We know the universe created itself/appeared between 15 to 17 billion years ago. Can we even imagine that? what does that mean?

Humankind (as we are known now) appeared roughly 600,000 years ago. So we are obviously a very recent entry in the universe in the grand scheme of things. so where the hell were ‘we’ for all these billions of years? Was God all by himself for all of this time? I wonder.

The feeling that one gets is that we, as humans, need to re-structure the new data... the old paradigms just don't work anymore. We need to get real... need to redefine and recreate our entire understanding of cosmology and divinity...

Can we one day come to appreciate and honor ourselves and our place in the universe without the God-concept? I wonder. I would hope so. unless the old boy shows up one day, then by all means, we’ll give him or her a grand welcome and restructure our cosmology once more.

I'm not against God coming out of hiding and showing us what its all about... but I'm not into all this God-creating that we've been doing the last few thousand years. I believe that at this point we should take all the holy books and sacred texts that humankind has ever written, the Koran and the bible and the Bhagavad-Gita and all the rest of them.... (all except the Tao te ching, since it doesn’t purport to be a holy book and doesn’t speak of any gods or goddesses...more just philosophy...) just take every piece of religious doctrine or dogma every penned by man on paper and throw it all onto a big wooden raft on the beach, have a big ceremony, light it on fire and push it out into the ocean and watch it burn... if God is out there, he’ll come. If not, it’ll still be alright. We’re going to be o.k. either way. I can promise you that.

In French class today I could feel my brain stretching and breathing in and out. Learning is important. it excites and inspires in other areas of our lives in a way that we cannot qualify. I have found that it is very important, learning new things. bending and stretching the brain. It affects all aspects of our lives.