a cause, nothing exists.

When that last word comes up, it's a good sign someone's confused. But who said anything about causes?

51 minutes ago, Member said:

So you can fight against the reason of life if you want as it makes no difference. Life goes on nevertheless.

So in other words, it doesn't.

[Member]

58 minutes ago, zeroISinfinity said:

Truth vs backstory/life. You sound so nuts and delusional with this thing. 

No wonder people crucified Jesus. 

What do you mean by that?

14 minutes ago, commie said:

When that last word comes up, it's a good sign someone's confused. But who said anything about causes?

So in other words, it doesn't.

So you're saying that life simply is, without any reason or cause? Have you ever heard of Principle of sufficient reason?

 

[commie]

22 minutes ago, Member said:

So you're saying that life simply is, without any reason or cause? Have you ever heard of Principle of sufficient reason?

I said what I said which is that it doesn't need a reason. I didn't say it had no reason and I didn't say anything about causes.

If you want to do philosophy, the first step is to master words.

Life is obviously unconcerned with the PSR, you are because you are trying to reason. Einstein evidently reasoned the same way but since he was doing real work, he risked being proved wrong... and on this matter, he was. That is obviously no refutation of the PSR but an object lesson as to the dangers involved in using it. Most thinkers have long moved on from such arrogance.

[Nahm]

6 hours ago, Member said:

Life always needs a reason to be, no matter if it's only about survival.

Reason is insufficient in regard to what it’s ‘made of’.