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RE: Anyone else getting drunk while posting?

Yeah, any problems?

RE: Anyone else getting drunk while posting?

PICS!!!!

RE: CS Pub now open, come on in................

Didn't come out for some reason, I'll send it to you on FB....

RE: CS Pub now open, come on in................

Lovely dance to the music indeed

To answer your last question - Just type in at the beginning of a link, then type in at the end of the link. I'm from the internets you know!!!

Okay, gotta mix in some Katy Perry to get the ladies hips moving

California gurls WHAT!!!!

RE: Anyone else getting drunk while posting?

nevermind

RE: Anyone else getting drunk while posting?

Are you in Europe?

RE: Anyone else getting drunk while posting?

I'd for sure let you stay the night with me foxy

RE: CS Pub now open, come on in................

Slow dance song!

RE: Anyone else getting drunk while posting?

RE: CS Pub now open, come on in................

I like whiskey

RE: Anyone else getting drunk while posting?

I'm pretty drunk...

may or may not be fantasizing about some women here. UPSIDE DOWN, YOU TURNIN ME!!! INSIDE OUT

RE: Dedicated to all the ladies

Where is all hostility? I haven't been in a lot of threads today, but from what I hear, there is a lot of static on CS tonight.

<sips cold beer>

Also, bless all women

RE: say SOMETHING, anything... la troisieme partie

Wow, sounds like you got awesome lined up the 3-day weekend!!! I wanna go camping!

No baseball this weekend, gonna play drunken volleyball with the crew tomorrow, then the kids come on Sunday. Nothing exciting---pending though---might adventure out tonight.

RE: say SOMETHING, anything... la troisieme partie

Dave and Dodge left CS...they were not banned or deleted.

RE: Should CS have a USA forum?

No...

RE: It's 8pm and getting dark...

Summers sure are short here in Sweden. I don't mind the autumn, but I am NOT looking forward to the winter depression here.

RE: Take me , Im all yours !!!

You got papers to roll one at least?

RE: say SOMETHING, anything... la troisieme partie

Hey babe

What's up for the weekend?

RE: Send a flower to the poster above you

Put these daisies in your hair hot stuff, and put the rose in some water

RE: Anyone else getting drunk while posting?

Got my workouts out of the way, stopped by the government controlled liquor store, and just cracked open a cold one...

fully plan to do some drunken posting tonight!

Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

Ah, the imploding universe! Oddly enough, that is a central idea to Hindu cosmology!

I'm pretty sure that Hawking mentioned something about wormholes---but I'll need to check his book to see where those wormholes take us according to him. Yeah, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku talks a lot about parallel universes, mutliverses, and other dimensions that border each other on branes. Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum also have an interesting theory (they actually have the math to show it) called the 5-dimensional warped geometry theory. So much conflict out there hahaha!

Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

Great point! I've discovered that before I "put on the other shoe", I need to balance out my left-right brain hemisphere! True story. I'm way too left brain sided dominant at times, and I do catch myself not rationalizing some concepts properly.

In any case, basically what Hawking is saying, is that "the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was inevitable due to the law of gravity". To be honest, it makes total sense, and he has the work through math to support his idea.

I've read all kinds of metaphysical material that explains why our universe came into existence, and to believe in such is faith (which I don't see a problem as long as I don't go to war over it or force it down your throat). Supposedly some of the material I read or heard, has access to "lost knowledge". Now does that mean I should believe them because they have some explanation that deepens my understanding for why we exist and why we along with the universe was created? Yes and no!

I accept Hawkin's explanation, and at the same time, I am still open to other idea's---especially paradoxical ones! The one thing I do know, is that more is waiting to be discovered.

Personally, I do believe that the universe along with Mother Earth is a conscious being, and that there is a design behind creation---but not through planned intent from some being, but rather, just nature itself. I do believe that our universe could have been spontaneously created because of the law of gravity and because that is just the natural order of nature, and with that, there was a natural design to the order of things as it evolved. Do I believe that there is a higher intelligence in our cosmos? Of course! But that does not mean it has to be this "Western God" or that any higher intelligence is controlling our lives (aside from conspiracy theories lol). I believe in existence and non-existence, matter/anti matter---polarity (ying-yang), and I do believe that creation happened within existence, not outside of it or creating it. I do believe that we really don't know that much with our limited perceptions and belief systems that are based on limitation.

Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

Thanks Lillylady

You're right, all views are true to each individual as they perceive it. We all don't filter reality and existence in the same way, but we all make up views that is part of all that is.

To be honest, I really didn't think of this thread as thought provoking, but now I can see how it can be Anytime a prominent scientist mixes in God and Science in the same breath, it's interesting. Scientists are after all, scientists and have a deep understanding of the limited reality we are aware of. Without them, we'd still believe in a lot of weird things just because a royal person or an organization deemed it as truth hahaha. Like the sun revolves around the earth!

Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

Of course it is logical to think that there is only one truth in regards to this topic. And the truth is still out there, waiting to be discovered, and so we explore of this higher truth with an open mind. And I agree, the one truth did not originate with mankind, it originated within the depths of existence---All That Is. Something that we have problems trying to define with our labels and limited perceptions.

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RE: What makes you decide you can't love someone?

When I listen to this classic....

Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

Hey Bollywood

With the emergence of the multiverse theory, the idea of only a universe may be a thing of the past. Now considering existence itself, it may be that our universe is just merely a creation within existence, and among an ocean of other (perhaps parallel)universes.

The expanding universe is an unfolding of time from it's point of origin---the Big Bang (13 billion years). It's a simple artifact which itself has no independent existence.
It has been explained and evolved by mathematics and spacetime geometry by the likes of Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking recently. There are no metaphors in their explanations, just the structure of mathematics supported by scientific evidence and observations. An interesting question to this, is there a mathematics independent of creation since it's discovered and not invented? (philosophical question of course)

So that the current cosmological model of the universe supported by the Big Bang is the best evidence we have right now. Of course, as science continues to explore with cosmological breakthroughs, then the framework will alter, naturally---and mathematics/physics will be the language to prove it---not metaphors. On the other hand, maybe the mathematics will enable some spiritual/metaphysical ideas/metaphors about the creation of the universe and the nature of it's existence.

The question isn't really about finding God outside of ourselves or inside of ourselves, it's just exploration fueled by curiosity in search of new mathematical properties to explain the nature of the universe and existence for that point in time. Then more discoveries will be made and so on. But only science can lead the way, not mere faith.

I've seen all kinds of explanations for the creation and expansion of the universe, but only the Big Bang is the valid cosmological theory. Doesn't mean we can't believe what we want to believe though

RE: Love and marriage, L§M go together like...

Yes, totally subjective with meanings that are built into it.

And no, screw the church...from behind too!!!

RE: Love and marriage, L§M go together like...

Aha

No, you don't need to be married to feel love or strengthen a relationship---though many people believe that. It's just an idea, the idea of marriage.

There is no connection between love and marriage, people who believe in marriage see connections though.

I don't believe in marriage btw...and never been married.

So in reality, there is no connection unless one makes connections with their beliefs and definitions towards love and marriage.

Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

Why not? He has a self-aware computer that wants to take over earth!!!

Nah, in a sense, I agree with him.

Anybody interested in hearing the Pleiadian model of the universe? Interesting cosmology based on holographic reflections. Still no answer to the beginning though!!!