The universe has only just come into existence when I opened my eyes. Oopps! I just blinked and the universe blacked out, but then came back.
...Bill! --- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > > Slight nit pick: > > The universe has only lasted about 14,700 million years; not million > million years yet. > > > Thanks, > > --Chris > chris@... > +1-301-270-6524 > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, William Rintala <brintala@...>wrote: > > > sics. In geology we speak of hundreds of millions of years, just as > > Joe might speak in terms of billions or million millions of years and even > > those chunks of time are but an instant in eternity. Life on earth > > began 600 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs lasted less that > > 150 million years. Humanity's earliest ancestors didn't show up until less > > that 5 million years ago. The last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago. The > > first domesticated animals, 10,000 years ago. The first evidence of writing > > 4,000 years ago. Each human life lasts but 100 years, that's 0.00000017th > > the span of all life, 0.000000005th the span of the age of the known > > universe. We live on a planet which seems significant yet 1,300,000 Earths > > could fit inside of our Sun and that Sun is only a medium sized star in a > > universe of uncountable stars (billions and billions according to Carl > > Sagan). From the furthest known reaches of known space our sun could not > > be seen. > > This is my perspective regarding Zen. First the concept of Infinite Time > > and Space. Huge, beyond imaging. An infinite Infinity of Infinities is > > still nothing. It is no time or space at all. Given that infinite space and > > infinite time and given the demonstrated size and length of our physical > > existence and percieving myself as th > > > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
