The moon is not sentient.
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NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If humans are born of the universe, and humans are sentient. Is the universe not its self sentient.
The universe created life to experience its self. Or was the universe in its self already alive?
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 6 days ago
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 days ago
He never said all of the universe is aware of all of itself.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well put, this was my training of thought as well.
As a analogy, our body is the Universe. Our fingernails (the moon) do not experience themselves or have any awareness of their own existence. Our mind (a living thing) knows and experiences our fingernails and is aware of its own existence.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 days ago
As far as I’m concerned, we’re atoms that understand we’re atoms. That’s the universe witnessing itself.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah you are correct. Doesn’t have much to do with God though.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I would probably ask, what is God if not the Universe?
I suppose the next though would be is God apart of the Universe, or do they reside outside of the Universe?
If God were apart of the Universe, did they create themselves and the Universe, or did God themselves come into being at the Universe’s creation? Is God the Universe its self?
That saying that God is all within us, at least to me seems to imply that God is the Universe, and since humans are “created of the stars” we have God within us.
Or alternatively if God resides outside the Universe? Would that imply there is more beyond the Universe or do we simply reside in a “simulation” of sorts.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Great questions.
These are the sort of questions that make talking about religion so difficult because everyone believes different things even though they think they’re talking about the same thing. These are often too many questions for online discourse, and you have to ask every person to make sure the conversation is grounded, so what happens is these questions are simply ignored and people keep bickering lol.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Absolutely agreed, these conversations are generally very deep and definitely the Shit Post community is not the best fit for them.
That being said this one idea always resonated with me.
The idea that “we are drops of water joining to create the ocean”, suggesting that individuals are interconnected and form a larger whole, like drops of water merging to create a vast ocean.
Or how’s Ajaan, the Buddhist monk in season 2 of White Lotus phrases it.
“When you were born, you were like a single drop of water separated from the one giant consciousness. You are born, then you die to descend back into the water and become one with the ocean again. No more separated, no more suffering.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7cZAe3F3rQ
I thought this was beautiful put.
Nelots@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Your conclusion does not follow your premises. Just because one thing has an attribute does not mean the thing that came before it has that same attribute. See: