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Shadow: What do people think, when they think of creation? Were people first, Gods, what? Celeste621: I think of an unconscious presences, then a conscious presence (gods maybe?), then people. Shadow: everyone can say. :) Shadow: I believe there was a speck that was the Universe, and it became aware .. and in that thought, exploded. Shadow: and became the Universe Celeste621: Hm, a speck that contained the universe or was the essence of it...? Shadow: as in, the Big Bang Celeste621: Ok. Shadow: only also spiritual, becasue it was the thought that caused the explosion .. there was not room for both the thought, and the physical precense Mari: The Gwyddon creation story is very similar ... but the spark which became aware is identified at Kerridwen the Great Angelfly3: I think I believe that all that is, ever has been, and ever will be and is not, has never been, and will never be have always.....well, been and not been, it only changes form, so there never was a real "creation" Shadow: is the creation we percieve as the Big Bang real, or a change, or a misunderstanding, do you think? Angelfly3: do you believe something caused the awareness or that it just happened? Celeste621: I'm just not sure how it all got started or if it ever started to begin with. *scratches head* Everything I come up with usually gets shot down later on when I think "no...that doesn't sound right". Celeste621: Hm, good question, Shadow. I never thought of the Big Bang in those terms. Mari: In the Gwyddoniad case, Angel, it was spontaneous Shadow: I believe it happened .. as to why, well, if it hadn't, I wouldn't be here to wonder! :D Angelfly3: I think of it as a change......there may have been many big bangs, perhaps through the rubberband theory, or perhaps there was something completely different in form that banged into the universe we now know Shadow: any concept of reality has to include us .. i think that both causes and confuses most creation stories. Shadow: after all, just because we ARE here to wonder doesn't mean we were inevitable Celeste621: the rubberband theory? Angelfly3: the theory that the universe spreads to a certain point and then collapses in on itself, forming a big bang, that then expands out again.....thus this universe is only another in the line Celeste621: Sorry, I should have Googled for that instead of bother you to type it up. ^^;; Angelfly3: it's no problem Celeste621: Ah, thanks. I remember that now, wasn't connecting the name with the concept. Angelfly3: you're welcome Mari: am i still here? Shadow: nope Shadow: why do humans exist? Star: I'm not entirely sure what I think about creation... Which is why I'm so quiet. :D Shadow: I believe that the Divine wanted to explore, and desired sentient, intelligent minds to do so with .. ones that could think as part of it Celeste621: I'm not sure myself. I've sort of put it up there with the "I don't know, so I'm not gonna poke at it too much." Not sure if that's a good stance to take, lol, but there it is. Shadow: heh. well, we ARE here. :D at times, that's plenty for me Celeste621: Hm, do you believe that we're the only intelligent minds that the Divine created for that purpose? Celeste621: lol That's good enough for me too usually. Shadow: I sincerely doubt it, but I've no proof either way, Celeste Celeste621: Hm, alright. Shadow: I usually believe there's alien life out there .. but I have no proof of it, and I CERTAINLY don't think they beam people aboard for experimentation! Angelfly3: hm, I think of the existence of humans mostly as part of the evolutionary process.....we needed to keep what we now call human traits to survive, and that the creator did not specifically want humans, it just happened Celeste621: What about...entities that don't exist on this plane? Things that weren't ever human. Shadow: like demons and whatnot? Celeste621: So, what we became was essentially not really planned out? Shadow: I believe they exist .. I also think they're some form of misfire. Celeste621: Yeah, guides, spirits, whatever you believe in. Angelfly3: yes Celeste621: Misfire? Mari: Well, I think it's awfully arrogant of folks to think that there *isn't* life somewhere else in