[David Maes]

Copernicus has proven that the sun is the center of our sunsystem and not the earth.

In former days, people believed that the earth was the center and that heaven moved around it. Not understanding where they came from, they thought the earth was the meaning of everything; they gave significance to what they saw and they pointed to the stars as being gods, they believed the sun was a god. They didn't understand what was the real meaning of those things.

Just to prove that the sun was the center of the sunsystem and not the earth, has taken centuries.

When you think about Stonehenge for example; it was a place of pilgrimage. The stones were put there in a certain sequence (kind of solarium). The stones were next to a river which guided to a village where they had their own kind of solarium (actually the stones where to make a difference between the beginning of winter and summer). In this village pilgrims met eachother to feast.

The intention of the stones was to commemorate their ancestors. So that was their world. People use symbols which they believe in. A symbol attracts potential energy. They were people just like us, and just like us those people asked theirselves the question: 'Where do we come from?' and 'What happens if we die?' I think the only difference was they didn't have our knowledge, so to give a meaning to their life, they used gods to explain it, because they didn't understand. Now we have more knowledge, but we still really can't answer those questions; so I think we might also be using gods to explain them.

Now we know the earth is not the center of the sunsystem; it's the sun.

But lots of us believe that humanity is the center of the universe, the meaning of the universe. But we don't really understand the universe (yet) or the meaning or the origin of humanity. (Also think of the fact that the earth is just a dot in the universe). Is humanity really the meaning of the universe?

Personally I consider humanity more to be a manifestation of 'something else' in the universe (whatever that might be); could it be something we don't understand (yet)?