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A Result has a cause

There is one fundamental question in our existence. Is there something, or is there nothing? The answer is easy; there is something. The next topic after that statement of fact is a logical question. What exists, what is it, and what is its meaning? The answer is not as easy.

Movement seems to be a basic element in what it is that exists. Movement is a central concept, in different ways, in our reality. One way to look at movement is how movement is identical to that something happens. Without movement, nothing happens, nothing has happened, nothing has come into existence, and nothing has existed. Without movement, neither physical stuff, time, nor room would have any kind of meaning. The development has moved itself in time and room and materialized into today's situation in the universe, and on the earth.

What the physical stuff in our reality really is seems to be difficult to find out and understand. Today's man knows a great deal more about physical stuff than before, about atoms with protons and neutrons for example, which is an enormous step forward in knowledge within our existence. It looks like the physical stuff is meant to realize how the development moves itself, and that could be an initial meaning of the physical stuff in our existence.

In man's mind, it is obvious to see the meanings within the species on earth. A cause and a result are two necessary factors; a result must have a cause. Therefore, the earliest beginning of life on earth must have a cause, and that cause must have something to do with the entire universe. A result has a cause, and the cause always stands in proportion to the result. It seems to be a likewise plan but in different ways, for an intelligent construction of the elements with protons and neutrons, and for an intelligent construction of the species. It could be, in that way, that the construction of the elements is the first step we know, in a plan that places all species of the earth into an intelligent system. At this state, it is difficult to find the next step forward in thinking and understanding. This does not mean that the cause does not exist; it is because the cause is too difficult to find out and understand.

The intelligent life on earth must have its cause in the reason of the entire universe's existence. And it is the whole community of species on earth that constitute the intelligent life, because one, or a few species could not exist, it must be an intelligent system of many different species. Something that happens has a cause and a meaning. One of the human being's many qualities is, for example, artistically indicating something about what the meaning of the universe could be.

October 4, 2003, David H. Hegg