Paraprakrti
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Runt said:Paraprakrti said:Also, the word "random" constitutes a lack of perceiving order. It is not that order is absolutely non-existent. In all reality, there is no such thing as randomness, chance, chaos, etc. These are all imperfect, relative perceptions.
You may not perceive the order-er of natural phenomena, but order is still the absolute quality. If your reasoning ultimately leads you to a lack of order, then your perception is flawed.
As Ceridwen suggested, I put random into quotations because I wanted to suggest that there is no conscious control behind the workings of the universe WITHOUT suggesting that the universe itself is truly unpredictable and unordered.
God is both the Supreme Knower and the Supremely Knowable Object. There is a necessity for God because the order relevant in our universe must be ordained by some intelligence greater than ourselves. This order of the universe comes due to the conditioned entities' varying necessities. how do we account for an unintelligent universe supplying everyone with the proper facilities required for sustenance? That makes absolutely no sense. How then does the universe KNOW to give us what we require? We did not ordain this universal order supply. We are not in control, we are controlled. Therefore it is only in logical sequence that we understand the necessity of God, the Supreme Order-Supplier. It is not by chance that an unintelligent universe supplies us with what we need. It is by order that an intelligence distinguished from this unintelligent universe is acting in order to supply us with what we need.
This is understanding the difference between the field of activity and the knower of the field. This philosophy applies even to each individual:
We can understand the field of activity (the body), but as soon as we deny the knower of this field (the self, or soul) we set ourselves up for logical inconsistency. Knowledge is objective. If we are subjective, fleeting perceptions, with no substantiality whatsoever, then we have no stance in perceiving objective fact. But we can, simply by being conscious of our constantly changing surroundings, understand that we do have the capacity to perceive objective fact. With this, and due to the fact that we cannot account for ultimately being the order-suppliers of the material body's necessities, reasons that there must be one who is overall Knower/Order-Supplier of the entire universe. A blindly acting universe is thus condemned from an ordered reality.