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“Earth is off the shelf of and planetary geology.” - JB
This represents the same basic argument that prevailed during Galileo’s time. Galileo essentially discovered that the earth orbits the sun. This got him into trouble with the elites of that time - philosophers and clerics - who subscribed to the view that the sun orbits the earth, thus making the earth the center of the universe. He was denounced to the Roman Inquisition. Although cleared a year later of any offence, the Catholic Church nevertheless condemned heliocentrism as heresy and Galileo was told to abandon his support for it. When he later defended his views in his most famous work, ‘Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems’, he was tried again and forced to spent the remainder of his life under house arrest. Isn’t this the same as what is going on today re ‘global warming’?
Eventually we would come to accept that our solar system itself is merely some insignificant adjunct to some insignificant galaxy on the fringes of the universe. What does that do to our considerable egos? Some say it lead to existentialism; nihilism and beyond. Let me suggest that the next (and possibly final) knot along this thread may yet emerge, namely that the true center of the universe is the human mind. This would certainly go a long way toward uprooting whole herds of sacred cows - ego for one. Alan Watts and Carlos Castaneda came tantalizingly close to articulating this concept. The scriptures of all the world’s religions allude to it.
As we strive to understand all ‘being‘, we remain largely ignorant of ‘non-being’ which cannot be measured or quantified by our senses or by the extensions thereof. The scope and significance of ‘non-being‘, some say, can only be grasped by what Zen refers to as ‘no mind’ (or ‘no thought‘).
It is ‘non-being’ within which what some call ‘God’ resides. So, even if we - who look to telescopes, rulers and scales as the ultimate test of reality - should succeed in figuring out everything there is to know about all there is, we would still fall infinitely short of figuring out what is not.
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In an infinite universe any point can be considered the center.
ReplyDeleteThe universe is not exactly infinite.
ReplyDeleteConsider the one thing we do know about God: His ability to create something from nothing. When man creates something, he does so working from the outside with previously existing materials, leaving seams showing. When God creates, He leaves no seams.
"Non-being" is the raw material God begins with. Natural law dictates that in order for any two things to interact, a common element must be present in both. Therefore, "non-being" must be one of the properties of God.
"Non-being" is not the opposite of "being". It is a reality with properties unique to itself. In the universal language of mathematics, its symbol is "0". Zero is not the opposite of any number (just as "non-being" is not the opposite of "being"), making it unique among numbers with properties unique to itself.
Much of what we presume to know is based solely on the (sometimes dubious) assumptions we make, when all we really know is what we ourselves have constructed.
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nothing, no-thing, no-think, no-thought, no concept, that which is beyond all measure
ReplyDelete"God performs all His works, whether within Himself or outside of HImself, in a flash. Do not imagine that God, when He made heaven and earth and all things, made one thing one day and another the next. Moses describes it like that, but he really knew better: he did so for the sake of people who could not conceive or grasp it any other way. All God did was this: He willed, He spoke, and they were! " ~Meister Eckhart
Heaven Is In Your MInd ~ Traffic
Thank you for writing. ~ TftT