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At least reality isn't boring! Maybe that's the whole point of evolution? hehe

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heh... i agree with you there... in fact i think that is the reason why we are here... the reason why we incarnate to begin with... this is the only game in town  ... and the good thing is, we cannot lose... the outcome of life is not in doubt... 

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. A molecule isn't very alive, and neither are two molecules, but when a whole bunch of molecules are bonded together in a pattern, they become very alive.

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Nihilistic physicists may tell you the universe came from nothing, but I for one think that is bullshit. Nothing just magically became something? 

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actually,  physicists don't think the universe  came from anything, because to them, time is just a dimension of our universe and the universe simply  exists.

so they agree with you 

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you can only distinguish by looking at the overall pattern, right... if you just look at one, and it moves funny, and you dont know why... well its because there are other molecules around it causing it to move funny. so we have to step back and see the bigger picture.

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it should be rendered 'no thing,' rather than nothing

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pattern said:

I believe that Reality is alive.  Reality is everything that can be and is experienced, and in saying that it is obvious that reality is alive, because humans are part of reality, and humans are alive.  I am not just talking about people, I am talking about everything.  Everything is alive!

Reality, in our universe, as we are discovering, is made of concepts that our brains can understand.  Space, time, physics, math, particles, what have you.  I believe that all of these fundamental things, interacting with each other, produces life and is life.  A molecule isn't very alive, and neither are two molecules, but when a whole bunch of molecules are bonded together in a pattern, they become very alive.

The Earth is a grouping of units of matter, energy, time, space.  Looking at the Earth, and looking at Mars, I conclude that the Earth is more alive than Mars.  This is simply how I define what alive is.  Earth is also more alive than Venus, but I might say Mars is more alive than Venus because it exhibits more signs of being alive.  Venus is more alive than an asteroid, and an asteroid is more alive than a void in space.  A void in space may be more alive than "nothing".

The environments that we live in on Earth, our homes, our gardens, forests and all of nature, are alive.  Technology is mans attempt to evolve nature to suit his needs, and therefore technology and nature coexist together.  Yet technology is a product of nature and so the paradox is that technology is a recombination of natural processes: it is an evolution of nature.  It is not a replacement nor a successor.  Technology compliments nature.  Nature, being alive, and technology being narrow-minded, will become more alive with the creation of artificial intelligence.

God is the realization that Reality is alive.  "God Exists" is the proclamation by humanity that we recognize the life of the universe!  Reality, as manifested by physics and the behaviour of matter, is the personality of God.  In a way, the holistic process that gives rise to the functioning of the universe, is the essence of God.  Reality is God and God is Reality.  Everything that we have experienced shows that the laws of the universe play out not only in the vacuum of space, but in the center of our own brains.  Our beings, the combination of body and brain, as defined as a soul, is made of the same substances as anything else: time, energy, matter.

If reality is alive, and there was a Big Bang, where did reality come from?  I propose that reality didn't come from anything.  Our universe is a product of something - not nothing.  Nihilistic physicists may tell you the universe came from nothing, but I for one think that is bullshit.  Nothing just magically became something?  Nah.  How about this: there was always something, and there always  will be something, because there IS something.  Do you see nothing?  I don't, I see something.  Always have, always will.  Even in the void of space, something can always be found.

Science proclaims that a Big Bang occured, and this is based on good evidence.  Before the Big Bang, there is only one reasonable belief: something existed.  I believe that no physicist alive today can confirm that something came from nothing, simply because they weren't alive billions of years ago.  They weren't there to witness something coming from nothing, their whole story is in fact full of fairy tales.  Scientists may have the higher ground on these issues, but why let credentials bully your thoughts?

My point is: any entity is to some degree alive.  Only some things are more alive than others.  It is as if some things have more life concentrated into one space than other things.  What is this "substance" that is life?  I propose that time is this substance.  Time, as a fuel for reality, is the indivisible, multidimensional, prismatic and fluid ether that is life.  Without time, there is no life, no energy.  Humans have time, our brains achieve ways to get more time to think, more time to feel and express emotions.  The mushroom gives us more time; ancestral apes, eating shrooms, increased their access to time.  Humans are more alive than any other animal in nature, and this is precisely because we are evolved to use the most time.

 

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pattern said:

I believe that Reality is alive. Reality is everything that can be and is experienced, and in saying that it is obvious that reality is alive, because humans are part of reality, and humans are alive. I am not just talking about people, I am talking about everything. Everything is alive!

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