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We are made of the Universe

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Magical Realist Offline
Pantheism is inadequate. We are no longer concerned with the being of God. We need to identify the being that courses thru our veins. We are made of the starry stuff of the cosmos. The sunlight focused on our retinae is the same as that focused on green algae thru clear blue seawater. The thunder of the clouds is the same as that electrically -induced roar of our impassioned throats. The crystalline rivulets of the forests are the same as the life-giving capillaries of our flesh. We are the embodiment of forces and energies billions of years old. When we breathe, there are stormwinds in our nostrils. The stones of the earth are the bones in our hands. There is nothing debatable about this. It is a simple and glorious fact. Recognize that every natural force outside of you is a living metaphor for your essence. You are as alive and as infinite as the universe around you. You are as joyously inevitable as the stars and galaxies that bejewel the black midnight skies.


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#2
C C Offline
What would make it a lot nicer is if matter or overall be-ing could manifest itself as something (anything!) universally -- in the context of mainstream physicalism or science perspectives -- rather than just conjuring that trick in skulls without any known non-pseudoscience precursors to utilize. Appealing to the manipulation of electromagnetism characteristics and the abstract conception of "information" is just more speculative fiction if electricity and "information" officially lack any primitive / disordered presentation of themselves in even complex electronic circuits, much less as they're found in the cosmic wild. The collective organization of a painter's intricate arm and hand movements yield nothing on the blank canvas if the artist lacks paint and brush to begin with.
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Secular Sanity Offline
(Jul 20, 2016 05:39 PM)C C Wrote: The collective organization of a painter's intricate arm and hand movements yield nothing on the blank canvas if the artist lacks paint and brush to begin with.
 
But what if the intricate movements themselves are what yields the paint and the brush. What then?  When the movements are slowed, we can perceive them.  Rest and motion—the dance of the universe—the essence of God.  

Aesthetics, symmetry, order, and beauty.  I like it.

S = k lnW

Some belong to the stone.  Their bodies ache.  Some carve it.  Their minds ache.  Between them, in the bedrock of reality, time passes. 

Space and time—symbiosis, where nothing and everything happens, but nothing happens at once.  At once is not everywhere. Only light is everywhere and everywhere at once.  Order and disorder—symbiosis.  Entropy and energy—symbiosis.  Without energy, entropy itself can create order.  There’s nothing in the second law of thermodynamics that states that entropy can’t decrease in one area, as long as the overall net value of entropy increases.  Isolated systems are hypothetical concepts, not necessarily occurring in nature.  Where does light and darkness dwell. Is it bound? 

I’m just messing with you, C C.   Wink  

I think what MR is trying to say is that the removal of delusional metaphors will not lead us into despair.  It’s similar to what Rodolfo Llinas said.  "We need to understand what we are, not what we wish to be.  We need to understand how precious and incredible matter is, and how precious you are.  It is not demeaning, but instead, it says that we are one with everything else.  What more could you possibly ask for?"

Maybe when MR is tired of Bigfoot and UFOs, he’ll begin to paint things that we don’t see.

BTW, what does C C stand for?
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(Jul 21, 2016 06:12 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: BTW, what does C C stand for?


Good question. I needed a username to supply to the registration process at SciForums and after mentally thrashing about for awhile I just arbitrarily went with that. I really didn't expect to be posting much there anyway, in the beginning, so it hardly seemed to matter.

I probably did have a specific inspirational source that might have triggered it, but now forgotten. Could have been the CC in "ecce", or a nickname for Cecelia / Cecilia that I noticed popping up with frequency in TV shows, or goodness knows what.

As a running joke I've started offering monthly theories about what it represents in that bit of text permitted under the avatars at SciForums. The character count allowed here at SciVillage is less (or was less), so I don't wrestle with trying to modify a change in ideas to fit here.
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