Comment Re:Big Mistake (Score 1) 755
Cosmology brings us face to face with the deepest mysteries..
With questions that were once treated.. Only in Religion and Myth..
Most intelligent human cultures noted and calibrated the cycles in nature. The rising and setting of the Sun and Stars. The phases of the Moon. The passing of the seasons. Most cultures imagine the universe to be only a few human generations old. No one guessed that it might be far older. But, the Ancient Hindus did. Their cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma. Which is 8.64 Billion years long. Longer than the age of Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. And, their are much greater time scales still. These time scales correspond to those of Modern Scientific Cosmology.
Who Knows For Certain?
Who Shall Here Declare It?
Whence Was It Born?
Whence Came Creation?
The Gods Are Later Than This Worlds Formation.
Who then can know the origins of the world?
None knows whence creation arose.
Or, weather he has or has not made it..
He who, surveys it from the lofty skies.
Only he knows..
Or, perhaps.. he knows not.
Their is the deep and appealing notion that the universe is but the dream of the God.
Who dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep..
And, the universe dissolves with him.
Meanwhile.. Elsewhere, their are an infinite number of other universes.
Each with it's own God.. dreaming the cosmic dream.
These great ideas are tempered by another, perhaps still greater.
It is said that, Men may not be the dreams of the Gods.
But rather.. That The Gods Are The Dreams Of Men.
From.. The Rig Veda.
With questions that were once treated.. Only in Religion and Myth..
Most intelligent human cultures noted and calibrated the cycles in nature. The rising and setting of the Sun and Stars. The phases of the Moon. The passing of the seasons. Most cultures imagine the universe to be only a few human generations old. No one guessed that it might be far older. But, the Ancient Hindus did. Their cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma. Which is 8.64 Billion years long. Longer than the age of Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. And, their are much greater time scales still. These time scales correspond to those of Modern Scientific Cosmology.
Who Knows For Certain?
Who Shall Here Declare It?
Whence Was It Born?
Whence Came Creation?
The Gods Are Later Than This Worlds Formation.
Who then can know the origins of the world?
None knows whence creation arose.
Or, weather he has or has not made it..
He who, surveys it from the lofty skies.
Only he knows..
Or, perhaps.. he knows not.
Their is the deep and appealing notion that the universe is but the dream of the God.
Who dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep..
And, the universe dissolves with him.
Meanwhile.. Elsewhere, their are an infinite number of other universes.
Each with it's own God.. dreaming the cosmic dream.
These great ideas are tempered by another, perhaps still greater.
It is said that, Men may not be the dreams of the Gods.
But rather.. That The Gods Are The Dreams Of Men.
From.. The Rig Veda.
