You seem repulsed by the idea that what you thought had been grandiose and awe-inspiring insights into the nature of existence, are not so, and can be, completely wrong.
My argument is simple. You say the universe has a beginning. You cannot prove this of course, neither can “Science”. But you do have the advantage of majority vote, mob rule, democracy on your side. You side with the common, who like you, believe the universe does have a beginning, or “The Big Bang”. Because you have such a position though, you are logically compelled to prove your position, provide evidence, reasoning, etc. Which you can’t do. The universe is not “expanding” everywhere, rather, it is a mistake and flaw of human consciousness and perception. Humans use themselves, as you admitted, as the ‘relative’ marker for existence. I claimed this was false. I further counter-argued that the universe is infinite.
Now my position is, no beginning, no end. You wanted me to provide some “evidence and reasoning”, which I did. Why should there be a beginning and end? What is a beginning or an end? I explained some of this, leading to the topic of Teleology, which is the compulsion by which people believe concepts or assert existential qualities, such as “beginning or end” into existence.
Rather what one person believes is a beginning, is not necessarily so. Rather minds are compelled to pick and choose beginnings and ends, to make sense of phenomenon. To draw a line, for example, you must begin at some point. Is it arbitrary? We cannot investigate the arbitrariness or “randomness” of when and where such beginnings take place. Because you seem too cowardly to move forward with the topic. Maybe you have too much investments on your presumptions, fear the prospect of being wrong, after you’ve put so much work and time into your ideas? Just to have them undermined and shattered?
So what is the “beginning of life”? If you claim there is a beginning to the universe, then isn’t there also a beginning to all life? How about a single life? When does a human begin and end? Does life begin at conception, birth, your seventh birthday? When are you “truly living”? When are you dead? After your heart stops? After you are forgotten? If nobody remembers your name then what did your life really matter? Are some lives worth remembering and others not? Do some lives have meaning and others not?
Concerning teleology, I was headed in that direction of conversation anyway.
Just as people believe there are “beginnings and endings” to… the universe, existence, circles, lines, so too do they believe there are beginnings and endings to causes and their affects. And that there is some grand cause, “First Cause”, which sets all existence into motion.
I’ll prove that false, and wrong, as well.