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#11
RE: eternal recurence
August 22, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Sometimes a concept is so foreign, that to get a laymans understanding of such a thing...a flowery, but ultimately incorrect analogy is made.
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#12
RE: eternal recurence
August 22, 2011 at 2:31 pm
I think it was in one of Dawkins' books that he suggested that there were a billion variables which led to our existence on earth. The shitheads are so impressed by this that they have concocted a whole 'god' to do it for them.

To assume that after after the entire universe contracts back upon itself and re-explodes that each of those variables will be replicated in exactly the same way is the same kind of mindset as the jesus freaks and their fucking god.
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RE: eternal recurence
August 22, 2011 at 2:58 pm
(August 21, 2011 at 11:43 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Law of Infinite Probabilities: Given infinite time and/or space, anything that can happen, however unlikely, will happen.

If the universe explodes and contracts an infinite number of times, the odds approach 1:1 that we'll get a replication of results at some point.

This seems fairly logical.
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#14
RE: eternal recurence
August 22, 2011 at 3:07 pm
I don't expect to be around to see it.
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RE: eternal recurence
August 22, 2011 at 4:56 pm (This post was last modified: August 22, 2011 at 4:58 pm by Welsh cake.)
(August 21, 2011 at 11:36 pm)darkblight Wrote: am i doomed to live this life over and over forever?
Right, you're talking about reincarnation here, not physical cosmology.

The same existential problem may be addressed by clones, whether in this or another parallel universe, might have an identical make-up to you - yet still fundamentally they would be a different person with their own collective thoughts and memories. It doesn't matter if the universe rebounds on itself indefinitely, all the available evidence points to our consciousnesses ceasing to function when we die, they do not survive brain death. Its irrelevant to you and me as individuals to ponder whether the universe and the exact organic matter we're made of reforms in it or not; we're dead.
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RE: eternal recurence
August 23, 2011 at 10:39 am
(August 22, 2011 at 4:56 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: Its irrelevant to you and me as individuals to ponder whether the universe and the exact organic matter we're made of reforms in it or not; we're dead.

What?? Shock Already??

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