Epic Beard Man
Bearded Philosopher
I cannot imagine a non-sentient universe wanting anything.
Exactly and even if it was sentient we are talking about billions of years old and ancient.
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I cannot imagine a non-sentient universe wanting anything.
We are the universe living.
I disagree. It is pretentious for a finite being that is a speck of dust in relation to existence itself to presume anything. We don't know what the universe wants. We have ideas but certainty of knowledge in that regard is not among them.
Gods in a sense of sharing in God's character and becoming like him in his communicable attributes but not in his incommunicable attributes I think is the meaning
Alternative uses of gods in the Bible are interesting. 3 times in psalms there is a similar calling of corrupt leaders or false world views gods, best shown in English with a lower case g
Ps 82 58 140 I think...
The universe is not sentient so does not want anything.
Then how are you sentient, unless you are something fundamentally different to ‘the universe’ ?
Atoms and molecules ...your body.
Quantum events...your body.
Abiogenesis and Evolution...your body.
What else could you be ?
The Universe is not a stage set for ‘us’ to live in. It is us, living.
The universe is not sentient so does not want anything.
You are making some wild leaps here, we are of the universe,the universe is not of us, it existed for 13.8 billion years before humans came along.
The universe is one huge stage if thats the way you want to think of it, roughly 93 billion ligh years across that we know of (may be infinitely bigger) we are a tiny mote in its vastness.
Taken from Voyager as it left the influence of our own sun. Essentially just outside the front door
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We are insignificant compared to even our own tiny volume of space
We are insignificant compared to even our own tiny volume of space
How can you be so sure of that, considering how limited our interaction is with the entirety of the universe?
To throw the idea away that we are concious beings stemming from a root, universal consciousness seems quick to react.
The empirical sciences are very limiting. In fact, that's the purpose. But to ignore possibilities means we lose out on progress.
There is heaven in a mustard seed.
We can observe. Show me a sentient rock, show me sentient hydrogen, and i will change my mind
The size of the universe has no bearing on the fact that we are it.
If I could ask a cell of your body whether or not it is you, what would it say ?
You are entitled to your opinion. But provide evidence and i can see a Nobel prize in it for you
Explain the wasted 13.8 billion years.
Aak by examining DNA and yes it would say it was me
You are sentient hydrogen carbon and oxygen etc.
Why were 13.8 billion years wasted ?
Wont need evidence for poetics
Explained above, humans appeared on this ball of rock 13.8 billion years AFTER the universe came into existence.