What's your theory of life, the Universe and everything...

Lets hear your views on the most fundamental questions... Why are we here,? do you believe in the anthropic principle?, what is the meaning of life?, What is consciousness?, is the Universe infinite?, does it have a cycle? Or maybe you believe in a religion which answers everything for you, if so which one and why?

Not that you have to answer all of these, or any of these.

those are some tough questions, Titania! It will probably take me awhile but I'll probably be posting some things.

Great thread - too bad no one is posting on it.

When I tripped on acid I got a glimpse into what seemed to be a stage of human production. It looked like strips of fluorescent white metal twisted together and along the strands there were branches, on the end of each branch was a spinning sphere with an unimaginable number of colors. A surge of ...something would flow through the branch and hit each sphere and stop them randomly. It was the making of a persons characteristics I think. So what I'm getting at is, I think that the meaning of life is random and everybody has a different meaning to it.... if that makes any sense

JomoAndTheSmoothies said:

When I tripped on acid I got a glimpse into what seemed to be a stage of human production. It looked like strips of fluorescent white metal twisted together and along the strands there were branches, on the end of each branch was a spinning sphere with an unimaginable number of colors. A surge of ...something would flow through the branch and hit each sphere and stop them randomly. It was the making of a persons characteristics I think. So what I'm getting at is, I think that the meaning of life is random and everybody has a different meaning to it.... if that makes any sense

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Wow you painted a really amazing image of that experience, I liked the spinning spheres.

Personally, I am a pantheist, which means that everything in the Universe is, in a sense, God. Although in my personal take, it is not a conscious God, with any sort of human form; nothing like the image of the Christian God with beard and all. Neither does this 'God' create the Universe in any sort of contrived way, but simply follows it's own laws which have existed for eternity. These laws go through a beautifully orchestrated evolution, ie. the Big Bang, then as negative entropy accumulates, and the conditions are right, life appears. Humans, (or any conscious life) are the fruition of the Universe, complex enough to ponder their origins, and the entire human race can be seen as a collective consciousness that experiences itself subjectively. In other words, it is God understanding himself through human, or again, any intelligent conscious life. Therefore, we are in essence the consciousness of God. Then at some point in the future the Universe will start to fall back on itself, galaxies will appear blue as there light is shifted towards the blue end of the spectrum. The Universe will be riddled with black holes that will tear everything in it's path apart, a beautiful spectacle if you're still around. Our Sun will become a bloated red giant, until all of its outer layers are flung off revealing a perfectly spherical diamond. Then everything will be compressed into one small space, and the Big Bang will start all over again. It fills me with wonder to know that the same atoms in my body have been, and will again be, billions of light years away in space. That's my take on life the Universe and somethings, yours may differ, that's the point of this thread.

email468 said:

those are some tough questions, Titania! It will probably take me awhile but I'll probably be posting some things.

Great thread - too bad no one is posting on it.

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Tough, but I know you can handle it.

I happen to know that the meaning of life the universe and everything is.... drum roll please.... 42! its true!

tckfui said:

I happen to know that the meaning of life the universe and everything is.... drum roll please.... 42! its true!

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LOL!, I was waiting for that, I really was.

Great movie/book btw.

I didnt like the movie near as much as the book.
but if you think about it. I mean, 42 man!!!! its just so obviouse! when I read that I was like wow! I never thought of it lie that, its just soo true, it brings a tear to my eye

tckfui said:

I didnt like the movie near as much as the book.
but if you think about it. I mean, 42 man!!!! its just so obviouse! when I read that I was like wow! I never thought of it lie that, its just soo true, it brings a tear to my eye

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ROFL!, I have tears in my eyes after reading that. Thanks for the injection of comedy.

My theory is this....Women are all crazy, On their hormonal rolercoaster and life is all downhill once you figure that out...And how to say this "Yes Dear"

JohnnyBravo said:

My theory is this....Women are all crazy, On their hormonal rolercoaster and life is all downhill once you figure that out...And how to say this "Yes Dear"

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Damn, this was supposed to be a serious thread, but you guys are cracking me up, keep it coming.

The universe has existed infinitum. I.E. - It never had a created point and has continuously existed without beginning or end or recreation. I believe what is essentially the big bang happened. Since we know the universe is currently expanding, thanks to the Hubble Deep Field, we know that at a time before now it was smaller. If you keep going back in time far enough the universe will have compacted to a point. But, since I think the universe has neither been created or has an end, I believe the universe is going through a continuous oscillating expanding and contracting. In other words, it collapses upon itself and then explodes again.

