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“The compressed idea of the Universal Mind is dispersed into the world by the “explosion”—the Big Bang. The creation of order is not a compression of energy but the ordering of elements. Einstein treats the effect, not the cause. Still, we need to explain, at least approximately, the cause and the most relevant relationship—the relationship between the Being and the Nonbeing or Nothingness.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The world is relative, and Everything in it is relative, but before the effect of the world, as we know it, the world is absolute in its primordial stage. This Absolute World, or Universal Mind, also has the potential to create an infinite number of worlds or universes.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The last division of the indivisible, which cannot be divided anymore, is the “moment�� of disappearance. “Universal Mind�� creates energy and mass through the universal programming of Reality. This Reality has a beginning and end: it is not eternal and can disappear. Matter is the program of the “Universal Mind.�� The “point�� of something we call the Big Bang is the “point “of creation or recreation. Everything that disappeared is created or recreated again (not as an ordinary, identical recurrence, although even that is possible in infinity).”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Nobody measured, and nobody will ever be able to precisely measure the “spot�� from which the Big Bang started because it is a “spotless spot.�� Everyone knows that this spot is infinitesimally tiny. We claim that this spot is the zero spot (immeasurable) of the ultimate essence on its way into existence. This spot is immeasurable because it is zero. This “spot�� is the spotless spot of absolute density and zero size.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Even if we naively try to explain the immeasurable spaces, energies, and galaxies of the Universe with the so-called dark matter and dark energy, it is hard to comprehend, regardless of all possible physical laws and laws of compression or contraction, that such waste energies can fit into a tiny “spot.�� If energy is indestructible, this beginning will prove the opposite based on its smallness. If something can disappear into nothing, it must be “destructible,�� regardless of our conceptions.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“If we would, hypothetically, explore the idea of the universe's contraction, the result would be similar to the black hole. Regardless of a much bigger mass of the whole Universe, as ours is, the absolute contraction would lead to the same point at which the black hole reaches maximum density. The point of maximum density is Zero, at which point the Big Bang happens (or the Universe disappears, which is less likely). In this sense, from the point of the result, expansion or contraction of the Universe would lead to almost the same result.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We must admit that we do not know everything about our world. What we know is not all that we can learn. We do not even know how much we do not know and how huge the difference between what we know and what we do not know is. We do not understand quantum mechanics in a real sense. We do not realize what gravitation is. We do not know if there is only one universe that we think originated from a Big Bang or if there are many other universes. We do not know what dark matter is, and we do not know what dark energy is, nor do we exactly understand these phenomena.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We cannot say that what we don’t understand about the universe or what we do not know about the universe does not exist. Our ignorance about the myriad of unknown and outstanding issues does not mean that these issues are teapots orbiting the sun or dragons or spirits hiding in our garages, apartments, or homes. There is only one home we all inhabit. That home is this universe, this world we live in. We learned much about our home but constantly pursued discoveries and new knowledge to bring us closer to the stars and the core of everything. That core of everything that we all crave hides beyond our cognitive abilities and shifts away again and again, regardless of our progress and discoveries. Are we closer to the truth today than Plato was almost 2,500 years ago?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Where is the core of the truth? If the center of the truth is out of space and time, then we cannot think about it from the paradigm of space and time. First, we have to define, as much as possible, the meaning of the word (term) God. What do we mean when we use the term God in every situation? We also must ask why God must be what some people say in the religious books. Why the Creator cannot be One with his creation? Why can’t we assume that the World is God in action? The Source of everything is not only the Source but also the Materialization and Personification of itself through the world. Maker is the making and the creation of the making. Without making, the Maker is dead. Making and creating is the rejuvenation of the Maker. The world is another face of the Maker. The world is a way out. The World is God’s exit strategy. The world is the salvation of the maker. Creation is the salvation of the Creator through its creation. Since the world itself is the source, the world is also uncreated. The world did not come out of nothing, ex nihilo. The world is one of the manifestations of the Absolute. The world is proof that the Absolute exists.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“What we do not understand about the world or the things “beyond�� the world is not proof that they do not exist but proof of our ignorance. Our ignorance cannot be a measure of anything and should not be a measure of anything, not to mention that it cannot be a measure of the unknown in this world or about what we think is beyond our world. Is something within or beyond only a matter of our understanding and perception rather than necessarily a matter of fact? The world is physics and metaphysics at the same time. Although it sounds paradoxical, we are what we are and are not. The world is more what we do not understand than we know. We seek what is seeking us. The Source is singing the song through all of us. The song of the universe celebrates the existence, the voyage, and the plurality dispersed through almost “eternity�� to seek and reach the light that is the reflection of itself because the light of the source is in every one of us. To find the light within is to find the light out. Finding the source is identifying with the source on the way back to the source itself. The world is one organism. Existence needs separations to create and maintain life.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
The First Cause Argument

