We confuse reality with how we perceive reality. I think of it like this: there is what we think reality is, there is what reality really is, and there is what reality ought to be (obviously, man hasn’t arrived there yet, but we’re getting there). All the time, we have our own perception of these three, and the more we concentrate on figuring them out, and studying the facts of life, the more we tire and loose what it all means.

That’s the other thing about reality that we can all tell is true. We know reality—the one and only reality—has meaning. Life is all meant for a purpose. A lot of humanists think of it as “destiny” or “force” that governs the universe. The universe governing itself. Of course, there are other views on the matter, but that’s the one I’ll site as an example.

Now I want to turn all of this subject onto what is reality, and begin to explain my current view of what it is. Hopefully, what I’ve gathered will spark thoughts in your mind, and you’d please comment what it is you know and have learned as well. I’d like some feedback.

Reality is singular because there is (apparent to man) only one universe. The universe is like everything in it in that any given object has only one identity. A tree is a tree, and it will not become something else entirely different. The tree may grow, wither, die, and disintegrate, but at all times during the existence of any partical of the tree, you would identify the tree as a tree or a part of the tree. The tree never switches to become a motorcycle in an instant—overhauling reality that it never was a tree and that it really was a motorcycle. You get the picture? The universe is like this. It cannot change what it is. It has a singular status and configuration.

This singular existence of the universe is governed by properties of natural laws—physics, mathematics, etc. Within the laws, man uses his creative juices to fabricate inventions that work logically within the limitations of the natural laws.

So there is the natural laws, and something else that stands out from them: the living. Rocks are not alive, and they do not feel, think, take action, or anything else like a living creature would. Even a fox determines what it wills itself to do what it does any given day. But how does the fox do this? It’s alive, and not only alive, but has ability to think.

Thought is something you cannot see if the physical insides of the living are exposed. You cannot find the soul inside the living. It is apparent that the physical helps the living to think, but in and of itself, the living tissue cannot choose it’s own opinions. We know this because the physical cannot determine right from wrong on it own. If a piano fell from the sky and landed on my arm and crushed it, why would I think that detrimental? Sure, I feel pain, and I would will it not happen, but the body in and of itself would not be able to draw that conclusion. My body only communicates with my mind (part of my soul, along with my will, and emotions) and my mind wills that the piano on my arm is not what I wanted to happen.

The soul is unaccounted for without a designer who has a soul to create it. The universe was intelligently created. The natural laws and physics that govern the universe were made by a God. One God, as a matter of fact. Without an all powerful being that can do all that it wants outside of the natural laws, there is no explanation as to how the laws came into being. They could not spontaneously come from nothing.

To be continued…