Although I contributed a brief post a while ago, I have only just read the OP.

I would like to add a couple of comments.

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The Pantheists believe just what you have said, that everything is the Universe and the Universe is everything.


The concept of the infinite cosmos leads to the same view of the universe, but without the spiritual implication of "pantheism". I am not saying it is necessarily atheistic, but it doesn't risk the introduction of "denominational" gods, and comments such as Kallog's understandable: "That's not the Christian God as I understand it. With him you have to love him unconditionally, but he's allowed to throw you in a lake of fire if the conditions permit."

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For the Whole there is no time but IS.


This, too, ties in with the infinite cosmos, but -

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The Whole is evolving.


In infinity there can be no evolution, any apparent evolution must be only in our F of R.

BTW, I think the 5% must be an integral part of the whole as well, and every "part" must be the whole.


There never was nothing.