There is a harsh truth

that both conservatives and liberals will have a hard time accepting. It has to do with the nature of the universe.

See, the universe is designed to be random, and to evolve randomly, in order to create as much variation as possible. Quantum physics and astrophysics prove this. At the time of the Big Bang, a very basic set of physical matter was introduced along with a basic set of instructions, such as gravity and thermodynamics in order to induce change over time. This is similar to a computer program designed to take a basic set of parameters and run through every possible iteration within those parameters. 

That's it. Go forth and multiply was the basic instruction. See how many different ways you can combine and modify this particular physical stuff within these bounds of gravity and thermodynamics. You have almost eternity, so no hurry.

So, over eons, the basic elements of the universe combine and recombine and cooperate and fight and eventually, in this one tiny portion of the universe at least, on this one miniscule planet, sentient life emerges. That process is ongoing and in a billion years or so we might not even recognize the sentient life that exists then. If any.  

Without this wide-open set of instructions for randomness, nothing would have happened. Hydrogen might still be the only element, because there would be nothing to force it into anything else.

All of this is the scientific explanation for the origin and development of the universe into what we currently observe. Nuclear physics, Quantum Physics, Astrophysics...  all of these are proven and accepted explanations of what we are seeing when we observe stuff in the universe, and extrapolate how it might have gotten the way it is.  It really is billions of years old, it really did start from a 'singularity' which is a fancy name for a single point in physical space out of which everything currently in the physical universe, or everything needed to make everything currently in the physical universe, came. Erupted. The Big Bang. The built-in randomness precipitated by combining these basic elements with the forces of gravity and thermodynamics eventually led to us. 

Understand this:  Creating humans was and is not the goal.  Creating plants and animals, or planets or suns or water or air is not the goal. Creating some certain thing is not the goal. The goal is to create EVERYTHING possible given these parameters, and see what happens. Gather data. Learn from the results. Gain every possible experience. Because every atom of the universe is, in fact, unique, and so its individual experience of existance would also be unique.

I say 'the goal is' because it's ongoing. This experiment, or program, if you will, has the entire life of the universe to run. It is open-ended. It only stops when the universe stops, and at that point every atom and proton and quark will return to... well, basically just cease to exist, and there will be nothing physical, just as there was not anything physical before The Big Bang.

At that point all of the experiences that could possibly have happened will have been collected into the greater intelligence. God, if you must, although I prefer to call it Source, as in the Source of the Universe. The Source set the parameters of the Big Bang program and pushed the Enter key.

WE humans are designed to be random and we are driven by randomness. In other words, random combinations of chemicals and forces such as gravity and thermodynamics over billions of years eventually popped out humans, as one of the possible recombinations. Natural processes that Darwin described (from observation) meant we were successful in our biome, in a variety of climate models, and eventually became 'masters' of this planet.

But without random selection, the random recombination of DNA, we never would have got where we are now. Each human being is unique, and has a unique experience in this life, no matter if you live an hour or a hundred years, each experience is unique. There may be many similar experiences, but no two experiences are exactly alike, just as no two sets of fingerprints are exactly alike.  When we leave this life, our experiences are gathered in by the Source, to join all the other experiences, thus deepening and widening the Source's experience.

The harsh truth about this for conservatives is that not everyone is going to think the same way they do. Not everyone will have the same concept of what a working society is. Not everyone will have the same abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Not everyone will have the same beliefs. 

The harsh truth about this for liberals is that there will always be greedy, hateful people who will cheat, lie, steal, kill, start wars, commit genocide. Always be people who will rape. Always be people who are selfish and mean. No amount of social programs is going to change that.

So while Conservatives think everyone should be ruggedly self-sufficient, pay attention to their own financial interests, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, read every contract carefully and let the buyer beware, this is not going to happen. And while Liberals think we should all take care of each other in community spirit and share our good fortune with those less fortunate and that if this truly happened there would no longer be crime or hunger or pain... this is not going to happen either. 

Humans, just like the universe in which we exist, are designed to be random, thus ensuring every possible experience. 

Civilizations have risen and fallen multiple times on this planet, over millenia, some of which are so old we barely know anything about them. Yet for the thousands of years those civilizations existed, people were born, grew up and died, each one of them an individual with an individual experience. The life of a slave in Roman times was in many ways similar to the life of a slave in the US before the Civil War, but each individual experience was unique. 

The rise and fall of any particular civilization is also part of the process of randomness. It basically has to happen because the program parameters set for this universe require it. It is like a random number generator that finds every possible combination of numbers within an almost infinite set, and when that is done starts cutting the combinations into random sets and then finding every possible combination of those sets, ad infinitum.

For it to stop doing this would mean the program had crashed. But the basic program parameters are designed to keep going until there is no more matter and no more energy and no more time to work with, and at that point everything in universe will have returned to the singularity and popped out of physical existance, taking time and space with it.

