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Is it ok to be curious? To wonder?
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Oh How we Wonder by Eric Norland
We are curious beings. Our notion is to ask and wonder and try to explain. The very act of saying something like, “he shall return” or “he left us here long ago” or “the creator has made all the galaxies and even the atoms” causes one to wonder. We wonder who is the ‘he’ or the ‘creator’ or why would someone think so arrogantly that a human being looking God would have even the remotest power to create all that there is. Please, Mr. Creator, or Mr. He, step out and show yourself. Come out and say hi. This is preposterous.
We wonder when something began, how it began, and how it will end. We ask the experts to explain the Big Bang and what came before it. We wonder what is beyond the inflating universe. Is there possibly nothing? What does nothing look like? Is that which lies beyond our expanding universe at perfect rest? If one was to go there would the onrushing universe be suddenly like a big balloon hitting us in the face? Or a warm wind blowing back our hair? Suddenly we come to consciousness and BINGO, we are in the universe?
We might ask the puzzling question, who created God? This is hard to answer. Did God design himself, divide himself or perhaps he was there before he was made? Hugh? Perhaps we need to go back to the drawing board with our anthropomorphic thinking.
We find ourselves stumped at such hard to answer questions like why is their atrophy, why is their hardship. Wouldn’t a loving God and universe just let everything exist in harmony? We know this is not the case. It is a universe of survival and using energy and taking the path of least resistance. It is a universe of movement and gravity and tremendous forces pushing against each other. It is a universe which is much like the events witnessed on our nightly news. A universe of disasters and catastrophies and yet beauty.
There would appear to be tranquility in the absence of interstellar space, but this is hardly the case. There is tension and stress and a steady current not unlike a stream. It is like being a single strand in a huge fish net. There is tension on every strand in the net.
The galaxy is turning and so is everything else that is in it. We, members of star systems like the sun, are moving in the direction of Vega at 200,000 miles per hour. It only takes the 100,000 light year wide Milky Way galaxy 200 million years to do a rotation. We might as well be living in a cement mixer.
The curiosity grows. It should. We should leap up and shout and dance about at the wonder of it all. We are riding on a shot gun blast into the great unknown. We are moving outward, away from the previous moment, into something unexplainable. Or perhaps it is explainable. All we need is more information.
What if we dressed up in our finest apparel while going out to observe the stars? Or how about if we wore the finest looking suit or tux when we went for a walk in the forest or along a beach? Would this mean that we saw great divinity in nature? Probably. Or else it means we are wacky.
What if we went to church wearing our grubbers? Or perhaps if we wore our pajamas? Isn’t this more like the kind of God that the preacher says ours is? He is ready to take us at any time, as we are, he is preparing the final resting spot for us. We are told that he is a humble, a loving and forgiving and all seeing compassionate being. WHY THEN DO WE HAVE TO GET DRESSED UP TO GO OUT AND GO TO CHURCH AND SEE HIM? It is absurd. It makes me wonder. I get more curious. |
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