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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5029363" data-attributes="member: 54707">Thanks. I appreciate that.One of my buddies and I had a conversation like that once and we both concluded that depending upon one's condition of genesis, or state of origin, one really can conclude that the sun revolves around the Earth or that the Earth is the center of the universe. Of course, in such a scheme any place or time can be used as a reference weltanschuuang, and some points have greater claim to objective "gravity" than others, but then again, from a certain point of view; "Deus est sphaera infinita, cujus centrum est ubique, circumferentia nusquam..." So, maybe, is much of everything. At least in one way or another. CB, I personally am not a big proponent of String Theory per se, but I very much like the idea of sensing things through gravity (and through other basic universal forces). The idea of things like Gravity, having both universal and specific meanings (or Gravities if you will) beyond their immediate and apparent physical function seems both natural to me as a practical concept, and implicational to me in a spiritual sense. (I've always suspected that Gravity, and many of the other forces, but gravity in particular, has both a physical and scientific and pragmatic function, as well as a psychological and spiritual function, and your idea of angels and other beings "sensing" or monitoring changes in conditional states is a fascinating one to me. Think for instance of God, just as an idea, using Gravity to instantly "illuminate" all of physical time and space in the same way we might illuminate objects with a spotlight - only in the case of gravity the energy would be self-renewing whenever and wherever mass was involved, that is to say gravity would not diminish over distance when concentrated upon an object of interest, but would increase its effective utility - but Gravity would allow not only exterior illumination, but simultaneous interpenetrating illuminations, while also altering the interactive courses of spatial and temporal relationships between both gigantic and miniscule objects. Of course gravity as we know it probably breaks down at the quantum level, but perhaps there is a corresponding "spooky force" that would be used for corollary functions at that level. Still, gravity as a sort of universal or omni-penetrative illuminator. I like the concept.) And I'm peculiar to the idea that there are still many forms of energy (and maybe some forms of matter) that exist beyond the range of both human sensory capabilities, and current human technology, so the idea of forces and forms of energy (or even dimensional spaces and temporal currents) moving or acting perpendicular to, or even obliquely against, normal dimensional structures appeals to me.Those are some really good ideas you suggested and have given me some interesting things to think about. Both as regards science and God, and as regards magic.</blockquote>

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