[TheForge] YAK relativity- WAY OT, or not...

[Andy Vida]

Connsmith722@aol.com wrote:

> My question would be ...a border with what? Non-existence?

	Someone asks one of THE questions.

	When I was four I accidentally devised an exercise for 
	doing the proverbial proctological exam.  My father and
	I were walking through Bowne Park in Flushing and I asked 
	him if I would ever see God.  His response was quite good,
	I have to say, when he said "maybe".  Further dowm the
	road of that conversation, I asked what was here before the
	world existed.  He said "God".  So I asked what was there
	before God, and he said with something like shrug "nothing".
	This pretty well required that I conceive and understand
	what "nothing" was.  So I envisioned the universe as I 
	knew it, with the sun, planets, stars, galaxies... then
	I removed the earth and everything else piecemeal.  There
	was a very black void left, but this was still not nothing
	in my mind.  It was something: empty space.  So I imagined
	that impoding upon itself and just as it winked out I got
	that too brief glimpse "up there".  It literally jolted me
	and I have never forgotten the experience.  It changed me
	forever.  Yeah, I know, I was a really weird little kid.
	Now I'm a really weird adult.