Life-ish Now-ish

One need not be a church goer to be comforted by the words of one Pope's message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations - Vatican News Even one without faith can understand this message, especially if one accepts a few likelihoods: That there was once before a great economic crisis (as always eventually happens with money and debt) and that the one who first understood the truth of the crisis AND then taught this truth to those around him, grew so trusted and loved, that his story was recorded, and being true in all regards, stood the test of time, and is now written in the Bible as the story of the life and teachings of that man That God is a synonym for the cosmos or existence (especially the earth and the sun) and that we humans are the "inevitable result" of time (or "evolution") and that the powerful emotion of Love is inherent in all babies, and therefore all adults as well That stress from unexpected change triggers freeze->flight/fight impulses...

Our universe is like an uncut film reel with us as the viewer It's not a perfect analogy, but it reveals some mind blowing, paradigm changing truths Consider an uncut recording of the planet Jupiter and it's moons, recorded by a space telescope for a month. If we watched it in fast forward, we would see the moons revolving around Jupiter, all at their own velocities, moving right to left, then left to right, each one further out, and each one taking longer to trace it's path. At the same time, the Great Red Spot would be spinning the way that it does Now, take that uncut and continuous recording, and put it into the film projector. Project it on the wall at a constant rate. That is time. Notice that the entire recording exists all at the same time, not just the projection we see on the screen. The projection just depends on which part of the film the lamp light is shining through. If we were to watch the film, and someone was to say, "maybe one of those moon...