Originally posted by EladarWrong. I could influence 1000 people to vote.
What you believe is important is overwhelmed by the sheer size of Society. Your contribution means as much as your vote in a national election.
I could do the smallest little thing that could set off a chain reaction of events that can make dramatic change.
Human law is limited but the guidelines of the universe open up all sorts of possibilities.
Anyway , I'm prolly more like JC in the sense that he hung out with bums and winos
One Zen master studieed his whole life and had one pupil. Another did the same but had 500 pupils. Both are just as valid.
Originally posted by JS357You can stop yourself too, but ultimately it is God that controls everything in existence while simultaneously allowing the creatures He calls man to operate under their own volition.
If God is the designer of the universe, then God stops me from defying gravity and other laws of nature.
It's a complete mystery how God does it. Thing is though is that God has limitless authority while man is confined to a finite sphere. God is God and man is a created being in many ways like God.
It's a great thing to know.
Originally posted by twhiteheadYes, but time is just as relative as space is.
Time is not space. Time is measured with a clock.
[b]Time, as I understand it, is the measure of the rotation of objects in our immediate solar system. But that's just me talking off the top of my unscientific head! 😉
Objects in our immediate solar system can be used to measure time, but a pendulum is so much easier, and for greater accuracy ther ...[text shortened]... s time is inextricably connected to space. The universe IS spacetime. Spacetime IS the universe.[/b]
Travel fast enough, long enough, and one could outlive the entire universe.
Originally posted by josephwIt's good to know that it's a complete mystery? What?
[b]You can stop yourself too, but ultimately it is God that controls everything in existence while simultaneously allowing the creatures He calls man to operate under their own volition.
It's a complete mystery how God does it. Thing is though is that God has limitless authority while man is confined to a finite sphere. God is God and man is a created being in many ways like God.
It's a great thing to know.[/b]