IMO, the one subject with the most possible paths to the answer or truth is, God. Nothing has consumed us more or ocuppied a greater amount of our energy, than to decide on how we feel about our place in the universe and why.

Forty some years ago, where I stood was revealed to me. God being a forgone conclusion IMO, I realized that if He/She created all that is, what was there before the episode of Creation? The only thing God had to "work with" was God! The only stuff going into Creating Everything, everywhere, eternally, is God.

God is not within us, EVERYTHING is ONE with GOD. Too simple?

Try wrapping your belief system around the fact (IMO) Creation and the Big Bang, are one and the same. Also, this is not the first creation episode and it wont be the last, eternity has no beginning or end.

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Only Love Prevails,
Don