My reading of PSK's post was that according to the source she was quoting considered the universe to be merely a contemplation of an individual and not the begetter of the individual. Taken otherwise, I don't see the relevance of the quote.
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Vam <[email protected]> wrote: > How is it a mere belief ? Rather it is the truth ! Here's how... > > (1) You are made by the universe, as in you are brought into being by > it, exist wholly within it, and are sustained by all that is in it. > > (2) You are nothing but a speck of the universe, a part of it. All > > (3) You contemplate the universe, even when you contemplate upon > yourself, because there is nothing that is not the universe, not a > mere part if it, nothing apart from it. > > (4) Like a drop of water in the ocean is nothing but the ocean itself, > so too you are nothing but the universe itself. Hence when you > contemplate, it is nothing but the universe that contemplates ! > > On Aug 24, 12:08 pm, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Us contemplating the universe" is a belief akin to the previous >> belief of the Sun and the planets orbiting the Earth. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:24 AM, pol.science kid <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hey there everyone... now i have been given this homework report on >> > analysing modernity and modernism and present contexts and blah... >> > anyways short attention i have... i ended up instead on reading and >> > watching videos of Hichio kaku... if i got the name right, on string >> > theory and 11 dimension universe and parallel universe etc. etc... now >> > after the little bit i understood.... what really occupied my thought >> > was this that... i read in a book.... i think the author was william >> > temple... it was in refrence to the fact that ... it is Us that >> > contemplate the universe... us... as individual agents... not the >> > stars and planets and other materials contemplating us... but us >> > contemplating that.... and in that way i feel so connected to the >> > pulse of everything ... in the sense that... i am from the >> > universe....so this makes the universe contempating itself.. >> > understanding itself..what does that mean ... although this is very >> > unoriginal... but today i felt it in much significance and wanted to >> > know what you guys think.... isnt it wonderful... that we know so >> > little... about anything at all!..... and we sorta fret over our >> > constructed lives... then another thing that i havent stopped thinking >> > about... Gabby once said something about constructed knowledge... what >> > are its implications.... it is after all.... constructed isnt it... >> > our knowledge base..... i dont know how to end the post... ill just >> > type what i feel at the moment... i am hungry...
