Something about coffee, Shpongle, and sitting in my room in front of the computer just gets my thoughts racing.

Coffee — just some random Folgers my mom got me — Thanks mom.

Shpongle — electronic music I was introduced to by my friend Emery Clark.  — This is my favorite song they do –> Shpongle - Divine Moments of Truth

Computer — eh, you get the visual.

So far this morning I’ve watched a movie called Dark Matter, which I thought was relatively well put together minus the ending.  I won’t ruin it for you.  Regardless, there was a particularly moving scene where this Chinese foreign student who has just come to America for Graduate school is discussing Cosmology with the tea/coffee house female barista.  He is trying to impress her, but she comes right back at him with the idea that the Big Bang was caused by God.  A beautiful dialogue followed, and I think I’ve always adopted this perspective, though maybe not explicitly.  Check it out:

“You study the Big Bang ? It’s supposed to be the beginning of the Universe?”

“Mm hm, Mm hm.”

“I don’t believe it, because something had to cause the Big Bang… It didn’t just come from nothing.”

“What do you think caused the Big Bang?”

“God.”

“Then what caused the God?  He can’t come out of no where.”

“He’s eternal. :shrug: He’s always been there.”

“In my new theory, the Universe is eternal. Big Bang is a major event, but not the Beginning.  The Universe has no beginning, no end, just like God.  So you see, we are really the same.  Universe and God is the same.”

It’s my understanding that the idea of No Beginning and No End comes from Chinese culture, but at the same time I remember at the last Wedding I went to for my cousin Russell and new cousin Katie, they referenced the Ring with no beginning and no end like “God’s love.”  Hmm.