the universe. I mean - it IS an awfully BIG universe Shadow: it's something that humans half-created, and the Divine ...hmm. Powered? became? Star: Would be an awful waste of space... Celeste621: Hm... Mari: ACTION starts singing .... "it's a great big universe, and we're all really puny, just tiny little specks ...." Shadow: ACTION gets out a flamethrower Celeste621: Ain't that the truth. :P Shadow: but I don't think humanity as what we are was planned for, but something with a brain and a knowledge-of-self was Shadow: or .. prodded into existence, might be a better way of putting it Angelfly3: what do you think about the creation of this world in particular? did it just come to be with the rest of creation, left to rule itself, or did particular deities/beings have a hand in shaping it? Shadow: d'you mean the rock itself or the beings on it? Mari: ACTION peeps from behind the cat still singing ... "'bout the size of Mickey Rooney! It's big and black and inky, and we're all small and dinky! It's a big universe, and we're not! Shadow: I think the rock itself spun itself out in the normal way Angelfly3: well, after the rock, how did it come to be earth as we know it......by itself, or by shaping? Shadow: as far as the people on it .. I think once they started calling for the Divine to interfere, It did .. as individual gods Mari: :D Star: ACTION finally recognizes the song and starts screaming Shadow: no, I think life itself might have been pushed, but it wasn't exactly shaped .. random chance still has a lot to do with it Shadow: ACTION offers Star her flamethrower Star: Thanks, Shadow. Mari: ((I got kicked out of the WB store once for singing that at the top of my lungs along with the TV system) Mari: How do you feel about plate techtonics, Shadow? The Pangaia theory? Mari: Pangeia however you spell it Shadow: um .. it happened? Shadow: that's what happens when planets ain't stable? Shadow: I'm not sure I get the question Mari: we're not stable :D Shadow: no, you're not Shadow: ACTION runs Mari: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html Shadow: I know what it IS, I don't understand what you're ASKING! Mari: do you feel it's a viable theory or hotwallow? Mari: hogwallow Shadow: makes sense to me, personally Shadow: and if it isn't, well, I'm not a geologist! :D Mari: :} Mari: I think it's intersting. For example, they know now that the African continent is being pulled apart because of this process. It's sparked all sorts of seismic and volcanic (etc etc) activity in the area Mari: in that area* Celeste621: Hm, didn't know that. Shadow: it's a constant process .. I'm just thinking it'll be interesting when the continents slam into each other on the other side! Shadow: 'course i won't be here to see it, but hey, in a way I'll never die, so ... :D Mari: heh Mari: Stuff like that fascinates me. Like you said, it's a constant process, so in a way, our planet is still being created. Shadow: I don't think creation is a one-time thing Mari: Or in the least, rearranged and remolded. Shadow: it is a process .. like growth, like spirituality .. it is a process, not something done and forgotten Shadow: ACTION pokes her microphone Shadow: is this thing on? Star: nope Gyrochaos: *JOIN* Entered room. Gyrochaos: Ummm... Gyrochaos: Hello? Shadow: hello Angelfly3: hello Shadow: current topic: Creation myths Gyrochaos: Hi Gyrochaos: K Gyrochaos: What does that mean? Gyrochaos: Did you set a specific topic just so I couldn't go into my own little world again =P Shadow: stories about how humanity and everything else came into existense Gyrochaos: hmm Mari: Growth is a constant in the universe. Gyrochaos: evolution I guess Shadow: it's something that amuses me about the evolution/creation debate, actually .. I wonder if the fear is that it'll turn out we're an intermediary step Gyrochaos: The universe exists because SOMETHING has to Gyrochaos: because if there was nothing Gyrochaos: there'd be nobody to know it was nothing Gyrochaos: and nothing for the nothing to be relevant to to MAKE it nothing Gyrochaos: um Gyrochaos: let me rephrase that Angelfly3: I think it's part that and part that we did not have to be as we are.....that we could have *not* been sentient and intelligent