Comments for PonderAbout.com http://www.ponderabout.com You know, I was thinking about... Fri, 16 May 2008 02:45:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 Comment on Love and “Surrender” by Jessie http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/769/love-and-surrender/#comment-1377 Jessie Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:06:55 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/769/love-and-surrender/#comment-1377 <strong>Jessie...</strong> Have really enjoyed your site with the marvellous posts and information. Very thought provoking.... Jessie…

Have really enjoyed your site with the marvellous posts and information. Very thought provoking….

]]> Comment on Love and “Surrender” by Love Relationships http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/769/love-and-surrender/#comment-1376 Love Relationships Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:01:08 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/769/love-and-surrender/#comment-1376 <strong>Love Relationships...</strong> Reading the blog and the otherposts I see things that are close to home. I have added you to my digg account for bookmarking.... Love Relationships…

Reading the blog and the otherposts I see things that are close to home. I have added you to my digg account for bookmarking….

]]> Comment on Paradox of The Expanding Universe by rogerborn http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/1021/paradox-of-the-expanding-universe/#comment-625 rogerborn Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:45:17 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/1021/paradox-of-the-expanding-universe/#comment-625 Let's give an example of the Ricci. Say you are in your starship and close to the edge of the universe. You want to see the very edge, so you move your ship out beyond all the last stars, out on the ragged edge, billions of light years from earth. What will happen? You will never get to the edge, because the matter and energy in your starship is continually creating more space out beyond where you are. You are in effect, advancing the edge as you travel forward, pushing the edge farther away. Let’s give an example of the Ricci. Say you are in your starship and close to the edge of the universe. You want to see the very edge, so you move your ship out beyond all the last stars, out on the ragged edge, billions of light years from earth. What will happen? You will never get to the edge, because the matter and energy in your starship is continually creating more space out beyond where you are. You are in effect, advancing the edge as you travel forward, pushing the edge farther away.

]]> Comment on Paradox of The Expanding Universe by rogerborn http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/1021/paradox-of-the-expanding-universe/#comment-623 rogerborn Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:58:48 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/1021/paradox-of-the-expanding-universe/#comment-623 There is not a thing beyond the universe. Nothing at all. What happens is that space is created by the presence of matter/energy. Therefore, when the universe expands, it creates its own space to expand into. This has to do with the Ricci curvature characteristics of space. R_(ab) = 8 pi { T_(ab) - 1/2 g_(ab) T } Regards, Roger Born "Sorry. No Refunds." rogerborn.com There is not a thing beyond the universe. Nothing at all. What happens is that space is created by the presence of matter/energy. Therefore, when the universe expands, it creates its own space to expand into. This has to do with the Ricci curvature characteristics of space. R_(ab) = 8 pi { T_(ab) - 1/2 g_(ab) T }

Regards,
Roger Born
“Sorry. No Refunds.”
rogerborn.com

]]> Comment on The world is a comedy to those . . . by drpants http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/882/a-comedy-to-those-that-think/#comment-136 drpants Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:59:26 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/882/a-comedy-to-those-that-think/#comment-136 I think the second video/audio was wasted. Stick with the content. Allen at his finest. Interview, billiards and comedy. I think the second video/audio was wasted. Stick with the content. Allen at his finest. Interview, billiards and comedy.

]]> Comment on Dylan & McCartney - Artists in a Box by Heather Mills http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/362/dylan-mccartney-artists-in-a-box/#comment-59 Heather Mills Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:17:17 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/362/dylan-mccartney-artists-in-a-box/#comment-59 <strong>Heather Mills...</strong> I Googled for something completely different, but found your page...and have to say thanks. nice read.... Heather Mills…

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

]]> Comment on Recipe for a Man-Made Universe by Jarmatus http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/528/recipe-for-a-man-made-universe/#comment-45 Jarmatus Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:19:51 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/528/recipe-for-a-man-made-universe/#comment-45 Won't that... like... destroy the Earth or something? GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!! :P Won’t that… like… destroy the Earth or something? GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!! :P

]]> Comment on Congress, Costanza and Festivus by DecaturHeel http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/488/congress-costanza-and-festivus/#comment-42 DecaturHeel Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:00:58 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/488/congress-costanza-and-festivus/#comment-42 I don't think it's such a bad idea to make Festivus an official holiday...at least it's secular and could be enjoyed by everyone! Besides, as evidenced by palces like http://www.cafepress.com/hoganstore/1782703 , it's beginning to gain traction in the marketplace of ideas and commerce! I don’t think it’s such a bad idea to make Festivus an official holiday…at least it’s secular and could be enjoyed by everyone! Besides, as evidenced by palces like http://www.cafepress.com/hoganstore/1782703 , it’s beginning to gain traction in the marketplace of ideas and commerce!

]]> Comment on The Existential Void by kalah http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/424/the-existential-void/#comment-34 kalah Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:46:58 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/424/the-existential-void/#comment-34 I don't believe that anything outside ourselves will fill this void. We can delude our minds with religion, thinking that God is the answer to all of life's questions, but that way of thinking is not only intellectually lazy and short-sighted, but sets a person up to feel disappointed and jaded when that belief fades away. If we are truly honest with ourselves, we realize that life does not have to have a meaning. Just because we want it to have meaning, is not a reason for it to be so. And spending each day agonizing over what that meaning could be is a fruitless endeavor that causes more needless suffering. But a universal lack of purpose is not a reason to despair. There may not be any grand, cosmic meaning to our existence, but that does not mean that we can't have our own personal reasons to value life and deter us from off-ing ourselves on any given day. Just like what he mentioned above: sex, love, family, perhaps the idea of discovery, through science or philosophy, are all ways to keep a person content and hopefully fulfilled in some way. I don’t believe that anything outside ourselves will fill this void. We can delude our minds with religion, thinking that God is the answer to all of life’s questions, but that way of thinking is not only intellectually lazy and short-sighted, but sets a person up to feel disappointed and jaded when that belief fades away.

If we are truly honest with ourselves, we realize that life does not have to have a meaning. Just because we want it to have meaning, is not a reason for it to be so. And spending each day agonizing over what that meaning could be is a fruitless endeavor that causes more needless suffering.

But a universal lack of purpose is not a reason to despair. There may not be any grand, cosmic meaning to our existence, but that does not mean that we can’t have our own personal reasons to value life and deter us from off-ing ourselves on any given day. Just like what he mentioned above: sex, love, family, perhaps the idea of discovery, through science or philosophy, are all ways to keep a person content and hopefully fulfilled in some way.

]]> Comment on The Best Definition of Love by sprocketeer http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/163/the-best-definition-of-love/#comment-9 sprocketeer Sun, 27 May 2007 16:47:32 +0000 http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/163/the-best-definition-of-love/#comment-9 Actually, I think a prose writer bested all the poets when it came to defining love: "The condition where another's happiness is essential to your own." -- Robert Heinlein Heinlein's definition may lack poetry, it may lack romance, and it certainly lacks symbolism, metaphor and analogy; but it has the advantage of razor sharpness. Actually, I think a prose writer bested all the poets when it came to defining love: “The condition where another’s happiness is essential to your own.” — Robert Heinlein

Heinlein’s definition may lack poetry, it may lack romance, and it certainly lacks symbolism, metaphor and analogy; but it has the advantage of razor sharpness.

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