< Back to OSY 1.0 thread list

OSY 1.0 Thread Viewer

Thread #: 1070

YOU MUST CLICK HERE...

OscarWilde

Mon Oct 15 17:06:44 2001

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html

click on that link and read the words by Carl Sagan. If you are not touched by them in anyway then I think thats a pity.

Riso

Mon Oct 15 17:11:48 2001

And what's the news?
OscarWilde

Tue Oct 16 03:35:10 2001

So no body has any thoughts on this? No, "wow that was deep and the way i look at the world has changed in some way"?
DuffMan

Tue Oct 16 07:29:12 2001

Ok, here is my response.

Science has taught us that the universe is a vast and unending place, and that what we know constitutes very little of reality. We KNOW this fact but we don't BELIEVE it. I personally BELIEVE that the earth is the center of the universe, that it is flat and that the sun, planets and stars are very small. In my mind I know that I'm ignorant. But not being an omnipotent being, I can only BELIEVE what little I see. The places I go, the people that I meet are all that exists in MY universe. Places and people that I can somehow see exist, to a lesser extent. Jupiter does not exist. The galaxy does not exist, because I know my life will never involve these places. Existance is finite, and therefore the universe is very, very small.

OscarWilde

Tue Oct 16 08:21:19 2001

Ok, here is my response.

Lack of imagination. Much to homocentric.

We KNOW this fact but we don't BELIEVE it.

Who's we? Well I am certianly not a part of this 'we' you refer to, especially in this "don't believe" part.

The places I go, the people that I meet are all that exists in MY universe.

What about what you read and see in the media? Do they exists too or do you consider it all fiction because its not an immediate tactile response?

Jupiter does not exist

It sure as hell fucking does. This earth that is the center of your flat universe is tiny compared to this gas giant we call Jupiter. Those that don't see it are blind or just refuse to see. Either way it exists and its a beautiful sight.

The galaxy does not exist, because I know my life will never involve these places.

I suppose Hong Kong doesn't exist because your life thus far has never been involved here. So if Hong Kong doesn't exist I can't be posting here. If i can't be posting here then there is no post by me. If I have not posted then you have not read this. Mighty simple no?

Existance is finite, and therefore the universe is very, very small.

No its the ratio to our lifespan to the lifespan of the universe that makes our existence finite. To feel small, an extremely large fraction of the total that makes the universe is what we are all aware off. But our ego is to weak to let that be so we create illuisons of grand and majestic words like you create. I am limited therefore everything is limited.
I cannot fly there fore man cannot fly.
I cannot create therefore man cannot create.

Yet man does create, fly and walk in a limitless world.

So either you're wrong or I'm right.
;)
:cheesy:

(Edited by OscarWilde at 4:23 pm on Oct. 16, 2001)

DuffMan

Tue Oct 16 08:25:52 2001

I think


you missed


the point.

OscarWilde

Tue Oct 16 10:07:22 2001

I got your point, i just decided to be silly and post something that sounded clever.

hence the-> ;) & :cheesy:

:cheesy: