obvious.”
“So, Stanley, if I got this right, a thought is the opposite of the physical universe.”
“That was my first thought, but then I realized that the thought was being created in the thinker’s universe. I then wondered if it was the thought or the thinker who was opposite.”
“If a thought is anti-matter how come physical things don’t disappear when you think of them? I don’t get it.” said Charlie.
“It is consciousness itself, awareness, that nothingness that can suddenly envision something, that is the cause,” Stanley said with certainty.
Charlie made the cross-eyed face.
“Okay, Charlie, think of a black cat with four white feet and a white tip on its tail. Can you do that?”
“Of course, okay, I have created a black cat with four white feet and a white tip to its tail,” Charlie said with irritation.
“Okay, good. Now we both have a picture of the same black cat, do we not?” asked Stanley.
“We do!” agreed Charlie.
“We created that cat, right?”
“Um … right.”
“Were words the tool used to create that cat? Words like black, white, tail, and feet?” asked Stanley.
“Yeah.”
“Now for us to create that mutual cat, we had to have the same definitions of the words used to do that. Is that right, Charlie?”
“Righto again, Stanley.”
“So, we created a cat in a mutual universe. We now have a common reality in a third universe, the universe of Charlie and Stanley.”
“Okay, I get it. I have a universe, you have a universe, and we have a universe.”
“Good, now it stands to reason that every human being creates in their own and others universes. So it could be said that we are all creators. Is that too unreasonable?” asked Stanley.
“I guess not.”
“Okay, then it follows that since we’re all different, that if you lined all of us up and put a creato-meter on us one at a time that one would be more creative than any other, right?”
“Right.”
“What is the word that means the very best?”
“Beats the hell out of me,” Charlie said.
“Supreme, right? So how would a supreme being create a universe?”
“This is getting interesting, Stanley.”
“It is interesting, especially since the bible said, ‘In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.’”
“I don’t understand exactly what that means, Stanley.”
“It means exactly what it says, Charlie. Just think about this. In the pursuit of the knowledge of life and the physical universe, scientists and philosophers look back in time, obviously. They couldn’t research the future as it hasn’t arrived yet. So there’s a lot of stuff to analyze today but there was a bit less yesterday, in as much as there is so much expanding and multiplying going on. Some of the top physicists think that the physical universe goes back to the ultimate simple one big bang that started it all.”
“Yeah, the ‘big bang’ evolution, and all that.”
“Now, think about that, Charlie. Look how shortsighted the brainy boys are. For a big bang to occur, there must have been a location in space to go boom in, right?”
Charlie raised an eyebrow.
“That’s right, Charlie, location and space are part of the physical universe, so there had to be a partial universe here already-and who created it?”
Charlie stood, and walked over to his tattered green recliner and sat down heavily. He stretched out and looked at the old popcorn ceiling. Old ceilings were as annoying as old friends sometimes. Both were needed. Charlie was just glad ceilings couldn’t talk.
“There is only one logical answer that can be extrapolated from this.”
“Whoa, Stanley, what is extrapolated?”
“Extrapolated is to take some rules about known things to figure out some unknown things. Like when you’re trying to pick up a chick, and you know something about her, if you see a wedding band on her finger you can use the rules surrounding marriage to understand more about her,
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