Re: (every) event horizon.Def: God - that to which one devotes one's life. — unenlightened
Death is the only god.
Def: God - that to which one devotes one's life.
— unenlightened
Re: (every) event horizon. — 180 Proof
They had a name for it - phonophobia - and it was a nightmare. Even the slightest sounds gave me the jitters; loud noises and panic attacks. I decided to build a sound-proof room in my house which would serve as a sanctuary, a place to escape from the cacophony that was the world and so I did. I walked into the room with high expectations, closed the door - the silence was deafening! — Some Guy
No. One devotes one's death to life. At birth we are old enough to die, delivered from the womb in free-fall towards that event horizon. Each breath, every heartbeat, is irretrievably one less breath and one less heartbeat to come – another grain of sand that falls in the hourglass. How do we seek to spend the time left to us? How do we make the most of today, this here and now? This devotion, I think, matters most.So one devotes their life to [d]eath? — Prishon
God and existence are the same thing. — EnPassant
The event horizon is point of no return from beyond which no information can be received; that is, only ever approached but never reached alive. — 180 Proof
Of course not. God created existence. — Prishon
So existence includes God? — Prishon
A rock exists, a bird has life and being. — EnPassant
A rock has life and being potentially in it. God merely created the stuff from which stones and birds are made. He was outside the world of being and existence. Not a part of it. They created the world in their image. Not their essence. If he did then we would be the same as God. But we are not the same as them. We are no gods. — Prishon
We are new creations because we are properties of existence/God. Our essence is God, our being is created. This is what is meant by 'In Him we live and move and have our being'. We inherit our existence from God. God's existence and ours is the same thing. Everything that is shares God's existence. We become created beings. Suppose bronze is existence. Bronze can be formed in the shape of a bird. The bird is created, the bronze is. — EnPassant
Energy has to be the most enigmatic phenomenon in the universe. — Benj96
I agree. That's why I developed the philosophical notion of EnFormAction, to encompass the enigmatic properties of Energy, and the all-encompassing ubiquity of Information. But, when I reluctantly refer to the implicit Omnipotent Enformer behind EFA by name, I spell it G*D, to indicate that I'm not talking about any traditional religious notion of a humanoid deity. Instead, it's more like the "Prime Mover" of Aristotle, or the "Universal Substance" of Spinoza. :cool:I just can’t think of any property that trumps energy when it comes to defining an all encompassing entity of existence. — Benj96
energy isn't sentient, it doesn't think nor does it feel. — TheMadFool
. A proposed metaphysical law of the universe that causes random interactions between forces and particles to produce novel & stable arrangements of matter & energy. It’s the creative force (aka : Divine Will) of the axiomatic eternal deity that, for unknown reasons, programmed a Singularity to suddenly burst into our reality from an infinite source of possibility — Gnomon
Logically then, the only possibility for a singularity is therefore to become “un-single” ie. internally “divide” into two or more properties. Because change cannot occur in a single state. What would it change into if it remains the same all the time? Change requires an A and a B. — Benj96
In my metaphorical model of "The Singularity", which is basically a mathematical ellipsis . . . . meaning whatever happens beyond this point in incalculable and unknowable, it's the point-source of all that follows the Big Bang, including Space & Time.Assuming that the singularity is some form of “proto- energy” or “potential to act” then one would imagine time and energy must begin simultaneously as one of the first “divisions” of this “prime mover/ universal substance”. — Benj96
Yes. Metaphorically, I think of the Singularity as an atom of Uranium undergoing fission. Unlike an atomic bomb though (the Big Bang), this ongoing division & distinction and aggregation & integration is not destructive, but constructive : building a world. It releases Energy, but in a prolonged self-controlled and self-organizing process. Hence, like a fertilized egg, it begins to divide from one into two, and thence into a multi-cellular organism. So, the key to such positive change is the act of Fertilization, which I liken to an input of teleological Information, as in programming a cybernetic system. That fertilizing "sperm" is what I call EnFormAction, the power to cause transformation and complexification. :nerd:Assumption one: energy must cause change. It is a fundamental property of energy.
Assumption 2: the “singularity” is a uniform/ homogenous origin state.
Logically then, the only possibility for a singularity is therefore to become “un-single” ie. internally “divide” into two or more properties. — Benj96
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