I thought that I would kick off a fairly self-indulgent thread, as for the first time in my life it is likely that I have found at least a few people who might have some idea WTF I am on about.
It seems to be fairly common that Aspies suffer from insomnia and odd sleep patterns. So what do you do with those hours that you spend just lying there in the dark. When I was a teenager, so around the same age as most of the forum members, I would come up with all sorts of theories about the nature of God. I don't believe in God, but when you consider the distinct possibility that there is a God of some sort, what sort of God makes sense to a rational human mind?
I theorised that time must be finite. Why? Because if time is infinite in both directions, then there must be an infinite amount of time preceding any event. As such nothing could ever happen, right? I ran this by a few people and they always tried to tell me that my logic was flawed. It wasn't until I read "A Brief History Of Time" by Stephen J Hawking that I found someone else talking about the same issue.
Time and Space are not infinite, but how can they be finite when the human mind cannot conceive of a boundary on either? If time is finite, then there must have been a time when time did not yet exist. In which case there couldn't have been a time, as such, when time did not exist. :wtf2:
If God is not a person but a force of nature, why did He create the universe? Is God even aware of the existence of mankind, are we even relevant?
What is the nature of consciousness? The odds against "me", or any other specific individual, even existing in first place are beyond astronomical. So how is it that this specific "me" came to be?
I'll type up some of the ideas and conclusions that I came up with a bit later.
It seems to be fairly common that Aspies suffer from insomnia and odd sleep patterns. So what do you do with those hours that you spend just lying there in the dark. When I was a teenager, so around the same age as most of the forum members, I would come up with all sorts of theories about the nature of God. I don't believe in God, but when you consider the distinct possibility that there is a God of some sort, what sort of God makes sense to a rational human mind?
I theorised that time must be finite. Why? Because if time is infinite in both directions, then there must be an infinite amount of time preceding any event. As such nothing could ever happen, right? I ran this by a few people and they always tried to tell me that my logic was flawed. It wasn't until I read "A Brief History Of Time" by Stephen J Hawking that I found someone else talking about the same issue.
Time and Space are not infinite, but how can they be finite when the human mind cannot conceive of a boundary on either? If time is finite, then there must have been a time when time did not yet exist. In which case there couldn't have been a time, as such, when time did not exist. :wtf2:
If God is not a person but a force of nature, why did He create the universe? Is God even aware of the existence of mankind, are we even relevant?
What is the nature of consciousness? The odds against "me", or any other specific individual, even existing in first place are beyond astronomical. So how is it that this specific "me" came to be?
I'll type up some of the ideas and conclusions that I came up with a bit later.
