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What is the Universe?
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What is the Universe? |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
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What is this universe? We know it’s a place full of stuff, but what kind of stuff? We heard about the Creators, those ancient ones, or Ancient One who made this universe from nothing, it is said. But really? What kind of “nothing” would that be? As below, so above, I’ve been told and here’s a place just stuffed with stuff, all kinds of stuff –– marvellous stuff, smelly stuff, scary stuff, twisted stuff, recyclable stuff and stuff that just burns or evaporates or gets stuffed in black holes… to re-appear somewhere else as different stuff: yes, stuff, lots of stuff made of stuff. But how did all that stuff really get here? Pretty simple, says my friend: there’s a place (or places if you will) out there, way beyond this universe –– full of people -- yeah, people, he says, who like us, just love stuff. So they make it, have it made, buy it; they play with it, use it, consume it and when they’re done with it they dump it –– of course, what else? And where does all that garbage go, that stuff they no longer need or want? To their garbage dump, of course, where else? Just like on Earth, only more impressive (from a human perspective, that is) than our garbage dumps, is theirs’ and just because we grew out of it, (let’s just say we’re a kind of bacteria) we think it’s a wonderful thing, that garbage dump of the “creators” ‘Cause it’s our home after all -- so we give it a superlative name: Universe! Of course –– what else? And speaking of black holes, he adds, they’re just their equivalent of “Glad” garbage bags: you see, when hot stuff hits the bottom it melts open and everything sloshes out... You need to be a bit more observant. He said laughing and shaking his head not as if he’d told me a universal joke but as if I was a bit slow in “getting it”. Now it’s my turn to laugh -- the amazing simplicity of it all! |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
God leaves the seat up; he’s sloppy and it’s beyond us to change him now. Somehow we want to paint it tidy, won't accept truth, try to pretend. Oh it’s a grand canyon we say, secretly appalled at the mess. Here’s how it went: he read half of Universe For Dummies, glanced at the index, figured he could fake the rest. After all he was making us, what would we know? Yep, somehow I have a feeling we've both met the same guy....or was that the same Guy.... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
It's overwhelming to think about all the stuff WindWalker. I like your stuff. |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
Thank you Ratleader and The Lady for your comments. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
 this tickles my funny bone today, even the parts that are too real to be very funny.I especially enjoyed the Glad bag meltdown imagery. Kind of like the containers we have set aside for nuclear waste. |
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