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    Why Am I
    Why Am I
    Why Am I
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    Why Am I

    By Christopher Meesto Erato

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    I have been contemplating the most profound of questions - Why Am I - since I was a teenager. After many years of research and reflection I have put down in words the best concepts from both the sacred and secular realms. I have added a few ideas of my own along the way. This book seeks to create a holistic synthesis of all schools of thought. It is all about uniting people who want to believe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJul 20, 2017
    ISBN9781543908916
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      Why Am I - Christopher Meesto Erato

      Copyright ©2017

      (includes cover art & truth diagram)

      ISBN# 978-1-5439089-1-6

      Thanks to God, my family & my soul mate Serena for encouraging and helping me edit this book - God Bless!

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      Why Am I?

      Why Am I?

      The profound question of Why am I? has been around since humans could contemplate their own existence. No one knows for sure the exact date - maybe when we humans first started having animism ceremonies under the stars and created art and symbolic objects. Recent archaeological discoveries in the Blombos caves in South Africa are evidence of the earliest creative activities by humans to date. The findings date back around 100,000 years and exhibit ceremonial red ochre paints, beads and even unique geometric like patterns engraved upon rocks. These discoveries have overturned earlier theories of when and where humans became, well, human. Until these recent archeological finds in Southern Africa, it was thought that humans did not engage in deeper creative and abstract thinking until the arrival of homo-sapiens to southern Europe with cave painting sites dating back around 30,000 years. Do the math. That’s quite a difference of time of around 70,000 years. Obviously we still have much to learn about our human origins story.

      I myself have pondered this mystery since I was in my early teens and even named my first Rock band YMI, pronounced Why Am I, which strangely became a popular designer jeans logo years later (should have got the trademark!).

      When I was young I thought I was clever in discussions about God, playing the devil’s advocate (literally) by asking Whose God is God’s God? But I never really meant it even when I asked it, knowing intuitively that God is one, as in every atom -everywhere. Yet we do see and experience hierarchies throughout nature from the micro to the macro realms. But we must let go of our limited and young human perspectives when it comes to God. This physical, material reality only represents part of the bigger picture. Nevertheless, it must reflect aspects of the mysterious spiritual realm.

      Why?

      The deepest why question of existence is mysterious and cannot be answered definitively for many reasons. The hardest current scientific mysteries include Consciousness, Dark Matter and Energy, what happened before the Big Bang, and how to synthesize the macro and micro realms of physics into one grand unified theory of everything. Additionally, why has evolution allowed our carbon-based electric chemicals, combined with bacteria to evolve to the point where it (us) can ponder its own existence in the universe?

      Even Nietzsche, the German Existentialist philosopher who was the secular head priest with his infamous declaration that God is dead, said that science is fine for describing the what, where and how, but lousy at the unfathomable deeper why of things.

      ‘Why’ inevitably becomes a value judgment about our worth in the greater scheme of things. Francis Crick, a co-discoverer of DNA, sums up the secular materialist worldview of this profound question by propagating that we are all merely evolved chemicals - there is no purpose, and all is a random accident. Thus we are accidents of nature in a colossal universe with over two trillion galaxies, each with around two hundred billion stars systems! Our particular Stardust origins started in a pinpoint exploding outward with the Big Bang event around 14 billion years ago.

      We still do not know what happened before the Big Bang event, but there is enough proof at this point that it really did happen. According to orthodox materialists, this entire universe is just a random accident with no meaning - really? I believe this is a sad perspective and says a lot about whoever propagates it.

      The problem I have with the idea that we are just random mistakes of nature is that it basically makes an empty and negative value judgment about life in general, that there is no meaning or purpose or grand design. Nevertheless, a fine-tuned, space-time geometry (aka Intelligent Design) has been revealed and proven by science over and over again. Simply put, this accident hypothesis ignores many new discoveries and lacks imagination, which the best scientists in history like Newton, Einstein and Tesla - have all possessed.

      Mr. Crick and Mr. Watson, both of whom won Nobel prizes for identifying DNA, falsely claimed total credit based upon a stolen x-ray picture of DNA that revealed its helix structure, as well as key formulations, from an unsung pioneer woman scientist named Rosalind Franklin. Hard to respect these guys’ limited thinking and atheist perspective considering their creepy and unethical behavior.

      Worth=Meaning?

      Is the anthropomorphic value judgment of worth the proper thought construct to approach this deepest of questions of Why Am I? Some would say no because worth is a subjective term. Yet I must use some objectively defined terms to establish a framework of ideas. After all nothing can be proven truly objective. All is relative -more about this later. Thus the word worth is being applied here in relation to whether or not something is meaningful or important for whatever reasons. A strict secular Darwinist would impart here that something only has worth if it aids us in survival. I agree with this Darwinian perspective with a caveat. The caveat being that mere survival without deeper meaning or purpose for humans at this point in our evolution is not a sufficient explanation. Otherwise we are just zombies going through the motions, which some contemporary thinkers actually believe!

      Hopefully I will demonstrate that faith in a greater source (God) and the healthy state of mind (faith) it provides is truly awesome and necessary for our long-term survival and eternal prosperity. Many studies now exist revealing the connection between good health and faith in a greater source. Some cynical skeptics will see this strictly as a placebo effect. I beg to differ - full on faith is an ongoing lifetime’s work and

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