Your place in the universe.

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im too busy looking for budhist ameabas

Considering your lack of upper case in your reply I am suspicious about whether your name might be Archie.

captial letters are way overated

Exactly the reply I would expect from Archy

See: http://www.donmarquis.com/archy/

they also cost extra.

In this collapsing economy what is mere money to a billionaire cockroach?

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Byebye Archy. Watch out for those damned roach hotels when you pick up a girl!!

Archy? I am das Freak'n Techno Viking!

As the late Erma Bombeck wrote "If life was a bowl of cherries . This must be the pits."

This is my perception. It is not absolute. Very few things are.

In The Beginning and The End (I conclude they are the same, perhaps neither concept really applies to that that is outside of Time Space - The Alpha and Omega): There (was/is/always will be) the Monad, the pure primordial Thought, Note and Logos. The Monad conceptualized Possibility and Novelty and so split into the great Holon, a fractal of the infinite streams of existence. As the Primordial Note or Tone the wave diversified into an infinite range that became the interference pattern that is all mater and energy.

The Monad's Thought became all streams of Mind and personal Ego in the dimensional projection experienced as Time and Space. So the place of each being is to be both an integrated Part of the Whole and also, as a sub-fractal, contain the image of all that IS and be in the image of the One that AM.

To characterize the operations of the universe in terms of a conscious mind is to assume that what has occurred on this tiny insignificant fleck of matter we call Earth has significance for the entire universe. It seems highly unlikely to me. Humans seem to associate thought with consciousness since that is their experience but thinking is a matter of making assumptions and mentally working out the consequences in a virtual continuum. The universe accomplishes the same process without consciousness by infinitely testing out the possibilities of its basic forces controlled by the laws of its interactions. It is a form of thought using the real universe instead of the virtual one available to consciousness and operates on a huge scale unavailable to even the best conscious minds. There is no need for an overall consciousness to carry out the process or sift away mistakes for reality does not make mistakes. It merely goes on and on testing possibilities and obtains interesting results.

USA, North America, Earth, Sol Sector 001, Local Cluster 42, Sagittarius arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Milky Way local group, Universe...

...Earth-1218...

Ditto. I used to be a pantheist until I realized I was just taking "everything" and labeling it god, which is a rather meaningless distinction in my current opinion. Even though I'm a strong atheist, I still retain my almost spiritual reverence for the majesty of the universe around me.

Where is my place in the universe? To live and experience, and enjoy this life that, by whatever means, I somehow have the chance to experience.