The title of this blog post is what I have up as my "Religious Views" on Facebook.  These views are baffling to many, intriguing to few, and understood by a small majority that has expressed wavelengthness as a response.  Wavelengthness will henceforth be the term used to refer to the state of being on the same wavelength as someone.

QPK is not so much a religion as it is my view on religion itself.  Religion tries to explain something outside our realm of comprehension.  In the compression process that the information must go through to be understood by us, there is inevitably:
- Distortion: loss of meaning as the information is translated into simpler form
- Variation: different choices on how to simplify the information

Say we were to take two quantum physics professors to teach their material to two different kindergarten classrooms.  As with religions attempting to explain Truth:
- There is an intrinsic, shared Truth to what they teach
- This Truth will be incomprehensible to the audience

Then, in a completely subjective procedure, each takes their best stab at creating a model that the children will be able to grasp and that will be most representative of the actual Truth.  These are essentially metaphors.  Every religion is a metaphor for Truth, and it's all about finding the one that resonates with us. 

The best thing for the kindergarteners to do is to hear the simplified lesson from as many different professors as possible.  Then they can choose which explanation gives them the greatest feeling of Understanding, and accept that the other kids may better understand the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle with M&Ms representing particles.  Mutually accepting different preferences for understanding waves - now that's wavelengthness.

 


Comments

Jonathan Toler

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:16:44

Georgina,

First and foremost...I wanted to wish you a happy birthday.

So I've had many thoughts on this concept throughout my life. I've studied the Bahai faith a little bit and some of your points touch on their main teaching (a certain spiritual commonality of mankind).

As someone who went to extremely conservative and religious schools as a child, I have always wondered the concept of God and God's Truth. I once was told my a certain fundamentalist teacher that Catholics were not Christians and they were going to hell. On the other hand, this same teacher told me that God was a loving God who cared for me regardless of sin. Needless to say, when you mix those lessons in with multiple more liberal Christians, one has an interesting and cloudy version of Truth.

After all these years of studying the New and Old Testament I have come to one conclusion, "God Is Big". I realize that each and every person, (Atheists Included) has a personal relationship with God. Whether the actual name is Jesus, Allah, Bhrama, Vishnu, Yahweh, or Science, we all have a belief or feeling that there is a particular reason for our actions and the world around us.

Since my own personal God is so powerful, isn't it within reason to think that in all his power, he can manifest himself in different ways, and give himself a different name to different people?

We all believe that murder, stealing, and lying are wrong, so therefore there must be some common wavelength or frequency in which we live our lives.

I guess in a sense this is like Quantum Physics to Kindergartners, we attempt to rationalize and reason something that may or may not exist. Perhaps life/religion is simply what happens when we divide by zero...

 

Ankesh Kothari

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:28:34

Excellent post.

One of my fav quotes:

"You can never put a circle around the truth and say that it belongs to one sect." - RZA (pronounced Rizzzaa) (Abbott or the leader of the Wu Tang Clan)

 

Me

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:02:28

It's actually quite insulting to claim that religion attempts to explain something outside our comprehension. It's a great way to hide a logical fallacy. The presupposition that something is beyond human comprehension allows one to spew any kind of nonsense without offering proof. When a person claims to be trying to explain something that is beyond human comprehension -- well, that is just laughable. How would he even know?

As for the professors -- no concept is too difficult to explain. Everything that is (ha!) True can be explained to a five-year-old or a seventy-year-old with equal ease, if framed correctly. The more "nebulous" a topic, the further it is from what We call the Truth.

Religious rhetoric is nice when it's full of recognizable parables, but it's dangerous when confused for Truth. The value of parables (metaphors) lies in their efficacy in getting through our Brains' (... :o) wiring. We should appreciate it for what it is, but never, ever forget that we have the power of reason and the ability to deduce the Truth (so long as we're not afraid of offending anyone's sensibilities).

This is a deep, dark (or bright if you're smart) road.

Don't ever assume that anything lies outside your realm of comprehension. Through inductive reasoning, if you can understand that 2+2=4 and therefore 2+2+2+2=8, you can understand anything. Religion is full of parables (which are nice and cute), but the real Truth is cold and hard, and that makes it even more beautiful than religion. What could be better than something that just *is*, regardless of anything else?

Solve a sudoku puzzle sometime. You'll see that, whatever your method of solving the puzzle, there can only be one answer. That square needs to contain a 9, no matter what. It's neither good nor bad; it's just the way it is. Whether the 9 in that square is "good" or "bad" ceases to matter; what matters is how you use this knowledge to further your goal, that of solving the puzzle.

Now, isn't that far more beautiful than being threatened with fire and brimstone?

 

Brian Monahan, Expert in the Rough

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:51:41

Georgina,

I don't find your article as interesting as I find what your motivation behind it might be.

Sounds if you have experienced some fire and brimstone.

Tell me about that truth.

Your writing approach if very intriguing.

Brian

 

Georgina Taylor

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:25:20

Diego, if you post as "Me" people will think you are me! :P

 

Diego

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:10:48

And here I thought readers might think they themselves wrote that comment... everybody is a "me", after all....

I apologize for any confusion. But our writing styles are very different and I'm surprised the confusion would exist at all.

Feel free to delete my nonsensical ramblings if necessary. :D

 

Caro Rossi

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:16:20

This is one of the best explanaitions i have ever read about how to show people what is the real significance of a relegion. Now i can say that the QPK actually show us what wevery human should know: that the important thing in life is to have one big forse that u can thrust will all ur heart and therefore accomplished every single thing you want in this life. Not been the sizes, price or difficulty of your goal an obstacle.

 

Martin

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:53:05

Hi Georgina,
I can't find your e-mail address anywhere. I'd like to contact you to ask you more about one of your projects. It would be great if I could send you an e-mail.

Thanks

/Martin

 

socratus

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:35:00

Can a Rational Individual believe in God ?
In other words:
Can God be atheist, governed by scientific laws?
Of course
Why?
Because if God exists, he must work in an
Absolute Reference Frame and have a set of Physical
and Mathematical laws to create everything
And we can find and understand this God’s Absolute House
and when we can find and understand these Cod’s Physical Laws

Israel Sadovnik Socratus

 

socratus

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:37:57

that the other kids may better understand the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
==========
Take electron - symbol (e)
Take proton - symbol (p)
They are absolute different particles.
And interaction between electron and proton
is not the same than interaction between
proton and electron :
ep ≠ pe ( Uncertainty principle )
#
Another example:
A thing called shoe and a thing called sock along with
the operator and which combines shoe and sock things.
If you play around with it, you will find
that the order is fairly important

Israel Sadovnik. Socratus

 

socratus

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:41:01

More about Big Bang.
=============================
About the theory of Big Bang is written many thick
(very thick) books. But nobody writes about the
reason of the Big Bang . Nobody knows it
I know
The action, when the God compresses all Universe
into his palm, we have named a singular point
And action, when the God opens his palm,
we have named the Big Bang

Best wishes
Israel Sadovnik. Socratus

 



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