When you really stop and think about it, is there all that much difference between the degree of bizarreness, or maybe it's the degree to which you would have to stretch your imagination, required for a simple human to envision and then totally accept one the following [or something else equally as bizarre]:
1) There is a single creator-entity who is able to single-handedly manufacture each and every minute detail of every single object in the entire universe; and then actually has the time and the inclination to reveal himself and even carry on conversations with a select few individuals from one selected species on a sinle planet from among the billions of galaxies.
2) There is a vast pantheon of creator gods and subordinate worker/influence gods who together have manufactured each and every single object in the entire universe, and then have continuously occupied, influenced, abandoned, defiled, and otherwise fiddled with both the animate and inanimate entities occupying the universe.
3) Every single thing in this vast, infinite universe was contained within an infinitely small point which exploded into being, rapidly expanded, cooled, and evolved into the entirety of all things; and which even after cooling to a point that life could evolve, now is even more rapidly expanding rather than contracting.
4) Everything we see is an illusionary veil which will be lifted when we transcend into the reality of Ohm.
The last of the four seems simplest to accept. Peace.
[This message has been edited by Abshalom, 01-16-2004]
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