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By no means do I know how everything was created, or who did it, or if religion is the answer. Religion, IMO, always has a set of guidelines, NORMALLY during times of much less civilization, though this one seems to be devolving to that point, so it might bring it back into the limelight.
My basis for God, or whatever representation you seek to make is that SOMETHING gave the flicker to consciousness, or substance. Some INITIAL point to the real basis of it all. SOMETHING placed the blackness of space within whatever framework we are in. Then, THAT something also placed a few rules and guidelines as you like to call them, which then inter-reacted with each other, purportedly bringing us to THIS point.
For scientists to ASSUME that the universe SIMPLY BIG-banged its way here sounds more like magic than believing a higher intellect did it. Why? Because it would BE MAGICAL to assume energy, substance, rules, laws, and guidelines appeared out of thin black, air! That's magical. But nobody explains the STARTING point for whatever BROUGHT together the planets. For whatever brought together the universe.
It's a like a LIGHT switch in the blackness of existence, or moreover, like blank, comatose mind just awakened, and here we are. And perhaps we're just experiences playing out IN THE MIND of God.
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And interesting book I've read, which purports to be true like all books which cite prophets from unknown dimensions, called "Disappearance of the Universe," states that we never split from God. In fact we are still with him. That the world we PERCEIVE is just a HUGE virtual reality machine that is played out by our Ego, and made all the more real as we fight it. The basis for the split was that the Ego or a piece of "us" couldn't deal with the idea of not being a unique identity. It wanted it's own "Godness." And then it split, supposedly leaving God, though we never really did...kind of like a huge blob of ghack that you pull away super far from the core, yet it never really detaches from the core. It's a wild idea, perhaps to some, but if we can't figure out where we came from, and we don't know where we're going, what's the point of fighting it and closing ourselves to any millions of possibilities?
And making the same EXTENSION of thought from here to Antartica is not the same. You can't know about Antartica without having been taught about it, seen pictures, and from other's experiences. Even then, someone could say Antartica was Hawaii, and you wouldn't know because you haven't been. A logical leap can be made to assume it's not plutonium, but no such leap secures the idea that it's cold if all you have are second hand opinions. Sailors didn't know the world was round until they did it several times with success.
And trying to venture a GUESS at the universe is insane. We haven't been there, and if it's shrinking or expanding, we wouldn't know it. We barely understand our own universe, what is on planets, how it originated, and how many planets their TRULY are, so why can be assume the non-existence of God when we can't grope more than our day to day lives, and for some THAT's a stretch.
We must be God's children, because only children would try to prove themselves right on so many topics that they will inevitably realize they don't know jack shyt about. It would be the wiseman who realizes he doesn't know what he doesn't know.
A-Unit
