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Ryan Ferko's avatar

The default state is unconditional love. God certainly wants to tell great stories, but they are all in language of some form, and language bifurcates reality. Living beings are conquerors, but to conquer one part of reality is to subject a dissociated will on the rest who are unwilling participants (otherwise it's not much of a conquest).

The very act of conquering is an egoic pursuit, which is fine, but it comes at the cost of suffering. As the ego dissolves, so too does the will to conquer and construct samsara. We are here because we have some of this conquering nature in us. As we rise in developmental levels, the natural trajectory is towards nirvana. Once in the timeless, dimensionless singularity, the only way to have contrast is to dissociate and in that process, the conquest restarts going from lower to higher developmental levels again. The reward is the contrast between conditional and unconditional love.

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Binglebob's avatar

Are you convinced that there is only one ultimate telos for God? Are you sure that the ultimate utility of Samsara is proving to himself that there is nothing better than the default state?

Why would you say it is then that God always keeps looking? Is there not the possibility that he wants to tell a story so great it never ends? Maybe some came to Samsara not to leave, but to conquer: "The thorns and thistles with which Adam is cursed become the crown of Christ."

I'm not saying that one destiny is more noble than the other; I'm just wondering about your thoughts on this.

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