Oh B you are a wag! What with all your Paradigm Shifts and Down Home Humour. Next you'll be going all 'Existentialist' on us... My gosh I hope I spelled that right. If one is to be humourous in a witty urbane intellectual Oscar Wild kind-of-way, one must spell his big words correctly or become a buffoon!

Maybe I was wrong. What if every prophet of doom has been right? Maybe the Universe gets destroyed every time? Maybe God just keeps rebooting the Universe Computer every time and we just haven't noticed! It could happen in a millisecond! When the electricity at work stops for any reason, the generator kicks in almost immediately! (I'm really getting out of my depth with this, aren't I - and now I must stop.)

...But hey. Maybe Earth doesn't actually exist at all. Could we just be another part of T's invented universe? (Some folk confuse him for God, I feel - and what if they're right!!?)


Regards,
Odo

NB I had a dream last night. A huge tree got ripped out of the ground by some unknown force and flung 50 metres (73 yards) into a paddock (field). I'm not actually joking (except about the distance the tree was flung - I only guess that part; the dream did not come with a tape measure). Does anyone interpret dreams on this site?

NBB GB I returned your e-mail. Sorry for the delay. As you're probably well aware by now, I am a fool when it comes to technology.

Well, the whole "Cosmic Reboot" thing is cyclical and very Pagan or Hindu. And modern Cosmologists are coming around to the notion that even if it does all end in a Big Crunch or Big Dissipation, there will likely be a new Big Bang.

GB

GB,

I concede you know your stuff too much on these kinds of things. I therefore withdraw from the floor and retreat from this discussion. See you on another thread, soon, maybe...

Regards,
Odo

Please don't depart on my account Odo . I thought your point about being figments of Tolkien's imagination provocative and illuminating .

And I love your imagery of the "Cosmic Reboot".

GB

Oh Good-Old Great-Hearted GB,

You've been an utter gentleman from the very first day I met you!

I'm just retreating because I'm running out of ideas to throw at you at the moment. Also, all the big words we're using do tire one out so (and yet, your use of them seems so effortless!) Alas! I'm not a young man anymore...

Regards,
Odo

I know what you mean Odo. I probably ought to just go to sleep and give you a chance to explore other bits of the forum .

GB

GB,

Thank you.

Hi ho hi ho it's off to post I go...

Regards
Odo