Does the universe suggest a creator?
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@kluurs said in Does the universe suggest a creator?:
None of those creatures can imagine my or your view of the universe - and who is to say that there isn't something out there whose experience of the universe is a few magnitudes greater than us?
Cuz ain’t nobody throwing food in my tank?
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@Renauda said in Does the universe suggest a creator?:
I tend towards a more Spinoza influenced thinking on the matter. Focus on how you control your desires and conduct your daily living rather than in what and how you believe. Essentially the Golden Rule of do unto others as you would have them into unto you or better, in the words of Hillel the Elder:
What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah, the rest is commentary.
Pretty straightforward to my way of thinking.
I know it is not at all an easy task to follow but I would rather try to adhere to that than some millennialist superstitions that pervade various sects and ecclesial communities.
We humans are really all the same. We were scattered around like seeds at one time long ago by the aliens, our benefactors. We proceeded to grow according to our environments with no knowledge of our origins, and thus feared for our lives to eventually end with no knowledge of an afterlife. So each area slowly created a vision of what an afterlife could be and a new word came into each area's vocabulary, religion. They all went shooting up this way and that but through all the differences, there remained some core human instincts of how to behave.
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We were scattered around like seeds at one time long ago by the aliens, our benefactors.
I stopped reading right there.
Not interested in anything that invokes the Book of von Däniken or the equally ridiculous Gospel According to Tsoukolos that attributes human evolution to alien contact with mankind through the ages.
‘a-blowe yow and be-kele yow wel, and comyth up all with your ease’ ~ attributed to Henry V
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@Renauda said in Does the universe suggest a creator?:
or the equally ridiculous Gospel According to Tsoukolos
Oh c'mon that guy's hilarious.
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‘a-blowe yow and be-kele yow wel, and comyth up all with your ease’ ~ attributed to Henry V
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Speaking as an alien, I think you chaps have got it all wrong. We're here to help. Obviously, for some of you there's little real hope, but occasionally I come across some potential.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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Occasional potential…
Have heard something similar muttered before here dealing with another unlikelihood.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Does the universe suggest a creator?:
@Renauda said in Does the universe suggest a creator?:
or the equally ridiculous Gospel According to Tsoukolos
Oh c'mon that guy's hilarious.
Well, I’ll give you that. Also his sometimes sideman, David Childress is 3 Stooges worthy zany.
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@Renauda said in Does the universe suggest a creator?:
We were scattered around like seeds at one time long ago by the aliens, our benefactors.
I stopped reading right there.
Not interested in anything that invokes the Book of von Däniken or the equally ridiculous Gospel According to Tsoukolos that attributes human evolution to alien contact with mankind through the ages.
This was all tongue and cheek. I hope you understand that. But hmmmmmm, No that i think about it, it could make for a great story. I should write some books on the idea. Maybe get a following of people.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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There may however be something to your mirth although it does not involve technologically advanced extra-terrestrial beings. Just chemical bricks and mortar building blocks:
"We now know from Bennu that the raw ingredients of life were combining in really interesting and complex ways on Bennu's parent body," Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's Natural Museum of Natural History and lead author of the new mineral study, said in a news release.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/asteroid-bennu-chemistry-1.7444567
