(Auto-generated)Hello all you wonderful, wonderful people that matter so very, very much.
I'm Will Help.
For those of you who didn't come here from my YouTube channel called Could Help, yeah,
my name is Will.
On the channel I go by Will Help as in, Hi, I Will Help and this, Could Help.
And as you might suspect, and Will Soon Learn.
That's not my real last name.
It fit the motif of the show and so I ran with it.
So I made the YouTube channel because I was trying to figure out the best way to show
the world what I had discovered ten and a half years ago.
And primarily that's to be a book, which I've just finished this month.
Yes, thank you.
And that's a good feeling.
So it's been in the works for a long time now because I'd been researching and writing
the book for several years and was having a really hard time figuring out how best to
arrange it.
So what I did is what I always do when I'm stuck on what I should do next.
I started talking about it.
I started explaining the concepts to other people and I stuck it up on YouTube.
And I noticed that in thinking about what I was going to talk about in the next episode,
I was coming up with possible A to B to C narrative paths, ways that I could lay out
the book.
And in the process of talking about it on the show, the final piece of reorganization
occurred to me and it was a big one.
It's actually kind of funny because you can you can literally watch me realize on camera
that I had to reorganize the entire show, the entire book and rewrite roughly a quarter
of the book.
And you just you see it happen literally on camera.
It's it's episode three.
The theories around the five minute mark, I've watched it a few times now.
I'll throw the link in the description.
We watched it the night I decided to make the audio version of the book into a podcast.
That's right.
This what you're listening to right here.
This is the laughing matters by yours truly.
Lucky person you are.
But yeah, the music was a huge get on that.
If you do the right music at the right time, it would act like an amplifier.
It really helps to drive points home.
And let's face it, it just generally makes a room feel less empty and makes a recording
of someone speaking more full.
And it helps the emotional response that one has to what is being said, not just get coaxed
out of them a tad easier, but to stay out and maybe feel some more.
You know, to not need to be coaxed out each time, not just to hear, but to feel what I
have to share with you.
Because when I'm about to share with you is man, I really, really hope you guys keep listening
after this episode.
The stuff I'm going to be telling you, it's not really, it's not a weird saying it, but
it is not really arguable.
I know that seems like a bold claim, but I'm not proposing theories on most of this.
I'm pulling it up and out from where it's laid hidden for so long and placing it in
your laps.
It's it's night and day stuff.
You know, I say it's non arguable because most of them are obvious when you see them,
when I point them out.
They're like stating some people say the color of the sky is blue.
These are pretty plain as the nose on your face things.
And you know, some of them you may have noticed in your time here on earth.
So without further ado, I give you The Laughing Matters by W.S. Walker, copyright 2020 by
William S. Walker.
These pages are dedicated to my parents, my father Jeff, who didn't always know what I
was doing, but gave me the support and benefited the doubt to help me do it.
And my mother Jean, who stood ever vigilant in her beliefs and who I aspire to match in
strength of love and spirit one day.
Preface.
A.K.A. here's what I've got to say before I say what I came here to say.
Here we go.
So when I was much younger, I was told an anecdote that has stayed with me ever since.
There's this Western philosopher.
He's considered wise by all his peers.
One day that philosopher begins to hear murmurings of an Eastern philosopher, this monk who has
several new ideas and approaches to questions that mankind has always asked.
The meaning of life, why do bad things happen to good people?
Is there a plan or is it free will, etc.
So the Western philosopher decides to make the journey overseas so he can converse with
this monk and learn from him and hopefully further validate his own arguments.
After a long journey, the philosopher finally arrives at the monastery and he's ushered
in to meet the monk.
They seat themselves at a small table and after some pleasant small talk, the philosopher
starts engaging the monk in headier subjects and he starts asking some of the more profound
questions that he traveled so far to have answered.
As the monk begins to speak, the Western philosopher spots two inconsistencies what he himself
knows to be true.
At the appearance of the second one, he interrupts the monk as politely as possible.
