Thank you all for the welcome!
Leo-rcc, if I may.
I don't want to go into the long winded ideas I have of what might be. I am kicking around a lot of crazy ideas right now. I like to try on something, really see if it is solid or not, and that takes time. So a lot of the more fun parts of what I believe are very grey and make no claim to real truth.
I believe there are multiple living (in a sense) entities that exist on a scale far above us. It is an assumption I am making, but based on a lifetimes thinking and seeing. I don't believe in a grumpy old man in the sky. I like theology, but will not quote the bible (at least not the 2 testaments), especially as any proof.
To me it is the microscope argument. We nowadays have the ability, through extra-sensory tools, to see another dimension of the world. The microscopic dimension. This is new information to human history. Not another world, but this very same world on a completely different and unknowable (without tools) scale. And then, even more recently, we realized all of that is made up of nano-pieces. We could assume that the pattern repeats. So is it safe to assume there is not at least one more dimension, one more gradient of scale upwards? Are we the biggest thing? Or are we cells of a planetary organism, at least to some other, much, much larger thing? And it likely doesn't watch over us as much as the average person doesn't watch cells through a microscope all day. But, some people do that for a living...
And I tried for years to answer 'how did I get here' and most especially 'from whence came my sentience?'. I believe, because I found no answer. Please don't think you can find it for me, I am very, very thorough in my learning, so I doubt anyone has an idea I have not thought or read. I think I came here at the end of a very long path of human history, and my mind was given to me. I would like to be thankful to whatever gave me my mind. So I name her God.
Those are the two faces of my God. the part i can and will not ever know (while I am here), and the part I make real only by belief.
I hope it is not too crazy, although I worry. It's been a long night at work, so my intellect is dull.
Thank you for taking the time.
"If not for love, what for?"
-Pip
Leo-rcc, if I may.
I don't want to go into the long winded ideas I have of what might be. I am kicking around a lot of crazy ideas right now. I like to try on something, really see if it is solid or not, and that takes time. So a lot of the more fun parts of what I believe are very grey and make no claim to real truth.
I believe there are multiple living (in a sense) entities that exist on a scale far above us. It is an assumption I am making, but based on a lifetimes thinking and seeing. I don't believe in a grumpy old man in the sky. I like theology, but will not quote the bible (at least not the 2 testaments), especially as any proof.
To me it is the microscope argument. We nowadays have the ability, through extra-sensory tools, to see another dimension of the world. The microscopic dimension. This is new information to human history. Not another world, but this very same world on a completely different and unknowable (without tools) scale. And then, even more recently, we realized all of that is made up of nano-pieces. We could assume that the pattern repeats. So is it safe to assume there is not at least one more dimension, one more gradient of scale upwards? Are we the biggest thing? Or are we cells of a planetary organism, at least to some other, much, much larger thing? And it likely doesn't watch over us as much as the average person doesn't watch cells through a microscope all day. But, some people do that for a living...
And I tried for years to answer 'how did I get here' and most especially 'from whence came my sentience?'. I believe, because I found no answer. Please don't think you can find it for me, I am very, very thorough in my learning, so I doubt anyone has an idea I have not thought or read. I think I came here at the end of a very long path of human history, and my mind was given to me. I would like to be thankful to whatever gave me my mind. So I name her God.
Those are the two faces of my God. the part i can and will not ever know (while I am here), and the part I make real only by belief.
I hope it is not too crazy, although I worry. It's been a long night at work, so my intellect is dull.
Thank you for taking the time.
"If not for love, what for?"
-Pip
