Cycles or Linear?

Forever it feels like people are telling me that the world and existence is about cycles. That everything works in circles. The Jewish calendar, the year and I guess they're saying that experiences do too.

Well, I've been thinking that a lot of things do sort of fit a cycle experience. My hypothesis is that the point in this life is to break bad cycles and create and feed positive ones.

As my brother said today, I eat because I'm fat and I'm fat because I eat.

Break the cycle.

I show compassion to one person who shows it to another who shows it to another - feed it.

The eat-fat example looks like a cycle. But truthfully, the compassion one looks more linear.

We are ruining the world. Does that lead us to ruin the world more? Or for other people to ruin the world? Or for the world to ruin us? The cycle theory feels wrong because a circle has to end where it began but I don't think that the world necessarily always work that way.

I'm feeling less convinced about the cycles idea. I'm now thinking more in terms of inertia.

INERTIA

Whatever we chose to do or not do, adds or depletes inertia in the energy realm of that thing.

Compassion: Giving more creates more compassion-inertia.

It gets complicated, though. Like us ruining the world. Yes, we are a bad example on other people in the world and so it makes sense that the inertia is bringing more people to wreck the world. But it also works in other ways. The world ends up being unhealthy for us too. And for other living (and not living) things. So the negative energy in the realm of the nature of the world spreads in different ways.

Sometimes doing something positive can create negative inertia. In some cases, maybe the act was not actually positive - only understood wrongly to be so. Other times, negative inertia from something else "fights" against the inertia being created by the positive act.

For example, during WWII, amazingly a few kind and heroic gentiles saved Jews. But this was at risk of their own lives. So, they were doing something positive but in a certain aspect, the negative inertia was so great that sometimes it was able to fight back (for example if the person was caught and tortured and/or murdered). But still at the same time this person was creating positive inertia, showing amazing capabilities in looking beyond themselves and just doing what they thought was right regardless of the potential terrible consequences.

So here I am reinventing the wheel. But it is an interesting way to perceive the world. The world can be perceived in so many ways, through so many different lenses, using so many different types of rules. The fascinating thing is that I do believe that a lot of them are right. They are just different ways to try to understand existence.

QE