LOL - I'll have to check that out from home, time to splitoli.

 

I'm sure I'll have to pause too.

My mind just can't seem to grasp infinity. It's always looking for the "end" of it.

Its really not far from what we believe -that God is part of all of us. And the ashes to ashes, dust to dust thing fits.

 

"We"? You mean, you and your family?

 

Jujub, that's the most difficult part, imo. I mean, it's hard enough to fathom the vastness of the universey, but the concept of no beginning and no end, just...always was?

 

Mind-blowing.

 

LMAO @ "universey".

 

We humans like to organize our world into neat little packages. So we invent miles, minutes, hours, pounds, inches, none of which really exist. But the way most of our brains are organized, it's the only way we can deal with the universe.

 

It's very interesting working with immigrants. They don't know their addresses, they don't wear watches, they don't have calendars. They come from places where everyone knows where they live and they live by season, sunrise and sunset and routines.

I just read that antimatter stuff, breeze - and when they mentioned the gamma rays, it reminded me of another show I watched in the last week or so, all about "what if" pertaining to gamma rays. Did you see that one? It was awsome, man. These little bursts happen like once a day or something, and that's just from what we can see (which obviously isn't the entire universe, lol). The gamma rays are SO powerful - I think they said the most powerful thing in the universe, but of course, that's just of what we actually know thus far - that one from the opposite side of our galaxy would just obliterate us.

 

They talked about long burst and short burst types, but I think both are coming from a star. The long one (I think) comes from a star that goes nova, the short one comes from twin stars that finally collide when their orbit gets small enough. If I remember correctly, lol.

 

Here's the thing for me. The more I "learn" about the Universe, the less I could possibly ever doubt the existence of God. And I also think it's funny, but mark my words, in a reasonably short time, we're going to find that those 2 polar opposites - "science" and "religion" - will finally be determined to be one in the same. Whenever people stop being pig-headed, anyway. LOL

Totally, jujub. Because we're "born" and know that we have a limited time before we "die", we are, by default (lol), linear critters. Even going by the seasons is still a method of measuring time-forward.

 

I wish I could elucidate what I perceive as this circle of time thing, where it's not linear, doesn't move in a straight-forward fashion, but is, was and will be, all in the same 'moment' (lol, again, have to use a term that measures time - how inappropriate for this construct). If I could, then I could comment more easily on how the ideas of past-lives - in particular, remembering past lives or at least knowing you're very drawn to certain periods in history for no known reason, so assume it must be from a past life memory - seem so natural to so many people. It's because we really did exist in that "time" - well, and still do, and will again. LOL

 

bleah - confused again....

Totally sounds like something I'd enjoy!

 

I watched more of the Dark Matter/Dark Energy episode last night. I might've made it all the way through without falling asleep (it was after midnight - I had no business still being awake anyway, lol) if I didn't have to pause and rewind it all the time, lol. Some of the data goes by SO fast!!

 

 

Hahahaha...and now I'm sitting here, wanting to express a though, and my mind is a-jumble with all this information and I'm just "boggled". The concept of the traditional God of Abraham is bigger than we are, and can be sorta confusing, but I think there's some element of "comfort zone" in that it has become such a pervasive part of our culture and mind-set. But when you take a step back from that, look at the bigger picture - the much bigger picture, lol - and consider that God is beyond just "watching over humans on earth" and isn't some bearded white dude but is EVERYTHING in the cosmos....and then you watch programs like this that attempt to demonstrate just how vast said cosmos are, and how old it is, and where it's likely heading, etc., it is so way way way bigger than we are, it just blows your fookin' mind. And I'm at a loss for words, as far as connecting this thought to that thought, etc. (you know?)

 

Dang, man.

 

So what did Donna say?

 

 

I want to express a "thought", not a "though"....lol

 

She talked about how the universe is so vast, but yet we're all connected to one another,  we are all one. Quantum physics hints at that notion.    Atoms are made of small particles seperated by a lot of air.   We're made of atoms, so that means we're pretty much made up of nothing more than air as well.   Where do I stop and this keyboard begins?   Why did my hip temporarily give out the same night my grandpa broke his?  Because we're all one.

 

(that's the jist of her beliefs, don't ask for more specifics because I can't remember it well enough to explain it!)

 

Yep, that's pretty much what I believe, too. Especially the part about all the air. Like politicians.

 

 

But really, that's pretty much how I see it as well. It kinda goes beyond Jung's Collective Unconscious but it's pretty much like that.

 

And I think that (I hope I can make this clear, lol) when we feel a certain affinity towards or are drawn towards certain people but not others, I think it's because our "atoms" are closely related - like, after the "split" (big bang), gajillion-bajillions of these atoms went every which-a-way. And when we run into the atoms that were "connected" to us or close-by when we were in that original nucleus (? for lack of a better word, lol), we're more drawn to them, we "connect" with them. And when the rarest among us is fortunate enough to connect with their twin atom, they have found what could be called a "twin soul". (I do believe that our "soul mate" is on the other side, guiding us through the present "lifetime"....not that there's really a "past" or a "future" though, lol - GAH!)

 

  breathing....

 

I suddenly remember that I've actually read about that theory somewhere. Hmmm...I'm seeing binary. Like 2, 4, 8...atoms that split off from each other and are the closest ones. Which is probably akin to the notion that we recycle from life to life with pretty much the same souls around - sometimes they come first, sometimes we do, sometimes we arrive pretty much at the same time. Linear-ly speaking of course. Which, in the long run, is completely irrelevant.

 

breathing...