Carol, that you are asking these questions is good. It shows that you are reaching out to The Infinite in your quest for self-realization. When you have achieved that, you will begin reaching out to understand The Teapot that is The Lotus that is The All. When that understanding is achieved, and very very few ever achieve it, you will have a very dim understand of Khanduwhoistweed and Tweedwhoisalsokhandu. No mortal being has ever achieved this final Understanding, but we must strive, for Striving Is All. As Camus (The Myth of Sysphus) so cogently put it, "The point is to live."