"Creation", "Forever", and "Purpose"

At first glance, concepts like creation, forever, and purpose have a clear, unconstrained, and universal connotation. Closer scrutiny, however, suggests that such concepts can lose relevance within the confines of our five-sense-bound faculties and become enigmatic.

We often treat these concepts as if their applicability is unbounded, and extend their meaning to answer questions that they are not really capable of addressing. For instance, we assume that God had some purpose for creating the universe. Likewise, we assume heaven and hell last forever.

The book Thinking Is Authorized! has an intriguing follow-up discussion about those concepts.

Do prayers get answered?

I recently heard of a case in which an upstart business owner had to have a sample of his product tested by a licensing authority to ensure it had enough bacteria of a certain type. The sample failed since the trial test showed the product did not have sufficient bacteria. The barely established business owner felt powerless and got very worried. Being religious, he prayed for the bacteria to multiply as rapidly as possible so that the follow-up test the next day would not fail. As it turned out, the follow-up test showed positive results and the business eventually became a major success nationwide. The business owner attributed the success of his business to that particular prayer early on which apparently increased the bacteria count in the test sample.
However, taking into consideration, for example, that the business eventually affected the lives of numerous employees, shareholders, customers, and all associated with them—including me writing and you presently reading about it—I doubt strongly that it was the prayers that multiplied the bacteria. Chances are, it was nothing supernatural—the bacteria count grew most likely due to normal, natural causes.

If it were possible to successfully transplant our brain into say a rabbit, a mouse, or a duck

From my perspective, all life-matter is identical regardless of the size or complexity of the species. What distinguishes one species from another is not their life-matter, but rather, the size or complexity of the physical body their life-matter happens to reside in.


As such, and in theory, if it were possible to successfully transplant our brain into say a rabbit, a mouse, or a duck, then their behavior would become similar to that of humans. It would resemble the behavior of such animated cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Speedy Gonzales, and Daffy Duck. By the same token, if it was possible to transplant a rabbit’s brain into a human, the human would behave like a rabbit.

IF the Titanic had had enough lifeboats ....

While statements such as “If the Titanic had had enough lifeboats, not as many people would have died” have merit from a historical perspective in terms of learning from past mistakes, we have no way of knowing whether the giant ship would have hit the fateful iceberg and sunk had there been even a single extra lifeboat on board.

Ever wondered if it took time to create time?

Or wondered who created the ultimate creator?

And can you tell the key differences between the following three purported miracles?
1. Part the sea with a wave of the hand.
2. Lions mating with zebras.
3. Converting a stick into a snake.

My book addresses such concepts.
www.ThinkingIsAuthorized.com

Excerpt from "Overview" chapter

"The title of this book is meant to convey the idea that, irrespective of our partiality toward religion or science, we do not necessarily need to have someone else interpreting for us the mighty unknowns of life and the universe. We have the capacity and faculties to contemplate them ourselves. But we have to actually exercise that ability to reflect. So, the title reminds us that it is authorized to think."

My Book "Thinking Is Authorized!"

More information about the book (including excerpts) is at www.ThinkingIsAuthorized.com

The subtitle of the book is "BEYOND Religion and Science". You will very likely find the book uniquely thought-provoking.

The concept of "lack-of-time-and-space" (LTS) discussed in the book, for instance, is literally an out-of-this-universe phenomenon.

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