The best way to explain an idea is to have people describe what it has meant to their lives. This page contains contributed testimonies about what FIG means to people who come from different perspectives. We welcome your contributions.
The FIG Project fits very naturally into Christ's message. Matthew 22:37-40 (quoted here from the New International Version) says: Jesus replied: `` `Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: `Love your neighbour as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.''
Total freedom is synonymous with total love for God: it means that nothing in the universe can come between us and our love for God. The second commandment describes what this means to our fellow beings: we need to love them like ourselves, and therefore extend the freedom which we have to others.
FIG encourages us to keep our minds fully focused on our own freedom, and helping others to be free.
Quantum strangeness can be easily explained if we assume that freedom is a basic feature of the universe. The apparant randomness can be explained by believing that every quantum is just as unique as you and me. This is an extension of David Bohm's idea of ``implicate order'' and Wolfgang Pauli's idea of ``synchronicity'', which only met with opposition because of insufficient evidence.
The apparant contradictions in quantum physics can be integrated by understanding that there are always two ways of looking at a system: from the past (mechanistically) or from the future (teleologically). Likewise, we can view any system as a collection of parts (reductionism) or as an integrated whole (holism).
We started with Aristotle's telological-holism, then Newton moved us into mechanistic-reductionism. Finally, quantum physics is forcing us to seek an intergrated viewpoint:
Paul Davies put it best in his book, The Cosmic Blueprint: Science may explain all the processes whereby the universe evolves its own destiny, but that still leaves room for there to be a meaning behind existence.
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