but that something else might have been Shadow: and the monkey thing. :D Gyrochaos: there's be no SOMETHING for the nothing to be compared to to clairfy it as nothingness Celeste621: Hm, so we were just the luck of the draw maybe? :D Angelfly3: right Gyrochaos: Something HAS to exist Gyrochaos: so thats why the Universe does Celeste621: What are your thoughts about how the Divine works into creation? Gyrochaos: mine? Celeste621: Sure. Gyrochaos: hmm Gyrochaos: I don't know Shadow: I believe the Divine IS Creation ... there isn't a separation Gyrochaos: I think it's like Gyrochaos: pushing this here and there Celeste621: I'm not very clear on my own, curious to see waht others think. :) Gyrochaos: and changing little bits Gyrochaos: Have you ever read the Science of Discworld? Celeste621: Hm, so it's not a cause and effect, it's just one big thing? Shadow: everything that exists is spiritual, physical, or both .. but it's all one *thing* Celeste621: No, I'm about five pages into the first of that series, sorry. Shadow: yes, Celeste Gyrochaos: like when the Bursar twiddles his fingers in the primordial soup Gyrochaos: I'm not sure Celeste621: Hm...is that similar to the concept of Brahman? Gyrochaos: possibly Shadow: didn't Brahman masturbate the universe into existance? Gyrochaos: we live in a physical realm Celeste621: Haven't a clue about that. ^^ Gyrochaos: so spiritual powers are weak here Shadow: along with Ptah, and a few others, of course. ;) Gyrochaos: HAHAH Gyrochaos: He threw his mickey in apparently Celeste621: I understood it as everything is the Brahman, so nothing can be seperated from it. Gyrochaos: there was something like that in Discworld Celeste621: I was thinking of that when you were saying that creation is part of the Divine, sorry. Gyrochaos: Masturbation WOULD explain the Milky Way though Gyrochaos: *stomped* Gyrochaos: I'm not sure Shadow: ahh. I get it, Celeste Celeste621: I guess that made sense in just my head. :D Gyrochaos: but anyway Gyrochaos: we live in a physical realm =P Gyrochaos: Where spiritual powers are weak Shadow: it depends .. there are LOTS of Hindu creation myths, and many of them are mutually contradictory Star: No, Gyro, seriously--there are several such creation myths. Gyrochaos: but where there is random event, there is also room for choic Gyrochaos: e Gyrochaos: like free will Shadow: I don't believe that, Gyro. I don't think one can separate physical and spiritual Gyrochaos: and I think that when the free will isn't ours Gyrochaos: it's of the divine Gyrochaos: then why is everything so mundane? Celeste621: I think they're distinct, I'm not sure about seperation. Gyrochaos: why is it so damn boring Mari: Am having a hard time understanding why spiritual powers would be weak in the physcial realm Gyrochaos: why don't we walk down the street Gyrochaos: and see a guy walking past Gyrochaos: making fireworks with his finger tips Mari: Because if twe're not here - we're there - so there would be just as physical Mari: imho Mari: :shrugs: Shadow: because reality has to have rules. Gyrochaos: yes it's DANGEROUS, but theres plenty of dangerous thigns anyway, at least stuff like that would be more fancy Gyrochaos: yeah Gyrochaos: and the spiritual plane has its own too Shadow: whatever the rules are, if they're not constant, then reality has no meaning, and we cannot learn and grow Shadow: I don't believe in a spiritual plane. Gyrochaos: no Celeste621: I think a reality without boundaries is possible, just nothing that I could comprehend. Gyrochaos: the same set of physics kind of exist Gyrochaos: I think thats what you're getting at Gyrochaos: the same rules apply everywhere Celeste621: Well, would be possible if one with rules wasn't created. Gyrochaos: but Mari: Reality without boundaries? Mari: :baffles: Gyrochaos: Actually, the rules are the universe AREN'T full cosntant Gyrochaos: thats where Quantum mechanics come it Celeste621: *shrugs* I can't comprehend it, but ya never know. :) Gyrochaos: *in Gyrochaos: but anyway Shadow: aren't constant, or aren't understood? Gyrochaos: maybe the rules ARE constant Mari: Er, no. Gyrochaos: I mean Gyrochaos: like Mari: I know a bit about quantum mechanics, and you're off. way off. Shadow: