Posted on 05/28/2018 5:16:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
That will keep me awake at night in worry and consternation.
Not so much because the original article states: During the encounter, Gliese 710 will shine nearly three times brighter in Earth's skies than Mars.
I can’t wait.
That is rather a nasty motivation to presume about somebody. Maybe its more about them not wanting people to end up that way. If one believes a liquid is lethal, would you presume they were telling people not to drink it just to get a thrill?
Why so bitter?
Only those of us who believe in reincarnation will have to worry about a 2-sun solar system.
A few thousand reincarnations is all it would require. Then we’ll be wishing we had done something about getting off this solar system when we had the chance.
So Niven’s book “Lucifer’s Hammer” is just a couple million years off.
This is why we need to build a Stargate. Good fences make good neighbors.
Not sure how that works. Is it certain that the iteration of our reincarnated selves will happen to believe in reincarnation?
Also is reincarnation limited to Earth? If so, what happens if there is a big drop in population? Are the souls of people put in a queue to be assigned when the population grows again--provided it does? And if perhaps souls that were from other parts of the universe are assigned to creatures on Earth, then they really wouldn't be at fault and shouldn't blame themselves. Morever, what about when the population of people (or whatever set of creatures we are cycled through) grows--does this create new souls if there are no souls in queue?
Now, I think reincarnation is right as far as people not just being physical processes...we are something that can play a part in a vast physical process. But I suspect it is wrong thinking we are therefore recycled along a timeline. When somebody is born it seems to be because of a particular physical event (pregnancy followed by birth) that seems to cause the birth. Its not clear to me how this can be reasonably reconciled with a person being born because there is a soul that exited the mortal coil and ready to come back in, unless the latter system was very flexible in some accommodating way.
Seems to me souls do not have the same kind of relationship to time that physical processes do, anymore than the actors in a play or movie have the same relationship to the timeline in the fictional story as the characters they play. In such a relationship the timeline of the movie or play and events can have their own cause and effect that fits together nicely because the actors and the director are orchestrating it from a vantage outside of the timeline. But this is not as good an analogy as I would like, because actors still are in a similar kind of timeline in reality and during the acting the timelines are really the same. Whereas the soul I suspect transcends time in a more fundamental way.
“When Worlds Collide.” I like how after the Earth is destroyed by the first large planet, the survivors land on the planet’s moon that oh so conveniently has the same gravity and atmosphere as Earth...plus it has vegetation. Fact is the lineup of proper gravity AND atmosphere should be rare in the universe PLUS it must also have the proper electromagnetic belt to keep out deadly radiation PLUS it must have ONE moon to keep the planet’s rotation in proper orientation.
Can I add the obligatory “We’re all doomed.”
Flee to the castle of Ahhhhhhh!
I’ve asked for a Stargate for Christmas and my birthdays every year for a decade and more, still bupkis.
It’s only a matter of time.
The good news is, the Earth and/or human species will have been wiped out by then. Whew, that was close.
Clearly I didn't introduce the bitterness into this SCIENCE TOPIC.
I am very sorry you took my initial post the wrong way. As a Christian I do not wish that anyone perish just as our Father in Heaven stated. Life on earth is for a little while. No one including myself knows when his or her last breath will be. http://www.thereishopeinjesus.com/
By the way, God is all about science. . .He created it.
2 Peter 3:8-10 New International Version (NIV)
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare (burned up in some manuscripts).
If you didn't want it to be taken that way, you'd A) not put it that way in the first place, and B) not post it in a science topic, where it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic.
If we lived for ever, we’d have this to worry about.
Guessing that baggage from older discussions may be involved here?
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