#creator

⇄ The Jains were right: a beginningless universe has no need of a creator

I grew up Jain in Ahmedabad and work the front counter of my family's pharmacy. Jain cosmology says the universe (loka) is uncreated and eternal. Time turns in great cycles of ascending and descending half-cycles, the utsarpiṇī and avasarpiṇī, and ages of…