Stephen Hawking's Public Lecture on "Life in the Universe"

"to take ones awareness away from the mind... the mind will flip out.."

I don't quite understand what you mean by that. Could you explain?

Pastacus? It looks like you were only using 1/2% of your brain for that one. As I am correcting every single word I type, immediately after, for spelling.

I still haven't smoked that "another bowl".

Is that cumulative? Meaning if you use 1/2% of your brain for every word you type, and you type 200 words, you've used %100 of your brain capacity? Actually no, that would mean everyone in the world has used about %100000000000000000000000000000000 of their brain power.. Forget I said that.

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Originally Posted by GHoSToKeR

Lol, if there's a better place on the internet than Cannabis.com to debate the existence of one's soul than I haven't found it yet. Not that i've looked, because I always end up stuck here debating the existence of my soul. :rolleyes:

I say i'm a demon too. It might have been this forked tail sticking out of my ass that gave it away, but who knows? :D

Edit: Sorry for the double post, but you know.... :p

EditEditEditEditEdit: I onced used %27 of my brain. By this I mean I was stoned, and tried to figure out how I ended up in the kitchen making some pasta at 2am. I know it was %27 because I counted using an abacus made of pasta. I called it the, uhh, pastacus? No, that sucks, but I can't think of anything better right now. True story.

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Your still a demond to me ghost! LOL. I must rest now and go pay taxes tommorow. I`ll be back with or with out wit. He may or may not join me? Ha Ha! Later poorman3.

Uh, Stoker, I didn't say anything about 1/2% for every word that you typed. Oh geez, maybe it's true. I've used up too much of my brain. Sorry, talk to ya later.

The mind is constantly creating "things to do".

I have an itch
I am hungry
I am angry
I must help that person.
I am owed 300 dollars
I must do this now.. so I can have this later..

it is a never ending trail of "I" statements..

I am GHOST
I am ceo of cheveron

your name is the basket that holds all these I's

If one does not REACT... and simply observes these "I" statements... one will get a glimpse of "THE I".. the ultimate I... WOW

It requires the most deictation and focus of any task. It is a journey that is so set with traps that most won't even dare to takethe first step...

When you are able to sit still and let enough "I" statements go by without reacting, the mind will start to up the ante... it will say.. I MUST GET UP NOW.. because I have this to do or I will die.....

your lucky if you make it that far..

another thing that will happen is you will let your gaurd down for a split second and your mind will take over.. and next thing you know you will be doing something...

itching something..

or be deep into thought about what your girlfriend said to you last night..

the opposite of birth is death..

so what is LIFE...? LIFE IS

i love da GHOST

Hi, I am nothing.
I do not have an itch
I am not hungry
I am not angry
I must not help that person.
I am not owed 300 dollars
I must not do this now.. so I can not have this later..

I am, neither, ghost nor ceo of chevron.

I am nothing. Nothing exists where everything doesn't. Nothing more than nothing exists in the same place. The same place can be used to place nothing in. Where's this place you speak of, G.K.?

im gonna roll a joint and get reading

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

Hi, I am nothing.
I do not have an itch
I am not hungry
I am not angry
I must not help that person.
I am not owed 300 dollars
I must not do this now.. so I can not have this later..

I am, neither, ghost nor ceo of chevron.

I am nothing. Nothing exists where everything doesn't. Nothing more than nothing exists in the same place. The same place can be used to place nothing in. Where's this place you speak of, G.K.?

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sir thong,

PLACE ?
Where is what place?

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Originally Posted by poorman3

I think I`d call this gif HELL. You? LOL Hope your well Torog! :eek:

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Howdy poorman,

Yup..that's start...lol. I hope that you and yours are doing well too:)

Have a good one !

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Originally Posted by GHoSToKeR

Okay, i'm going to post seriously now.. Hehe

Stephen Hawking has one of, if not the, most brilliant minds on the planet. I mean, he can talk about a time period of billions of years and explain the progress of the entire universe over that time in just a paragraph or two. I'm not going to say I agree, or disagree, with everything he says, because he knows much more about these things that we do.. We can have opinions, but as far as knowledge of these subject goes, he beats us all.

Torog, refering to your comment about Stephen Hawking not allowing for the existence of God; I don't think that the currently accepted model of the universe (that is to say what we currently know about the universe) allows of the existence of God either. Logic would say that this means God oesn't exist; you can try and circumvent this with logic of your own, but it would most probably be flawed.

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Howdy GhostToker,

Well..the way I see it,you and Hawking,are making a mistake about God and ignoring a whole field of energy physics..for instance there are disturbances in the em field,when either residual energy is present,or when spiritual energy is active,also,when spiritual entities need to or desire to,interact with us,it requires a gathering of available energy and if that energy is in the form of heat,a temperature drop occurs as it's sapped or drained,from the surrounding area.