The real problem with the first cause argument is not if God or anything else needed a cause but if the first cause is necessary for anything. If the Ultimate Being, or Absolute, always existed, nothing else exists or can exist outside of it except a transformation, “creation,�� or recreation within the Absolute. Absolute Being is not the first cause of the world. We must agree with Russel that the world is without a cause. The view that the Absolute (in someone’s eyes, God) is without a cause does not mean that the world had a different, specific cause. The world is the Absolute itself or emanation of it. The world is the life of the Absolute (or God, but not a God from religious books), not something “different�� from the Absolute. Therefore, neither the Absolute, God, Nothingness, nor the Universe need a cause because they are all the Absolute itself. Absolute is the causeless cause operating within itself. The world is a manifestation of the Absolute and its celebration, lovemaking between the Being and Nonbeing in the form of the cosmic fireworks for the hidden eyes of the Absolute. The World is a causeless cause's transformation, creation, or Recreation.

The Nothingness and the Being or Something are eternal and, therefore, are without a cause. The real question for atheists is how something can appear out of nothing at some point. Believing that something can come out from nothing is way less believable than the idea that there is an eternal Being that does not need a cause. We may call it whatever name we choose, but it is not necessarily incompatible with science. The limitations of science and its limited outreach cannot serve as proof against the eternal source of everything. Limitations are only proof of the level of science at some point. There is no absolute knowledge, and we can say, with almost absolute certainty, that humans cannot acquire absolute knowledge. Even if this were possible, humans would no longer be humans but be something else.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The Natural Law Argument

Bertrand Russell: “There is, as we all know, a law that if you throw dice, you will get double sixes only about once in thirty-six times, and we do not regard that as evidence that the fall of the dice is regulated by design.��

Russell's argument is a logical fallacy because we cannot impose our understanding and interpretation of playing dice on God or the natural law. We must first define or understand our subject to talk about anything with scientific precision. Since nobody has an understanding of the world before the world, to put it that way, we cannot have a clear understanding or grasp of the things that are beyond our cognitive powers. We still can think about them. To say that science is only what is proven by scientific experiments would be foolish because that would exclude the vast space of the unknown, even unknowable. Maybe God does not play dice, but maybe even God needs, metaphorically speaking, to throw out thirty-six worlds to make some effects, even if only two, that would otherwise not be possible. As we know, matter cannot power itself and organize itself without the underlying creative force empowering it. Matter is matter thanks to our perceptive and cognitive powers, not per se. Matter per se does not exist in the form we see it. What we see is a reality based on our senses. We cannot completely rely on our senses to tell the underlying reality. Reaching the underlying reality is possible only through abstract thought. This abstract thought will enhance scientific discoveries because we cannot reach the physically unreachable by experiments or strictly scientific means.

Identification of God from religious books with God independent of holy books is prevalent in the books or arguments against God used by the most famous atheists, including agnostics like Bertrand Russell. However, a huge difference exists between a God from religious books and Spinoza’s God or the God of many philosophers and scientists. Once we acknowledge and accept this important difference, we will realize that the gap between believers (not contaminated by religions) and atheists (or agnostics) is much smaller than it looks at first sight. God is not in the religious books, nor can he be owned through religious books. The main goal of the major monotheistic religions is to a priori appropriate and establish the right to God rather than to define and explain God in the deepest possible sense because that is almost impossible, even for science and philosophy. For that reason, a belief in blind faith and fear mostly saves major religions, rather than pure belief, unaffected by religious influence or deceit.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“The Argument from Design

Based on Russell's treatment of this argument, we assume that Russel expected that the world's creation, by design, had to be perfect. But, as with all other arguments, we must establish what design and perfection mean. If we do not clearly define what design is and what perfection is, we are applying our judgments to something either undefined or loosely defined. Evolutionary theory, be it Darwin’s theory, cannot be proof of a bad design of the world. Anomalies or shortages in the world are not proof of a bad design. Imperfections are needed in the world and serve a higher purpose. Let’s say that God if he existed, wanted to create the perfect world. This perfect world would be sterile. In the perfect world, there would be no cosmic hierarchies, lows, and highs, enough friction to sustain life as something whose purpose is not to be made perfect from the beginning but to seek perfection, to make “progress�� in myriad ways toward the main purpose which is life itself. Life, by definition, is not perfect. Perfect life is not a real life.

