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Post by Bret Walker on Mar 12, 2002 10:53:48 GMT -5
There are those who believe the Universe was created by God, and there are those who believe the Universe was created in the Big Bang. Whatever theory you subscribe to, there is still one other question that needs to be answered: What was there before? If the Universe was created by God, where did God come from? Who created Him? Or did he just sort of materialize out of nothingness? If the Universe was created by a Big Bang, a huge explosion that propelled all matter as we know it far outward, then where did the matter come from that was exploded? The beginning of time as we know it in this regard is about 10 billion years ago (I may be inaccurate, and I'm sure FthNature will point that out to me), but what was there before? Where did all this matter come from? And if there was something there before, where did that come from? These are the questions that keep me awake at night.  |
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Post by WhiteWolf on Mar 20, 2002 18:59:49 GMT -5
I for one cannot accept the idea that there is a big man with a long beard on a throne who created the universe. I view god as the macrocosm, the sum total of all things. Therefore, God cannot exist without the universe, and vice versa.
This leads us to the chicken and the egg argument, and really does nothing toward answering your question.
I suppose we could look at the idea that reality is subjective... is this universe only real because we perceive it to be so? For that matter, is your reality the same as mine? Since I was a child, I always found myself wondering if I was the only one who really existed and everybody else was merely a figment of my immagination.
I have descended into a quagmire of philosophical rambling, so I will leave it at that!
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Post by The Vonz on Apr 20, 2002 0:57:38 GMT -5
Man, I get frightened a lot lately. It's like, all these things I thought about when I was 8 or 9, people thought I was crazy, and all you fuckers on the internet think exactly like me.
Only difference is, since I was really stupid as a little kid, I thought everyone else was robots, not figments of my imagination, and they were used to spy on me, like on that Jim Carey movie, where they turned his life into the TV show.
But when I got a little older, like 9 - 11, my theory change to the imaginative figment thingy. Gah.
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Post by Lost on Apr 21, 2002 12:43:19 GMT -5
why cant things just be ? i used to question everything and when i couldnt think of an anser i would get kind of...i dont know...scared i guess...or at least when it has to do with things that really cant be ansered
i used to think about color... i think we all see different colors... i see white and you see white but only becuz its CALLED white... what i see as white you see as maby yellow... but its called white so its white...
and OCM i know what you mean ... i used to think my life was on TV ... everyone around me was paid to talk to me, never admit that they were ... till one day when i was 14 i started screaming about how i wanted off tv ... turn the fuckin cameras off...i dont want to do this any more... i dont know if im on TV or not but i think i stoped caring after that ... if i am o well...im alive and well and if poeple are paid to talk to me they are doing a shitty job of it
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Post by The Vonz on Apr 22, 2002 1:03:15 GMT -5
booya, three stars
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Post by Lost on Apr 22, 2002 6:29:05 GMT -5
3 stars? why do you think it came form 3 stars? i think if anything it would have come from millions
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Post by Bret Walker on Apr 22, 2002 8:25:49 GMT -5
He's talking about his status in the forum, and the fact that he has over 100 posts makes him a Dork. Not a Charter Dork, or a Junior Dork, but a Dork. The next plateau comes at 250 posts with Dork Deluxe. Then 500 posts which makes you an Extreme Dork. Me, it doesn't matter, since as admin I an the Dork of All Dorks. And JBG as moderator is Dork Goddess. I don't know why I'm going into this depth here. Oh yes. Three stars. He's talking about his status in the forum, and the fact that he has over 100 posts makes him a dork. Not a Charter Dork, or a Junior Dork, but a Dork. The next plateau comes at 250 posts with Dork Deluxe. Then 500 posts which makes you an Extreme Dork. Me, it doesn't matter, since as admin I an the Dork of All Dorks. And JBG as moderator is Dork Goddess. I don't know why I'm going into this depth here. Oh yes. Three stars. He's talking about his status in the forum, and the fact that he has over 100 posts makes him a dork.
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Post by Lost on Apr 22, 2002 10:27:46 GMT -5
i thought you were good with the sarcaism max ? =+P
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Post by Bret Walker on Apr 22, 2002 10:48:10 GMT -5
I am, notice I posted the same thing in two circular loops? Thus demonstrating my belief that time is not a line but a circle.
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Post by Lost on Apr 22, 2002 22:17:59 GMT -5
heh you lost me man... can you say that in english?
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Post by Mr.Leo on Apr 25, 2002 22:12:16 GMT -5
If god created us all to begin with then why do people have children? Can't god just zap more of us down here? Or are they just trying to make it harder then it should be? And what happens after you die? Do you go to heaven or hell? Is there a heaven or hell? Are people reincarnated or are you just dead forever after you die? What happens to your soul? What are souls? Does anyone even have a soul to begin with or are they just something that is made up? What if when people die they don't go to a heaven or a hell but instead they go somewhere else? What if life on earth is hell? How I am I supossed to know if you really exsist or if I just made you all up?
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Post by Bret Walker on Apr 25, 2002 22:35:59 GMT -5
You made us all up.
Whoops, I said too much ;D
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Post by Mr.Leo on Apr 25, 2002 22:42:48 GMT -5
DAMMIT! Now I need to go talk to myself in the mirror agin, but I am real? Or did I make myslef up too??
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Post by 0neweeknosebleed on Apr 26, 2002 4:43:39 GMT -5
I don't believe in god. I kinda don't really care how we got here or why we are here... cause there is no real reason shit happens. I think that life and this Thing that is just there but no one knows what it is, is controlled by us... we just don't know it. If I were to pick one person to be the best in the world -universe it would be me... not cause im a selfish bustard... but because hey im in love with me:)  but any way there's many things you could say happened... did they even prove the big bang theory? Did they? <br> I guess what im trying to say is... God is real to toughs who believe... kinda like sound is only sound because there is someone to hear it by processing it through there eardrums... if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it... does it make a sound? ya know? its all just a big BLAAAAARrrgggGG... that's about it. |
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