Shouldn't black holes be regarded as sacred?
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March 7th, 2011
First, a disclosure.
There is all sorts of stuff I know a lot about.
But I am not an astrophysicist.
Still, the way I see it, the whole Universe as we know it was likely produced by the ultimate supreme black hole that finally absorbed as much of the material of some previous physical phenomenon as it could. Then it ejected….us.
Somewhere out there is the King of all Quasars, our cosmic daddy.
All black holes are similar to this particular black hole, and are thus cousins of the event to which we owe our existence.
Shouldn’t black holes be regarded as sacred? After all, where would we be without them (or the phenomenon that they represent)?
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Wait…what? You mean like something to worship?
Anything you want can be sacred. If you want to revere black holes that way, go for it!
I think you run into a problem here, because many of the people who are often looking for something to worship or hold sacred, are the same people that believe the world was created in 7 days… and had nothing to do with any scientific theories about the beginning of the universe.
That is, assuming this is what you mean by “sacred.” Personally, until black holes start sending us prophets insisting that we perform some kind of special rituals, or we will be swallowed whole in the blink of an eye… I’m just going to respect that there is some crazy shit that goes on in outer space. Good enough for me.
Yes, I know those were two killer run-on sentences, but I don’t feel like editing.
Interesting idea. If nothing else, I could see that happening in a sci fi.
So we’re celestial puke? I never knew black holes had family trees. Still, I’ll take my chances and not regard them as sacred. I hope it’s 16th counsin 53 times removed ain’t gonna be out to avenge the original black hole.
@josie What a fascinating question. Don’t go getting any ideas, but what an interesting claim for a new cult leader. But is the Great Black Hole—the Original Singularity—was sacred, wouldn’t the Universe be equally so?
@12Oaks Personally, seeing how humans have been behaving recently, if we were puked out by the Great Black Hole, I can certainly see why we made it sick.
There’s something very poetic about that idea.
In my imagination I’ve occasionally deified entities such as Sagittarius A, but I wouldn’t consider that to be necessary.
Oh absolutely, I adore Beyonce’s booty. Grrrrr!
dude being frank if you belive in god there is no place for you in science and i agree that they are scary
@golusinghania That’s just simply not true. I know plenty of scientists who are theists of some kind.
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