Shari's question on time blows up my favorite speculative theology!

[@shari6063]

This was awesome, I’m excited for the next couple of videos, how the many worlds can generate meaning!

[@Parsons4Geist]

A Slavoj Žižek-quantum physicist joke "God says Why are quantum physicists so obsessed with the multiverse? Because it's like God started creating reality, then got bored halfway through, leaving it up to us to fill in the gaps by constantly discovering new particles and phenomena, essentially finishing what the divine architect left incomplete."

[@Stephen.D20]

We do like to build machines and I think God is very much impressed by us! The many worlds is a very accurate predictor using quite simple math. It seems right until we try to think as a God existing out of spacetime. Then we shake our heads, insert some correction factor and check out the latest CERN results :-)

[@Parsons4Geist]

@Stephen.D20 yes the hardway way of thinking of human freedom is a paradoxical brick wall both religion and science keeps crashing up against. very much enjoy connecting dots for this corner of the internet that is a huge blind spot for so many in both religion and scientific studies.

[@shari6063]

I’m wondering if we are Time. What I mean is that because we are a part, we have a beginning and end, and we are self conscious, in other words we are aware of our finitude, we carry time in our hearts. I have always been curious about what it might be like to be an animal who lives entirely in the eternal now. They don’t seem to have any idea of a future and I must conclude are unaware of Death and therefore unaware of their finitude. This seems to make them eternal beings in a way, maybe this is a stretch, but I’m trying to highlight the Observer problem you started with on your channel, because this idea that we can change the world through self aware observation seems like it might also allow us to be the carriers of Time. I hope this makes sense……

[@shari6063]

And then of course we are blind to a timeless world. Just some random thoughts. Also sorry for blowing up your theory:)

[@shari6063]

Also, quick question, could this be explanatory of the idea that God is everywhere present, filling all things? Still thinking….

[@Stephen.D20]

@@shari6063this one is easy. Yes 😅

[@Stephen.D20]

It does. I know what you mean and I think I agree. But we’ll see. That last part is so mystical ❤

[@shari6063]

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[@RichardCosci]

Thanks Stephen for the fun thought experiments. I am a Christian with a pan-entheist metaphysics. Would God in & as the world/universe, yet also more than, help explain any of this ? The universe is God’s mind, which our minds are capable of understanding & interacting with on lower dimensions & potentially higher dimensions via science and theosis ?

[@Stephen.D20]

Yes I think we basically agree. These ideas are Christian for me. God is in the world, everywhere, all the time. It is Orthodox. More of the Eastern strain of Isaac the Syrian and Jacob of Sarug perhaps.

[@RichardCosci]

@@Stephen.D20 Great ! Although in one of your short videos I thought you said theologically, God is outside of the universe? Classic Creator/creation dualism. ?

[@Stephen.D20]

@@RichardCosci ah I meant we in our created world cannot know the mechanics of an uncreated God who created and continually creates us. Outside in a knowability sense. It’s hard to say everything properly all the time when doing these stream of consciousness videos.

[@RichardCosci]

@@Stephen.D20 You’re telling me ;) even just pondering on my own.

[@JoyFrimpong]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3O5iHedort5Zqssi=lrx8vJxhFC5OdN0u I made that video two years back, at 19 y/o, while I was still in the thick of (an attempt of) practicing transcendental meditation. So much had changed since, but the single insight I had then, is still as clear to me: This unshakeable feeling that We are Time. Or, at least, hold in our chests (spiritedness), an axis of the eschatological ascent. My ideas surrounding chronology, observation, kairos, and mortality have been refined and edified through a more recent appreciation of theology, also. Thank you for your contemplations, Dear Stephen.