Re: SUPERNOVA FROM EXPERIMENTAT AT FERMILAB
Originally posted by Paul W. Dixon
..AND MAY THE GOOD GOD HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS!!!
Sorry, this does not belong here and I did not bother to read all 20 pages. 3 was enough. I don’t care if I'm wasting board space, as the universe will end shortly, for my enjoyment.
Dear Paul,
If there is no spiritual realm to guide & sustain our 'coherent-mind-states', it does not matter how we lived, or how much we loved our children. Life is carbon, doing tricks. When we die, all our experiences die with us. We leave a non-sentient trace of ourselves, in a small variation to the norm of our children's DNA and in our surviving works. They will cease also, eventually the universe will end. An individual's driven instinct to procreate successfully (in all senses) is, no more weighty my instinct to eat a cookie. I am as real as my PC, hence 'tears in rain'. It might me nice to imagine surviving the death of the universe 'Culture A.I. style' (Iain M. Banks) but its not going to happen to me.
I am a wannabe sociopath, but I run my life on the assumption that if there is no God, or similar, it does not matter how deluded I was in following some stupid rules, even if they seem unfair. Eternity is a very long time to be wrong, so I'm nice as pie and not very rich.
'Go fourth and multiply, fill the earth and conquer it', should it also say 'and don't break it by accident'? The bit about taking care of it of course… but no big risks? really? Of course, 'thou shall not kill'... but I feel taking out the entire solar system might be deemed a forgivable boob. I'd be proud of my pet if it managed it, even by accident, that real achievement that is! If not, Intercession, so it won’t happen... Otherwise, bring it on, its not as if I will realise I missed something good.
I can see a whole undercurrent of 'science-as-a-tool-of-the-devil', in you persistence on this subject. I hope I'm wrong about you, if not, I would suggest you forget about being the man who saves the earth. There is a low probability you will be recognised for it. Living in and procreating irrational fears through attention seeking, vanity, or for profit is.. I think.. a no-no. Teach the children to be smart, play nice and not fear. Irrational fear stopped me from helping a dying girl and her infant once (twice.., I lost count, Bloody India, wish I’d never gone there sometimes, thankfully my arrogance kept me sane.). If I had taken that risk, would the 'powers-that-be' have chalked one up for not destroying the world? Sounds like a plan. Fermilab are doing similar on a different level.
If your concerns are really of a more spiritual/metaphysical nature, they should really be discussed elsewhere. Either way, congrats on the worlds longest thread attempt. How long will it last? not that long.
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