quantum mechanics doesn't change the rules, it explores rules we didn't understand Celeste621: Maybe not constant in a way that we can't measure right now. Shadow: just because all of reality is based on probabilities doesn't mean it isn't also real Gyrochaos: the rate for vibration of atoms has actually changed by 1 40 thousand some tiny unit over the last billion years Celeste621: can measure, pardon. Gyrochaos: read the Science of Discworld =p Gyrochaos: yeah Shadow: this ISN'T DISCWORLD Gyrochaos: Quantum Mechanics is pretty much everything we don't understand Gyrochaos: it isn't discworld Shadow: BULLSHIT Shadow: read a physics textbook Gyrochaos: it's a scinece book with every second chapter a sotry Gyrochaos: I have =P Gyrochaos: The Universe in a Nutsheel Shadow: yeah, and my daddy is a physicist .. a nuclear physicist, actually Mari: The Discworld universe in a nutshell, not OUR universe Gyrochaos: I'm serious, read the science of discworld Gyrochaos: umm Gyrochaos: stephen hawking? Gyrochaos: ring any proverbial bells? Shadow: Read it Shadow: what's your point? Gyrochaos: yeah Gyrochaos: just Maris comment Mari: my husband and I just read Hawkings book, actually Shadow: trying to prove that everything we don't understand is quantum mechanics is bull Gyrochaos: see people always argue with these kind of topics =P Shadow: and we're OFF-topic Shadow: Creation stories Gyrochaos: no Gyrochaos: I was GETTING to creation stories Gyrochaos: but we've spent the last couple of pages of you telling me a book I've read is something different to waht it actually is Gyrochaos: so anyway Gyrochaos: Planck era =P Gyrochaos: Rules were exotic then Shadow: I think we tend to reverse-engineer creation stories Gyrochaos: Planck era Gyrochaos: is like the earliest era of the universe Shadow: we start with humanity, because we have to be there to write the story, and go backwards .. taking our existance as a given Gyrochaos: I think that it was all randomness then Mari: But the book you're talking about is about a FICTIONAL universe Mari: it's not real Gyrochaos: it's not about Discworld Gyrochaos: it's about our world Mari: you were talking about discworld before Gyrochaos: Like I said, every second chapter is a Discworld story Shadow: IRRELEVANT, people, please? Gyrochaos: every FIRST chapter is about real science Gyrochaos: I know it doesn't make sense Gyrochaos: but it's true Celeste621: You're just getting tidbits of the whole concept though. Mari: It's still fiction Gyrochaos: No, theres a lot of stuff in it better than most textbooks Mari: but it's FICTION Mari: FAKE Gyrochaos: in what way? Shadow: but when we take our existance as a given, we miss the fact that it wasn't necessarily given ahead of time Shadow: MARI! I said STOP Shadow: please Gyrochaos: dammit Gyrochaos: look Gyrochaos: it's written by 2 scienetists Mari: i'm going to go before i strangle something Mari: *PART* Left room. Star: OK, guys, hang on. Gyrochaos: *sigh* Star: Here's the book. Star: *SHOWURL* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091886570/thecauldron Celeste621: Alright. Gyrochaos: yep Gyrochaos: note HArd science is as good as the ficton =P Gyrochaos: get that to Mari =P Shadow: Gyro, you stop it to Gyrochaos: =( Celeste621: Let's be mature about this. Shadow: I would LIKE to be able to stay ON topic, plase Shadow: please Gyrochaos: Planck era then Gyrochaos: I think that because there is only ONE object Gyrochaos: there is only ONE physical possiblity Gyrochaos: once Chaos was introduced Gyrochaos: there was a hell of a lot more Shadow: none of that makes sense Gyrochaos: so the singularity split up Gyrochaos: into the universe Gyrochaos: yes it does Gyrochaos: think about it Gyrochaos: 1 times 1 is still 1 Shadow: chaos isn't external Gyrochaos: but Gyrochaos: there can be no true randomness if there's one possiblity Gyrochaos: randomness had the POTENTIAL to exist Shadow: everything that exists is built on possiblity-fragments .. there is no definite Gyrochaos: I believe that during Planck era Gyrochaos: the rules could have been different Gyrochaos: and what happened then is what defined our universe today Gyrochaos: And I think during Planck era, when rules were more random, is