#unobservable

“God works in mysterious, unobservable, untestable, and unprovable ways.”

-- Clay Smith

The Kingdom of God

The kingdom of GOD cometh not with observation. Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of GOD is in the midst of {within} you. — Luke 17:20b-21 | King James Bible: Purple Letter Edition (KJBP) King James Bible: Purple Letter Edition © 2009 by Jim Musser. All rights Reserved.   Cross References: Luke 14:1; Luke 17:23; Luke 19:11; John 18:36; Acts 1:6

(Txllxt TxllxT, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) You have no idea it's there. You don't know it's watching, following, waiting. There's no way you know that it's always near you, lurking perpetually outside your vision, but only just. That, despite its size, it's quick and nimble and can scurry away before you've even turned around. Where is it? Maybe the floor, maybe the ceiling, maybe wedged behind some furniture. Wherever, really, you aren't looking. How could you know that all the noises you hear at night, the ones that make you turn nervously toward your bedroom door, are really the thing moving freely through your house? There's no bother checking, it will have hidden itself before you even turned on the light. It knows all the best hiding spots, and is surprisingly flexible, letting it creep into even the smallest crevice. It's an amazing mimic as well, and has played the part of furniture many times without your knowledge.

You're never free from it. Whenever you leave the house, it leaves the house. If you're on a train, it will be perched outside the doors. If you're in a plane, it will be tucked under your seat. If you're in a car it will squeeze in your trunk. There is nowhere it won't follow. But you won't spot it. Usually no one else will either. Almost always it keeps hidden from passersby. On the rare occasion it doesn't, it has found that looking scary enough will easily frighten them off. These people generally do their best to forget the whole thing, dismissing it as just their imagination, and rarely ever talk about it. So, of course, there's no chance anyone would warn you that this thing is following you.

Where did it come from? Why is it here? What is it waiting for exactly? These are questions you don't even know to ask because it never once occurred to you that there was a creature following your every move. And why would it? This is not exactly a thing most people worry about. So of course you know nothing about it. At the same time, it knows a whole lot about you. How could it not, after watching you so for long? It knows your hopes, your dreams, your wishes and joys. It knows your sorrows, your pains, your fears and shame. It has seen you at your very best and your very worst. Because all those moments you thought you were alone? You weren't. There was never any real privacy, but don't worry, it doesn't actually care about any of the things you'd find embarrassing. Its opinions, really, don't even factor at all. It would be there no matter what.

It has always been there, since the day you were a wriggling infant. That was the one time it let you see it. You don't remember and that is probably for the best because it remains the most afraid you have ever been in your life. Your parents came in when you cried, and you wanted to tell them about the thing you saw, but of course you had no words, and so all you could do was wail as it loomed right outside their vision and squarely inside yours. From then on, though, you never saw it either. But it was always still there. It watched you sleep. It watched you bathe. It watched you cry after a bad day at school. Not that you knew. And it will continue watching you, just outside your vision. It's actually watching you right now, as you read this. It's no use turning around, though, it will always dart away. If you hadn't caught it when you were younger, before it developed so much experience avoiding you, there's no way you're catching it now.             

(Malopez 21, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) There will come a day when it will show itself to you one final time. Finally, after all this time, you will know it's there. It's just waiting for the right moment. An accident. Maybe you slipped in the shower. Maybe you fell down a cliff. Maybe your car slammed into a tree. But you'll be hurt and alone and far from help. That is when it will finally slide into your vision and revel in your terror, your body so broken you won't be able to get away. You will watch as its unnatural form, moving like nothing on Earth does, approaches, and you will feel sick attempting to comprehend what you're seeing. Some part of you will remember seeing it before, but it will be so deep you won't notice. It will get closer. Its head will split open, revealing a gaping maw filled with wide, flat teeth the size of chalkboard erasers. And you will scream.

Invisibility and Unanswered Questions

Much is invisible to the human eye and much more is left to be uncovered about the world and our universe.  What we cannot observe is often the basis for the many unanswered questions that surround us every waking minute. Take a look at this interesting short video posted on TED-Ed by ignostic thinker, John Lloyd, and his observations on what we cannot observe.

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bltar med - imperceptible, invisible, unobservable [IW]

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ma dmigs - nonconceptual; See {dmigs pa} there is not, not perceiving, unperceived, unobserved, to unobservable, not perceiving, unperceived, unobserved, there is not, nonexistent, to not experience, be beyond conception [RY]

ma dmigs pa - not seen / found. non-observation, absence of objective referent, not observed, to be unobservable, beyond conception [RY]

ma dmigs pa - non-observation, absence of objective referent not observe[d], unobservable, beyond conception, not conceive of [IW]

mi dmigs - 1) not seen / observed, unobservable, unperceived. 2) not held in the mind, nonconceptual, without being focused on. 3) does not have [such and such attribute], it offers no basis [RY]

mi dmigs - not seen/ observed, unobservable, unperceived, not held in the mind, non-conceptual, w/o being focused on, does not have (such and such attribute), offers no basis [IW]

dmigs pa med pa - absence of basis, not [to be] perceived, inexperienceable, unobservable, not to be perceived, without focus, conception [RY]

dmigs pa med pa - absence of basis, not (to be perceived, inexperienceable, unobservable, w/o focus/ conception [IW]