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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (918)	9/16/2000 6:47:47 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

How did he mean that thought could reduce energy barriers by a kind of tunneling? I can't help but think that consciousness/sentience exists somehow independent of the brain and is tapped into. Everything we create (perhaps I should say "organised"), everything man-made around us came from ideas/mind using the body as agent. Now this doesn't mean that all matter, or that all organised matter begins with sentience, but on the other hand there is something compelling to consider. THOUGHT WORKS. We know that thought works. It is not easy to therefore simply discard the idea that the whole universe could derive from mind, particularly when we consider ordered, and organised existence within that universe--when we marvel at the mathematics, and the universal constants, and the black holes, and the other mysteries. One keeps remembering: THOUGHT WORKS, AND IT IS THE ONLY THING WE KNOW FOR AN ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY, THAT WORKS TO CREATE AND ORGANISE. Indeed the very meaning of organise would imply thought. Evolution may well be grounded in thought in a way which we have no inkling of yet. It is not at all a proof, but the intuition is there. When we find something that works to logically link two ideas, it seems sensible not to discount the possibilities.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (918)	9/16/2000 9:39:59 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

How conceited really is mankind. We are born and live for 75 years. For part of that time we think...sort of. Where do we direct our vision? Well, naturally, close up(in space and in time). We look at what we can see. so we try to determine the origin of life on earth. EARTH! A grain of sand in the cosmos we see; Invisible in the cosmos we can't see (or imagine)! How many times has how Universe rebirthed? a million? infinite? How many times for Jambre's Universe(s)? A billion? Twice? Did life have to originate here? Have there been enough universes, enough time...that intelligence could exist in an almost infinite spectrum of reach? Could there be many minor Gods that exist in every place and time? If by intent or by random chance, every atom of the universe finds the exact location it once occupied (you'rer a winner--Omaha, Nebraska!)...is that time travel?? Did distillation really start with them arabs? CHEERS!