The monk sits quietly and he's listening to the philosopher as he explains why he believes
the opposite to be true.
Once the philosopher finishes, the monk thanks him for sharing his understanding of the truth.
He tells him that he'll meditate on that which the philosopher has proposed.
So rather gracefully, the monk picks right back up where he left off and not too long
after that, the philosopher starts clearing his throat with a finger raise.
Ah, but have you consented what G.E.
Moore said about?
Again, the monk listens carefully and after a few moments of consideration, he thanks
the philosopher for sharing such an interesting take on things.
The monk promises to add this viewpoint to his daily meditations and then he, with a
slight knowing smile, picks right back up where he left off.
And it's a few more minutes before the monk spots a furrow in the visitor's brow and
another objection rising to the lips of the westerner.
So this time, it's actually the monk that interrupts.
You have traveled a long way.
Would you like tea?
The philosopher nods and thanks him.
And have your cup and water.
The philosopher raises an eyebrow, but he hands over the cup and the canteen from his
backpack without comment.
And the monk walks over to a small kitchen area of the room where he pours the water
from the canteen into the teapot and he begins to boil it.
So they start talking in the kitchenette while waiting for the whistle of the steam.
And when it comes, the monk pours the philosopher's water into the philosopher's cup and he sets
that aside.
And then the monk pours water from his own stores into the empty kettle and begins to
boil that while he takes down his own cup from the cupboard.
The philosopher can't figure out if this is a deliberate insult or a quirky custom,
so he decides to let it go.
And as their talks deepen, the Westerner barely notices the monk is adding tea leaves to the
boiling water in the kettle.
The monk lifts the kettle before it screams and pours his own cup full of the freshly
made tea.
And then he brings the kettle over to the Westerner's cup and he starts to pour.
And the cup, already pretty much full of boiled water, is only able to receive a little bit
of tea before threatening to overflow.
The monk passes the philosopher's cup to the now annoyed Westerner who remarks,
And why have you poured me such weak tea?
Well, the corner of the monk's mouth drew slightly up into that same small smile and
he lifts the cup from the philosopher's hand.
You are like this cup.
So full of your own ideas and context.
You are surrounded by your own context.
And I cannot show you the context of that which I find to be truths, if you are preoccupied
with using your own.
Anything I offer will only dilute in your mind and vanish, torn apart by your understanding
of the world before you have even heard half of what I would say on the matter.
The monk starts to pour out the contents of the cup to the drain.
If you truly wish to know what it is I have found, whether you wish to live your life
by way of these truths, or you simply want to see if what I have to say is true, you
must empty yourself of what you already believe to be true.
This is a requirement for gaining understanding.
One cannot remain full and yet take on something else in its entirety.
Ah!
He smiles and glances down at the water running down the drain.
Now the cup is useful to us again.
As the monk sets down the philosopher's now-empty cup in front of him and starts to pour the
tea in, once you have set aside that which you are already full of, only then can you
truly decide if my tea has worth.
I love this story, and now that I have something of worth to offer the world, I understand
the importance of this story's message far more fully.
During my journey to discuss the truths I have found, I have sometimes found people
arguing against what they believe to be what I am proposing, before I have even proposed.
And most of the time, if the argument is about something covered in the book, they are either
in opposition of something that they think I am getting at, or are arguing something
that has little to no bearing on the part of the topic that I brought up to explain
a point.
And I used to have a good humor about it.
I did.
Like living with a quirky but loved elderly person that waves off half of what you say
and argues the other half for seemingly no reason.
But this is problematic here.
In this particular setting, because what I'll be proposing here is a giant interconnected
series of concepts that support each other, but not in a linear A to B to Z fashion.
It kind of takes all of it to support all of it.
And what you're listening to now is an attempt to walk people through these concepts, but
the only way that this will work is if you're willing to make a deal with me.
For the duration of this book, I'm asking you to set aside your current beliefs on these
matters, whatever they may be.
It's okay.
You can pick them back up after.
