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    <title>Gaia Community: Robert's Blog</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:56:24 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>What is, and is not, time, and how it relates to god</title>
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      <description>Some ruminations, to be expanded on in the future. &amp;nbsp;Call it &amp;#39;brainstreaming&amp;#39; for short.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time doesn&amp;#39;t exist outside of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortest possible instant of time is the exact same as eternity. &amp;nbsp;There is no difference.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Why? &amp;nbsp;Because there is no frame of reference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allow me to ask: how many 0th time instants are in an eternity?&amp;nbsp; (I will call the shortest possible instant of time the &amp;quot;0th instant&amp;quot; for the lack of a better term.) &amp;nbsp;You&amp;#39;re immediate answer is probably infinite. &amp;nbsp;Yes and no. &amp;nbsp;The thought of infinity is that it is the largest possible number where the definition of infinity is just that - there is &amp;quot;no finish&amp;quot;. &amp;nbsp;That said, how many 0th instants are in just one second? &amp;nbsp;The answer is again infinity. &amp;nbsp;Now, how much time must pass between leaving one 0th instant and enter the next 0th instant? &amp;nbsp;Naturally, it is the same amount of time it takes to go from the start of a 0th instant to get to the end of that 0th instant. &amp;nbsp;In all cases the answer is the same: eternity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, in our present form we can know or experience neither. &amp;nbsp;Perhaps enlightenment is the ability to know one or both of these. &amp;nbsp;In fact, I believe that is exactly enlightenment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;::of god and time::&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God is, was, and will be everything. &amp;nbsp;Everything is part of the same entity, just separated, coalescing, and mixing in a grand experiment. &amp;nbsp;What we perceive as time is just the filling-in of god reassembling itself. &amp;nbsp;I believe that time started with the big bang and will end with gaia - the culmination of everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If god truly knew everything and existed for an eternity, it is the same as existing for the 0th moment only. &amp;nbsp;There was no time before, and will be no time after, god once again becomes whole. &amp;nbsp;That is, god is completely reformed into the entity that started the big bang. &amp;nbsp;And god will remain in that form for both an eternity and a 0th instant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God is NOT a male figure. &amp;nbsp;Nor is god a female figure. &amp;nbsp;God is a duality, a yin *and* a yang. &amp;nbsp;God is evil and is good, and everything in between. &amp;nbsp;What would possess a god or gaia to continue to exist in that form if they were comprised of everything and knew everything there was to know? &amp;nbsp;God would only be bored if time passed, and the more assembled god became the greater the change in time - be it faster or slower in passing. &amp;nbsp;Trouble is, we cannot see how fast or slow time changes because we are *IN* the time field or time stream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will iterate and reiterate later when I have more time to devote to a deeper discussion on these topics. &amp;nbsp;But for now, just consider it for what it is: wetware fertilizer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;R~</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:29 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Where did the time (and everyone) go?</title>
      <link>http://01.gaia.com/blog/2008/5/where_did_the_time_and_everyone_go</link>
      <description>Good Grief! &amp;nbsp;I was *stunned* to see that it was an unbelievable 18 months since I last signed on and wrote my first and only blog entry. &amp;nbsp;I truly had no concept it had been that long. &amp;nbsp;I&amp;#39;ve intended, many many many times, to get on here and start in earnest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine my surprise when zaadz.com led me to a commercial website. &amp;nbsp;I can&amp;#39;t say I&amp;#39;m pleased with the change, so we&amp;#39;ll see how it goes. &amp;nbsp;So far, though, this lacks the feeling of community and more like I&amp;#39;m posting on the website of a personal hygiene product company; like some weird interactive advertisement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Possibly somewhere underneath is the Zaadz community hidden behind the advertisements. &amp;nbsp;Given that possibility, I&amp;#39;m going to at least say what I came back to say, even if only me and the person looking for the soap isle ever see it.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 04:19:33 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A Good Movie</title>
      <link>http://01.gaia.com/blog/2006/11/a_good_movie</link>
      <description>A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I decided to watch a movie, which is something we haven't done in a while.  We love to get a good deal on movies that pique our interest or that we've enjoyed in the past.  So whenever Blockbuster has a good sale on previously viewed DVDs, we take the opportunity to add a few titles to our collection.

Invariably, we end up with a good-sized stack of movies that we haven't yet watched, which is even better than going to the video store because we can choose a genre we are interested in and watch one of our pre-selected movies, all without leaving the house.  Heck, we don't even have to move more than 10 feet!

This brings us to the last movie we watched, and one that fits perfectly here on Zaadz.  The title is cute, and the movie is a "peculiar" comedy, and is odd though not as odd as the movie itself.  The title is "&lt;a href="http://www.ihearthuckabees.com/" target="_blank"&gt;"I (heart) Huckabees&lt;/a&gt;".

&lt;a href="http://www.ihearthuckabees.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sixit.com/images/ihearthuckabees_thmb.jpg" alt="I (heart) Huckabees cover" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Definitely peculiar, delightful, and worthy of Zaadz folks' attention!

Not much for my first blog entry, but the movie is deserving.

Cheers!
Robert~</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:25:32 -0000</pubDate>
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