when the Divine intervened Gyrochaos: but there was still a certain amount of more obvious cause and effect Gyrochaos: like make this round Gyrochaos: and you'll get a whole loud of spiral galaxies Gyrochaos: and stuff like that Shadow: so Celeste, where do you think the Universe came from? Celeste621: I.....I.....I don't know. lol The jury is still out. Shadow: :D Celeste621: I am going to demand some answers when I kick the bucket though. Shadow: heh. do you think there ARE answers, then? ;) Celeste621: After this evening, I think I eventually deserve to know how it all went down. Star: Jury's still out for me too... Angelfly3: do you (general you) believe there is more than one universe, and if there is, is it the same divinity/creator/whatever, or different? Celeste621: I...oh my. lol Gotta make this hard. Celeste621: Yes. Celeste621: I think there are answers. Star: Hmmm. Interesting. Shadow: I've no idea, Angel! Gyrochaos: I believe that any universe anyone dreams up exsts in some way Star: I think that more than one possibility is definitely possible Shadow: I personally don't think there are other universes .. (gods, that phrase hurts) but that doesn't mean there aren't .... Shadow: but if there are others, it's a different *entity* entirely Celeste621: I can't even deal with how this universe works and I have to think about other ones now? heh. Gyrochaos: you mean Star: Bu I don't know for sure whether they exist Gyrochaos: like different gods? Celeste621: The concept of other universes is interesting. Gyrochaos: because Gyrochaos: if there's a million of me Gyrochaos: does anyone have any real meaning? Celeste621: Like...alternate universes? Or am I on the wrong page? Shadow: I don't think that all possibilities exist Gyrochaos: no Gyrochaos: I don't either Gyrochaos: I think they POTENTIALLY exist Angelfly3: well, like other universes just separated from their own, or alternate universes as popularized in science fiction, or any other way you can imagine them Gyrochaos: but not in reality Angelfly3: our own, not their own Shadow: just because we can dream it, doesn't mean it's real .. I think there are other inhabited planets in THIS universe, but not other universes Celeste621: I think there's potential for a lot of things, but most aren't probable. Gyrochaos: XD @ Futurama Gyrochaos: Fry: You mean there's an infinite number of alternate universes? Gyrochaos: Prof: No, just the two Gyrochaos: XD Celeste621: Hm....I'll have to think on that, Angelfly. Gyrochaos: no Gyrochaos: thats not what I meant shadow Gyrochaos: it's very complicated Gyrochaos: and I don't really think I could explain Gyrochaos: ACTION can't stop playing "Battery" and "Crazy Train" repeatedly on his guitar Shadow: But if there are other universes, they're probably totally separate .. unless of course, this universe can talk to that one Gyrochaos: =P Shadow: in which case, I've no idea what they talk about Gyrochaos: hmm Gyrochaos: what do you mean by totally seperate? Celeste621: That we don't have access is what I interpreted that as. Star: *Can* this universe talk to that one, though? Shadow: totally separate : not being connected in any way Gyrochaos: hmm Shadow: well, I don't believe in multiples, so there aren't any to talk to. ;) Gyrochaos: I still think that there should be "access" Star: Well, OK, good point. Gyrochaos: I believe there is a Finite number Shadow: but if the Divine IS the Universe, then there can't be sharing of, say, Gods, between them Star: Sorry, I'm not all here today, and losing track of who's said what a little bit. Gyrochaos: that's your beliefs though, other people may believe different Celeste621: I was wondering about how the gods would go between them if they're completely seperate. Shadow: I think it would depend on whether the Gods are part of, or separate from, the Universe Celeste621: Hm... Shadow: if they're part of, I don't think they could go back and forth Star: That's a good question, Shadow Shadow: if they're separate, what created them? ;) Star: Also a good question. Angelfly3: in my view, if the divinity is all, then it would be the same Divinity/Creator in other universes, if they exist, and between universes.....but the gods would be different