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02-24-2005 08:14
From: ArchTx Edo Not at all Billy, I just feel compelled to try and understand the universe we live in. I think a lot about it and I'm interested in just about everything.
Do physicists have too much time on thier hands? Did you know that the man who created Second Life has a degree in physics? I'm sure he has spent some time pondering the nature of reality. How exactly is it going to change your life when you find out that we are some heavenly creature’s excrement waiting to be flushed into oblivion? hehe |
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02-24-2005 08:15
From: April Firefly I remember vividly when I was 7 years old trying to figure out where the universe exactly was and I had a fear that it was in shoe box on a shelf in someone's closet. I tried to express this to my mother and she looked at me like I was crazy and has been looking at me that way ever since. Just to be clear, your mother was right!!! (joke) |
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ArchTx Edo
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02-26-2005 09:05
From: Billy Grace How exactly is it going to change your life when you find out that we are some heavenly creature’s excrement waiting to be flushed into oblivion? hehe If we are "some heavely creature's excrement" it is better to know it and deal with it then to delude ourselves into believing that we are something else. Understanding our reality empowers us. |
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ArchTx Edo
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02-26-2005 09:11
From: April Firefly I remember vividly when I was 7 years old trying to figure out where the universe exactly was and I had a fear that it was in shoe box on a shelf in someone's closet. I tried to express this to my mother and she looked at me like I was crazy and has been looking at me that way ever since. I once suspected that the voices coming out of the old pre-transistor radio was from a seperate miniture universe that existed inside the glowing electronic tube cities that I could see inside of the radio. In that world, the Green Lantern was real. |
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ArchTx Edo
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02-26-2005 09:26
From: Paolo Portocarrero LOL, Shadow - I had a very similar experience as a child. I often thought that I was the only "real" being and that everything around me was "imaginary" or illusory. I don't recall specifics, but I also remember seeing Horton Hears a Who on TV, and thinking that it somehow led credence to my paranoia. Guess I'll dust off my copy of The Elegant Universe and refresh my memory banks. Cool topic.  Perhaps you were right, at least partially, you just weren't as completely stuck in your sim as other people are. You recognized that your sim wasn't the ultimate reality. You just overlooked that other beings were in a similar boat. One aspect or another of most religions seems to recognize that what we call reality is only a lessor subset or manifestation of a larger greater reality. Perhaps what we call reality is just a sandbox where beings evolve, learn, gain experience. Hey it beats the heck out of hangin out in the big void, the darkness on the face of the deep. Now in SL we have created a sandbox, within a sandbox, and there is another sandbox inside of that. Whew! |
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Devlin Gallant
Thought Police
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02-27-2005 06:00
I find my self saying, "Computer! End Program!", every once in a while just to be sure.
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I LIKE children, I've just never been able to finish a whole one.
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Budka Groshomme
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Turtles
03-04-2005 12:33
It's turtles, turtles, and more damned turtles all the way down!
Fogot where that quote came from.
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