Raise Your Voice: Consider the Time

By PETER MOLENAAR

As per the familiar Big Bang, the age of our universe is said to be 13.772 billion years (give or take). However, for old timers such as myself, this estimate is disconcerting. For heaven’s sake, what time was it before the beginning of time?

Dear astronomers, please consider the possibility that time has no beginning nor end, and therefor, the dimension of time is cyclical in nature. Then please, consider the corollary: our universe will continue to expand but only to a maximum limit, after which, it will (again) contract to its minimal size limit. In other words, the phenomenon of the Big Bang is itself infinitely cyclical in nature.

It seems we ponder such things as Christmas and the new year approaches!

Is it normal for the ‘philosophical materialist’ to commend the life of Jesus? Well in fact, Jesus actively opposed the exploiters and oppressors of his day. So, the answer is: yes.

But, is the “materialist” allowed to believe in God, if he or she believes consciousness is a product of the evolution of matter (i.e., believes in the ‘primacy of matter’)? Well, that depends… right? Consider, however, that the associated ‘theory of reflection’ illuminates the content of consciousness, while failing miserably to demystify the ‘essence of consciousness’.… Read the rest “Raise Your Voice: Consider the Time”