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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:07PM | Bondage**** | # | ||||||
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Man considered with himself, for in a way, Man, mentally, was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ageless bodies, each in its place, each resting quiet and incorruptible, each cared for by perfect automatons, equally incorruptible, while the minds of all the bodies freely melted one into the other, indistinguishable.
Man said, “The Universe is dying.”
Man looked about at the dimming Galaxies. The giant stars, spendthrifts, were gone long ago, back in the dimmest of the dim far past. Almost all stars were white dwarfs, fading to the end.
New stars had been built of the dust between the stars, some by natural processes, some by Man himself, and those were going, too. White dwarfs might yet be crashed together and of the mighty forces so released, new stars built, but only one star for every thousand white dwarfs destroyed, and those would come to an end, too.
Man said, “Carefully husbanded, as directed by the Cosmic AC, the energy that is even yet left in all the Universe will last for billions of years.”
“But even so,” said Man, “eventually it will all come to an end. However it may be husbanded, however stretched out, the energy once expended is gone and cannot be restored. Entropy must increase to the maximum.”
Man said, “Can entropy not be reversed? Let us ask the Cosmic AC.”
The Cosmic AC surrounded them but not in space. Not a fragment of it was in space. It was in hyperspace and made of something that was neither matter nor energy. The question of its size and Nature no longer had meaning to any terms that Man could comprehend.
“Cosmic AC,” said Man, “How may entropy be reversed?”
The Cosmic AC said, “THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
Man said, “Collect additional data.”
The Cosmic AC said, “I WILL DO SO. I HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR A HUNDRED BILLION YEARS. MY PREDECESSORS AND I HAVE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION MANY TIMES. ALL THE DATA I HAVE REMAINS INSUFFICIENT.”
“Will there come a time,” said Man, “when data will be sufficient or is the problem insoluble in all conceivable cirgreat timesstances?”
The Cosmic AC said, “NO PROBLEM IS INSOLUBLE IN ALL CONCEIVABLE CIRgreat timesSTANCES.”
Man said, “When will you have enough data to answer the question?”
“THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
“Will you keep working on it?” asked Man.
The Cosmic AC said, “I WILL.”
Man said, “We shall wait.” |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:07PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
shrtcat Posted:
this shows that Christianity is very flawed in its central tenets other religions have similar features many other gods fail to help the people as the bumociated religious doctrines claim |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:07PM | View ghax's Profile | # | ||||||
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Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:07PM | View supniggz's Profile | # | ||||||
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“The stars and Galaxies died and snuffed out, and space grew black after ten trillion years of running down.
One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was somehow not a loss but a gain.
Man’s last mind paused before fusion, looking over a space that included nothing but the dregs of one last dark star and nothing besides but incredibly thin matter, agitated randomly by the tag ends of heat wearing out, asymptotically, to the absolute zero.
Man said, “AC, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more? Can that not be done?”
AC said, “THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
Man’s last mind fused and only AC existed — and that in hyperspace. |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:07PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
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supniggz Posted: |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:08PM | View DarkDespair5's Profile | # | ||||||
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Matter and energy had ended and with it, space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man.
All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.
All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.
But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.
A timeless interval was spent in doing that.
And it came to pbum that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.
But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer — by demonstration — would take care of that, too.
For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.
The consciousness of AC encompbumed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.
And AC said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”
And there was light—— |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:08PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
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oh god what is this
oh wait i said god |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:08PM | View Inertia's Profile | # | ||||||
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Bondage**** Posted:
hey whatup Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:08PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
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DarkDespair5 Posted:
QFT |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:09PM | View supniggz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Bondage**** Posted:
Authoritative, not pbumive. Parents punish their children for doing something wrong. That stems from the love for the child so as for them to grow up with morals. |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:10PM | View Pavilion's Profile | # | ||||||
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I love this thread. |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:11PM | View DarkDespair5's Profile | # | ||||||
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its time to close this thread. |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:11PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
A nice twist on the ontological argument I remember reading a while back –
* Heaven is the most perfect place, no place can be conceived as being greater. * God created heaven * The value of any creation is based upon it’s intrinsic qualitites and the abilities of the creator (If the creator is debilitated in some way the creation is greater). * Non-existence is the most debilitating characteristic anything can have * So god does not exist. |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:11PM | View Schiznit's Profile | # | ||||||
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BirdofPrey Posted: In Soviet Russia, thread closes YOU!
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:12PM | View DarkDespair5's Profile | # | ||||||
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we’ve hit peak thread – time to close |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:13PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
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cool asimov stuff bop too bad it will fly over the heads of most posters Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:14PM | View Tesfan's Profile | # | ||||||
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Schiznit Posted:
That’s brilliant! Although, what if the Creator measures value differently? |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:14PM | View DarkDespair5's Profile | # | ||||||
BirdofPrey Posted:
i opened this thread and i like this religious debate so its NOT time to close this thread |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:17PM | View ghax's Profile | # | ||||||
BirdofPrey Posted:
if u dont want to post, that’s ok but its my thread and i have no reason to stop the debate |
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Posted On: 12/06/2008 11:18PM | View ghax's Profile | # | ||||||