So if it seems like there's constant conflict in the world, at least somewhere and usually multiple places, it is because that conflict falls within the program parameters, and so it has to happen. This may sound rather harsh and unfeeling, but people are starving in Africa because that falls within the program parameters, and each experience of starvation is unique and each unique experience is wanted by the Source.  

Not to inflict pain, Source is not cruel, nor is it benign. It simply is, and wants experience. Physical experience, because it has already experienced all that a non-physical intelligence can experience, and who knows how long that took. Doesn't really matter, because time only exists in a physical universe. Outside of the physical universe, everything is here now. Nothing is outside the here now.

But Source, a non-physical being, cannot enter the physical universe. Source is like a nuclear scientist who creates a chamber which can contain a nuclear reaction. The scientist cannot enter that chamber, can only watch from outside. Source created the physical universe chamber, but cannot directly enter it without consuming it,  and there aren't many, if any, windows.

 In order to gather the experiences, aka the data, from the physical universe, Source created tiny micro-programs, bits of itself, which we can call Souls, each with a bit of original Source code, which are small and weak enough to enter into the physical universe, or more precisely, enter into discreet objects in the physical universe without destroying both the object and the soul.

Source created a vast number of these, and can create vast numbers more if necessary. Source experiences the entirety of itself all the time. Souls can gather individual experiences and then share them back to Source. Souls can enter objects in the physical universe at will. As the universe develops, souls enter objects such as stars and planets, elements and life forms, all to gain experience which is brought back to the Source when that soul leaves the physical universe.

Souls are volunteers. No one forces them to enter the physical forms they choose. They may choose to enter a baby at birth which then dies within hours. That baby's experience is unique from every other baby's experience and thus precious to Source. A soul may choose to inhabit a villian, or a 'saint'. A thief or a holy man. A politician or an industrialist. A rowdy next door neighbor with a kind heart, or a serial killer of children. A rape victim. A genocide victim. A genocidal maniac. A lovely soft round mother, an ice-cold super-model. 

Each human being has a unique experience. This serial killer is not exactly like that one, and the experience of their victims is each unique as well.

This is not to say that people are 'destined' to be a certain way, do a certain thing, or that they are programmed to be that way. People have free will. Souls have free will. Random chance plays a huge role, but the randomness factor also means that some will fight against what seems to be their destiny, and some will succeed and some will fail, but each experience of success and failure will be a unique experience, and that is the point of the whole universe.

There is no 'good' or 'evil' as far as the universe, and Source, are concerned. Everything just is. The program parameters are simply to produce random combinations, not to judge the merits of the results. The merits or weaknesses will make themselves evident in the success or failure of the individual, and because the ultimate goal is every possible experience, each and every combination can be considered a 'success'.

Good and Evil are human concepts. This is our humanity. This was perhaps a completely unintended and unexpected consequence of the original program parameters. Or perhaps it was the point all along. Right and Wrong, Kindness and Meanness, Generosity and greed, all are human concepts that developed purely by chance, and somehow contributed to our success as a species. The universe (and the Source) does not place one above the other on a scale of values, because there is no scale of values outside the human experience. Only the individual human places these kinds of values on their experience, and the soul takes note, just as it does of every other experience the human has, and reports this back to the Source at the end of physical existance.

This is not to say humans should not feel that things they and others do in the physical world are right or wrong. We should definitely place values on these things, because placing values adds to our experience, as well as to our humanity and well-being while in the physical universe.

But what all this does means in relation to Conservatives and Liberals is that no amount of social programs, no amount of religion or legislation or philosophy, or independence, or chocolate ice cream, is going to eliminate what we call 'bad' from the universe. Humans, due to the nature of the universe, are random. There will always be a wide range of behaviour, and we can assign value judgements to that behaviour or not, but these are human values. The baby seal does not think the killer whale is 'mean' or 'unfair' or 'evil'.  The killer whale does not think the baby seal deserves to die. The whale is hungry. The seal just wants to live and play. They act according to their natures, their programming. The volcano is not trying to punish the town it buries. The spider does not think evil thoughts about the fly, nor vice versa.

This really means we are each uniquely responsible at some level for our own circumstances and our own behaviour, and only have ourselves and each other to judge us, because there is no 'God' looking down on us judging our actions. Source values each of us for our contribution to the collective experience of the universe, but does not consider one to be better or worse than another. It's purely up to us.

We simply are as we were designed to be; a unique occurance of traits and circumstance, and because we are sentient and have free will, we get to choose what we do with that as well as how we feel about that. Some choose to be the outlaw, some choose badges on their chest. History is full of stories of people who have turned from 'bad' to 'good' and others who have done the reverse.

This is the harsh, and yet somehow beautiful, truth.