The purpose of design is not to predict a Ku Klux Klan or the fascists and eliminate them from the design before any creation but to put the “engine�� of the vast Universe in motion, to enable the world to seek its paths freely, without a God playing dice. That is where determinism and free will come together to create a sensible world.
Design does not mean playing dice, nor necessarily creating something new, but the creator offers himself an exit to exist in an ever-new world, a new form with meaning. We also may say that in the Universe or Omniverse, beyond our knowledge, there can be not only thirty-six (to make a comparison with dice) but a googolplex of universes (dice), and the possibility for combinations is infinite.

“Impossibility to prove God�� is not proof that God does not exist. Russel would argue that the burden of proof is on the person making a claim, but the world itself is proof of God’s existence. The solution to this enigma is to recognize that the world is God. The problem is not belief or disbelief, first cause, natural law or good or bad design, or any other argument for the existence or against the existence of God; the problem is in our understanding and consensus about the idea of what God is. Argumentation or proof can never be shifted to only one side. Something so obvious as the world does not need proof but understanding that the world is also, in its deepest nature, God itself.

We can fight as long as we want, but if we fight from different positions for the sake of different positions, we are not going anywhere. God is not the same for the theist or the deist. Christian God is so far from Spinoza’s idea about God. The majority of people who are atheists today are atheists more in revolt against nominal, official religions and not necessarily in revolt against God if this God was better defined or approached from an angle unaffected by religions.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We will start with Hawking's few quotations.

“The quantum theory of gravity has opened up a new possibility, in which there would be no boundary to spacetime and so there would be no need to specify the behavior at the boundary. There would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down and no edge of spacetime at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for spacetime. One could say: ‘The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.�� The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.��

Or, in the same manner: “There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe, and what can be more special than the condition that there is no boundary?�� Also, he stated, “According to the no-boundary proposal, asking what came before the Big Bang is meaningless—like asking what is south of the South Pole—because there is no notion of time available to refer to. The concept of time only exists within our universe.��

The “no-boundary proposal�� is a classic example of a device called in Latin, Deus ex machina—God from the machine, invented by the ancient Greek dramatists Aeschylus and Euripides. The primary purpose of the device was to resolve the irresolvable.

The question of what came before the Big Bang is not meaningless. We cannot accept that our Big Bang is the beginning of all existence. Since there is "no notion of time available to refer to," that does not mean there is nothing to refer to. This reasoning is a logical fallacy based on the idea that there should be nothing to refer to if there is no time to refer to it. This kind of reasoning falsifies reality to fit the argument. For this statement to be accurate, there must be proof that there is nothing to refer to, not "no notion of time to refer to." The lack of notion of time to refer to or its availability is not proof that there is nothing to refer to, but only that there is no notion of time to refer to and that it is not available. The lack of availability is only proof that something is not available to someone but not proof that nothing exists beyond the “point�� where “time�� stops. If Something, the Being, the Universal Source of Everything, is not available or approachable in any way by some particular scientist, that does not mean that the Universal Source of Everything (the Absolute) does not exist beyond the physical world.

In this sense, the no-boundary proposal is a boundary proposal of a different kind. Since it is impossible to speculate about abstract concepts or ideas, such as God, Absolute, or Universal Source, it is easier to invent some trick (pardon my language), with all due respect, to compensate for the lack of understanding of the most abstract ideas and to compensate for the limitations of a frame of mind of any particular scientist or philosopher. In this case, the no-boundary proposal precisely serves the purpose of a boundary—to limit the world to the point where “time stops�� and declare that there is nothing beyond because time stops there. That should mean that the laws of nature and science stop at this artificially produced boundary. But what do we have as proof that this is true? Precisely like in religions, we have words that sound seductively beautiful and convincing. Also, to a large extent, these words are supported by scientific knowledge and investigation. Yet, they are just words, and in no way do they prove that there is no immaterial Universal Source beyond the “point�� where time stops.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Hawking’s insistence on scientific laws hides the desire to transform the current scientific laws into the ultimate and absolute knowledge of everything, physical and metaphysical, of this world and the outer world. According to him, we are on the verge of declaring, with almost absolute certainty, that we have solved the whole enigma of existence and gone down to nearly the deepest end of science and scientific laws. Although he expressed many ideas in a simple, popular, and often funny way, there is a little bit of unjustifiable scientific conceit (to call it that way) behind some statements.

