From time immemorial, people suffer from an intense predisposition to either create a Creator, a God, in their own image, (those are the religiously inclined). Or to imagine that everything that happens, that has happened, or that might have happened, did so entirely by accident (these are, of course, the atheist who also call themselves, often, scientists).
Both do a lot of harm.
Since both groups are confined by their fundamentalist orientation, both are only half right. What is sadder, however, is that they are both… half wrong. It’s like a girl being halfway between pretty and ugly, or… pretty-ugly.
Half measures don’t count.
Even if the Universe had emerged from a Black Hole of presumably gigantic proportions, although lately it was reduced to a pinpointing — before the Black Hole there was absolutely Nothing of indeterminate colour.
In fact, there was a completely undefined nothing, floating around, although there was no space, yet nothing floated around, although there was no time…
This is the problem of all who think with an immature mind which assumes that everything must be “as below” so “above”.
It is not.
Nevertheless, this theory persisted, or according to my favourite scientist’s general theory of relativity, it lasted for 13.8 billion years.
Now that’s quite a while.
And yet, this Einsteinian proposition is as close as we can get to the minds of many scientists, whose heads appear to be filled to capacity with the same stuff that existed before the Big Bang. (According to them, there was nothing).
Then, though only recently, quantum equations began to predict that the Universe had NO beginning! Wow! It sounds like God Himself, or Herself, or… I wish to offend no one. Do they mean that the Universe is God?
Well!
Imagine, no beginning!
Hopefully so, and, in the fullness of time, it might also reach the minds of our noble theoreticians to conclude that it also has no conclusion.
No end. No End of the World.
There go the religions…
Actually, all religions have been created by men. We need someone to worship. And even more so we need some means of controlling people’s minds. Preferably, with a carrot and a stick. Or Heaven and Hell.
The consequences are staggering for a primitive human mind. Something that has no beginning and no end doesn’t fit into our phenomenal orientation.
Ah, yes… phenomenal orientation.
We accept our dreams as real but refuse to accept our reality as dreams. I have another surprise for you. We are all energy. All is energy. That’s science. Or as the religious might say, “All is Spirit”.
Or am I dreaming?
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In Search of Secular Ethics
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