Essentially I want to ask what some of you think of the sun from a religious/spiritual point of view. But also from an atheist point of view.
We owe everything to the sun. It was the first planet compulsory to the creation of life, and to preserve life.
Without the sun nothing would exist. Had the sun not continued to burn in the area it did after the big bang, the other rocks that had hurtled through space on fire would not have came into orbit.
They would not have cooled down, and they would not have become the earth as we know it, venus , saturn and so on.
For this the sun was compulsory, as was gravity. The rest, well let us leave that for the moment , lets not become embroiled in intellectualism. .
It was the sun that created life, it is the creator of us and all things.
After the big bang , and many years later the sun continued to shine, and so life became possible. The intervention of heat created steam and vapour, clouds came about, as did water, and creatures.
As man developed he discovered fire. And it was from this point that he transcended his animal self. A self that could only have been limited without the sun to give him fire.
Without fire & without the sun there would be no Farming or agriculture,arts, cooking, computers, nothing at all.
Fire is none other than the sun in a slightly different form. It is essentially the same matter.
Therefore in the form of a fire on earth that a man would build, the sun has taught us everything from the arts to morality.
I am proposing to you that the sun has everything to teach us. And that this is a vast science. Quite unlike anything the Incas , aztecs or alike taught. But similiar.
The fire has given us the ability to advance and evolve to our present state, and the sun asks for nothing in return. Yes my friends here is the absolute truth.
The sun has given you all things, your life , your love, arts and culture, without all of which there would have been no advancement in mentality , morality , nothing.
And yet while you can easily agree that we are an incredibly complex being, possibly the most intelligent thing on the planet, that without us , there is no observer etc etc . you may not agree that your creator has any faculties of thought?
No real mental faculties? It is a creator void of any intelligence?
Do we assume our creator is less smart than that which he has created?
To be sure , this is not a religious question as such. I am not proposing that the sun is god as in the traditional understanding of a supreme being.
This is reality, I am saying the sun created all things, and that if you were placing a wager like pascal, would,nt you say it is quite arrogant to assume that the sun which created all things and sustains them without asking for anything in return, is none other than a mere burning planet with no real faculties of thought?
This is life , this is reality. It was only man who added philosophy to life and the sun when he had begun to see it fuelled everything in his life. When he begun to see how important it was.
So do not let quack theories and styles of worship mislead you, these are not good, they are only the traditions man built up for himself according to what he saw as good at the time. But we are entering a new age of understanding.
Yes I know all about the fact that the sun harms us as well, the theories on how the sun will blow up one day. But let this alone for the moment.
The sun has created all things, it sustains our lives, and feeds us, waters us, gave us art and culture, morality. Do you think this is a daft sun?
…it is more what shows up current theory to be a bit of a botch job. Yet boundaries get pushed back everyday…!