Do you ever have those thoughts? Does anybody out there actually know what the hell is really going on? Doomsday predictions that are at best an insult to our intelligence, whatever that might be. Ridiculous.
Maybe those atheists are right? Can there be absolutely nothing out there at all and yet can there still be some sort of moral order in the world? Does morality really matter?
Cause and Effect does exist for sure but why do people say......."everything happens for a reason?" To what extent do we actually have free will over any given situation? What do any of us actually understand about this process?.
Could it really be possible that if you wish for something every spare moment of your day...........you will actually manifest it? I want a red bike.......a red bike.....a red bike.............My god it's a red bike.
If the big bang is a given.............what came before the big bang........and what caused it? What was the first cause?
Will the Toronto Maple Leafs actually win the Stanley Cup again before I become fertilizer?
Let me address this idea about the Big Bang theory briefly.
Here is an interesting quote from Alan Guth, a physicist at MIT.
Try to take this in even if you don't understand all the concepts. (Optional)
The idea behind it is that the venerable "Big Bang" theory with all its intellectual backing, is as far fetched as any creationist story from the Bible, the Koran or the works of L. Ron. Hubbard.
Here is the quote:
"If you believe in the Big Bang Theory....you believe that, once upon a time, all the potential of the cosmos------all the potential for a firmament of 40 billion galaxies at last count---was packed into a point smaller than a proton.
You believe that within this incipient cosmos was neither hyper compressed matter nor superdense energy nor any tangible substance. It was a "false vacuum" through which coursed a weightless, empty quantum-mechanical probability framework called a "scalar field". You're probability not clear about what a scalar field is, but then neither are most PhDs.
Next you believe that, when the big bang sounded, the universe expanded from a pinpoint to cosmological size in far less then one second---space itself hurtling outward in a torrent of pure physics, the bow wave of the new cosmos moving at trillions of times the speed of light.
Further, you believe that, subatomic particles began to unbuckle from the inexplicable proto-reality, both matter and antimatter formed. Immediately, these commodities began to collide and annihilate themselves, vanishing as mysteriously as they came. The only reason our universe is here today is that the "big bang" was slightly asymmetrical, its yield favoring matter over antimatter by about one part per 100 million.
Because of this, when the stupendous cosmic commencement day ended, a residue of standard matter survived, and from it the galaxies
formed.
That is to say: You believe that a microscopic, transparent, empty point in primordial space-time contained not just one universe but enough potential for 100 MILLION UNIVERSES.
It is wise to take the "big bang" hypothesis seriously, since considerable evidence weighs in its favor. The galaxies are expanding away from one another as if they had once been in the same place, then hurled outward; the interstellar void is slightly warmer than absolute zero, suggesting the universe was once super-heated by something much stronger than the output of stars; the earliest nebulae appear to be composed of precisely the mix of elements that "big bang" calculations suggest.
"For sheer extravagant implausibility.........nothing in theology or metaphysics can hold a candle to the big bang. Surely if this description of the cosmic genesis came from the Bible or the Koran rather than MIT, it would be treated as a preposterous myth."
That is a ton of information and theory, but the point I am seeing is that again, the most prestigious evaluation of how we all got into this predicament..........is at best............OUTRAGEOUS SPECULATION.
Don't even get me started on these Commandments being handed down by God on a mountaintop to a man with a speech impediment. This is simply ludicrous.
I believe that there is something magical and unexplained manifesting in our world from every cell to every cell phone.
As chaotic and random as it sometimes feels, it is not that far fetched that there is an intelligence or an energy.. far beyond the scope of what we can imagine. Duh Rick.
It is not simplistic enough to be included in some parable about goats and sheep and you can't use it to satisfy every personal need and whim that floats into your head.
An intelligence...... not somebody with a beard that intervenes for baseball players when they need a home run. Something that caused an implosion of matter.
What is the intelligence that existed before the BIG BANG? If you are a believer in the theory.
We are all so self important and narcissistic though, nobody really cares in the end. We just want to know where our next pat on the back is coming from. (This idea doesn't exactly make the reader want to stand up and give me a spontaneous pat on the back now does it)
Then there is WOMAN...What is going on there? There is the real miracle.
So, in the end, I feel slightly comforted knowing what I really don't know.
I am not sure if I can end this on that note because i am not really making a point of any kind. Ok.
Rick
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