What has NULL got to do with Logos

Seeds of this were sown yesterday writing the last blog... If G-d is to be considered as the Void which rather than thought of like Emptiness I have realised is better considered like NULL (see computer science for a definition) then what has this to do with The Word or The Logos?

To recap The Logos is the Law of the universe described variously around the world. Cudely: if we do wrong we suffer.

In the Middle East it is the anger of G-d who punishes those who disobey or ignore him (in Christianity) or who are not favoured (in Judeism) - but as I have discussed previously this cannot be the only conception because punishment is also conceived as being administered in Hell by Satan which makes Satan in the employ of God and thus not His rebellious angel afterall! It was explained to me in Church group in 7oaks that really Hell is created when we are abandoned by G-d and I was given a conception of an empty void - cold, dark and lonely. A better conception of Hell but also extremely ironic.

In the East while the Logos is usually thought about in the same way as in the Jewish faiths - as seeking favour with spirits/gods/buddhas etc who then alleviate suffering - it also has another conception. It is a Law of the universe called Karma enacted by "no-one" to which all "beings" are subject. (If you enacted it then you are a "being" and if u aren't a being how can "you" be subject - i.e. enlightenment). In Madonna's (mother of Jesus?) libretto 'Every little thing that you say and do ahaa (pain :-) its coming back to you'.

The latter exposition of The Logos is the key which explains the relevance of NULL.

recap: Logos is the Greek for measure, law, word. Thus a scale is logos because it measures the weight of things. Justice is analogously measured and it is logos. Words of Law are logos. Words, in that they name and distinguish things, are logos. To illustrate: to make a judgement that this is a tree is logos. When the planets move around the sun according to Laws in Physics that is logos. The heighest indisputable laws of the Universe are capitalised Logos of which there is only One. When G-d speaks it is Logos. That Logos is that human life and death is miserable without G-d. In other languages the same idea if expressed variously as Dao in Chinese, Dharma in Sanskrit, Dhamma in Pali. These are the highest Law which is taught by the wise. Pre-Socratic Western philosophy used the Logos in this way. (They say Socrates began Western Philosophy actually I think there is a case to say Plato ended it because he began to distinguish parts in the Logos). (God written G-d to respect the original conception of G-d as being beyond names - as indeed the all powerful would be, no?).

So how do we get from a conception of the Void as NULL to the Logos which mankind has observed since the dawn of time. Why is being bad the source of suffering?

NULL expresses itself in a beautiful way to mundane man: irony. As Lao Tze loves to baffle his readers with, the tall is short and the short is tall when you stand with the NULL. The problem with the mundane mind is that we take what "is" as itself. Thus "what is tall is tall dumb arse!". With irony comes hubris tho. The certainty that the mundane mind has in its pronouncements is actually sinful and so comes suffering - only G-d can make such pronouncements (so words of caution to myself - if I call what I write here Logos then I instantly erase any value that it has - just write and read).

What our mundane stereotype forgets is that tall is only tall next to short, and vice verse. Compare "tall" with NULL and then what? So Mohammed, Krishna or Buddha takes a mountain. The mountain is large in the world of men and takes many days to climb over. It is a large massive thing and there is no question. Our mind stands this mountain against the many small things in the world and it looks big. Yet stand it next to NULL and suddenly there is nothing small to compare it to. NULL looks huge instead and limitless and then what was large is also small. Then we do the same with small and what was small next to the mountain is suddenly large next to NULL. Actually large and small are themselves NULL but the habitual force of the mind to produce dialectics creates these ironies. Mohammed, Krishna and Buddha with the power of G-d subdue the mountain and it becomes nothing at all.

So how is badness created. The most habitual dialectic is between ourselves and other people. Badness can only occur in a relationships with other people (or lack of). So we think there are other people and as sure as large things need small things to tower over, we believe in ourself. The more other people the more self. The more self the more other people.

Standing next to NULL however the Self no longer has Other people standing over it. NULL seems like the Self and we seem like the Other. This is the experience of those who find personality in NULL. An assumption in Jewism religions but only an argument in Hinduism - most say Brahman has personality but some say not. Actually I assume when the habitual dialectical comparison of things calms down you get the Buddhist conception of NULL being without personality - its a trivial point really whether G-d has a personality... does the soul?

When we don't learn to stand with NULL however and tall becomes tall and short becomes short then sadly I become me and you become you. A relationship is then necessary between me and you. Relationships that respect the illusory nature of the division between people are good, those that abuse that reality are bad. The happiness of good relationships is really discovery of the true nature of undivided reality. The misery of failed relationships is the suffering of enforcing a fake structure on reality - how can something fail if it never even existed? Loss of faith is simply this - giving into the belief that I and You are separate and accepting the myth of isolation. No wo(man) is an island...(John Dunne). When Jesus heals it is by the faith of the ill not Jesus Himself. The suggestion then is that illness itself is a product of the myth of separation - getting out of my depth here but certainly if I and You are not separate then how can the experience of You or I dying happen? Faith in the absurdity that what looks like nonsense is actually the truth is the way of G-d and NULL.

Faced with the myth of separtion - that I am I and You are You - we end up doing some silly things. So the right-hand and the left-hand have a fight over who is going to be the writing hand. And the right hand ends up cutting off the left hand. It has won and can enjoy being the writing hand. Won the battle, lost the war. It goes to applaud a friend and find it can make no sound. So it is with I/You creatures. We fight to win but actually we lose. Prisoners Dilemma only works when you see the truth and have faith in it. Start to really believe in the isolation myth and the applause dies. Just watching War of the Worlds on TV - the whole Cruise escaping in the car and then people stealing it off him thing - the people escaping in the planet Earth and the Aliens stealing it off them - sides of the coin of no-faith. So we suffer because blind to the truth, we try to save ourselves only to find other people attack us more; ignoring NULL we put the mask of self on and attack ourselves in the darkness.

But this is only the mundane view of sin. It goes further. Standing next to NULL how can "I" even be hurt? So those who go to their deaths in the Name of the Logos really do gain eternal life because no longer can "they" die.