Down the rabbit hole...

So what to do about the whole question of the creator? On one hand you can think there was a creator, maybe you might call him God. Although whether he is a he, or a she, or an it. Who knows. We can make up stories that the creator must be a he as he made us in his own image. But then we cannot know that. It's not like somebody found a makers label with a set of instructions. Or indeed a care label, which might have been more useful. Even if there was a grand creator, it leaves quite a few more questions than it answers. Is there only one creator? Are the creators a race? Are there any other questions I could think up without watching a box set of Aliens franchise films? And if there was a creator who was messing about one day and came up with, well, what, the universe, or just the Earth? Why? Having created the universe, or universes, or maybe just a being within the universe, then what? So the creator created the universe and the Earth within it and then all of nature inc...

I know it is simply repeating the work of others, although, to be fair, I have not read the other work but I am aware of the work and have read some short books that cover the work, I do like to think about I! That said, I am also aware that for every piece of work that has ever been written on the subject of ‘I’, the soul, the psyche, the spark inside us all… there are other works which challenge the assumptions in the first book. And, so it seems, the merry dance goes on and on and on. I suspect it will continue to go on and on until some form of proof is arrived at and then the discussion might stop. Although I doubt it, probably it will simply head in another direction in light of the scientific certainty that is arrived at. And, of course, even when scientific proof is arrived at there will still be multitudes of camps that will not believe it. Just as there are today still ‘flat earthers’ and all manner of religions that don’t care too much about science and, some of...

I doubt that I agree with everything Mesut Ozil says, especially as he count Erdogan amongst his closest friends. But, I do defend his right to express his views the same as any other individual living in a country that allows freedom of speech (with all the caveats, legal and moral, that come with that freedom). So if he wants to make a criticism about something that even the UN has condemned then who is to say that he cannot. His employers are interested in money because his employers are a business. So when Ozil says something that upsets a client that pays money that then in theory flows through and pays Ozil himself it makes sense that they might try to distance themselves from Ozil and his private views and comments. Leaving aside the whole 'issue' itself. Then it comes down to business. So, if Ozil is an employee of the company and he is constrained by his contract about what he says then maybe the club should be sanctioning him, and not simply distancing itself, ...

Then, continue on a theme, or maybe just to keep pulling on a thread until the whole thing unravels... When you look at the works of Descartes or Hobbes and others they were, if I understand correctly, which should not be a given known fact, they basically had everything as being an extension of provisions of God, Hardly surprising as they would be creationists and then again could they have been anything except being creationists as Darwin et al were not even the merest twinkles in proverbial eyes. But I can't help myself but ask, if there is a God, an omnipotent creator of all things... well, who made God. I'm guessing we'll never know and even if there is an afterlife and we shrug off this mortal coil and then go to a happy smiley place afterwards, it strikes me as sort of irrelevant as there is no connection between this place and that. So for those that are still here when someone dies there can only be the faintest reassurance that they have gone to another pla...

Do you ever think about thought and what it is and why it's bothering you all the time. Some of my other posts will reveal that I think about it, sometimes way too much. But then it is fascinating. Not just fascinating but kinda the very purpose of being human beings altogether. Unless you think that there are other living beings that also think. And thought needs to be separated from being. We exist as a body which is not greatly different from other bodies in nature, even when you look at the body genetically there is a large amount of DNA that is common across species but DNA tells us nothing about thought. At least I don't think it does, maybe one day we will find out that the ability to think is contained as code within DNA. Who knows, then maybe we will be able to understand that other sentient beings also have the power of thought, of being self aware and who knows, after that, maybe we might find some surprising way of communicating with them on a whole new level. ...

He wasn't sure how he arrived in the park. He just seemed to have arrived there. Thoughts raced around his head. He felt so much pressure, squeezing him, so many things seemed to be collapsing around him and there seemed so little he could do. Perhaps this was just some past catching up with him. Maybe this was his due. But whatever it was, it seemed too much, seemed that his head was literally under pressure from inside, like a steam cooker but the valve was stuck, there was no way of releasing the pressure that was building inside. He remembered he had been in his apartment. He remembered he had been thinking about work and relationships and debts. None of them were good. All of them could be dealt with one at a time but when they all seemed to go wrong at the same time, that suddenly seemed to have made a difference. Maybe it was coming already, maybe there was an inevitability about it all. Maybe it was simply written in the stars. Who knew, and who actually cared. The...

I've been a atheist or at least agnostic (fence sitter) for most of my life, at least for the parts where I have given it any consideration at all or where I have not been in excruciating agony and thinking that I might be about to cash in and find out whether I was right or wrong to have doubt or lack of faith. And for most of this time I stated the same old memes as many others about science and proof and all the bad things in the world and there being so many different types of god or creator. But... It is not so much that I have suddenly found faith it's just that a number of things strike me when I think about them. The kind of things that I guess most people have thought about one way or another at some point or another throughout time! For instance, I was thinking about the scientific principal called the Law of the Conservation of Energy which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed it can only be transferred from one form to another. Which is...