Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 01:05 (4595 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

And thus, in the form of eternal energy, that which was, that which is, and that which will be, eternally organized from time indefinite to time indefinite, can express with complete and utter assurance that "There is nothing new, under the sun." It knows all things and witnesses all things because it is all things, and in and of it everything exists; in and of it everything can be expressed; in and of it everything can be created. If that's not God with a big ole capital G I don't know what is; omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence....-Well, of course in my case I don't make any claims about sentience, BUT if the universe (God or no God) is everything, and I am sentient, then it certainly stands to reason that the universe is sentient. -Stands to reason. -Doesn't ring true empirically though, but how else to verify without "becoming" the universe? Thus my quandary repeats...-[Good post though, Tony.]-You basically hit right on the eastern notion of the Universe.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"