points of power in time:
was there ever an all-powerful god, or even goddess perhaps, that created everything? now this is a simple concept, no doubt that is why everyone here has asked this question before. but such simplicity of thought is perhaps lacking in application to translating what reality is and how to understand the world. and really, if there were one person so powerful, wouldn't we know more about him or her? how could such a god be so anonymous?
i think it could be argued that a person born on earth is made, in the sense that it has been altered from its original state, has been given a human form, and the use of machinery, so to speak, to function in the world, that is, to see and to hear and to interact with others. it is a soul, so to speak, that has been hooked up to the world.
posit, however, that there were many responsible for what the world is, which leads to endless questions, then who supplied the human face, who owned the first orange tree, who ate the first apple, and so on? what is more prosaic to consider is that there was no one person who gave everyone else everything, but thousands or millions or billions who contributed parts of what the world is today.
a lot is possible in a very short time. if we assume there are many souls, each having contributed to what the earth is, doing their creative bit, we can see, assuming there was a wealth of things even in the beginning, how the world might have come to together in short order. connectivity, wealth, creation, speed. however, we feel small as individuals, that others have given us so much, because there are, in fact, many. if this were a reality of few people, we would not live in such a complex world.
so, to continue this argument, we live in a world of lesser gods. who were the gods of language? who had the original face? who first ate? at each inflection point in time, someone did something or gave something of themselves to the wider world. they exerted their power at that point in time that would last for ever after.
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