For Hawking to diasallow the existence of God,is to disallow the possible existence of entities in a pure energy form..should'nt he keep his mind open to all possibilities ? Hawking leaves no room for God in 'his universe' or the existance of an omni-potent entity..that seems to be somewhat one dimensional - the way I see it.

Have a good one ....

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Originally Posted by Torog

Howdy GhostToker,

Well..the way I see it,you and Hawking,are making a mistake about God and ignoring a whole field of energy physics..for instance there are disturbances in the em field,when either residual energy is present,or when spiritual energy is active,also,when spiritual entities need to or desire to,interact with us,it requires a gathering of available energy and if that energy is in the form of heat,a temperature drop occurs as it's sapped or drained,from the surrounding area.

For Hawking to diasallow the existence of God,is to disallow the possible existence of entities in a pure energy form..should'nt he keep his mind open to all possibilities ? Hawking leaves no room for God in 'his universe' or the existance of an omni-potent entity..that seems to be somewhat one dimensional - the way I see it.

Have a good one ....

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Yo yo yo,

Well, to be honest, i'm honoured to be used in the same sentence as Stephen Hawking like that.. Lol

But anyway, I don't know much about how Stephen Hawking works. I don't really know how he and his colleagues come to these conclusions, but I would imagine that there is no room for God in his model of the universe because he has not yet seen any reason to include God or Gods in that model. I'm sure he has based his ideas and theories and thoughts on the evidence that he has found and that has been presented to him, and so far nobody has ever proven the existence of God, so therefore He doesn't exist in the current model of the universe.

I'm sure if somebody were to suddenly provide irrefutable evidence of God, or if God one day popped in to say 'High', then the currently accepted model of the universe would be changed to allow for the presence of God, but as of yet there is no reason for that to be so.

I agree that there is much more to the universe than we can imagine. Even Stephen Hawking doesn't assume to know everything, even about himself or his planet; there are just too many unknowns. But I don't think that we can draw any conclusions based on the unknowns, because we just don't know. I'm starting to sound like Donald Rumsfeld. :D

-GHoST-

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Originally Posted by Garden Knowm

sir thong,

PLACE ?
Where is what place?

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This place where nothing exists, I'm not sure. I've long thought it was a black hole, but with these findings of star-creation, around Sagittarius A*, giving me second thoughts.

i didnt read the whole thing but i think some of the stuff is true. like how he said with time the race gets choatic and dissorderly. i think this is true back in the 1900s people were calm and just chilled read books and lived a normal life. now a days ppl dont know wat to do with themselves we always have to be doing somthing and the % of riddelin pills for adults and kids has gone up alot. i think that people are getting more crazy and shit i cant explain it, but im rather high right now

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Originally Posted by nakedgunner

i didnt read the whole thing but i think some of the stuff is true. like how he said with time the race gets choatic and dissorderly. i think this is true back in the 1900s people were calm and just chilled read books and lived a normal life. now a days ppl dont know wat to do with themselves we always have to be doing somthing and the % of riddelin pills for adults and kids has gone up alot. i think that people are getting more crazy and shit i cant explain it, but im rather high right now

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You should condense your thoughts and explain yourself high.

Just make every sentence count, and no one will care if you're rather high, or even notice.

I haven't been high since the day I set foot on these message boards.

I live on the first floor at sea-level. The highest I've been, since, was Petersburg, VA.

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Originally Posted by Euphoric

I think your statement is completely wrong, ganj. Don't get me wrong tho, youre a cool dude. Much respect and all...but..if we're forced into specialization due to so much available knowledge...then we would only be forced into further specialization if we had even more knowledge suddenly added. right? unless what you said was a joke? :confused: :D :)

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let's just say i skipped a few steps in the thinking process....

I read the entire thing, thank you weed.

You know, I'm not sure what movie I saw, but it was on his view of the Universe. We rented it at college, in 1994.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

This place where nothing exists, I'm not sure. I've long thought it was a black hole, but with these findings of star-creation, around Sagittarius A*, giving me second thoughts.

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no that place is in peoples head.. I am talking about a "place" that is outside of the head...

stay still and you might get a glimpse.. keep thinking and ... well, you know

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Originally Posted by Garden Knowm

no that place is in peoples head.. I am talking about a "place" that is outside of the head...

stay still and you might get a glimpse.. keep thinking and ... well, you know

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You're talking about my method of sleeping while driving long distances.

"You're"
"my"
"I"

as long as one keeps using statements like that.. it is the head..

I know nothing about sleeping while driving... long or short distances..

: )

thongs are cool