Posted on 08/23/2007 7:36:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Maybe this is the celestial block house where God ran to after He stated the Big Bang?
Karl Rove quits White House. Huge Black Hole discovered in universe. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Not content with murdering brown people with hurricanes, he’s now targeting the entire universe! Evil!
Could be, IT may be representative of the void that existed before Genesis began and our world came into being... or maybe it is where God can have some peace amidst this turbulent and most awesome latest creation and mull his next one.
This just about sums it up.
As Roseanne Roseanna Danna said all too oft..
“It’s always something.”
“He used to enjoy talking about ‘nothing’ and that there still has to be something”
“Nothing” is the absence of something, which qualifies it as a of being which is ~something~....:)
My post was as necessary as yours. Pound sand.
Come to think of it, Alan Dean Foster wrote a bunch of stories about Flinx and Pip, many involving a huge blank spot in the universe with something evil in it. Hmmm, I wonder?
Lets survey & subdivide this huge tract of real estate.Who knows,it will be worth a fortune in a few billion years time!
That’s at the end of the universe :)
It made me laugh. I only looked at this thread to see which would be first, Bush’s fault or global warming, which wasn’t until post #14.
Norm, good call adding the note - that’s a seriously misleading headline.
Just more proof how small humans are in the grand scheme of things. The other day I was driving to Lubbock at 0430 I stopped to urinate on the side of the road south of Post Tx. truly in the middle of nowhere the next town was a half hour away.
I pulled over and turned off my lights why i’m not sure since I had not seen another car in at least half an hour. I noticed that there was not a single light on the horizon, not a single manmade source of light was around. No other evidence of man other than the road and my truck was there. It was then I looked up. For those who have never been in total blackout conditions like this city boy I was awestruck as to the shear number of stars. No clouds that night no moon from horizon to horizon nothing but stars of all colors like I had never seen before the Milky way looked like a river of light across the sky. The air was so clear they did not twinkle it was like you could see them on a flat infinite surface. Not another human for miles around just one man, under the backdrop of infinite space.
The experience of being truly, utterly, and totally alone for the first time in my life was sobering. I could not help feeling that even when totally alone there was something out there that put all of this greatness together chance could not explain the order. It was right then I realized that I was standing in the presence of the Almighty. I’m 30 years old and had never been touched by God till that moment. As a budding Geologist I always had a hard time with knowing that the earth is at least 4.6 billion years old, the evolution process, fossil records, plate technotics all are science thats is not explained in any of the worlds religions as such I have never had strong faith. As a scientist I always looked for science to answer the big questions. Looking out from our little world that 5 minutes previously I was content in the knowledge that I knew how it was formed, and how Its’ geophysics worked I stood humbled in the face of greatness.
I guess there’s a lot that scientists don’t know.
>>It was right then I realized that I was standing in the presence of the Almighty. I’m 30 years old and had never been touched by God till that moment. As a budding Geologist I always had a hard time with knowing that the earth is at least 4.6 billion years old, the evolution process, fossil records, plate technotics all are science thats is not explained in any of the worlds religions as such I have never had strong faith. As a scientist I always looked for science to answer the big questions. Looking out from our little world that 5 minutes previously I was content in the knowledge that I knew how it was formed, and how Its’ geophysics worked I stood humbled in the face of greatness.<<
That’s wonderful. And its so hard to communicate to someone who has not experienced it.
And it doesn’t negate your previous point that we are physically small. But whether we are the only planet with life or not we the only inhabited planet we have meaning.
If we are the only planet with intelligent life then no matter how large the universe may be, our place is still that preserving and building on the our special conscientious.
But if there are other planets with intelligent life then we have ahead of us the greatest of quests. To preserve and advance human society long enough to make contact and learn about life throughout the universe.
Lewis Black.
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