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Originally Posted by Mr. Nobody  In my lonely hours of reflections and meager research I have come across similar material but taken to different conclusions.
I agree about matter being nothing more than phases of energy (matter or ether), solidified if you will, not unlike ice forms out of water when it freezes. I venture to say that the primordial ether combined into atoms as the temperature fell enough to allow bonds to last. Particles to me are waves in the ether and the particles attributes represent a description of this ether wave.
And them we diverge. The unique properties of our fundamental forces and particles are simply the result of a selective process of what produced an observer. There could (should) be an infinite amount of multiverses with other properties, each of them with or without observers, wondering about existence or not
I do not believe in a divine spirit. I believe in emergence of local order out of simplicity (driven by gravity that opposes expansion to maintain an entropy equilibrium) Basically it is like this:
You build a car, but you will never predict how this car behaves, by looking at its constituents. It will assume unique attributes on its own, based on environmental influences, expertise of the workmanship and utility. The emerging attributes of the car are its character, unique and distinguishable from other cars. It appears as though your car possess a soul (no need to explain further, anybody who ever owned a used car, can relate). Complexity born out of emerging, unpredictable behaviors disguise as personalities. And before you ask me whether a soul is DRIVING the car, please truly attempt to understand my analogy:
We are not autonom. We developed and function within the confines of a society that evolved over millions of years of apes interaction with each other and staring at patterns to enable us cars to drive on our own. Without a highly developed society we would have remained the ape that we are. |
Mr.Nobody, you cannot truly believe in a divine spirit until you experience it and how can you experience it until you have some belief that it does in fact exist and you then meditate in order to meet it and merge back in it.
The effort to find and merge in it is the price that we need to pay to have access to it - we cannot get it by our efforts - but God in His Infinite Unconditional Love sees our feeble attempts to reach Him and He in His Unconditional Love has Mercy on us - forgives us - dries all our tears - and takes us His Prodigal Sons and Daughters back Home where we belong.
PROPHECY
" This is humanities true future have no doubt about it - this prophesy will come to be - nothing in this or any other world can stop it - nothing ever has - and nothing ever will - only our own human ignorance and blindness has slowed it down and subjected it to time - the time we ourselves are creating."