i think we're made in the image of god's desire...
this is a thought i've been pondering the last few days, since before i read that^^
if the universe originally was nothingness, and then it exploded because god desired for there to be something (god could be nothingness.... think Taoism.... and void energy =p)
god wanted senses, so he could experience things, so he could exist (because you only truly exist if there are things outside of you that you are experiencing)... so he made creatures with eyes and ears and tongues and noses and fingers and toes and etc
This is a cool thought. I've explored the same idea before. Except, I don't call the desirous nothingness "God", because labeling something implies that it exists. The way I view it, the desire for existence as a sentient life form is like an inherent quality of nothingness, like a law of physics or something.
things that exist are imperfect. perfection only exists in the mind.
Hm. I've got it the other way around. Imperfection only exists in the mind, reality is eternal and boundless perfection. This is a belief that was developed as part of a pragmatic philosophy, though. In other words, I found it not by searching for the objective truth, but by trying to practice a form of meditation, inspired by Taoism. Ultimately, I found it easier to sustain meditation when I could "realize" that imperfection was an illusion, thereby forming a deep trust in all things, and no desire to change them.
But, long before I was interested in meditation, I also arrived at the idea of eternal and boundless perfection in search of truth. How can you measure the
objective perfectness of something? Normally, when something is described as "perfect", it is supposed to be as good as good gets. A perfect pie is the best pie that can possibly be eaten, better than good, better than great. But the goodness of a pie is measured by human beings, and what pleasure they find in consuming the pie, which is very subjective and varies from person to person, with their unique pie preferences.
But, if you want to measure the objective, trans-human perfection of reality, how do you it? I looked toward the laws of nature, and how the material world behaves. The amount of energy in the universe is always
perfectly preserved, with no energy ever created nor destroyed. The speed of light in a vacuum is a
perfect constant, never wavering. Etc.