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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Cosmic Nothingness

posted by on August 25 at 12:51 PM

American astronomers discover an “enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across.”

It’s hard even for astronomers to picture how big these things are,” conceded Minnesota’s Professor Lawrence Rudnick.

“If you were to travel at the speed of light, it would take you several years to get to the nearest stars in our own Milky Way galaxy; but if you were to go to this hole and enter one side, you’d have to travel for a billion years before you would get to the other side,” he told BBC News.

This is Hegel’s point of total anger; the part of the universe that is absolutely mad at what ever is, at what is is in itself. To be is to be what it wants to end in a vacuum.

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1

So that's where George W. Bush's soul is.

Posted by Dilda | August 25, 2007 1:35 PM
2

In Kabbalah Keter is the void-beginning. Hegel is favored by Jewish philophers because of the way his worship of historical progress clarifies the sephirot.


Among the ignorant goi and women it's best to talk of "a point of total anger". Real spiritual understanding is beyond these people.

Posted by Issur | August 25, 2007 1:40 PM
3

The void isn't necessarily angry. Finding the nothingness and being able to coexist with it... that sounds more like meditation than anger!

Posted by Katelyn | August 25, 2007 2:15 PM
4

PS, @2... real spiritual understanding is beyond women? Why, because their chromosomal arrangement genetically prohibits it?

Posted by Katelyn | August 25, 2007 2:17 PM
5

Shiksa are incapable of understanding the sephirot. G-d reveals Kabbalah to Jewish men only and then only those with the age and understanding to grasp it's power.


Goi women can stick to their yoga classes, that's about all they can handle.

Posted by Issur | August 25, 2007 2:28 PM
6

Chaz would link Hegel and astronomy like the boob he is.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | August 25, 2007 2:35 PM
7

and if real spiritual understanding means being a dick, then perhaps women and goi are blessed to be ignorant of it.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | August 25, 2007 2:37 PM
8

And that is why I support the "Star Fleet Initative"! A vote for me promises that all the resources of our planet will be put to work to develope Warp Technology within 10 years and make space travel realistic and feasable!!

Posted by Me for the First UFP President | August 25, 2007 2:55 PM
9

I sure do like this Issur schmuck. He reminds me how g-d damn delicious Mystic Mints are. 24 to a magical package. Everybody loves 'em even if not everybody understands 'em. Great while doiny yoga!

Posted by simon | August 25, 2007 3:22 PM
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@5: OH. Okay. I had no idea. Thank you for schooling me and for filling my empty empty heart with your compassionate misogynism. Oh wait. "Empty empty" was supposed to read "angry angry"

Posted by Katelyn | August 25, 2007 3:41 PM
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Okay, folks, after reading Issur's comments for several days, I have to say, don't feed the troll. I'll give him props for trolling in the manner of a crazy, old school, Orthodox Jew right out of the shtetl, but let's face facts: he is a troll. Ignore him, please.

Posted by Gitai | August 25, 2007 9:21 PM
12

Am I the only Neverending Story fan who sees what this big blob of emptiness in outer space really is? THE NOTHING!!! The rock biters will be gone before you know it...

Posted by Bryan in the UK | August 26, 2007 6:59 AM
13

It's a good thing he didn't go THAT way.

That way leads to the castle!

Posted by M Leaver | August 26, 2007 11:20 AM
14

Cosmic nothingness? One grows weary of such intoxicated Romanticism.

Posted by Jim Demetre | August 26, 2007 1:28 PM
15

Maybe it's not that the universe is big, but rather that we are small.

But I'm Just a Beacon Hill Housewife and Meter Reader.

Posted by catalina vel-duray | August 26, 2007 6:30 PM
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The Void isn't angry--it's just misunderstood!

Posted by NapoleonXIV | August 27, 2007 9:43 AM

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