But empty your cup so that you can reach the end and judge for yourself whether or not
there's validity to what I've actually shared with you.
To see what I'm proposing as it is, and not as the knee-jerk reactions would have it.
Now, as you've probably already suspected at some point or another, part of this book
is rooted in the belief that there is a God.
And by that, I mean something that's bigger and more complex than we have a frame of reference
for and that life was intentional.
And that's pretty much as far as the definition that I'm going to ask you as a favor to accept
as a probability.
I say as a probability because having spent years studying the patterns that emerge across
history, religions, science, physics, mathematics, the existence of some deliberate creative
force seems to be the safe money bet.
Just about every tribal people that we have a recorded history of, even though they were
on separate continents, separated by oceans, didn't have the internet, y'all.
And they never interacted.
They all believed that there was something that fell within that simple definition, mostly
in the form of gods.
Me personally, I only use the term God because that's the name that I became accustomed
to through my early years in Catholic upbringing and my early love for Greek mythology.
So I want you guys to know that if I do reference a religious text or ten, and don't worry,
I usually only bring up when I have a cool kind of twist to throw on it.
The definition of God that I use is not tied to any religion.
Religion is mankind's interpretation of prior interactions with God.
And no group could ever know everything that there is to know about God or what God wants.
That's part of the reason that at an early age, I set out from Catholicism to find the
truths that other religions might offer.
I was barely a teenager when I left the church, admittedly, so I did lack the depth needed
to truly explore these very beliefs.
So yeah, I also tended to steer away from rituals and religions.
They provide comfort for some, but I still wonder how much of it is more for each person
as a sentimental tone, striking a nostalgic chord in the place where one formed their
relationship with God growing up.
For me, it was that heavy emphasis on the rituals and Catholicism that ultimately led
to my absences from Sunday Masses.
I felt no real personal connection to the rituals because I didn't feel they furthered
my connection to God.
So yeah, when I left the church, I was still pretty sure there was something out there.
I turned to several religions for a more satisfying answer, but I never really found what I was
looking for.
Yes, there were a lot of truths in each, and often accompanied with powerful wisdoms and
meditations, but I couldn't find one that had all the answers I was looking for.
I was pretty sure I'd know it when I saw it, because truth is truth, right?
That's why it's so hard to unsee something once it comes into the light.
One of the big reasons that I always felt that there was some kind of God was born out
of my time fascinating over some of the brilliant finds we'd made in the fields of science
and physics.
I could blame my teachers for my love of those fields, but I think the initial blame goes
to my father's subscription of Popular Mechanics during my adolescence.
And my favorite discoveries were always those in which the patterns in multiple fields of
study would either line up or overlap in critical ways, forming systems.
And yes, as a science slash physics nut, I considered the possibility that all of this
existence was born out of unintentional chaos, or as I would come to call that theory later,
the what a crazy random happenstance theory.
But the longer you look, the systems are just too precariously balanced.
To ever make creation by chaos a serious consideration for the explanation of all things, that chaos
model happens only once in an uncountable number of scenarios.
It just wasn't statistically viable enough to remain in the running.
And the more I studied the natural and physical sciences and the fundamentals of mathematics,
mathematics of course being the language of all sciences, the more that I believed that
there was something bigger than us.
And I'm not alone on this either, nor does it revoke my membership to the world of the
scientifically minded.
In one of his later interviews, Albert Einstein stated plainly, the more I study the natural
sciences, the more I believe in a God.
And then he would later clarify that he didn't mean a religious God, but an abstract creator
and designer of everything.
And when he was questioned about the interview in which he said this, Einstein wrote, everyone
who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit
is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.
There seems to be this weird misconception out there that either science is right or
religion is right.
And I have never understood this argument.
Now I can say that I believe, I can't say for certain, but I believe that a great deal
of why some scientists have issues with religions is that the people in them have a more restrictive
and detailed vision of what God is.
And I can safely say that most scientists and physicists that I've worked with believe
that there's probably something that designed it all.
