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I have a question about religion in a sense. From the objectivst viewpoint, or anyones individual opinions, where does the universe originate from. Not just the universe, but all matter in any sense of the word. Whether it be the smallest speck in the beginning er I don't know. I would appreciate some posts on perspectives.

Who's to say that there is truth anywhere? The way our own sense percieve the world could indeed be a misrepresentation of the world around us. Like I once read from Descartes. The only real truth in the world is math, everything based on math entirely must be truth. Other other information could be considered as uncertain/

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I have a question. More of a post of experience, but a puzzling one. Ocassionally, throughout the span of my life that I can effectivly remember, I would have a dream that seemed very realistic. Like many other dreams seem to take after. They are dreams experienced through the first-hand view. Seemingly reality with burst of quick consiousness at the end where I wake up. This is not anything out of the ordinary as far as dreams go. Thats why I don't think of it as anything special at the time. But later in life, maybe a few days or even a year, I will have an experience that duplicates my previous dream exactly. Although I don't really realize it until the set of events is set into motion. Then I will have this sort of "epiphany" feeling and realize that what I had just experienced was the exact same as the dream that I had had earlier. The events don't have to be anything special. i.e- walking through the hall in my house to go watch tv and then have a conversation with someone. It's essentially Deja Vu, but I had the experience in my dream earlier. I do not know for sure what this is. I have talked to others who say they sometimes have a similiar thing happen to them. It's like the brain is actually sensing the future and portraying it in a dream. Then later I experience it. I would think this was just a coincidence, but it has happened too many times to even consider it. If anyone has any thoughts on the subject, I would appreciate your thoughts. It really leads me to believe that the human brain actually does have some kind of untapped pre-cognitive ability, that through my dream-state, has come out to some extent. Although it seems irrational, this is indeed the case. Please post back.

Hey Rich Rahl or anyone reading, When it comes to all theories of creation and the origin of the universe, I am pretty open minded. I am in the position where I want to get as many FACTS as possible. I would judge myself to be rational person in most all of my desicion making. I've heard about the big bang theory, how maybe the universe at one time or many times throughout history would have just imploded on itself and later the "bang" happened. A theory could be that this has actually happened a limitless number of times, starting the life essence of the universe over and over again. I could buy that. I have decided to to take nothing as my desicion of truth, since any theory, to this date, is completely and utterly improvable. Another may be that there was just one initial "bang". Similiar to the previous. I could buy that too. Anyway, there are many theories out there. I myself do infact believe in god. However, that doesn't mean I have a certain closed mind, as many religious people would have the stereo-type of having. I infact do believe in evolution. Maybe not in the exact ways that some believe. But of any question I have had none can answer this one. It doesn't matter which way you go about it. Something cannot come from absolute nothingness. Something being anything that indeed exists. i.e.- If I took a box, say a magic box, void of anything, even on the atomic level. That had absolutely nothing inside of it. It wouldn't matter if I waited a year or 100 billion years, there would never ever be anything in that box. Not even some kind of sub-atomic particle would form. It just wouldn't happen. So no matter what the universe started out as or no matter how simply constructed it has ever been, it has indeed been something or composed of something. So where did this something come from. In this sense I believe God or some superbeing comes into play. and if you ask the question well where did god come from then? I could only say this. Something can indeed not come from nothing, so the only way anything could be there is if it was not bound by laws in our sense. This something would have to work outside of the physical laws in our universe. In a sense, being all-powerful. In our existence, everything is governed by laws. Hence why something just can't appear from nothing. The only thing that could trully disprove the existence of the superbeing is if there were actually no existence anywhere. However, we are indeed here with the rest of our universe. Therefore, something above our working laws of physics must be or has been at work. thank you for reading I would appreciate any comments.