If we were to imagine the creative force capable of creating the Universe, this creative force would be out of time or eternal. The Eternal Being is not contingent or affected by the boundaries of the physical world. The no-boundary proposal is accurate in that there are no boundaries we can apply to the Eternal Being. Still, the Universe, as the Being with its beginning, is bounded by time. The first point of the Universe is its first limit; it would have no limits if it were a timeless Being. Even if there were a series of births and rebirths, these would still be limited creations or recreations of something eternal that creates or recreates itself through the creation of universes. The creative power of the Eternal Being is the ultimate force that keeps the Eternal Being alive. The only way for the Eternal Being to exist with meaning is through its creative power to rejuvenate itself in new ways and myriad forms constantly. The Creator is its creation, and the creation creates the creator in a deeper sense. Without creating, the Universal Being loses its purpose and becomes meaningless. Meaning is only possible in plurality. The World, or Universe, gives the Universal Being meaning and purpose. The world is its salvation.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The nonmaterial world is the spaceless "space" and timeless "time." In the nonmaterial world, there is no time and no space. Paradoxically, no time means eternity, and no space means infinity. No boundary proposal is a proposal about an everlasting world and everlasting time. Everlasting means time with a beginning and no end. The concept or idea of eternal implies no beginning and no end. The concept of the everlasting Being, or time, or space, as an ultimate principle is shaky because we cannot use our limitations in thinking to argue against reality as it is and not as we say it is. If we do not understand the idea of time in its totality, we cannot talk about time from the point of superior “knowledge.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Whatever has a beginning is not eternal. What is not eternal must have come from "somewhere." The worst thing is to try to prove something, counting on the idea that it came from nothing. It is also as unscientific as it can get. No chaos theory can prove this reasoning, and no "butterfly effect" can prove it because nothing is only nothing and cannot be anything else except nothing. Nothingness cannot move the Nothing or create from nothing.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The idea of infinite regress is absurd. The question of God cannot be reduced to a cosmological argument either. The ultimate question of reality is if there is something or not. If we agree that there is something, then the question is if that something can come into existence from nothing. Wouldn't it be more logical that there is just nothing? But just the idea that there is nothing implies, at least linguistically, that nothing is something; otherwise, we would not use the words ‘there is.�� Again, language demonstrates how limited it is.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We should conclude that this Nothing is eternal. To prove that Something is not eternal, we would have to prove that this Something just appeared from nowhere and became something. The burden of proof here lies on atheists to demonstrate how something came into existence from nothing. This burden is the same one Bertrand Russell tried to impose on theists, deists, or any believer. Why would believers be burdened with the burden of proving God and disbelievers get away without proving how Something, whatever we choose to call it—God, Universe, World, came to be?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“That the matter originated just by itself or was always "there" in the form of "energy" and organized itself into superbly sophisticated organisms forming the Universe borders on insanity. We can, perhaps, all (both atheists and those who believe in a higher source) agree that there always was Something. The question is how we define this Something. It is much easier to prove that the Something always existed than to prove the opposite. Scientists can deal with this Something more easily because, moving back, step by step, scientists will come to nothing. When they come to nothing, the "spotless spot" before the Big Bang, they will have to scientifically explain how all the reality, the whole of what we think the "Universe" is, was contained within an immeasurable "spotless spot." Once they find the answer, they will understand that this "spotless spot" from which everything originated is immaterial and spaceless. This immaterial Being is the Creator of all reality and is the reality itself. Plotinus would call this reality intelligence or mind.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We provided the frame from which scientists can prove that matter is a construct, program, and “instruction�� of the Universal Mind and that the same program predetermines our perception. Our understanding of the world is contingent upon our experience, cognition, and perception (tertiary quality in my system of thought), which is contingent upon the secondary in my system of thought (originally, primary quality) since there is no matter as we perceive it or conceptualize it. There is no matter as such.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The comment about the South of South Pole is a logical fallacy because it presupposes nothing existed before the Big Bang. The Entity before the Big Bang is not comparable to what is south of the South Pole. The idea that we do not understand that there is something "North, South, East, and West" of the Big Bang does not mean that these "North, South, East, and West" do not exist in a way incomprehensible to our limited cognitive powers, senses, and based on limited scientific discoveries. That which lies beyond time and space and is the source of everything we see cannot be referenced only by the too-simplistic and sometimes semi-humorous means. Our language and words or terms describing the sides of the “physical world�� are limited if we want to apply them to the metaphysical, immaterial realm beyond space and time. In no way does this kind of reasoning or “arguments�� prove that the Universal Source of Everything does not exist. I have chosen to call this Source of Everything, known and unknown, the Universal Mind. In our sense of the word, there is no space before the Big Bang, and there are no sides of any kind, not to mention sides of the World. South of the South Pole is just Nothingness from a physical point of view. There are no sides of the world in the primordial Nothingness or the Absolute Vacuum. At the same time, this Nothingness “hides�� immaterial Being, the Universal Source of everything.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“No Need for Time Before the Creation of the World

