the fault in our stars movie

Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort in the romantic drama ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ movie.

Love on the wings of an angel: Set of life’s ‘non-real inbox’

The underlying truth seems to be that love in itself opposes our natural narcissism and that is the basis for something pure having so many contradictions.

the fault in our stars movie

Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort in the romantic drama ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ movie.

It is not that love is inconsistent or has many contradictions. The underlying truth seems to be that love in itself opposes our natural narcissism and that is the basis for something pure having so many contradictions. Not because it’s flawed, but because it cannot operate with a very primal human instinct which agrees with the progression of normal living and basic instinctive survival.

Love is not bound by the self’s need for self. The poets could kill themselves for love because that is the proof required to eliminate the contradiction.

A mathematical introduction

In mathematics the set of complex numbers considers the ideal of imaginary numbers. As with many large sets, the possibility of an even larger set lingers. It may be the even larger set does not hold any significance to the world as we know it now, but holds the possibility of being the key explanation in future events. We look at infinity as a boundless object.

An endless value which can still be used and manipulated like any other object. With that said we consider Georg Cantor’s proof that there exist an object (set) larger than infinity. A larger infinity. My fairly basic understanding of Georg Cantor’s set theory stems from an understanding of romance and the movie The Fault in Our Stars.

If we consider the values between 0 and 1, we see that the set of rational and irrational numbers between 0 and 1 is incomprehensible, infinite. Yet we know there is a value bigger than 1, such as 1.1. Considering the values between 1 and 2, we see the exact same thing. Leading us to safely assume there are infinities larger than infinity.

Life as a set of plausible possibilities

If we look at life as a set of plausible possibilities, which are also infinite, we can also consider the possibility of an “imaginary set” of possibilities. Possibilities which by standard proof seem impossible. Just like the complex numbers, life itself can span into two categories: The real (plausible) and the non-real (imagination, impossible and not understood).

As in mathematics, the non-real reality is not considered real, but can still be put to “ideal” use. The non-real set of life possibilities can seem incomprehensible and not yet significant to the world as of now, but that does not limit its future impact on the society.

The non-real set of life possibilities can be considered to contain the imaginative ideal of humans. The superheroes and fiction and to some the existence of a higher power, offer a limitless set for the limitless mind. This can also be considered as the set that contains contradictions and paradoxical discourse (In the strictest sense that is).

Magical realism

The understanding of such a set could further open the mind to fathom such ideals as romance and love in its vastness, gods and fiction. This set could be the second apple in the Garden of Eden. A set containing infinite possibilities with as many infinite consequences.

This set gives provision to the more abstract of ideas and allows the individual to think of abstracts, such as love and flying with the wings of an angel, as possibilities yielding their own consequences. This is not much different from what fiction and television offers. This is just a set of life’s possible magical realism.

Consideration of expectations

We can consider the word “expectations” as a random variable X, with a chance of two outcomes, at different probabilities. Probabilities affected by factors of a relationship. Both initial factors and factors of progression.

Our sample space therefore is the parameters of an existing relationship. These parameters seem to expand with closeness and compatibility.

Suggesting a relationship between soulmates to have a limitless bound and infinite possibilities. Infinite set of possibilities factoring in the set of ideals, which we choose to only imagine the positive but put off the opposing ideals (negative expectations).

Ideals that suggest a deeper narcissism within all of us, which constantly threatens our relationships. There’s a constant change in the perception of Expectations due to natural narcissism.

Expansion on the non-real

Pythagoreans believed that everything can be reduced to numbers, thus the fundamental entities of which our universe is composed of is not matter, fields or strings but numbers. With this belief you can see how an individual’s life can therefore be seen as a set of numbers (objects). A set containing the real and non-real (The abstract of ideals).

Both sets being Infinite and yielding infinite consequences.

The set of life’s real is infinite but comprehensible. Even math-anxious people can stand to work with real numbers, but the more complex the mathematics gets, the less inclined they are to try.

Such is with the set of life’s non-real. We try to understand the vastness that is comprehensible, but put off the vastness that is associated with chaos, total disorder and the infinitely complex (Ampeiron). And let’s not forget Aristotle: Infinity is not a perfection but the absence of a limit.

Expansion on the love hypothesis

Within the infinite set of Life, we have an existing and seeming simultaneously non-existing entity. Love. Although so many people can contest to the existence of Love, they do so with their individual and unique premise. Love in its very nature is indefinite. I with my understanding could try to classify it as existing but someone can still argue that it doesn’t exist.

St Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica argues “Although God’s power is unlimited, he still cannot make an absolutely unlimited thing, no more than he can make an unmade thing (for this involves contradictions being true together). – This argument being self-contradictory it gives premise to the argument of loves elegant but flaw filled set of contradictions.

Link to expectations

The idea that we can learn to love as a form creation is that not explored. The idea that suggest that we can love someone because of how they perceive us in their minds.

From this idea we see that it is not the person you are attracted to but the image that person has of you. An underlying, natural narcissism.

This perception a person has of you is clouded with ideas and expectations. Expectations only perceived as expectations if they don’t agree with what we subconsciously want for ourselves.