July 3, 2005


  • New Zealand time, 4th July, 2005


    Well, here we are back in New Zealand and I’m off on my new web log adventure. 


    First of all, it’s hard for me to believe there’s anybody out there in I-land that would have any interest whatsoever in what I have to say about anything.  But, if you’re there, and you’re interested, here I go.


    My passion has always been to know what makes things tick.  Not necessarily why they tick, that’s interesting, or how they tick, that’s really interesting, but my supreme interest has always been in what or who makes them tick.


    Star Wars introduced the term, “the force be with you”, which is cool, but my hunger is to know the source of the force, so let’s start with a couple of questions, just to give you something to think about.  These are questions I have thought about for years and finally, at last the fog is clearing in my brain, and I am on the “dawn of understanding.”  We’ll get to my thoughts later.  But first, a couple of questions.


    1.  How big is big?  I mean, have you ever gone out on a starry night and looked up at the sky, I’m sure you have, everybody has, (unless they live in a cave or they’re born blind.)  While looking up at the night sky, have you ever asked yourself, “I wonder how far it goes?”  Science tells us that it goes on forever.  Science also tells us that the universe is expanding and expanding in every direction it can whiz.  My question, “what’s it expanding into?”  Science tells us that at some place/time in the distant past everything we see, everything that exists in our time/space continuum, from the quirks, charms, photons, atoms, molecules, planets, stars, out to the furtherest quasistellar objects that are within our observable universe, were at one time contained in some primordial nut, I guess it’s kind of like a black hole, and out of that nut came a huge explosion, they call the “big bang,” and everything that is was blown into existence.  (What a huge, long sentence, but I failed my English class, so bear with me.) (I also failed my spelling class, so my wife does her best with the words I throw at her without looking up a dictionary.)


    So, that brings me to another question.


    2.  What existed before the big bang?  You would think eternal nothingness, but is it really nothing?  And how big is it?  I’ll get back to these things later.


    I don’t know what your concept of God is, I don’t know what name you might use to identify your concept of God.  God, Jehovah, Allah, the list of names goes on for every tribe and race on the planet, but really, doesn’t a rose by any other name smell the same?  If you had a thousand people all holding hands in a big circle, and right in the center of that circle was a humoungus elephant, and you asked each individual to describe what the elephant looked like, you would get one thousand differenct answers.  The first person would give you his picture, the second person would describe what they saw, it would be similar to the first person’s but a tiny bit different.  Two or three hundred people down the line, the description would be quite a bit different from the first person’s, and by the five hundredth person, you would get a completely opposite description from person number one.  So, who in this great circle is right?


    I’ve said all this to hopefully raise your awareness to the reality that God is a pretty big elephant and if we all can just share our perspective view and listen to others without judging what they say as being right or wrong, but just accept what is being said as their perspective, which is different from ours, maybe as time goes by, we can discover what this infinite being is really about.


    Anyway, that’s just a couple of things to think about till I get back in the next few days.  If you have any thoughts on these questions email them to me and maybe I’ll catch a glimpse of your perspective.


    It’s time for waking up to the “isness” of being.


    Barry