@Hikmah Heikal Thanks for joining the group, Hickmah. Sorry for the delay in welcoming you and others — took two weeks off to recover from a minor surgery. In the context of all existing theistic religions, god is merely humanity’s projection of an all powerful being who serves as a strong black garbage bag into which all mysteries are dumped. The best account of this explanation was provided by Feuerbach’s writings. In the context of philosophy, the only logical way for god to exist is Spinoza’s “god or nature” — namely identifying nature as god (in essence as good as denying god). In the context of science, whatever exists is but a form of energy — there’s no god whatsoever, just energy in its myriad forms.

The deeper I go within, the more I realise life isn’t as complicated as it looks. We experience chaos because we only see fragments—but underneath it all, there’s a natural intelligence moving through everything. For me, it’s not about chasing proof or outcomes. It’s about tuning in—through stillness, awareness, and presence—and letting that guide my actions. When I’m aligned, things flow. When I’m not, life shows me. So I don’t chase being right or being rich. I focus on being aligned. Everything else follows. Curious who else feels this.

@Torvicx Mo Thanks for the question, Torvicx. There are many ways to deconstruct this ancient misleading problem. 1) assume there is “nothing”, then this “nothing” would exist as “nothing”, thereby contradicting itself. 2) you can say things like “there is no dog here”, “there is no cat there”, “there are no trees in the ocean”, etc., ie you can deny the existence of certain specific forms of things somewhere or everywhere, but you can’t deny the existence of all forms of things. 3) energy conserves, neither created nor destroyed, including angular momentum — how much energy there is today, how much energy forever. 4) whatever exists is but a form of energy. 5) there’s no nothingness.

@Jerry Perryman Absolutely. And we are the intelligent life beyond their planets. This necessary conclusion comes from the fact that the rotating universe consists of a hierarchical structure of rotating systems with intelligent life existing at the level of planetary systems. The abundance of life separated by exponential spaces and distances.

@Lisa Dyer Thanks for joining the group, Lisa, and for your seemingly rather straightforward question. For many religious people, the answer is seemingly straightforward too: as taught by the Bible, God the Creator created humans. But it isn’t really an ultimate answer because one can continue to ask: who created God? Now the challenge has shifted: at first, the question was to explain the origin of humans who are known to obviously exist, however, with that answer, a new question has been raised — how to explain the origin of God who’s not known to obviously exist. That’s no answer at all. The correct way to answer your question is to deconstruct it: more specifically, to deconstruct the notion of creation. Whatever exists is but a form of energy — in the forms of humans, animals, vegetation, bacteria, clouds, and what not. Any perceived action of creation is in fact merely transformation of energy: every part of the universe plays a role in the formation of anything in the universe, be it a grain of sand, a mountain, a grasshopper, or a human being. Amidst all these transformations, one thing remains constant: energy conserves. More specifically, angular momentum conserves. This transformation of nature and within nature is the true meaning of Darwin’s evolutionary theory: humans are part of this evolutionary process just like all the insects, all the stars and all the galaxies. To look for the details of this evolutionary process, to find out about all the forms and structures and functions, to figure out the causal relationships, constitutes science or the pursuit of knowledge. To appreciate the wonders of the universe, of the transforming nature, of which we are an integral part, constitutes genuine spirituality — something humanity as a whole hasn’t evolved to acquire yet.