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From: marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Infinity
Message-ID: <3357@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 18:34:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 26 18:34:17 1986
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Reply-To: marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith)
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Every once in awhile, I try to think of the whole universe, of what was there
before the Big Bang, and what's there outside of it all.  I mean, don't tell
me going forever outward will get me back to where I started but I'll know
the place for the first time.  I'm talking about real knowledge here, absolute
knowledge.  Physics is about the universe.  I'm talking about what's outside
the universe.  You can't talk about what's outside the universe with tools
designed to talk about what's inside.

Philosophy won't do it either.  We don't need philosophy, we need action.
If I want philosophy I'll toss around a frisbee.  I intend to play hardball
with this problem.

And don't any of you religionists climb aboard.  I don't care what flavor you
are, if [G,g]od didn't fix me so I can get outside the universe, there must
be something there I want.  So just stay out of the way.  If you're not part
of the solution, you're part of the problem.

And don't throw Joachim's razor at me.  I'm not shaving until I know the
truth.  I can carry a lot of stuff in my head, and I don't need some bozo
telling me to keep life simple.  That's the trouble around here; everybody
wants life to be simple.  I'm here to tell you, life is not simple.

This relativity thing makes me feel like a prisoner in a very smelly place.
These idiots in net.space talk about rockets like they can actually use them
to go someplace.  Give a break here.  Interstellar travel is a lot of bunk.
Who wants to go someplace if you can't come back?  I want to go someplace
and then come back, and then go again, and then come back again.

And then these clowns in net.sf_lovers or whatever.  They talk about the
Starship Enterprise like some people talk to their dogs.  There is no
Starship Enterprise, folks; no warp drive; no transporter beam.  There is a
Spock, but he's a baby doctor, not a logician with pointy ears and a bad
disposition.

So you can forget about zipping around the heavans in 'other space' unless
you all get up from your stupid terminals and start trying to get your little
kiesters outside the universe!  I want action!  Now!  I want to see asses and
elbows!

You're either with me or against me on this, okay?  And I don't want some
halfwit resident expert programmer telling me to move this to another news
group.  I've had it up to here with morons that think C is the best computer
language.  And I can see them coming a mile away.  They walk different, they
have no social life, and they think personal computers have practical uses.

I don't need it.  As far as I'm concerned, if I can't get outside the
universe, there's no point in being inside it.

					Marty Smith