When coming into contact with something we feel is confrontational we recoil. I spent several years recoiling from "over the top" statements from S.P. Lunger. His first blog post was written and I recoiled in fear. A chapter in a book about the Jesus figure and how the constellations run in cycles, like Taurus, made me cringe. Imagining that it was Lunger's problems and that I would choose to not go down that patch was comical to say the least.

When my decisions are known by people it forces them to make a decision. A pastor that knows of my decision preaches a balls to the walls sermon that VERY week in which he attacks the idea that god DOES exist and even dared anybody to stand up to refute it. A sabbath school teacher chooses a class that discusses the, "what ifs", of whether or not the bible is real. If you found out that the bible was fallible and written by people that never even met jesus would it shake your faith?

Is it coincidence? What if the class topic and the sermon was scheduled before the teacher or pastor knew of my decision. But perhaps they already knew my decision before I told them. Reading S.P. Lunger's most recent blog statement it made me think a little into the puny bit of knowledge that I have attained about quantum physics.

What if, the sabbath school teacher and the preacher had already scheduled these topics for a sermon and a class prior to me, or somebody else, telling them that I no longer believed in god. This would obviously be divine intervention and a reason for me to second guess my decision. Lets look at this from a scientific aspect. Admittedly science fiction is a better label for it at the present time. But when dealing with science nothing is fiction. Something is either refuted, disputed or proven. And each of those outcomes are often disputed. If you want a quick background concerning my small amount of research and knowledge you can read this.

My premise is that with time being non-linear and an idea of a multiverse one could easily imagine a scenario in which the pastor and the sabbath school teacher already knew my decision and scheduled their topics based on their experiences in a prior experience. They didn't have to be told that I don't believe in god to know it already.

This could be why, when faced with a new idea or thought, our natural instinct is to become defensive. If we changed our minds and put a wrinkle in the wheel of time what reverberations would that have on our future iterations and the people around us?



What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

My experience, written by another person.






So, I was already familiar with and (I’m afraid) accepting of, the view that you couldn’t apply the logic of physics to religion, that they were dealing with different types of ‘truth’. (I now think this is baloney, but to continue...) What astonished me, however, was the realization that the arguments in favor of religious ideas were so feeble and silly next to the robust arguments of something as interpretative and opinionated as history. In fact they were embarrassingly childish. They were never subject to the kind of outright challenge which was the normal stock in trade of any other area of intellectual endeavor whatsoever. Why not? Because they wouldn’t stand up to it. So I became an Agnostic. And I thought and thought and thought. But I just did not have enough to go on, so I didn’t really come to any resolution. I was extremely doubtful about the idea of god, but I just didn’t know enough about anything to have a good working model of any other explanation for, well, life, the universe and everything to put in its place. But I kept at it, and I kept reading and I kept thinking. Sometime around my early thirties I stumbled upon evolutionary biology, particularly in the form of Richard Dawkins’s books The Selfish Gene and then The Blind Watchmaker and suddenly (on, I think the second reading of The Selfish Gene) it all fell into place. It was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.


-Douglass Adams

Settling into a role I know nothing about I feel oddly at ease. Stopping at each corner I peer eagerly around it, ready for a projectile to be hurled my way. The universe has a way of surprising you. At one time I would have described it as a supernatural intervention.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.

- Albert Einstein