jbark wrote:The questions aren't the assumption, Saidin (although they could arguably contain assumptions). The answer "god" is. A huge assumption. The biggest assumption. Maybe a correct assumption, but an assumption nevertheless.
True that the answer God is an assumption. But it is just a name that we give to the unknowable. In the video he used Nature, God or Spirit as interechangeable terms. There is no empirical proof of Its existence, unless you consider your own existence proof, which I personally do. I am It, and It is Me.
How does nature create the first person, I AM, out of nothing? There was nothing, then there was something, or there was always something. As for there being a million other answers to that question...I am having trouble thinking of another one, could you help me out?
visualdistortion wrote:Just because we do not know what the first cause is that does not mean that we should say God is the first cause
I agree, we do not have to say that God/Nature/Spirit is the first cause, but it does create a sort of delima...at some point we have to take into consideration
something that exists outside our ability to understand, whatever label you want to put on it. Emptyness works I suppose.
It comes down to the realization that
something must have always existed, otherwise it only leads to infinite regressive madness. It is like two mirrors facing eachother, one can never find the beginning...
What, you ask, was the beginning of it all?
And it is this...
Existence that multiplied itself
For sheer delight of being
And plunged into numberless trillions of forms
So that it might
Find
Itself
Innumerably.
-Sri Aubobindo
Saidin is a fictional character, and only exists in the collective unconscious. Therefore, we both do and do not exist. Everything is made up as we go along, and none of it is real.