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Is religion beneficial to humanity?

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Question found in Religion & Spirituality In General

One should feel that religion is more needed these days than in the bygone days. To address the question here, we must ask what the role of religion is.

Religion is the expression of the relationship of the humans to the Creator. For one who believes in God, religion is as relevant today as at any time in history. To those who do not believe in God, religion has no meaningful role either now or in the past.
What makes these days so drastically different from the past is the modern amenities available today that were not there in the past. But this has nothing to do with one's beliefs or one's relationship to God.

Personally I feel strongly that we are lagging far behind in our spiritual progress compared to the material progress. This unbalanced evolution is the cause of many evils of today.

In a sense everyone in the world today strongly serve a god. The only question is who that god is? For most people, that god is money and their religion is capitalism. There are however quite a large percentage of people who serve the True Living God, the Creator.

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Sir, Do you really feel that there is no end for a electromagnetic wave in the vacuum space under the influence of no external force? reason?

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Question found in Space & Astronomy

Not only the electromagnetic radiation, even matter once set in motion in outer space, shall carry on moving forever. To stop this or change its state of motion external forces are necessary. This is Newton’s law of inertia, applicable to matter. In quantum state the difference between matter and wave becomes minimal or ceases to exist. Thus electromagnetic waves, light, heat and radio waves, starting from a star or galaxy travel for billions of years as tiny particles or photons. And shall go on traveling.

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How does electricity work?

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Electricity is a form of energy. Energy is the ability to do work. Thus electricity works.

Electric current is a flow of electrons through a conducting material. Nothing much happens when current passes through a good conductor. But through a poor conductor the electrons have to fight their way, have to do work. If the conductor is very poor the resistance is very high and much work is done. This can produce much heat and light.

There is always a magnetic field associated with flow of electrons. This field can be used effectively to turn a magnetic substance. On this principle work all equipments where motor is the basis.

Many chemicals in solutions are charged particles. An electric current can cause these charges to separate and thus cause chemical changes as well.

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What is the simplest basic way to start meditating?

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Question found in Spirituality In General

Imagine God is calling you and saying, "Be still! and know that I am Lord"
You may be able to meditate in any body posture; but the ideal posture for the best results is sitting with the backbone straight or erect, in a vertical position. It could be on a chair probably with straight back or on the floor with the two legs folded, each feet under the other thigh. This is called Padmasana (sanscrit) and is the posture that the Indian sages had been following for millinnia. If this is uncomfortable the chair is fine as long as the back is erect.

Making yourself comfortable in the right posture of your choice, close the eyes. Focus the (closed) eyes on the tip of your nose. Keep the two hands in your lap one above the other, palms up. Take deep breaths.

These steps were the physical preparation. Now the meditation is to start.
First few minutes:
Breathing in: Realize you are taking in cosmic energy. This will give you power - in body mind and spirit.
Breathing out: Realize you are giving out peace, love and joy to the rest of creation.
Next few minutes:-
Depending on your religious affiliation/conviction you call upon your God using your favorite name in your mother tongue or your commonly used tongue, inviting that supreme being to come and reside in your heart
eg:
Breathing in: Father I love you/Jesus I love you. Breathing out: Father I thank you/Jesus I thank you.
Continue this till you realize that all other thoughts are out and that you are focused. Then try to listen to Him - to an inner voice. Or: try to meditate on one of the passages from the Holy Scriptures.
Next few minutes: Bring to the focus of your mind the pictures of all those who may have offended you or whom you may have offended. Pray for them, say you love them and want to be at peace with them. Love them and offer them to Him.
Next few minutes: Bring to mind all those who had been good to you - family, friends, everyone - and thank the Lord for them and ask Him to bless them.

That is about it. Hope you benefit from this.

The above is based on a form of meditation taught to me by Swami Satchthananda Bharathi, a Catholic yogi who follows the ancient Indian ways of spirituality.

May the peace of the Lord be yours

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I don't understand the fact that universe has no end, that it's endless. In my opinion, everything has an end. How do you explain that?

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Question found in Space & Astronomy

1. Time: The universe is not eternal. The universe had a beginning with respect to time – about 1.27 billion years back. It will have an end as well in time. The cosmologists haven’t yet figured out when that will be.
2. Space: The universe is not infinite. It started as a tiny particle and is fast expanding. Now it seems endless but it is not. It has boundaries.
What is eternal and infinite, what is not limited by time or space, is only the One in Whom this universe exists the Cause of the existence of this universe

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What is the universe like outside the expansion horizon of the Big Bang? How fast could the expansion horizon be moving?

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We know that the solar system is so huge that light takes one year to travel from one end to the other, travelling at a speed of 300 000 km /second. This solar system is a tiny speck in our galaxy, the milky way. So we know how huge the galaxy is. But our galaxy is just a very tiny speck in the universe. Some scientists say light takes 170 billion years to travel from one end of our universe to the other. This gives us a rough idea of how vast the space above us is. Outside this expansion horizon there is no universe, only the timeless Infinite Being in which all this exists.

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How vast is the space above us?

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For years I've seen that the moon rises farther north or farther south at different times of the year. Recently I've noticed quite prominent changes in that rising spot just over several weeks. Having been an amateur astronomer for many years, I'm surprised to now discover something so seemingly obvious. I fully understand the sun's apparent movement in rising and setting throughout the year, but my question is why does the moon rise position change so much in such a short span? This is especially funny to me because I have a friend who is very intelligent but is quite mystified by astronomy. For years she has told me you can always count on the sun but you never know where the moon will be. I thought I knew, but I guess not.

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Not only the moon, even the sun changes the position of the rising and setting the year round.
End of June sun and moon will be over the northern most part of the earth – over the tropic of cancer; and by the end of December they shall be at the southern most – over the tropic of Capricorn. This is what causes the seasons.
North of ‘Cancer’ or south of ‘Capricorn’ they never rise in the east or set in the west. In the northern hemisphere the rise somewhere in the south east etc.
The cause of these is the tilt of the earth on its axis.
The relative differences between the rising and setting positions of the sun and moon are due to the difference in the tilt of the earth with respect to the sun and to the moon.

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What is String Theory?

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String theory is an attempt to combine quantum theory with general relativity to reach a grand unified theory (GUT) which had been the dream of scientists for nearly a hundred years. The mathematics of this theory seems to be acceptable to all but still hasn’t passed the stringent scientific tests needed.

At the particle level (quantum physics) the theory holds that the smallest particles of matter like electrons, quarks and gluons are made of one-dimensional strings of energy.

At the cosmic level (gravity and relativity) it says that our universe is a cross section (in three dimensions or 4) of a grander universe in ten dimensions (11 D according to some).

Some compare our universe to a bed sheet hanging on a cloth line, only it has 4 dimensions. There are other bed sheets like this. The origin – the Big Bang – happened when such two collided. The end of our universe shall also be in such a collision that may give rise to another universe.

As mentioned at the start, all this have to be proved to be accepted. Scientists were hoping that the string theory had all the answers that we were after. But a great cosmologist said recently that that won’t be the case. He said that the frontiers of knowledge will always be receding and we will go on looking for answers to new questions.

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Can you *prove* there is a God?

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Question found in Bible Studies

The simple answer is 'no'. But some of the reasons based on modern cosmology as well is given in an article of similar title on the net. Type in 'vempeny' in google search and click on the first entry 'vempenysviews'. the article with me highlightes in orange and moving on the homepage. click on the title to get the article.

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