A new found belief

[whiteadder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

Thanks Beetzart, truly inspiring. My wife doesn't get why I like to engage with the 'big' stuff when I'm depressed, I suppose feeling small helps to put one's troubles in to perspective.

But the blue dot theory doesn't entirely convince me of our smallness in the sense of insignificance. We really don't understand what time, space and reality are. Size may not matter. On theory suggests the whole multiverse may be made of one single electron moving at mind-bending speed. When you see the similarity between the piucture of a brain cell and the universe itself, it makes you wonder.

One thing quantum physics teaches us is how much we really don't understand just by observing the physical universe. Nothing is solid. Things are made of waves, or waves collapsed to a point by an observer. Maybe the observers are actually very important indeed. Or maybe not. I don't claim rights to any great 'truth,' but it's fun looking for it.

[Zaf]

The truth is indeed beautiful at times but for me it leads increasingly to wondering why

[Beetzart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkhBcLk_8f0

This is very simply put!

[Zaf]

I cant get it to play on my ipad

[Got]

a lot of people call something 'god' but dont think of a bearded man sitting on a cloud doling out punishments and favours  

In that case they are using the word God to explain something that they don't comprehend. If God isn't an omnipotent being and he/she/it is something else what what is he/she/it? To say you beleive in God without giving God a definition is like me saying I believe in the tulip-slipper-sandwich...... completely meaningless. People say Eisenstein was religious - no he wasn't, he used the word God liberally to mean the physics not understood by human beings. So the Einsteinium God is perhaps the God Zaf is referring to, but you have to give it a definition for it to be a coherent argument otherwise it is meaningless.

Personally, I can confirm that the Abrahamic God does exist, I saw him in my garden once eating blackberries. I could also tell that he had been drinking.

Steve X

[Zaf]

In some cultures it is said if you can describe God (the tao, shabd, allah etc etc) you are wrong as this phenomenon is indescribable

[Beetzart]

This is a really good video to sum up Abrahamic religion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Na_wcvqUOY&feature=relmfu

As this is succintly put:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VaBCikHGs&feature=related

I won't post anymore vids as I feel I have posted the best ones I could find.

[Zaf]

I'll have to clear the junk in front of my PC and watch them, in the middle of a house blitz and that room looks like a bombs gone off in there