In conjunction with the first posting: "nothing is universsal", maybe it's better to think of what SHOULD BE universal, rather than to say nothing is. Better to keep a positive attitude, huh? Talk about some THINGS here, not just how people are, because everybody's different, and also capable of change. List what you want to change and how you percieve it can be done!
Be the change you want to see in the world. Be love. Love unconditionally. And it harm none, do what you will. Accept others and love them without the need to agree with them, or convince them to see things your way. They see things their way, that is why they are not you. Omnia vincit amor.
Oops! I'm sorry, I forgot about this forum! LOL OSF, A difinition of connectedness...hmmm If I intend to move a ball I must connect with the ball. I must momentarily combine with it. Now, obviously you will look at me and the ball and say that we are two separate things. We are not the same. This is true. But, it is also true that, for the moment of me imparting motion to the ball, I must be connected to it. I will impart a forward motion to the ball and it will impart an equal and opposite motion to me. If no connection can be made, I cannot move the ball. Now what allows me to make a connection to the ball? Some part of me and some part of the ball must be compatable. What ever it is; solids, molecules, atoms, whatever, they must be the same or no connection can occur. But if they are the same they are already connected. Same means same. One. Now this may become easier to understand if we switch to cause and effect. Cause and effect depend on seperate things existing and sequential time. Without getting into the illusion of seperate things anymore, as I think I presented a terrible example up there...I will move to cause and effect and come back to seperate things later if you wish. Maybe a new post? Cause and effect. I move my mouse, the curser moves on the screen. I move my mouse the curser doesn't move. I look for the cause of the effect, the curser doesn't move. I open my mouse and find dirt on the wheels which inhibite the action of the rotary switches thus causeing the curser not to move. Cause, dirty mouse - effect, curser doesn't move. But the cause, dirty mouse does not exist until the effect, mouse doesn't move arises. There is no cause without the effect. Cause and effect arise at the same time and are dependant on each other. Cause does not come first.
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken turns to the egg and says, "Well, I'm glad we sorted that one out!"
great answer......too bad it is not an answer to the question, which specified two choices, your answer is not one of them. The egg predates the chicken, but when the first chicken was conceived, it was inside an egg, so in that sense it is a draw. the zooplankton came first. the hydrogen atom the singularity
