DEEP THOUGHTS

Here's one.

Everyone knows that these two truths exist:
1) If a buttered piece of toast is dropped, it will always land butter-side-down (due to Murphy's law)
2) A cat, if dropped, will always land on its feet.

What would happen if you secured buttered toast to a cat's back and dropped it? Which law would prevail?

I propose we would've created some sort of hovering device.

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. ." - Bill Hicks

To answer the question, what am I?

I am the alpha and the omega. The First and The Last, The Origin and The Fulfillment. I occupy all space and all time. And I am the one, and the only. Through the infinite one, I and I manifested dis meat bag to experience this particular fractional splice of this fractal dimension. To learn to love. To love, to be love and loved.
Jah is love. JAH RASTAFARI. Forever loving all.

The universe as we see it is all in the past anyways

Who is on a $10,000 dollar bill again?

If the sun explodes and destroys Earth, will God cease to exist? Think about it.

That's the whole "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" query. (I.e - does god exist if those who think of him cease to think of him?) Fun stuff to think about.

Since you are all serious in this thread, are you familiar with the theories that at the heart of all galaxies is a supermassive black hole that is compressing matter that will inevitably be pushed through a wormhole to another point in space and give birth to a whole new galaxy? I find those theories very interesting and highly plausible.

While wormholes are still theoretical at this point, you are absolutely correct that within galaxies there are black holes. The Milky Way has one, too. It is extremely likely, what with galaxies colliding (as the Milky Way will with its neighboring galaxy) and creating even bigger black holes, that we could see another "Big Bang" eventually.

you wouldn't see it because the big bang happens the otherside of the black hole

He's got a point... but I'm pretty sure none of us will see it anyway.

I've never actually heard it officially mentioned in the theory, but it stands to reason that if the biological materials required for life are present in the Milky Way, then they also could exist on the other side of Sag A, and then, at least for this galaxy, and its subsequent regeneration, that life will always exist.

Jus' sayin'.

But if the universe is just comprised of a series of galaxies that are perpetually feeding upon and recycling themselves, then when and where was the true beginning?

Or is it just a perpetual cycle much in the way everything else in the universe works, what with its revolutions and rotations?

I'm pretty sure this was something along the lines of what Einstein was trying to get at with his unified theory of everything. But instead of strings... it's actually loops, or circles, or spheres.

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. ." - Bill Hicks

To answer the question, what am I?

I am the alpha and the omega. The First and The Last, The Origin and The Fulfillment. I occupy all space and all time. And I am the one, and the only. Through the infinite one, I and I manifested dis meat bag to experience this particular fractional splice of this fractal dimension. To learn to love. To love, to be love and loved.
Jah is love. JAH RASTAFARI. Forever loving all.

Very poetic, though I would disagree that vibration somehow equals the universe manifesting itself into some form of conscienceness. (You should check out Neal Walsh's "Conversation With God" - it's a good read for those who are into those meta-being sorts of beliefs. It was very powerful when I believed in that.) I'm now a girl of science and believe that matter nor vibration has any kind of sentience at all, loving, malevolent, or benign.

The second part is closer to something I could get behind, in at least in that our meat-sac existence serves no purpose other than to be experienced. Your words suggest a higher purpose of Love inherent in that experience, which is not a bad goal to aim for.

The universe as we see it is all in the past anyways

I absolutely love that part. Sometimes when I'm staring out at the stars I remember I'm actually seeing the light of a star as it was thousands or millions ago, the time it took to travel to Earth. It's so awing.

You wanna go deep? Ask yourself, Who Am I?

(And if an answer comes, it's wrong).

In what follows, theories of love are tentatively and hesitantly classified into four types: love as union, love as robust concern, love as valuing, and love as an emotion. It should be clear, however, that particular theories classified under one type sometimes also include, without contradiction, ideas central to other types. The types identified here overlap to some extent, and in some cases classifying particular theories may involve excessive pigeonholing.

Part of the classificatory problem is that many accounts of love are quasi-reductionistic, understanding love in terms of notions like affection, evaluation, attachment, etc., which themselves never get analyzed. Even when these accounts eschew explicitly reductionistic language, very often little attempt is made to show how one such “aspect” of love is conceptually connected to others. As a result, there is no clear and obvious way to classify particular theories, let alone identify what the relevant classes should be.

Given that on this view the lovers do not give up their individual identities, there is no principled reason why the union view cannot make sense of the lover's concern for her beloved for his sake.[4] Moreover, Friedman argues, once we construe union as federation, we can see that autonomy is not a zero-sum game; rather, love can both directly enhance the autonomy of each and promote the growth of various skills, like realistic and critical self-evaluation, that foster autonomy.