Here is one more quotation representative of the way Stephen Hawking thought:
“The role played by time at the beginning of the Universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a grand designer and revealing how the Universe created itself. As we travel back in time towards the moment of the Big Bang, the Universe gets smaller and smaller and smaller, until it finally comes to a point where the whole Universe is a space so small that it is in effect a single infinitesimally small, infinitesimally dense black hole. And just as with modern-day black holes, floating around in space, the laws of nature dictate something quite extraordinary. They tell us that here too time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the Big Bang because there was no time before the Big Bang. We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means that there is no possibility of a creator, because there is no time for a creator to have existed in. People want answers to the big questions, like why we are here. They don’t expect the answers to be easy, so they are prepared to struggle a bit. When people ask me if a God created the Universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang so there is no time for God to make the Universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth—the Earth is a sphere that doesn’t have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.��

In its absolute state, beyond the World, the Being is immaterial, and the Nonbeing is an absolute vacuum, nothingness, or emptiness.
In the primordial state of the Absolute, the Being and the Nonbing become the same—the Nonbeing.

There is no time or space in the absolute realm beyond the World.

Timeless “time�� is the potential for Eternity. Eternity is beyond time because it is all time, past and future.

Spaceless “space�� or nothingness is the infinite potential for space. Infinity is beyond space because infinity is all space, past and future.

Creation or recreation of the World (Universe) activates the two poles of the Absolute.

Creation of the World is the salvation of the Absolute.

Absolute is absolute potential.

The activity of the Being enveloping the Nonbeing (Nothingness) transforms the Being and the Nonbeing into the World (Universe).

When the Absolute transforms into the World, the Being becomes positive, and the Nonbeing becomes negative.

The Being is positive “energy.��

The Nonbeing is negative “energy.��

Zero is the point of equilibrium between the Being and the Nonbeing.

Zero is the passage (wormhole) between the primordial state of the Absolute and the World or Universe.

Before the spacetime continuum, plus and minus are the same: + = ��

Before the creation, Absolute is 0 (+ �� = 0)

At the point of the World Creation, the Being envelopes the Nonbeing: + 0 ��

The Being cannot envelop the whole of the Nonbeing because Nothingness is infinite in its potential.

The Being is infinite in its potential, too.

(+ [plus] is the Being; �� [minus] the Nonbeing; 0 [Zero] is the Absolute)

The primordial state of the Absolute is immaterial, spaceless, and timeless.

The primordial state of the Absolute is absolute potential.

In its potential, the Absolute is infinite and eternal.

Absolute can only exercise its potential and power in the infinite number of possibilities and universes or worlds it can transform into.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The primordial state of the Absolute is immaterial, spaceless, and timeless.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“In its potential, the Absolute is infinite and eternal.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Absolute can only exercise its potential and power in the infinite number of possibilities and universes or worlds it can transform into.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Point�� of creation, like a Big Bang, is the passage through Zero between the immaterial, “timeless,�� and “spaceless�� Absolute into the Universe with space and time and with characteristics of physical reality, which is an illusion. But this illusion is reality, not less realistic for being an illusion.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“There can be no time before the Big Bang, but time and space are logical consequences of our Universe appearing after the Big Bang (or a different event) or any other universe.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The power of “negative energy�� is the power of the Nonbeing or Nothingness, and the power of “positive energy�� is the power of the Being.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The Universe is not material, as we already described in the previous chapters of this book. Hence, the annihilation, real or unreal, is irrelevant because when positive and negative “energy,�� if that is the case, cancel each other out, it is not the annihilation of the Universal Source, the Absolute, or its two constituents—the Being and the Nobeing (nothingness). Everything is a program. Cancelling out of the positive and negative “energy�� is annihilating the original immaterial program. Simply put, only the “illusion�� of the physical world disappears.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE