The rise of the hyper-focus on social justice that came out of the death throes of Occupy Wall Street was an intentional tactic sown by the rich to further delay class war. Divide and conquer.
As always, I have to include a disclaimer: I sure as hell am not “anti-SJW” or whatever. There are a lot of incredibly important injustices out in the world that need to be fixed. That said, I truly feel that financial status is the largest determinator of lifetime success and overall comfort.
So not “the only war is class war”. More “the importance and scope of the financial divide, and the difference in life opportunities available to the hyper-rich vs even the upper-middle class, mean that the most important ‘war’ has to be the class war by sheer necessity”.
Some form of reincarnation. Maybe not the type that gets glorified in media, etc., but some kind.
I’m partial to the version from The Egg, where there’s only one soul in the whole universe, incarnated into everyone.
That we are currently in a black hole.
There’s a famous argument for the existence of God which goes like this:
- Everything has a cause
- The universe exists
- Therefore there must be some cause of that existence that is outside of the bounds of the universe.
This argument works until you ask what created God? So there has to be something eternal. As an atheist, my opinion is that the universe is eternal. Most people will then point to the big bang, saying “well the universe can’t be eternal because we know it had a beginning”. But that’s not entirely true. The big bang was a singularity, meaning all the mass was concentrated into a point. Not a point in space; space or time doesn’t even make sense in a singularity. It’s just the farthest back that we can possibly know about. We know of one other type of singularity and that’s a black hole.
My crackpot theory is that everything ingested by a black hole over it’s entire life becomes a universe within the black hole. The timeline would be entirely separate from our timeline and they would see the origin of their universe the same as we would. They would have the same vast space that we would no matter how large the black hole. It would follow that we are in a black hole with potentially infinite black hole layers above us.
This is the thought spiral that kept me up at night in the third grade and ultimately led me away from the teachings of the church I was made to attend.
If anyone is able to continue this hypothetical argument, I’d welcome it!
“The universe can’t just exist without having been created by God.”
Why?
“<Insert any answer here>”
Well if that’s true about the creation of the universe, then who created your God?
IE: “Because the almost impossible chance of sub-atomic symmetry needed for any matter to exist proves that it has to have been created by a higher being.”
So you’re saying that the universe is too perfect to have just come into existence on its own?
“Yes.”
So if the universe is too great to have been created on its own, then who created your God? And if your God, in his infinite greatness, could have just always existed, why not the universe?
So where does the conversation go from there?
Well, if you’re discussing cause, as in everything has to have a cause/then what caused God, you might discuss physics and quantum mechanics, and the revelation that many things happen on a quantum level that have no apparent cause.
At this point, I’d either suggest getting a beer or applying for a philosophy of physics program.
The existence of the universe has a purpose.
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I agree. The universe is mind bogglingly big, we aren’t alone
That the bazaar is better than the cathedral, every time.
