This Is Why Bad Things Happen

Book 1: The External Universe | Chapter 1.7 | 29 July 2020

Evolution is about conflict.

If an organism faces no external opposition, its endurance will not summon adaptation. Its growth will stall, and unless it is the cause of another organism's conflict, it will contribute nothing but small crumbs to the evolution of the Universe. It serves a limited purpose. Meanwhile, those who come under threat must cultivate quick means of defence or face extermination. Nature learns far more from the latter, assisting the surge of evolution and, therefore, the mission of the Universe.

Conflict is intentional by design. It is essential for expansion. Within the Universal Energy system, creating conflict is a priority. It will introduce instability only to rebalance itself to progress, an enforced measure to disallow inactivity, moving forward as a matter of survival. One could even argue that the Universe is perpetually initiating a battle against itself. It becomes stronger by establishing harmony in reaction to an uncomfortable disruption, learning how to manage this upset and then conjuring a more potent upset, level after level after level, expanding in all areas, unstoppable for infinity.

When observing human chronology, environmental conflicts and an urgency to flourish evolved us from single-celled organisms to bacteria, to fish, to amphibians, to mammals. Now here we are, on the cutting edge of evolution just like everything else, having withstood every previous conflict yet facing further conflicts still, continuing to advance. It is an incredible biological timeline but in a miniature scope. This conflict-based behaviour is happening on a universal scale, infinitely, out there forever.

Such a trajectory then begs the question: has a species served its function when it no longer provides evolutionary information for the Universe to use in the Great Build? Is that why so many strands of life have gone extinct? Would this mean that utter peace and harmony within the Universe would lead to the end of everything? It's a theory that Janthopoyism takes very seriously.

Thankfully, humans are exciting creatures. If our sole purpose is to learn through new experiences and solving unprecedented conflicts, then the collapse of our existence is far in the distance. You might hear murmurings of a different sort, where the prophets of doom cry about the demise of civilisation or where well-meaning gurus of love beam that Earth's spiritual transcendence is moments away. Perhaps either is correct, but it's important to recognise that each generation wholeheartedly believed they were part of the end since the dawn of thought. It appears to be a natural ego response to the world, inherently stitched into our biology yet never coming to fruition quite as dramatically as predicted. But know that if these truly are the last days, then it was nothing but a lucky guess, as every age has guessed the same outcome for thousands upon thousands of years.

Janthopoyism's reluctant yet official stance on apocalyptic matters is that none of us will witness such an event, nor will our children or their children's children. Instead, we're only getting started; our momentum is speeding up and feeding the Universe yummier data than ever before. Yes, we are special! We are more special and valuable to the Universe than we ever were! So why would a system acquiring knowledge through us decide to snuff out our contributions when we are exploding across discoveries in every field, unlike anything we've seen before? Would it not make sense for the Universe to keep us alive and continuously throw us stranger curveballs to uncover further information, using us to explore fresh and exhilarating paths of evolution? Janthopoyism's conclusion is obvious.

And this, my friends, is why bad things happen.

On an individualistic capacity, a social capacity, a global capacity, and a universal capacity, good things and bad things must happen all of the time. The perpetual loop of conflict vs reconciliation is a balancing act that fuels the Universal Energy forward. Every outstanding human achievement directly results from this turmoil, a problem that needs fixing, a gap that howls to be satisfied. Even those who reached a plane of pure enlightenment only pursued this for reasons of unfulfillment. And once complete contentment is obtained, the desire to do anything else will fade away. You would not yearn to master new things, and this would mark the end of your internal offerings.

We understand that the world might seem particularly bad at present. This is because it is. It's worse than it has ever been.

However, there is an equilibrium. The bad is racing faster in one direction, but the good is racing as fast in the opposite direction. To base your opinion of the world on the negative information that others have chosen for you (such as "the news") is to do Life a great disservice. Indeed, life is equally worse and better than ever before because, just like the Universe and everything in it, the quality of the conflict is evolving.

The mass enhancements in our modern lives are easy to cherish if you are open to their presence. Communication, technology, access to knowledge, international travel... these powerful factors are immeasurably superior today than any other period on record. Human equality and ecological preservation may appear to occasionally fall a step behind, but if you were zapped to only a few decades ago, you would shake from the general lack of worldly awareness. You would struggle to handle the atmosphere in which you found yourself. You would appreciate the mental advancements we currently take for granted. You would only wish to be back in the right here, right now.

If nothing else, the internet gets markedly slower the further backwards you go and disappears entirely in 1982. Would you honestly be fine with that?

To conclude, let's digest the following interpretation by Linda Johnsen of an excerpt from the Yoga Vasishtha, a major text of Hinduism. This passage tells the story of Lila, as the goddess of knowledge Sarasvat grants her boundless cosmic understanding:

"The most dramatic moment in Lila's journeys through time and space occurs when Sarasvati takes her to see her next incarnation. Due to her immense attachment to her husband, Lila will find and marry him again in her next life—only to see him butchered on the battlefield!
The Yoga Vasishtha describes the scene vividly. An invading army is slaughtering the population. Families are being burnt to death in their houses, women are being raped, little children are being hacked to pieces. Lila recoils in horror. Then Sarasvati turns to her and says, very seriously, 'Lila, can you see that this is also the play of Divine Consciousness?'"

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