# My Personal Theory of Everything (Kaleidoscopic Reality) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 31, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627 "2012-05-31T05:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![shadowofneo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@shadowofneo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shadowofneo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/41 "2012-06-01T04:26:44Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Are you just elaborately quoting the lyrics to [Incubus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nqRkAsZumc) [songs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8295rOMvtQI)? really? I only like a couple of their songs, which one are you referring to? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/42 "2012-06-01T04:27:47Z")
Cue [Also Sprach Zarathustra.](http://www.sadtrombone.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/43 "2012-06-01T04:37:08Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Although the shape of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was actually an ominous, obsidian-black hexahedron (ratio 1:4:9), you’ve just described the movie _2001: A Space Odyssey._ > > Arthur C. Clarke beat you by about 45 years. Congratulations. Really?! That’s what you got out of it? I read it as a description of Adam and Eve first discovering the pleasures of a weed-high after standing down-wind from some potheads. 😕 I’m not very smart though. ---
**Author:** ![shadowofneo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@shadowofneo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shadowofneo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/44 "2012-06-01T04:39:44Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Although the shape of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was actually an ominous, obsidian-black hexahedron (ratio 1:4:9), you’ve just described the movie _2001: A Space Odyssey._ > > Arthur C. Clarke beat you by about 45 years. Congratulations. I don’t really know much about that movie other than it’s existence and about 10 mins I might have seen on a movie network a while ago that may actually have been a scene from space balls or possibly an apollo mission… kidding about that last one, those most certainly aren’t fake especially the one with tom hanks, they must have paid him a million bucks to go up there and bring those guys back to life, not to mention rebrush the chunk of moon that blow off in the new high range recaptures of the moon for the movie in real D 3d ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/45 "2012-06-01T04:51:38Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Really?! That’s what you got out of it? I read it as a description of Adam and Eve first discovering the pleasures of a weed-high after standing down-wind from some potheads. 😕 I’m not very smart though. Replace “Adam and Eve” with our evolutionary ancestors, the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” with the “Monolith”, “Fire” with the “Tools of Mankind”, and “weed” with a haunting score and inspiring cinematography, then yep. > [@shadowofneo](#): > > I don’t really know much about that movie other than it’s existence and about 10 mins I might have seen on a movie network a while ago that may actually have been a scene from space balls or possibly an apollo mission… kidding about that last one, those most certainly aren’t fake especially the one with tom hanks, they must have paid him a million bucks to go up there and bring those guys back to life, not to mention rebrush the chunk of moon that blow off in the new high range recaptures of the moon for the movie in real D 3d First, your ideas aren’t original. Second, WTF are you talking about, dude? ---
**Author:** ![shadowofneo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@shadowofneo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shadowofneo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/46 "2012-06-01T05:13:36Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Replace “Adam and Eve” with our evolutionary ancestors, the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” with the “Monolith”, “Fire” with the “Tools of Mankind”, and “weed” with a haunting score and inspiring cinematography, then yep. > > First, your ideas aren’t original. > > Second, WTF are you talking about, dude? Hmm… Labored, anyway I never said or mentioned any guarantee of unique mindedness, or an original thought, (punctuation) I AM SIMPLY trying to form a network of thought that may include the most dire principles of existence in our perceived reality, and interpret them in such a way that needs no warranted access of different thinking to validate it’s expression, in basic terms stay sitting there engage the thought listen. If uninterested move on like normal people do not standing at a gate like a naked troll shouting fus ro da just because you think these message boards are sitting here like a dungeon waiting to be conquered, and like the battle mage some times does over steps his bounds and turned it into chess then into checkers just for fun, small minded prick with no real opinion. \ hmm ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/47 "2012-06-01T05:20:15Z")
As Carl Sagan put it, to paraphrase, we’re the culmination of what happens when you leave untold hydrogen atoms alone in the universe for about 14 billion years. Everything else you’re saying is just meandering metaphors and enlightened posturing on the internet with strangers. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/48 "2012-06-01T05:26:22Z")
Also, this message board isn’t for fun. It’s for tears and dispair. Have you seen the goat? ---
**Author:** ![tink222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@tink222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tink222)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/49 "2012-06-01T05:31:02Z")
What is this goat you speak of? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/50 "2012-06-01T05:34:46Z")
