Unofficial, unpopular, and unmedicated theories on the universe...
POSTED BY: Iremisst
UPDATED: Friday, June 11, 2010 17:06
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I'm simply of the theory that something isn't quite right here. Not sure what it is, but something in this "existence" is just a bit off.
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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.
Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."
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Originally posted by Iremisst:
Way I thought, infinity was just our word for a really freakin' long time or space. Just 'cause you can't see the end, doesn't mean there ain't one. Everything gotta have a start and a stop...
Exactly.
We as humans can't grasp the scope of the scale some things can be (i.e. the size of the universe), so a term/concept is attached to indicate this but I too think there is an end point, even if it maybe means we come back to the start again.
I always remember from school that we were taught that outer space existed in a vacuum, that there was nothing there. I was never convinced by that and always thought that there must be something there but we currently were unable to detect whatever it was. Again, a theory limited by what we understand as humans.
The other thing I do is look to the past and see how laughable some of their theories are now. Back then they were sometimes deemed completely true. A flat earth, the sun in orbit around us and more recently how many planets are in our solar system or how many moons the earth has.
How wrong they were and how wrong some current theories will be.
"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall
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I don't know about the WHY, but a theory I came up with in junior high covered some of the WHAT. Not that I subscribe to it, but it seemed somewhat fulfilling to a science-minded kid at the time:
There exists throughout the universe a field of a special form of energy which we could consider a life force. Somewhere between conception and birth we receive a quantized unit of this "energy" which is our soul, our essence. When we die, it is released and returned to the pool.
The hazy memory or knowledge of the pool would be the source of beliefs in heaven and God. What could be more heavenly than being a part of something so all-encompassing?
(Pretty basic, but I think it probably qualifies as non-traditional.)
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We're all characters in a novel being written by a crazy person.
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We're all characters in a novel being written by a crazy person.
"The world as myth." Robert Heinlein went that way, and further, as we each 'write' novels that create more worlds/lives.
Pantheistic multi-solipsism, he called it.
--WhoDied
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Would you rather be dust in space, plasma gas in a star, infitesimal nothingness in a black hole, or boiling rock inside a planet?
LIFE: Enjoy it while ya got it!
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Originally posted by SoulOfSerenity:
I'm simply of the theory that something isn't quite right here. Not sure what it is, but something in this "existence" is just a bit off.
Yep, you said it... I swear I think that every day...
Humming -Somethin' happenin' here
What it is ain't ex-act-ily clear
There's a man with a gun over there
A-tellin' me I got to beware
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I am on The Original List (twice). We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
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Gotta agree with PirateNews on this one.
Life: it beats the alternative.
Beats it to death...
--WhoDied
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Dude (dudet)..our universe is but a spec on the tip of a snowflake that is currently falling through the sky of a yet larger world..our millienia will end when we hit the ground...which of course is on a world that is part of yet another universe that is merely a spec on someone else's snowflake..get it? we're not Big Damn Deals after all...hang on.. I've got to pick a couple solar systems out of my nose hairs...
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