As I was recently reminded though, every argument has three sides: version one, version two and the unbiased truth. Despite the many doctrines that exist, logically the existence of a Supreme Being can still be argued. For those seeking the Higgs, it would likely seem that the part of Plato's allegory which states...
The Republic, Book VII (Allegory of the Cave)
...would certainly refer to me. Perhaps it does. Perhaps my mind has become so rigidly set in it's belief (that what shapes this world, what makes one particle stick to another, what forms mass and so on, is God) that I am unable to fathom this "more real existence".And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision,—what will be his reply? And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them,—will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?
Still... No matter the hard times, the harshness of life's trials, I can't shake this certainty that the world as we know it is more than chance, more than mere coincidence. A grand designer is responsible for the majesty that is the human form, I'm sure of it. Some age old instinct which nestles inside of me screams... there is purpose.
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Why does there have to be purpose?
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