Share your most outlandish thoughts about the universe...

I sometimes imagine the universe is a gigantic, eternal recycling machine....

Oh dear, I just put some washing into the machine so you can guess how I read that ..

The universe is a giant computer running a genetic algorithm.

Funny you should mention... I was just about to post that - according to my experiments and observations - the universe is egg shaped.

We are all living in a tiny dustspeck, perched on an elephants nose.

This universe is a little round sweetie that I suck thoughtfully for a while, taking note of the subtlety of its flavors. This done, I slot it into the correct place in my huge and ancient flavor-sorted filing system, then choose, and maybe re-tweak, another.

I'm a sweetie designer, see. Everybody enjoying this one ? Subtle, ain't it, with the bitter and the sweet so delicately intertwined.

The universe gets rebooted whenever the natives get restless. We are about due another reboot any day now (thank you Military-Industrial Complex).

The universe and everything in it are contained within a glass globe which sits on the desk of a scientist who lives on a planet in an alternate universe. He shakes it occasionally and watches the resulting patterns.

Alexa

All the socks lost in dryers? They fall in love at the other end.

Hmm? What experiments and observations?

The universe doesn't exist. All there is, is a spec of dust, and my conciousness is it's massive hallucination.

It's an interesting thought - at least to me - that there might only be one single consciousness in the universe. This consciousness will manifest itself in any organism, and when that organism dies, will move on to another. It is not restricted by time or space, so it can move from a neolithic man to a worm thirty centuries in the future, and it will inhabit, or has inhabited, every sentient organism in the world, past, present and future .

At the moment it is in me. When I talk to you I am talking to another manifestation of myself, my sentience as it inhabited or will inhabit your body. When I die, it will move to another organism.

This idea makes karma concrete. You are, at the same time, the abuser and the victim, the murderer and the murdered. When you perform an act of compassion, you are the one who will benefit from that act. The golden rule then makes perfect sense, and becomes a self-evident and logical way of acting.

I believe that the aliens many people have seen are real. And they are us in the future come back to study their history. In the future, our brains will be bigger, as will our eyes due to all the technology use. Our ears will no longer be needed as we will have other ways to communicate. And our bodies will be weak and slim as our strength will all be in our brains.

That really fits in with my own thinking.... that we're all inside of and part of the larger All....

There is an NWN Article that goes something like that

That all this - the universe and all it's contents is nothing and that we're dreaming it all; dreaming-it up, if you will.

What we experience as "reality" is just an awake-dream.

My most outlandish thought... was this:


That someday, all questions would be answered; all frontiers known, all works of art explored...

...there will come a glorious day when all are happy, life is eternal, and the praying mantis will all have been genetically re-engineered to eat sugary dew-drops with good manners.

Then that day, too, passes... and another, and another.



And all the while, ineffable Mystery drains from the universe, like water down a drain, until the last drop of it is gone.

And everyone sits around, waiting, lapsing into a melancholic boredom.

A boredom that is most closely related to how you feel after having defeated the final boss in Super Mario World, and haven't another game cartridge.



Then each, in their own way, pad off toward the metaphoric refrigerator we all have inside of us, in search of something highly caloric.

Scratching themselves, each realises that they had been after little more than silly, giggle-inducing moments the whole time.


The remainder of eternity consists of everyone closely watching another, to see who will do something silly or mildly entertaining.

So nobody really notices when at 10^googly-google years the universe ultimately fades away into a soft, pink, fizzy-sweet cloud of not-even-nothingness.

hehe... Google, has officially changed the spelling of googol

This is simply not true.

Socks that disappear in the dryer are reincarnated as clothes hangers in our closet. Everyone knows this to be a universal truth.

LOLEX, but that's just because I'm from a parallel universe!

What's funneh is there are ads for Google on that page.

I thought the universal truth was that hangers are the larval form of bicycles ... But then, yeah, I may have been re-reading too much Avram Davidson lately ...

Bicycles, and penny-farthings, by relation.

I thought everyone knew about the underpants gnomes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes

I don't see why they couldn't steal socks while they were at it.