The UNIVERSE

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Who created this marvel of the universe? Is it the common thought of the Judeo-Christian God? An alien entity? A cosmic creator that is greater than space or time? What do YOU think?
According to Dr. Leonard McCoy, a character from the famous Star Trek, space is : "... disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence."
The Hitchhiker's Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams says "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you think it's a long way down the road to the drugstore but that's peanuts to space."

How big exactly? No one knows as we are off to the side of just ONE of the billions of galaxies, and there are billions of stars in each galaxy, and who knows how many planets are orbiting each star. Our solar system, moving perpetually forward through the spiral galaxy we call the Milky way has 8 major planets, countless asteroids, meteors, and comets... and OF COURSE it makes me ponder how many of those planets have or could have intelligent life.
It is only a matter of mathematics, even at extremely remote odds, let's say a billion to 1 (1,000,000,000/1) that  life is able to be formed on a planet. Even with those sort of odds, there would be THOUSANDS of different life forms in the Milky Way galaxy ALONE, let alone the millions of other galaxies that spread out infinitely across the entire universe.
The eccentric views of modern religion that state that Earth is the only habitable planet in the entire universe seems rather flawed and quite frankly stupid and immature, which is basically what the human species is compared to the rich history of the universe. Think of it like this, if you will: think of the entire timeline of the universe like a 365 day calendar. I'm sure that most of my readers either have hanging on the wall like I do, OR you have an application on your computer or cell phone that can show you a 365 day calendar. Now flip your calendar to the last month, December, please. Focus your eyes more intently on December 31st. For a perspective of how naiive the idea of being alone in the universe is... well, on this calendar scale of how long the universe has been around compared to us as human beings... humans have only been around for 2 minutes of the very LAST HOUR OF THE LAST DAY on this calendar. We are talking about BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of years of universal evolution that WE have NOT been around for.
It is a very immature and ridiculous idea to state that no other life on ANY other planet could have been created during that VAST amount of time. In fact chances are there have been MANY life forms that have come and gone over that period of time, as it is a universal constant that life changes, evolves and adapts, but NOTHING and I mean NOTHING lasts forever... except maybe for the soul... but that's up to speculation as well.
Generally speaking, the majority of human scientists can agree about the BIG BANG theory, where a singular event created all the matter we see in the universe. Well, this is both true and false, because on one hand matter can neither be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred or rearranged, infinitely. On the flip side of that coin, it is speculated that all matter, once compacted, began as the size of a golf ball. Science has also proven that EVERYTHING is connected and is created by these particles of energy, this stardust of atoms and molecules that arrange themselves in infinite combinations to create all we can see, taste, touch, feel, smell, and hear...

Oh, but by the way, the universe is so much more complicated than just being what we can visibly see, for we only experience a very small bandwidth of visible light. The universe is like an endless ocean and everything is moving in waves (see my older blog "the sound of waves") many of which we cannot see like the radio spectrum, infrared, gamma radiation, x-rays, etc.
Human beings once thought Mother Earth was flat during the dark ages where science and intellectual advancement were halted due to an oppressive tyranny known as the Roman Catholic Church. Galileo and other great minds of the Renaissance brought us out of this repressive line of thought by proving the Earth round, and in a few hundred years later, science has advanced at an alarming rate compared to our own time on this little rock as we have sent out satelites to take pictures of the galaxy for future study. I can only imagine how much people would learn if not for the oppressive nature of domineering governments and a monetary driven society who thinks only of #1, rather than the benefit of ALL mankind. It is shameful that ALL scientific advances are first stolen and captured by government agencies and used to make war (i.e. bombs, bullets, and bullshit). The universe will see humanity pass out of sight in the blink of an eye and our legacy will be... well, NOTHING, just bones like the dinosaurs if we don't change our course soon. There is NO sanctity in death, only in life... nothing special will happen if we commit genocide and cause our species to go extinct. We may be nothing more than small ants on a small planet, but TOGETHER, if we were a united human species, we COULD be like Star Trek, traveling the galaxy in search of alien life forms... we might even attract other alien life forms to be harmonious with us rather than anal probing stupid rednecks like human cattle.

On a similar topic, the increase in UFO activity since humans have harnessed the power of the atom doesn't really seem like much of a coincidence to me. I'm sure if we weren't constantly living in fear of yet another nuclear war... well I can only imagine what we could do, it just sucks we are stuck in this perpetual cold war.
It is my personal opinion that we are NOT alone, here on this planet or on the other planets in our solar system (Venus, Mars, Saturn...), other solar systems in THIS galaxy, and the billions of other galaxies. They have been with us and among us from the beginning, as briefly as it may have been in relation to other galactic events, watching us, guiding us, and steering us toward an unforeseeable destiny, but ALWAYS present. You may call them angels or gods, as the ancients from Greece, Sumeria, Egypt, Maya, China and countless other civilizations have. Any species of alien with the ability of interstellar travel WOULD seem "godlike" to a more primitive human society... and comparatively to the rest of our galaxy, we're still the new kids on the block. It would behoove us as a species to reconcile our differences and invest ourselves into the knowledge and mystery of the heavens, for if there is a God (which I believe there is a supreme creator), he will be found first within the human soul (detached from the physical restraints of the material world and oppressive patriarchal religion), and secondly OUT THERE... use your imagination. Get out of the city to where the ambient light of the suburbs is lower or non-existent and LOOK UP!! WAKE UP!! There is an entire universe out there and here we are squabbling like a bunch of children over the pettiest of shit, constantly!
What is the verdict? I have absolutely ZERO doubt about the existence of extraterrestrial beings and their presence among us here on Earth. There are just TOO MANY stars and planets for their to be no other life than human beings and the other inhabitants of the third rock from Sol (our sun). You can believe the lies of some antique book that also taught that every man should wear a beard, it was okay to keep slaves and that the Earth is flat... I just personally chose to hold a higher level of brain power and investigate and find my OWN answers to the mysteries of the universe and our little world. Don't let the little quirks of life make you think things are bigger than they are. If you need perspective... LOOK UP! You'll see how petty and insignificant the problems of our days are.  If that doesn't put things into perspective, I'm really not sure what will...
Peace. Love. Respect. Trust. Humanity.