> [@tink222](#): > > What is this goat you speak of? [SDMB Mascot.](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/SnGaG23_6ZI/AAAAAAAAE6c/gXggIYF5fek/s1600-h/Goat,+Pee+Wee.JPG) Poor bastard. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/51 "2012-06-01T05:44:12Z")
I just wanted to say, this has been fun. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/52 "2012-06-01T06:52:26Z")
[del]The OP has been banned due to sockery. If anyone would like to continue this subject, you may, just start a new one.[/del] ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/53 "2013-04-11T19:27:07Z")
> [@shadowofneo](#): > > This is where controversy may arise. The origin of adam and eve interests me greatly, many cultures refer to a special alpha man and alpha woman, most of the time the man has had a hand in either the creation or protection of eve, but somehow the bible manages to do both and also have adam leave eve’s side long enough to be tempted with “knowledge” by a strange legless creature with the inherent ability to speak.This is where my stance has a wider gate, be reminded that this is a personal belief and as such spiritual aspects of the overall meme may not inherently agree, though the base principle in any instance spills trying to with most common spiritual beliefs, ay the very last a reflection of christianity, though I am not, most principles are similar or shared.let’s begin, imagine (…do it) instead of an apple lets say the fruit is the knowledge of fire, given to adam and eve at the same time. Now lets say they discovered things they could do with fire, boil water, burn things, create light, cook food. Change the backdrop, a cave man comes home after hearing his wife has chested on him, and for the first time the man instead of instinctively challenging the other man first goes into a rage rips pitt his hair throws rocks and sparks one of a wall just right and ignites the first man made fire, suddenly cave mans wife doesn’t seem so important, he had somehow harnessed the power of god, because up until thus point only man and beast have seen fire as a result gods wraith, lightening. So this particular cave man gains power through knowledge of fire creation build an empire declares himself god, and writes what could become the first remnants of an all powerful manual of the universe.Back to adam and eve, lets say instead the serpent gives the gift of gab to adam and eve, with trip simple conditions, there will be spoken lies whispered by the seen, and written truth protected and upheld by unseen. Giving two parties (angels - interdimensional beings) (demons - higher plane biological beings) a fair playing field on which to sway a budding culture towards evil and good in hopes one side will win.Back to adam and eve, and their gift of fire given as the fruit of knowledge, this is where the tree comes in, landslides the fruit is separate from the tree, fruit after all is the result of time and nourishment. Where fire is the near opposite of fruit. In continuum, the eventual finding of fire as a tool would lead to having a limited amount of real applications of fire, then experimenting begins.Adam and eve sit down wind from a lit campfire and begin to have a reaction to something burning, mint for instance would have a interesting effect when burned in a fire, so they start trying different things to achieve a new effect, until finally there is nothing left to burn to see what reaction if any could be had by the given substance.But there it’s always the tree, the glowing beautiful and ambient tree of life, that is oddly shaped like a small christmas tree…And the things they saw and did after that first breath I would say may have giving birth to the breadth of ideas and subsequent knowledge that we enjoy today. Long and rambling. Could you boil this down to maybe 2 or 3 sentences? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/54 "2013-04-11T19:50:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Long and rambling. Could you boil this down to maybe 2 or 3 sentences? > [@shadowofneo](#): > > Change the backdrop, a cave man comes home after hearing his wife has chested on him,… My understanding is a cavemans wife took a dump on his chest. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/55 "2013-04-12T00:26:44Z")
A proto-Cleveland Steamer, then? Archeology rocks. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/56 "2013-04-12T11:53:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Long and rambling. Could you boil this down to maybe 2 or 3 sentences? Wow, I didn’t realize the mods had unbanned **shadowofneo** (and **tink222** ) after all. Welcome back, and take **Czarcasm’s** advice here. Take some time and soak in the vibe here, and perhaps you’ll get a better reaction. Also, paragraphs. God invented them for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/57 "2013-04-12T12:50:57Z")
Also, if you think you have a ‘theory of everything’, show us how incontrovertibly it applies to _one specific domain or scenario_ first. It’s not a theory of anything if it only superficially skims the surface of lots of different topics, but never goes to any depth. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/58 "2013-04-13T12:07:23Z")
Can your theory of everything explain non-dairy creamer, non-fat sour cream, or why people get so worked up over Mayo vs Miracle Whip? Bonus points if your theory can tell us which way to put the toilet paper roll, whether or not declawed cats can ever be “truly happy” and what the ultimate fate of parents who bring their children to restaurants is. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627/59 "2013-04-18T19:07:58Z")
> [@shadowofneo](#): > > If uninterested move on like normal people do not standing at a gate like a naked troll shouting fus ro da just because you think these message boards are sitting here like a dungeon waiting to be conquered, and like the battle mage some times does over steps his bounds and turned it into chess then into checkers just for fun, small minded prick with no real opinion. \ hmm Sorry, but I laughed so hard at this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-personal-theory-of-everything-kaleidoscopic-reality/623627.md?page=2)