Living a 'Prime Life'

Since I was 16 years old, I've been a 'theist' -  a word of my own making. A theist stands in opposite to a deiest. A deiest believes in God but believe that God created the world and then it was pretty much done. Maybe a few miracles now and again, but doesn't believe that God has much to do in our day to day lives. Myself, I've always believed that God has a lot to do in our day to day lives. I have many personal examples and I could fill my blog proclaiming all the blessings I've received. That's not the point of this blog though.

Since I believe that God does play a part in our lives, it can be hard to justify the crappy things that happen in people's lives. Crappy situations exist for everyone, but some people seem to have more bad luck than others. Now, for a while I believed that everyone gets equal portions of good luck (blessings) and bad luck (challenges) in their lives. It was the individual choice what they did with their blessings and challenges and that created their outlook on life. But lately, I'm not so sure. I'm still a very strong believer in free choice and I still believe that God has a place in our lives, but some people just appear to have undeniably bad luck while others seem to just walk into blessings after blessings.

Before I write anymore a quickish disclaimer. I'm no theologian. I'm also no quantum physicist. I've watched 'What the Bleep do We Know?' and a lot of that movie made sense to me. But my understanding of quantum physics is limited. My understanding of theology is limited to what little of the Bible I read and little pieces of sermons from some priests and preachers that make sense and fit into my own set of values. I'm not writing this to convert anyone, but I am writing this to share. And this still very much a work in progress.

As a wannabe creative writer there is an idea from quantum physics that has caught my imagination. The idea that there are multiple realities that exist paralell to ours. An atom could of bumped left instead of right. I could have went to coffee today or for a walk instead. I could have stayed in Canada and developed some opportunities here instead of traveling around Asia for 4-5 years. All these possibilities could exist. It makes for good sci-fi. But does it fit spiritually?

I believe that God plays a role in our lives, but God does so in ways that ways that we may not understand. God is infinite, all powerful and all knowing. We ascribe human attributes to God because that's the only way for us to understand it. I believe that one God exists across these all multiple realities. God lets us make our choices.

Now this where I start to get a little shaky. Since there might be an infinite different possible 'me' out there, I believe that there might be one that takes the experiences of all these 'me' and uses those experiences to create a Prime Life. A prime life is someone who appears to lead a blessed life. Someone who's bread always seems to land butter side up. Now I believe that blessings are not things like being rich or being a movie star. Blessings coming in the form little things that you live your life according to your values where you reach your own personal happiness. There will be times when crappy things happen, but this all informs us and helps us to make better decisions in the future. Whether it is in this reality or perhaps it somehow informs another realitiy. I think somehow the experiences of the many different realities somehow converge and this creates a Prime Life.

Since we have no idea where this Prime Life exisits, I believe we need to live our life now, today, as the Prime Life. We need to make good decisions as best we can and help people the best we can. We need to see people who appear to be having bad luck and learn from their life. I do hope that somewhere they are experiencing a Prime Life, but my life now may not interact with their Prime. But since I am living my life now as a Prime, I hope that my example will be a witness to help them in their struggles. I believe that we can help each other. And I believe that is what God wants us to do.

This idea is my own. I just wish to share my idea. Its not fully formed. I don't read Deepak Chopra, I don't stand on a soap box on the corner of Bloor and Yonge in Toronto. My idea just is. It changes, it shifts to fit my observations of this world. If you reject all I have to say, great. I plan on posting more on my own personal experiences of trying to live a Prime Life and other thoughts I have about my different interest areas. I'm always open to thoughtful discussion.

A new vision for the Blog

I've been struggling a bit to keep this blog up to date. While I am still interested in posting about Red Deer issues, its not something that motivates me everyday. My interests are quite varied so I am planning on changing this blog to reflect that.

I changed the name (yet again) and I am going to try and post around 3 central themes - Alberta Labour Market Information (Alberta LMI); The Prime Life (I'll explain more about that in a later post) and My Community/Politics. This gives me a wide range of topics that I can post on.

The biggest problem I am having is keeping motivated. My goal is to write a blog that people will read and discuss. But the topics I have been using the last few years have just not inspired me. So I hope that by unifying my interest areas under the theme of 'Seeking Truth' I can write something that motivates me and that people will want to read.

So I am going to experiment with the blog layout a bit. So every time you check back you'll see a different lay out over the next couple of weeks. Blogger is very easy to customize, so I'm just going to experiment a bit. I hope these changes will keep you all reading and feel free to leave comments!