There is no reason to believe that the universe is governed something that is good, fair, heavenly or compassionate. There is no reason to believe it is governed or undermined by a force that is evil, brings immorality or embodies sin. Certainly no indication, beyond fanciful religious baloney, that these positions are somehow headed up by differing 'beings', fighting with each other. Really? Come on.
There is every rational, scientific, easy-to-understand reason to believe that the universe unfolds pretty much as is suggested in TAOISM. An unknowable, un-namable flow of all things, which is comprised of all that is, and each moment giving way to the next, where minuscule, immeasurable changes occur in all things.
Each unfolding moment is then randomly and extraordinarily different than the last. Each moment cascades into the next, and is what it is. We are a part of all this, not separate and apart from it. Our molecules, atoms, skin cells, change just a teeny bit at every moment...going forward, we are much different now, than 5 minutes ago. This will continue. Our unified body will stop functioning as a mass of atoms, and will decompose into basic elements-- and reappear in parts of things to come.
Just like we were made out of things that had existed countless times before. This is not religion. It's biology , a la, the 8th grade and chemistry, a la 11th grade. Nothing particularly difficult about it. Not much more to it, except a lot of made up stuff, designed to control populations.
In the dark reaches of the cosmos, there is no "good" or "bad". Those concepts are a human invention. It's neither, obviously. It is a giant "IS"- and by 'giant' I do not actually mean to describe it having size or parameters-- for assuredly, "...the TAO that can be named is not the true TAO...". Translated, if you describe it and it has parameters, it cannot be the TAO.
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