Robert Griffiths, the Heinemann Prize winner in mathematical physics said, if we need an
atheist for a debate, we go to the philosophy department.
The physics department isn't much use.
If they disbelieve or argued against anything, it was by far and away the specific beliefs
of various religions, or some of the actions made by said religions, followers or leaders,
and definitely that all too common mentality of if you believe some of what this religious
sect believes, then it is of the utmost importance you get to work on believing the rest of what
we believe too.
And this is the opposite philosophy to actual science, which has very few laws, but a whole
lot of theories.
They search for the truth in hidden and obvious places, and they make every effort to recognize
it and value it for what it is, regardless of which field of study or sect it was found
in.
Truth is truth.
Yes, that can be kind of heady.
And your first time feeling the cleverness of peeking behind the curtain of the universe,
it can make somebody arrogant in their view, but eventually you start to understand just
how delicately everything behind the curtain has been put together, or I guess more distinctly
put by Werner Heisenberg, the father of quantum mechanics himself.
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the
bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you.
Okay I'm almost off the point, but I do want to remind those that are uncommensed, that
are sciences everything, and if you can't prove God, I want to remind people that mathematics,
physical, natural, and especially theoretical sciences, they're all rooted in the observation
of patterns.
The theories and the laws are written, but these fields are at their core, the observation,
recording, questioning, predicting, and testing of repeating phenomenon.
At their base level, these fields of study break down to do it, and this happens.
Do it again, this happens again.
Okay, well what if we do it like this?
Well, this happens.
Does it happen again, and again, and again like that?
The world happens first, the studies happen second.
They are predictive systems of study, but we'll get to that later on.
My point is, if you reverse your view on these studies, and look in the other direction,
you might find yourself wondering how is it these laws came to be immutable?
How is it that these patterns came to repeat in the first place?
Science does not inform our existence on how to operate.
It's the study of how it is already operating.
Or to put it my favorite way, science may inform the whole world, but it is the world
that informs science first.
I bring up all of this because I'm asking you to accept that it's possible that there
is something for the duration of the book.
And for the people that already believe that there's something, I'm asking you to let
go of the governing aspects that you believe of God or gods.
Because if I start explaining the concepts that are detailed in these pages, and the
reader holds onto a belief that God does not exist, or God does not exist like that, the
connections will not form between these concepts for the reader.
Not the way they need to.
You see, the brain actually responds to large potential changes and what one believes to
be true, much the way that it responds to physical threats, the same areas of the brain
light up with activity.
Again, I'd rather just hear out what I have to say, the way I'd say it, before you pass
your final judgments on the material.
A lot of the crisscrossing supports of the structure these concepts form aren't detailed
till the last third of the book.
So to that point, I offer one last word of warning.
We're about to start, I promise.
Most of the chapters are primarily laying out several different concepts that at the
time of reading them, they may seem disjointed, unconnected, or unrelated.
In the last few chapters, and even as we journey along the chapters of the book, we'll begin
to gather them up and fit them together.
The first two thirds of the book are the pushpins, and the last third, the strings.
The best I can do now is to lay out each individual piece on the table, explain what each piece
is, and then assemble them together in front of you.
For the too long, did not read version, you're not going to understand what I'm saying until
I'm done saying it.
So hang in there, and empty your cup before you go in.
And I solemnly promise you this.
If I've written it in the book, it's been put into the book because it is important
to the total understanding of what I've found.
This book does not include one single unnecessary word.
And that is it.
Uh, yeah, thank you so much for listening in, and uh, I'll, you know, I'll usually,
I'm trying to cut down the intro, I don't know, I'll try to make it more entertaining
or something.
It only gets better from here, folks.
And uh, you should have the chapter one in your hands soon.
You guys have some big stuff coming.
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And uh, please, please come back and hear more.
I only just prepped you for the ride.
You're just getting locked in.
Chapter one's where it all kicks off.
Come back with an empty cup and see if my tea has worked.
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