On Truth and Falsity

                      The Reality that Never Changes

The skeptics always confuse different systems with each other when they make their judgments that no one can tell the difference between truth and falsity. They contend that because a ship in the distance appears to be small and stationary, and it appears large and in motion when close at hand, then no one can tell if it is really large or small, in motion or stationary. But a system that has "distance" in it can only be different from a system that has "closeness" in it. The appearance of reality in different systems can change, but reality itself never changes. "Distance" is real, and "close" is real. Both are useful ideas. As far as the true reality of a ship is concerned, those who designed the ship and built it to be large and move over the water to supply a useful system to humans of carrying people and cargo to distant places know better than anyone what the true reality of the ship happens to be. pb. OP p.51.

Distance is the same as space and space is the same as time. Whenever one sees something in the distance, one sees it in the past. The stars at night look fixed in space, but they are actually moving at a high velocity. The past tends to fix events and objects into a stationary form. No matter how many times one replays a movie or a video, the events displayed happen the same way every time. That happens because the events displayed happened in the distant past. When a plane flies overhead, it appears to move slower as it approaches the horizon. The past tends to fix reality into stationary forms.

When objects and events are close to a conscious human, reality becomes changeable. Close at hand, the tendency of the past to fix events and objects in stationary form becomes negligible. Intelligent consciousness overrides the past. Human consciousness exists in the present, and events and objects that are close at hand move into the present and become subject to conscious control. Events and objects in the distant past move beyond conscious control. Thought objects are also always in the present. Yet, there always exists a very small distance between sense objects and thought objects and consciousness itself which allows consciousness to fix its objects in a very close past. Close at hand, humans can manipulate reality in sense and thought objects that it can use in creative or destructive ways according to choices made. Objects look small in the distance because the past tends to remove objects from human consciousness.

The future appears as a myriad of possibilities, but only to an intelligent consciousness. Without human consciousness, the future is also fixed by physical laws and the mathematical formulas that describe them. But no chemical process has been discovered that leads inevitably to the formation of life. Only an intelligent consciousness can manipulate chemicals to form creative or destructive systems. Life is far too complicated to have ever been formed by accident. The fact that humans can choose those possibilities that they can use to form personal systems that can be beneficial or destructive to themselves, or that can be beneficial or destructive to others, proves that humans possess free will.

All of this put together demonstrates that there can be no past, present, or future without consciousness. Consciousness is the same thing as the present. Even the physical laws and the mathematics that govern those laws had to have been created by an Intelligent Consciousness in order for the universe to have a past, present, and future. Without a past, present, and future, absolutely nothing happens. Only prophets sent by God and mathematics can predict the future, and mathematics only in very limited ways. Each individual makes choices and creates systems which, when blended with all other choices and systems, creates the history of the human race. But like individual humans, humanity as a whole tends to invent systems that move toward self-destruction. But God intervenes into human history to correct that process. Eventually, God will save the whole human race. Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

Reality can take many forms as systems, but reality itself never changes because the sense objects and thought objects revealed to consciousness are always useful and real in any true or false systems that humans observe or invent.