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Define Universe

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.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Universe is the whole of physical existence, not all of it necessarily imaginable or discernible.
Nearly all of it is beyond our perception and exceedingly likely to remain so forever.
The creator of the Universe/s has told us about it, if we could understand it correctly.
Regards
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
That is your right to believe, certainly.

But reallly... it will always strike me as an odd belief for anyone to have.
 

Tiapan

Grumpy Old Man
I uphold the right of people to hold what ever belief they wish, that is a mandatory human freedom. But would you trust a pilot that prayed to keep an aircraft airborne.
 

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
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?
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...
 

ThirtyThree

Well-Known Member
One-word, (uni-verse).

Troubling term if you are an Atheist, right?

Regardless, the universe is everything in three dimensions.
 

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
One-word, (uni-verse).

Troubling term if you are an Atheist, right?

Regardless, the universe is everything in three dimensions.
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...:)
 

Jiddanand

Active Member
Literally Uni verse should mean a single verse. Ain't it? A single verse in Sanskrit should be there that define the whole phenomena.
 
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