--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
> My idea of the universe is an enormous, eternal operating > system. It was never created, and it never ends, thus > there is no need to postulate a "creator." It just is. A mystery then. > I see no need to postulate an "intelligence" behind the > functioning of the operating system because *none is > necessary to describe its actions*. It seems to me that people have been trying to make sense of this operating systems, and have been fairly successful over time. And the more they figure it out, the more advances they make, at least on the material plane. They would carry on > just as effectively *without* any intelligence behind > them. Thus, using Occam's Razor, why clutter up an > already-elegant system with some made-up "intelligence" > interfering with it and running it. Not sure one has to make anything up. One can look at the world around them, and postulate, that there must be some intelligence at work, often with a lot predictability. It seems to me that an operating system has a lot of intelligence behind it, and which designed it. Other than that it can pretty much remain behind the scenes. > I suspect that the operating system is structured around > an interplay between karma and the free will of sentient > beings. Both are essential, and both are the very nature > of the operating system. To postulate an "intelligence" > "running things" is to disallow free will, and it seems > obvious that free will exists. Sure seems like once you introduct Karma, you introduce the notion of "rules", and "laws". Not sure how you can have karma without some real detailed cause and effect. I do like that ideal of drawing bullsyes around arrows. I'm going to keep that in my repatroire. Thanks
