What existed before the Big Bang?

When you’ve worked that one out, then maybe we can talk about no gods…

Looks like before long, this too shall pass.

That’s the funny thing about looking for answers – if you’re smart enough, patient enough & persistent enough you usually wind up getting them.

This is why, our thoughts about metaphysics aside, I would say more comfortably that I share a religion with Fred Clark than Megan McArdle.

On that note, I will now repeat my song for the late lamented John Archibald Wheeler [it started out as a lullaby for our doctorling Sonja, but she doesn't want it any more]:

Oh dear, what can dark matter be?
Oh dear, heat death and entropy
There’s been, a breakdown, of parity,
Johnnie’s so late at the fair.

He promised to write me a Theory of Ev’rything,
He promised to tie it all up with a superstring,
Instead of a closed group he gave me an open ring
That’s why black holes have no hair.

“Emphyrio” was a great find.

If I were going to start a blog, I think I’d call myself “Jubal Droad.” In today’s political climate, “Jubal” sounds close enough to “jubilant” or “jubilation” and “Droad” close enough to “dread” that I think it evokes the right degree of schadenfreude.

My gift to whoever wants it.

*SWOON!*

He’s waiting for the electrician. Or someone like him.

I know a few theoretical physicists and I would bet a dead/not-dead kitten in a box that not one of them could wire an outlet.

He’s waiting for the electrician. Or someone like him.

I don’t know, I think we could rennet a while longer.

Whey longer.

I totally had to Google “goniff”. I love this site.

Wait.

Your name is *Jacob Singer* and you don’t know from goniff???

OY!

Both of you are now on my Lizst.

uh-huh, that’s just some bloviating Bartok.

I thought this place was all about Teh Bartoks.

Witness the violence inherent in Tapiocism!

You want to start a fight? I sago ahead with it.

If it’s going to get me pelted, I believe I shall wait. It’s pretty yuca stuff.

Nah, it’s a sherbet this thing will last a while longer.

It sure does. Amazing how far out of the loop one can get in only a few years. That Afhsar Experiment is a new one on me.

Spirituality, yes; religion, bite me.
There’s that darned “He” thing, for starters.

It was quite illuminating when I resolved to think of God as “She” instead of “He” for a while. (And if you want to make a Wingnut’s head go all ‘splodey, propose this little exercise for them… just the thought of doing it gets them all sweaty and anxious. Either sex.)

A big step on the road to spiritual freedom; and I agree with MzNicky, that spirituality beats religion any day.

The problem is that spirituality can get bogged down with rules, which makes it organized, which turns it into religion, and then you have dogma, and once you have dogma it’s all screwed up.

However, we seem to need a spiritual connection of some sort, whether it be nature or philosophy or beauty. We can call it “God” or “the Force,” or “FSM,” it matters not.

What matters is that we acknowledge there is something greater that our soul yearns towards.

But that is really all the Universe asks of us.

And to be kind to one another. Like Vonnegut said.