RE: God, Energy and Matter
September 2, 2019 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2019 at 1:11 pm by Lek.)
(September 2, 2019 at 1:40 am)Rahn127 Wrote: So you don't feel that you are reunited right now ?
What purpose would reuniting fulfill ?
Knowing the purpose for and understanding all that exists.
Quote:Do you think your god needs something from you ?
Aren't you already connected ?
Aren't you already united ?
Yes, I'm connected, but haven't fully realized total unity.
Quote:What do you think would change after you're dead ?
Do you think you would finally experience a TRUE connection to your god ?
Eventually, yes.
Quote:And what purpose will that serve ? You know, to actually see and hear god. What's the purpose of that ?
To be totally and infinitely existent. To be intimate with every aspect of creation.
(September 2, 2019 at 9:24 am)polymath257 Wrote: Once again, you are limited to this one, very small planet and trying to generalize to the whole universe. You proceed with purpose in your actions because *you* have chosen what you want to do. The vast majority of even the Earth isn't 'purposeful'. And once you get off of this little ball, the universe as a whole shows nothing even remotely like a purpose.
Once again, when the Earth was considered to be the center of the universe and the universe itself was seen to be less than, say, a couple of billion miles across, it made some sense to think of ourselves as important in the grand scheme of things.
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But the real world isn't like that. If we made a scale model of the universe where the distance from the sun to the earth is an inch, the earth itself would be invisible. The solar system would be about three yards across. And the nearest star other than the sun would be over 4 miles away. Our galaxy would be around 100,000 miles across (on this scale, mind you). And there are hundreds of billions of galaxies that we know about.
Thinking that humans are special in any way is worse that a single ant in some ant colony in the Amazon thinking it is important to how the Earth functions.
Laughable
I don't understand why you believe that because we are a very small part of the universe that we are of little importance. All of the universe is as important as any other. We're all a part of the whole which supports the rest. It all formed from the same event and the same energy.
I'm going to try to respond to all the posts here, but when I post once I get 5 or 6 replies, so it takes some time and thought.
