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Posted by Butcho
on 2/14/2009, 9:25 am, in reply to "Bigger Bang"
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: So, what caused the Big Bang?
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: Butcho
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: Butting in here..........
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: What difference does it make what caused the
: Big Bang? If you knew, how would that
: affect the way you live your life?
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: Have a Big Bang every day........ Maybe
: that would help in not wondering about stuff
: that happened a gazillion years ago?
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: -Nina
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Nina
About 14 Billion years ago. The beginning of our Universe was not really that long ago when compared to eternity. A blink.
What does it matter? Well, if the Big Bang just happened then I might agree with you. But if some ineffable Supreme Being(s) is or are behind it all then it might make all the difference in the world. Maybe there really is a Wizard behind the curtain. Just not any wizard we can imagine. I can think of the eternal Tao in these terms. I do not feel that it is a stretch. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
For instance, if there is a Creator it does not necessarily follow that it is a monotheistic god. It could be a polytheistic god. A god greater than the sum of its parts. More than one, but undivided, whole. What some Christians call the Trinity. Though I doubt such a God is limited to three aspects I still think some Christians are onto something. But I also doubt that they know what it is that they are onto.
On the other hand, I think Jesus knew exactly what he was talking about. But where existential things are concerned, something seems to almost always get lost in the translation. Words can be very helpful, but they can also be very damaging where understanding is concerned.
From my perspective, what difference does it make, is a rather pessimistic if not fatalistic perspective. One I do not endorse. I believe God, the Tao, existence, whatever, gave us a mind to use. Unfortunately most of us use it rather poorly. Or perhaps I should say it uses us. Such is the nature of our conditioning. Our thoughts and emotions not only are in control of us, we get to thinking that is all we are, just our thoughts and our emotions. We are that, but we are so much more as well. Think iceberg.
Ultimately I suppose it comes down to this. You gotta do what you gotta do, and I gotta do what I gotta do. Like snowflakes we are all made of the same stuff and yet no two of us are exactly alike. The Creator seems to be a creator of diversity. From the Tao comes the One and Many Manies. Manys. Whatever.
And yet inspite of our seeming differences if by having a Big Bang everyday you mean to look upon each new day and its activities with a sense of awe and wonder then we really are on the same page afterall. Just a different paragraph.
Butcho
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-Li Daoqun
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