metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Yes, at least theoretically. Whether it actually is as such, that I don't know.
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Define Universe
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Ben Dhyan
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I am happy we have made such a good start....
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
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metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
BTW, I mentioned Matthieu Ricard yesterday, so let me briefly menion what he says about this that does relate.
The concept of a single creator-god creates problems, such as: is this creator-god changing or unchanging? If it is unchanging, how can it create? If it is changing, what changes it? Then there's the issue of cause-and-effect, which we already have covered, and also the issue of how could we possibly know about a theistic causation since we were not there at "creation"?
Obviously, he goes into much more detail than what I wrote above, so this is the highly condensed version of it.
The concept of a single creator-god creates problems, such as: is this creator-god changing or unchanging? If it is unchanging, how can it create? If it is changing, what changes it? Then there's the issue of cause-and-effect, which we already have covered, and also the issue of how could we possibly know about a theistic causation since we were not there at "creation"?
Obviously, he goes into much more detail than what I wrote above, so this is the highly condensed version of it.
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
The creator of the Universe/s has told us about it, if we could understand it correctly.
Regards
That is your right to believe, certainly.
But reallly... it will always strike me as an odd belief for anyone to have.
But reallly... it will always strike me as an odd belief for anyone to have.
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
Thanks and regards
Ben Dhyan
Veteran Member
Wow...I never even knew this had happened...can you provide the details please? Crazy devout pilots....
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
Please elaborate.
Regards
That one dude...
Why should I have a faith?
I would define the universe as everything and all of time. This is why the multiverse theory sounds silly to me. Why speculate about multiple sets of everything and all of time? One of them isn't enough?
Ben Dhyan
Veteran Member
Yes...universe means one...a multiverse just means there is more to the universe than was initially realized...
There was a time when there were no knowledge of that which we now know as galaxies....only stars...and these we later found were stars of the milky way galaxy...and this was understood to be the universe. Then with scientific unfoldment, we discovered that our galaxy is not the extent of the universe...there are untold numbers of galaxies.. And so the never ending story of the extent of the universe continues......the smart money is on infinity...
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
ThirtyThree
Well-Known Member
One-word, (uni-verse).
Troubling term if you are an Atheist, right?
Regardless, the universe is everything in three dimensions.
Troubling term if you are an Atheist, right?
Regardless, the universe is everything in three dimensions.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Not really, although I'm not an "atheist".
Ben Dhyan
Veteran Member
Haha..good one..
Actually the three dimensions are an abstraction and really only represent the set of three perpendicular orthogonal axes as conceived by the conceptual mind... Outside of the mind. there are not intrinsic three dimensions....the apparent all one... But for the purposes of human reality, they serve us well and I won't argue if you insist they are real...