godnotgod
Thou art That
Lovely!
Hope you enjoy your tea-party, Alice.
it's a bash! The One in the Many, and the Many in The One.
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A Universe from Nothing?
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it's a bash! The One in the Many, and the Many in The One.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
godnotgod
Thou art That
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Or just a bunch of intelligent apes trying to find a meaning.
By the way, do monkeys have "cosmic consciousness" too?
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godnotgod
Thou art That
Or just a bunch of intelligent apes trying to find a meaning.
By the way, do monkeys have "cosmic consciousness" too?
Look at it this way: Consciousness is manifesting itself as The Universe, which includes you, I, monkeys, and the entire ball of wax. It's playing a cosmic game of Hide and Seek, pretending to be all those things, when it is none other than the Supreme Identity; The indestructible Sunyata.
gnostic
The Lost One
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Oh Lordy, Alice, I can't believe you're STILL trying to pretend that sunyata is compatible with your pseudo-Hindu new-age muddle.
And you've introduced yet another bit of meaningless jargon, "Supreme Identity". When it will it ever end?!
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Oh Lordy, Alice, I can't believe you're STILL trying to pretend that sunyata is compatible with your pseudo-Hindu new-age muddle.
And you've introduced yet another bit of meaningless jargon, "Supreme Identity". When it will it ever end?!
So then. Do we really have this universe from nothing?
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I have no idea, and neither does anyone else at the moment. What I don't get is the need to fill the unknown with unsubstantiated religious beliefs and speculations. Why not just admit we haven't got a clue, that is the honest response.
My guess is that when the answers eventually arrive they will be very strange, and nothing to do with the religious beliefs that people currently hold.
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Now. How can you say anything about any other?
When you are in dark, how can you assert that all are in dark? Why do you impose your darkness on others. Is it not dubious?
godnotgod
Thou art That
This is when I back away slowly, and excuse the driver and get myself off the bus.
heh...heh...heh....you play the cosmic game of Hide and Seek better than most. Poker-faced and to the hilt.
godnotgod
Thou art That
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Believe what you like, but don't confuse belief with knowledge. We have no idea how/why our universe came into being.
Darkness is seeking refuge in superstition. Darkness is clutching at metaphysical straws, preferring comforting fantasies to cold truths.
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godnotgod
Thou art That
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
What is it then, a new-age belief? It's just a belief in either case.
And where are those definitions we've been waiting on, come on, they should only take you a couple of minutes! Come on, Alice, take a break from your tea-party, the Mad Hatter won't mind!
Brief plain-English descriptions please for:
"cosmic consciousness"
"universal consciousness"
"ever-present Self"
"Supreme Identity"
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My question remains. When you are in dark, how do you assert that all are in dark?
An ignorant person cannot claim that all others are also ignorant.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
We are ALL ignorant about how/why our universe came into being. Some people fill the gap with religious belief. Is this not obvious to you?
Of course, we Hindus do not believe that real can come forth from unreal and that real ever becomes unreal. A barren mother's son is unreal at all times.
godnotgod
Thou art That
Nothing is real. How else could Everything exist were it not for Nothing? Only unreal (maya) can come forth from the real. Buddhism says that all things are empty of self-nature:
form is emptiness;
emptiness is form
I am saying that Brahman is Pure Consciousness which is No-thing-ness.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
So you're going through a Hindu phase again? OK.