Believe it or not, my theory is now being incorporated in string theory because it completely coincides with string theory. Although I, of course, did not submit this theory to be reviewed but I've definitely had it in my head for some time now.

As far as why we are here, the very basic explanation I'm going to semi-expand upon is that we are a very advanced form of mold. We grasp on to a host (the Earth), eat using what comes from the host, and propagate our species so that it may spread and do the exact same thing.

The meaning of life... there is no specific meaning. (OH SHIT! PARADOX!)


Consciousness is essentially interactions between organisms.

The Universe does have a cycle; that cycle being the continuous expansion and inevitable collapse of the universe.

I would like to expand upon the religious portion but I honestly don't want to offend anyone.

my theory on life is the following ....
from day 1 life is a bitch to you, u grow up, then faced with the choose to marry one, but all the same i do think we are here from some reason, i think everyone has a perpose, i think that everyone changes the world in some way, if this dont made sence i'm sorry, but i cant help getting stoned then coming on this site lol i love this site

lol choose lol i meant choice*

i have the munchies

rev3la7ion said:

The universe has existed infinitum. I.E. - It never had a created point and has continuously existed without beginning or end or recreation. I believe what is essentially the big bang happened. Since we know the universe is currently expanding, thanks to the Hubble Deep Field, we know that at a time before now it was smaller. If you keep going back in time far enough the universe will have compacted to a point. But, since I think the universe has neither been created or has an end, I believe the universe is going through a continuous oscillating expanding and contracting. In other words, it collapses upon itself and then explodes again.

Believe it or not, my theory is now being incorporated in string theory because it completely coincides with string theory. Although I, of course, did not submit this theory to be reviewed but I've definitely had it in my head for some time now.

As far as why we are here, the very basic explanation I'm going to semi-expand upon is that we are a very advanced form of mold. We grasp on to a host (the Earth), eat using what comes from the host, and propagate our species so that it may spread and do the exact same thing.

The meaning of life... there is no specific meaning. (OH SHIT! PARADOX!)


Consciousness is essentially interactions between organisms.

The Universe does have a cycle; that cycle being the continuous expansion and inevitable collapse of the universe.

I would like to expand upon the religious portion but I honestly don't want to offend anyone.

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that's more like it, great post rev3.
I see you share my (and many others) view on 'The Big Crunch', a Big Bang cycle, and that it has always been. I thought about his as a lad, and slowly built up my own theory. When I heard that string theory proponents were incorporating this view, I had that 'AH I knew it' feeling. It just makes so much sense for there to be a cycle, like so many things in life. Humm, I like the mold idea, I've always thought if you look at a thriving city from a birds eye view, miles high, it almost looks like a mold, or a cell, With a nucleus (City centre), veins (roads), a defence system, Waste disposal ect. It even sleeps at night and wakes up at dawn, with all of it's workers running like clockwork. I hope you will expand on the religious and consciousness part, your input is vital. Thanks again.

~MoE~ said:

my theory on life is the following ....
from day 1 life is a bitch to you, u grow up, then faced with the choose to marry one, but all the same i do think we are here from some reason, i think everyone has a perpose, i think that everyone changes the world in some way, if this dont made sence i'm sorry, but i cant help getting stoned then coming on this site lol i love this site

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Thanks for the enlightening thoughts.

This is a easy 1 Lifes great ..... The theory is get as high as u want as often as u want and have as much sex as u can b4 u die,

Just do what u want 2 do with no guilt or you only regret it when your old

Family,Reproducing seems the stright forward answer thou ...........

What the fuck does it matter? We're here and that's that. Any evidence provided about ANYTHING cannot be trusted or believed unless you actually warp back through time and see for yourself in person.

Normally I would have some serious input on this, but fuck it ya know...... too many Buzz Killingtons here. Why even bother?

He he you having a bad day Ernie?

Erniedytn said:

What the fuck does it matter? We're here and that's that. Any evidence provided about ANYTHING cannot be trusted or believed unless you actually warp back through time and see for yourself in person.

Normally I would have some serious input on this, but fuck it ya know...... too many Buzz Killingtons here. Why even bother?

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