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Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« on: February 02, 2009, 05:52:58 PM »
Download and listen to the AM broadcast for Monday 02 Feb 2009 and listen to the last story.

http://www.paulharvey.com/

Eerie and awe-inspiring.
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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2009, 06:12:42 PM »
It's nothing more than the thoughts - feelings, if you will - that I've had since I was a small child.  I've known we earthlings are an experiment.  We are unwitting actors.  But I also know to be chosen to perform is the greatest gift of all. 

As that fat emotional turd in a red wig once sang...."God is watching us....from a distance".


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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2009, 06:16:02 PM »
I just had a song by Rush go through my head!!!

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players:
Performers and portrayers,
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage.

I can see November 2 from my house!!!

Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.

Forget change, bring back common sense.
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No, my friends, there’s only one really progressive idea. And that is the idea of legally limiting the power of the government. That one genuinely liberal, genuinely progressive idea — the Why in 1776, the How in 1787 — is what needs to be conserved. We need to conserve that fundamentally liberal idea. That is why we are conservatives. --Bill Whittle

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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2009, 06:17:26 PM »
It should give theists something new to chew on.
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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2009, 06:22:12 PM »
I just had a song by Rush go through my head!!!

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players:
Performers and portrayers,
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage.



I can see the whole world is just a circus
And I can tell that the circus
Why it’s just hell
And then I heard a drummer rolling
I found my seat’s been stolen
Then a spotlight hit me going wild in centre ring
For all you fancy lion-tamers, high-wire fiery flamers
Ravers of every kind
For all you high-stepping sexy witches
Sons of satin, son-of-bitches
All were there, in my dreams
All in my dreams

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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2009, 08:33:21 PM »
I just had a song by Rush go through my head!!!

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players:
Performers and portrayers,
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage.



The Bard's original version continues to be the best:

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    To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    To the last syllable of recorded time,
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    And then is heard no more: it is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.
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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2009, 08:34:39 PM »
^yeah but does it have an awesome guitar riff? :-)

I'm teasin'!!!
I can see November 2 from my house!!!

Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.

Forget change, bring back common sense.
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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2009, 08:36:31 PM »
^yeah but does it have an awesome guitar riff? :-)

I'm teasin'!!!

I give it a 5 since you can't dance to it...
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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2009, 08:43:48 PM »

no, our solar system is a nitrogen atom in God's coffee table.

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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2009, 08:49:30 PM »
no, our solar system is a nitrogen atom in God's coffee table.

If I wake up, you'all will be very surprised to find you are characters in my dreams.  And, of course, you'll disappear.
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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2009, 09:08:40 PM »
no, our solar system is a nitrogen atom in God's coffee table.

Funny you should say that.  A coffee table was the example I used when I made the point that God was so great we our universe could be encased inside one atom. 

Then our coffee tables could be the home of one trillion X one trillion other universes, and their coffee tables could be.....dotdotdot....infinity.....dotdotdot.....

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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2009, 09:12:50 PM »
If I wake up, you'all will be very surprised to find you are characters in my dreams.  And, of course, you'll disappear.


When I wake up from my dreams, I can promise you - you will have never been there......unless you are the long-tongued daddy with big feet who keeps chasing me and screaming "Canvas, not COTTON!"

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Re: Our Universe Merely a Stage Set in a Larger Reality?
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2009, 04:16:59 AM »
When I wake up from my dreams, I can promise you - you will have never been there......unless you are the long-tongued daddy with big feet who keeps chasing me and screaming "Canvas, not COTTON!"

...uh....tell us more about your dream.....or dreams.
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