origin

[sweetwater]

the Existentialist, looks at a tree and questions its origin and realizes [...] because of the ‘paradox of the seed’ and as to what came first, the tree or the seed, there is no origin and says, ‘the tree is orphaned by existence to explain how the tree came into being.’ The Existentialist, upon his philosophical walk, closes his eyes and understands, ‘then it is the same for me’. His realization of himself keeps his eyes closed, whereupon he bumps his head into a tree. The suffering that entails sends him to a Metaphysician. Upon relating his story, the Existentialist asks the Metaphysician, “Where is the origin of my headache?”

[mnaz]

Ha!

Yes. There are few things as humbling as trying to ponder origin...

[leafsailors ghost]

On puzzling origin I was reduced to an absolute nothing as a starting point , talk about humble.The interesting thing is given time to think about that, I came to the conclusion that ( after consulting the mystery) time was the first order of creation, but time is ever manifesting and returning to the absolute nothing, it is the bump between the manifestation and return that creates matter and energy.. the origin is the manifestation of time, not that this clarifies anything , but it does at least reduce the problem to an absolute nothing. Good morning.

[mnaz]

I think it's one of the reasons we're so drawn to God (The God) as creator of the universe-- as Origin itself. Since this God has no beginning nor end, like creation. Or something like that . . .