How advanced do you have to be able to see the world for what it is?

Question

A series of paradoxes..

Example: your life is your life but it isnt yours (you didnt give yourself life)

Your children are your children but theyre not yours (you dont own them)

God is everywhere but he is nowhere (He is beyond space and time)

Life is a gift yet a place of much suffering.

Answer 1

To understand the world for what it truly is, the following would be a necessary minimum in my opinion:

Real analysis
In real analysis, students learn abstract properties of real functions as mappings, isomorphism, fixed points, and basic topology such as sets, neighborhoods, invariants and homeomorphisms.

Complex analysis
Complex analysis is an important foundation for learning string theory. Functions of a complex variable, complex manifolds, holomorphic functions, harmonic forms, Kähler manifolds, Riemann surfaces and Teichmuller spaces are topics one needs to become familiar with in order to study string theory.

Group theory
Modern particle physics could not have progressed without an understanding of symmetries and group transformations. Group theory usually begins with the group of permutations on N objects, and other finite groups. Concepts such as representations, irreducibility, classes and characters.

Differential geometry
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity turned non-Euclidean geometry from a controversial advance in mathematics into a component of graduate physics education. Differential geometry begins with the study of differentiable manifolds, coordinate systems, vectors and tensors. Students should learn about metrics and covariant derivatives, and how to calculate curvature in coordinate and non-coordinate bases.

Lie groups
A Lie group is a group defined as a set of mappings on a differentiable manifold. Lie groups have been especially important in modern physics. The study of Lie groups combines techniques from group theory and basic differential geometry to develop the concepts of Lie derivatives, Killing vectors, Lie algebras and matrix representations.

Differential forms
The mathematics of differential forms, developed by Elie Cartan at the beginning of the 20th century, has been powerful technology for understanding Hamiltonian dynamics, relativity and gauge field theory. Students begin with antisymmetric tensors, then develop the concepts of exterior product, exterior derivative, orientability, volume elements, and integrability conditions.

Homology
Homology concerns regions and boundaries of spaces. For example, the boundary of a two-dimensional circular disk is a one-dimensional circle. But a one-dimensional circle has no edges, and hence no boundary. In homology this case is generalized to "The boundary of a boundary is zero." Students learn about simplexes, complexes, chains, and homology groups.

Cohomology
Cohomology and homology are related, as one might suspect from the names. Cohomology is the study of the relationship between closed and exact differential forms defined on some manifold M. Students explore the generalization of Stokes' theorem, de Rham cohomology, the de Rahm complex, de Rahm's theorem and cohomology groups.

Homotopy
Lightly speaking, homotopy is the study of the hole in the donut. Homotopy is important in string theory because closed strings can wind around donut holes and get stuck, with physical consequences. Students learn about paths and loops, homotopic maps of loops, contractibility, the fundamental group, higher homotopy groups, and the Bott periodicity theorem.

Fiber bundles
Fiber bundles comprise an area of mathematics that studies spaces defined on other spaces through the use of a projection map of some kind. For example, in electromagnetism there is a U(1) vector potential associated with every point of the spacetime manifold. Therefore one could study electromagnetism abstractly as a U(1) fiber bundle over some spacetime manifold M. Concepts developed include tangent bundles, principal bundles, Hopf maps, covariant derivatives, curvature, and the connection to gauge field theories in physics.

Characteristic classes
The subject of characteristic classes applies cohomology to fiber bundles to understand the barriers to untwisting a fiber bundle into what is known as a trivial bundle. This is useful because it can reduce complex physical problems to math problems that are already solved. The Chern class is particularly relevant to string theory.

Index theorems
In physics we are often interested in knowing about the space of zero eigenvalues of a differential operator. The index of such an operator is related to the dimension of that space of zero eigenvalues. The subject of index theorems and characteristic classes is concerned with

Supersymmetry and supergravity
The mathematics behind supersymmetry starts with two concepts: graded Lie algebras, and Grassmann numbers. A graded algebra is one that uses both commutation and anti-commutation relations. Grassmann numbers are anti-commuting numbers, so that x times y = –y times x. The mathematical technology needed to work in supersymmetry includes an understanding of graded Lie algebras, spinors in arbitrary spacetime dimensions, covariant derivatives of spinors, torsion, Killing spinors, and Grassmann multiplication, derivation and integration, and Kähler potentials.

Once you have mastered these basics you are ready to begin to see the deep isomorphism between reality, physical laws and necessary tautological mathematical truth.

Reality only looks like space and time because we see so little of it. Nothing is ever really created. The key here is a powerful selection effect (our existence ) which selects the portion of reality we find ourselves in. Only in very interesting portions of this vast infinite reality (ones that look like rapidly expanding space-time) could we evolve.

Our understanding of reality is layered. You see the world in terms of large physical objects. But you are aware that those are illusions made up of atoms, and atoms in turn are made of smaller particles. Many believe that these so called "fundamental" particles are not fundamental but are built on a layer of mathematical objects. My belief is that all reality is built upon mathematics and mathematics is what is truly fundamental.

The reason why we see top layers instead of lower layers is due to our inability to see all of the the details in the lower layers.

As mathematics ( necessary logical truth ) is fundamental and necessary it is not created. Existence simply equals necessary truth. Mathematics "just is" because it is necessary and tautologically simple ( Zero complexity ). But Mathematics does not create reality. Mathematics is reality.