Celeste621: so, would it be logical to say that if they're seperate, then the gods/Divine here had no part in the creation of other universes? Shadow: so the Divine is separate from the Universe, in your view, Angelfly? Shadow: that's what I would think, Celeste Angelfly3: not separate from, but the universe is part of the Divine, not the whole Shadow: ahhh Celeste621: That makes more sense, ok. Gyrochaos: what do you define as divine? Celeste621: Or...does it? I'm going to short circuit something before the evening ends. Shadow: ah, I short circuit every topic-evening, that's half the fun. :D Celeste621: lol Angelfly3: gyro....I define Divine as all that is, ever has been, ever will be, is not, has never been, and never will be Gyrochaos: ACTION has finished watching Sonic X, which is all about alternate universes Star: It maks sense to me, which probably means it doesn't make much sense at all unless you just happen to have your synapses fall into place just the wrong way. Gyrochaos: everything in other words Celeste621: I interpret the Divine is the conscious and unconscious presence that permeates everything in this universe. Star: (No insult intended, of course.) Gyrochaos: I've always wanted to ask Gyrochaos: what does mean? Angelfly3: everything and nothing Star: (Except possibly to myself.) Shadow: I believe the Divine is the Universe. no separation Gyrochaos: I'm afraid to say what I believe in anymore =P Gyrochaos: I'll just get given out to Shadow: if they're the same thing, obviously anything OUTSIDE the Universe would have a different Creative Force Angelfly3: yes, that makes sense Celeste621: What do you think is outside of the universe? Gyrochaos: Fluidic space =P Shadow: nothing Shadow: or, for all I know, the waters of heaven. but I doubt it Shadow: I don't think there are words or concepts for "outside" creation Gyrochaos: I think that Star: There's an outside the universe? :) Celeste621: Hm. I think there's nothing outside of the universe as well. If the universe is reality- what is-, then anything beyond the universe should be -what is not- nothing. Gyrochaos: there is an afterlife *shock horror* Gyrochaos: in a place Gyrochaos: outside of this universe Gyrochaos: Universe literaly means everything I suppose Celeste621: That could just be my damn philosophy professor taking over my brain though. >.< Gyrochaos: but I guess you could have a nother set of everythings Gyrochaos: the Universe is everything you can possibly percieve using normal methods Celeste621: Wouldn't another set be part of the concept of "everything" though? Shadow: ooh, philosophy prof! :D Gyrochaos: It depends Gyrochaos: because Celeste621: Oy, I hate the class with a passion. Shadow: really? Gyrochaos: if we can't ever get to that everything Gyrochaos: its not real to us Shadow: I loved philosophy. would've picked up a third major, had I the time Gyrochaos: of course, there's always a loophole but =P Celeste621: Yes, half of the students are hardcore bible literalists. You can imagine what direction our debates always go in and get stuck in. Shadow: oh my goodness! Shadow: that would change my impressions, yes Gyrochaos: doubt if it's any worse than Shadow arguing with me =P Celeste621: I sit up front so nobody can see me reflexively roll my eyes. ~~ Shadow: I find the idea that we can completely comprehend reality and the Divine rather offensive anyway .... Celeste621: Ya gotta be there, it's an interesting hour. Shadow: oh, I'll bet Gyrochaos: comprehend Angelfly3: and terrifying Celeste621: I just find the idea silly. Too big. Gyrochaos: hmm Angelfly3: if we could Gyrochaos: possible Gyrochaos: not that we can Gyrochaos: but like Gyrochaos: you could see that group of atoms Shadow: well, we can't comprehend ourselves completely. why should we comprehend something bigger? Gyrochaos: I mean Gyrochaos: we can't comprehend it Gyrochaos: but like Shadow: methinks we're on last week's chat again Gyrochaos: in one possible life Celeste621: Exactly, Shadow. Gyrochaos: we comprehend the most of a town Gyrochaos: I reallymean just "see" Gyrochaos: or be able to interact with Shadow: I think we've done this topic to death, unfortunately |
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