A Cosmology

[poliphilo]

The Universe is One Big Thing.

It breaks itself into lots and lots and lots of little things.

The little things interact with one another. They learn all sorts of interesting stuff.

The Unity persists in spite of the break-up. The little things remain dimly aware of it even as they prey on one another and squabble and fight.

Another word for the Unity is Love.

The little things are of temporary duration. They die and return to the Unity, taking their knowledge with them.

This is how the Universe learns about itself.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I like this, and I like the comments that come after. I left my church a few years ago because...I'm not exactly sure why. I was one of the leaders of the childrens' choir, and I was robing my kids when one of them asked me about the picture of the crucified Christ, hanging on the wall. I heard myself say "Well, the story is..." and knowing this was NOT a good thing for anyone in the church to be saying to a child. So I know I doubt.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've realized in the last few days that I do actually believe in God. Having said that, I'd be hard put to define what I mean by that statement, but then one of the salient points about God is that God is unknowable.

Religious stories- like that of the crucifixion- are simply that- stories. They are true in the way any story is true- in the way Anna Karenina or Kill Bill is true. They are objects for meditation, about which we should be allowed to form our own, free-floating ideas. The fundamentalist insistence that a certain story is literally and historically true and subject to only one approved interpretation is the death of true religion.