The problem with the design hypothesis is that according to Algorithmic Information Theory your god needs to be more complex (what we mathematicians call Kolmogorov Complexity ) and hence more unlikely than the reality you are attempting to explain. Saying your god "just is", still leaves a much bigger question than you had to begin with.

Answer 2

No. The thing is with his writings, is that they can be interpreted any way you want. And they were (and continue to be) interpreted to fit events that have already happened. There has never been one case where someone used his writings to identify and describe an event that eventually happened. His followers today say he predicted the September 11, 2001 attacks. But no one prior to those attacks said that Nostradamus was predicting this. I would love to hear of even one case where believers in Nostradamus used his writings to predict something in advance. However, his writings are interesting and all this prophecy stuff is fun, I'll admit.

Answer 3

It's not about being advanced, it's all about common sense and looking at the bigger picture. Yes, I wasn't given the choice to be in this life or not...I was chosen to be in this life...And yes, forcefully. A lot of parents have such strong control over their kids thinking they can control them the way they think is right.
God has helped many through out their lives and destroyed many lives as well, like in wars and such. Yet, we have to suffer in this life they call a 'gift' because it's all based on rules, standards, religions, and cultures that constrain one's free movement, thoughts, and ideas. We are oppressed in our own life. It's like giving a kid a bomb as a gift.
Good question. =)

Answer 4

We are here to glorify God with both our
lips and our lives, with our hearts and our hands. With the world
around us caught up in Satan's traps, God wants us to hear his call
to us in our church and private worship and respond by saying,
"Here am I. Use me!" Then he wants us to enter the world
redemptively, making a difference in our "public worship" of
ministry.
God's focus is not on this earthly life, so the earthly suffering we think is so bad is but a blink of God's eye in the face of all eternity and I have found in my 56 years if I turn to God and ask Him what I need to learn from my suffering, He teaches me big things. Just like spankings as a child, even if God doesn't cause it or spank, He will make good out of bad if you let hIM

Answer 5

Everyone views the world differently. I see the world as a bunch of repetitive balancing acts. Without the bad it's hard to see the good for what it is. Seasons go from hot to cold, then to hot again. You love, you lose, you love again.

Answer 6

The ones given the visions of the future and wisdom from THE HOLY SPIRITS are the Prophets and the Saints today, in the past and in the future; and their disciples- the chosen ones among natural men.

Answer 7

God's purpose was for humans to live on a Paradise earth forever. No sickness, no dieing, no getting old................all the evils this worlds is caused by the first sin. But God promises to bring thins back to His original purpose through His kingdom. The kingdom we Christians have been praying for..........Our Father in heaven ......................LET YOUR KINGDOM COME.

Answer 8

Dear Daughter

May Allah God Bless You Amen

I have tried to provide you the answers of your questions all from the Holy Quran, God Willing it shall satisfy you:

57:3 He is the First and the Last, and the Outward as well as the Inward: and He has full knowledge of everything.

2:115 And God's is the east and the west: and wherever you turn, there is God's countenance. Behold, God is infinite, all-knowing.

24:35 God is the Light of the heavens and the earth.

58:7 Never can there be a secret confabulation between three persons without His being the fourth of them, nor between five without His being the sixth of them; and neither between less than that, or more, without His being with them wherever they may he.

50:16 It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein

56:85 and while We are closer to him than you, although you see [Us] not -:

50:16 NOW, VERILY, it is We who have created man, and We know what his innermost self whispers within him: for We are closer to him than his neck-vein.

57:4And He is with you wherever you may be; and God sees all that you do.

73:19 This, verily, is a reminder: let him who wills, then set out on a way to his Sustainer!

10:24 The parable of the life of this world is but that of rain which We send down from the sky, and which is absorbed by the plants of the earth whereof men and animals draw nourishment, until -when the earth has assumed its artful adornment and has been embellished, and they who dwell on it believe that they have gained mastery over it -there comes down upon it Our judgment, by night or by day, and We cause it to become [like] a field mown down, as if there had been no yesterday. Thus clearly do We spell out these messages unto people who think!

2:30 AND LO! Thy Sustainer said unto the angels: "Behold, I am about to establish upon earth one who shall inherit it."

23:115 Did you, then, think that We created you in mere idle play, and that you would not have to return to Us?”

76:2 Verily, it is We who have created man out of a drop of sperm intermingled, so that We might try him [in his later life]: and therefore We made him a being endowed with hearing and sight.

90:4 Verily, We have created man into [a life of] pain, toil and trial.

103:2 Verily, man is bound to lose himself
103:3 unless he be of those who attain to faith, and do good works, and enjoin upon one another the keeping to truth, and enjoin upon one another patience in adversity.

53:39 and that nought shall be accounted unto man but what he is striving for;

17:36 verily, [thy] hearing and sight and heart - all of them - will be called to account for it [on Judgment Day]!

18:46 Wealth and sons are allurements of the life of this world: But the things that endure, good deeds, are best in the sight of thy Lord, as rewards, and best as (the foundation for) hopes.

64:14 O YOU who have attained to faith! Behold, some of your spouses and your children are enemies unto you: so beware of them! But if you pardon [their faults] and forbear, and forgive-then, behold, God will be much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace.

3:10 BEHOLD, as for those who are bent on denying the truth - neither their worldly possessions nor their offspring will in the least avail them against God; and it is they, they who shall be the fuel of the fire!

Answer 9

"How advanced do you have to be able to see the world for what it is?"

A naturally occurring phenomenon that happened without the involvement of a supernatural being.

Good question.