The Perfect World

By Roy D. Follendore III

July 21, 2002

Everyone often wishes there was a perfect world. For millions of years there wasn't. Human beings created that concept not through the concept of heaven but through rationalization. Perhaps we trip and fall down. Earth is where we get our food and in a real sense where we come from. Earth is where we return. It only makes sense that when we fall we are embraced by the Earth. The concept of gravity is therefore rational. When things happen, there is always a "rational" explanation.

Human beings must have such rational explanations in order to feel like we are a part of this Universe in which we live. Even when things occur unexpectedly and can not otherwise be rational, we have a "rational" explanation. We simply rationalize irrational events through the concept of probability. The reason why is that the human mind can not operate outside of the boundaries of rationality. It can not consistently process irrationality because this is beyond even our basic emotions, which we also must rationalize.

If someone were to be able to completely immerse all our sensory input to completely duplicate a walk in the mountains on a spring morning without our knowledge then for us that walk is real. The flowers would be real. The birds and their songs would be real. The wet dew covered grass would be real. It would be real because we would not have any other rational explanation that could not be. The only way that television and film works is because our minds easily allow us to experience "reality" as a "rational" presentation.

There is another much deeper understanding that exists by understanding this. It is that if we understand this as true then we must also except that there is an alternate state that we can not see or understand that must also exist.

Why is this important?

It is important because the story that we play out, the things that we are allowed to perceive as issues is not the whole truth, or the whole reality. This side of existence is not metaphoric, not metaphysical, nor is it religious.

Sometimes things just are. We can not assign rational blame or reassign justifications for our individual personal pain.

I believe that we all must come to teach, fully understand and appreciate this at an earlier age in our lives if we are to survive as a human race.

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