"Well, it depends on what your definition of "is" is."Ugly Dougly wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 2:10 amIt is what it is that it is, isn't it?Traveller in Time wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 6:43 pmPondering about multiversus and cons
They say the universe is expanding ever faster.
Just a point of view:
The universe stays same size, we are shrinking ever more rapid.
I find the thought: "The quantum reality is the/our consiousness" appealingPerpetual Burn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 3:35 am
. . . .
"Well, it depends on what your definition of "is" is."
THE point of view is non dimensional yet contains all dimension. There is no outside of everything or inside of nothing.
We are the Universe. The mind is what it is mindful of.Traveller in Time wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 1:41 amI find the thought: "The quantum reality is the/our consiousness" appealing
But in spite of all of my trying, a handful of our people, with their lies, have made our life impossible. There’s no way to detach ourself from what’s happened today. Not only are we in a compound situation, not only are there those who have left and committed the betrayal of the century, some have stolen children from others, and are in pursuit right now to kill them, because they stole their children. And we — we are sitting here waiting on a powder keg. I don’t think it is what we want to do with our babies. I don’t think that’s what we had in mind to do with our babies. It is said by the greatest of prophets from time immemorial: “No man may take my life from me; I lay my life down.”
So to — to sit here and wait for the catastrophe that’s going to happen on that airplane — it’s going to be a catastrophe, it almost happened here. Almost happened — The congressman was nearly killed here. But you can’t steal people’s children. You can’t take off with people’s children without expecting a violent reaction. And that’s not so unfamiliar to us either, if we — even if we were Judeo-Christian — if we weren’t Communists. The world– the kingdom suffereth violence and the violent shall take it by force. If we can’t live in peace, then let’s die in peace.
Dante Alighieri wrote: “Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!
Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined
Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -
Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind,
Leaving on earth no more memorial
Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind”
“Meaningless! Meaningless!”Ugly Dougly wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:21 pmDante Alighieri wrote: “Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!
Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined
Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -
Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind,
Leaving on earth no more memorial
Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind”
Welcome to the rest of the world.Simon of the Playa wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:53 am... They'd share ideas for making useful things out of scrap materials—which was suddenly not so far-fetched now that everyone was in quarantine and unable to shop.”
Stephen Hawking tells the number and Elon Musk is colonizing Mars. I heard Musk wants to die there so it is his first priority to colonize Mars faster than in 100 years.Simon of the Playa wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2017 4:21 am"In November, Stephen Hawking and his bulging computer brain gave humanity what we thought was an intimidating deadline for finding a new planet to call home: 1,000 years."
last week he updated this number to 100.
seriously.
Traveling somewhere always costs money, so I guess poor and disadvantaged people will stay, however, maybe there will be charity programs for them in the future, but the question is "wouldn't it be safer to stay on the Earth?"
And in either case, there’s always the politically charged question of: who goes and who stays? Do poor and disadvantaged people get left behind on a hellish world?[/align][/size]
http://www.popsci.com/stephen-hawking-h ... onize-mars
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