Have you ever thought about the endless universe and how it goes on and on and on, infinitely? How does something continue to go on and on and on without ending? But then, try to imagine the idea of the universe just ending, like you get to the edge of it and then there is just nothing. But what is nothing? It's hard to imagine nothing! So I try to think about the universe never ending but it just boggles my mind too much. So then I just don't think about it anymore until I think about it again.
Do you know what I mean?
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Yes.
I always stop just before my head explodes.
The universe is round fool. Not flat.
I'll have what Jason's having.
Sweetheart, did you get a little H1N1 on the brain today? I think you should go lie down.
Whatever you are drinking PLEASE SHARE!!!!
My head starts to hurt when I start to wonder if perhaps instead of being finite or infinite, there's a third possibility our minds just can't grasp.
You've made my head hurt.
and what did we have to drink right before this post, jason?
oddly enough, i have many times thought about this just as you wrote it... and i get to a certain point, then i start to feel scared that if i go further i may end up not coming back... does that make sense?
i'm sleepin with the lights on tonight..
c
Yes.
Not the infinite universe, but infinite life.
This is more a recurring thought that I had when i was around 10 or 11, when we were forced to go to church three times a week.
The church used to hold up eternal life in heaven as a reward for living a christian life on earth.
I used to sit up at night trying to actualise enternal life.
A life that has no end...
On the nights with this thought would not leave me, I would go sit outside my parent's bedroom and cry.
It scared the shit out of me.
Life that just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
It didn't sound like a reward to me, it sounded like punishment.
To combine your thought and my thought, think of everyone who dies receiving eternal life in heaven.
How crowded it must be.
Then heaven would probably be infinite, like the universe.
Instead of having boundaries, as heaven becomes more populated, it would just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
filled souls that just live on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
So the old astronomers may not have been wrong in refering to the universe above as 'the heavens'
Maybe the universe is heaven and the stars are souls shining brightly guiding the earth below.
When you think of it that way, infinity is really not so bad.
Jason,
In the end its just eternity. Deep thought
Yes, I know exactly what you mean.
Whenever I start thinking about it like that, I remember Buzz Lightyear saying, "To infinity and beyond!" and all is well with the world again.
Yes, I know what you mean. And frankly, this hurts my brain.
Oh yes, I want what you're drinking, smoking or otherwise inbibing.
Oh, good grief. You've been channeling my husband, haven't you?
And isn't the universe kind of "nothing" in and of itself? I mean, if it did suddenly end, would it look any different? Okay, it's too early to be pondering this shit!
Justine :o )
I do! Usually it's sort of hand in hand with that whole, what happens when we die, thing. Eternity is a hard thing to wrap your head around.
And sometimes...my head does explode!
Naww, I don't get it!!
Just wanted to be different.
Dear Jason -
The last time I said anything like that, I was very very high on the doobie.
Put down the pipe and go teach our young.
(And don't even get started on the Big Bang - that mass of infinite matter which encompassed everything ever ever ever in an infimetisimal amount of space before BOOM!)
Kisses!
(Except I meant infinitesimal, but was too lazy to look it up)
No. I mostly like to think about candy and shoes. Usually in that order.
I love to think about it, it fascinates me. My mom on the other hand would rather not think about it at all. The idea of the universe and the enormity of it all freaks her out. Seriously.
Jason, next time take the blue pill. The red ones really aren't working for you. ;-)
I heart you. Infinitely.
Um, thanks.
I've thought of it before but I have to stop or my head goes crazy.
So, gee - thanks.
:P
Can we go back to the " Hot or Not?" topic. That was more my speed. :)
Yes! Read The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra. It's a nice ride.
thanks for the comment... no, i hadnt read that post but i just did and it's very well put. who the fuck do these people think they are? it's just unbelievable! what makes them think they are better than us?
c
Oh, I DO know exactly of what you speak. I love thinking of it going on and on and on...yet, where EXACTLY does it go?
It is quite simply against the rules of blogging to post any sort of deep thought after a mullet man post.
Lay off the ganja-mon!
I SO know what you mean. I used to think about it all the time when I was a kid and got to the same question. What if nothing existed? Then what is nothing? Surely nothing has to be something!
It gives me a headache just considering it. But yes, I have gone there in my head too... Ouch!
Yeah I do...
Yes, I do. But, mostly, I think about how infinite the capacity for human stupidity is, now THAT? Is mind bloggling. Sigh. I'm obviously having a rough week. ;)
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