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Greetings, welcome to Top 5's, a happy little thread that is intended to be a little bit of fun. Pick a catagory (any catagory) and list your Top 5 choices within that category. Give a brief explanation of your choices if you so desire. In turn, feel free to comment on other peoples choices and your list own top 5's in other people's categories. Categories can be SL related or not. Here are some catagory examples Top 5 Sims Top 5 SL Bloggers Top 5 Forums members :smileytongue: Top 5 Lindens Top 5 Bands Top 5 Movies Top 5 Mustachioed plumbers Top 5 Fascist dictators Top 5 Ewoks to name just a few. There is lots of fun to be had in the Top 5 thread so think up a category and off you go!

For over 7 years I have logged on everyday to support my businesses apart from when I am on vacation or sick, but the time I spend building and "playing" has always fluctuated over the years as I loose and regain interest. RIght now I am more into SL than I have been for years This is mainly because of Mesh. After creating content for so long using the old restrictive tools I feel like my hands have suddenly been untied and I can finally make what I want, exactly the way I want it. Regarding all the changes we have seen over the years, LL and SL are almost unrecognisable compared to when I started here. I've rolled with the punches many times and always came out the other side with healthy and profitable businesses. As long as that continues I will always be involved in SL. It's all about the Benjamin's.

Pussycat Catnap wrote: Creation is a room with a light switch.... I really that. You should get T-shirts made up and sell them on Ebay :smileyhappy:

Will we still be able to upload temp textures for free as we can now with some TPV's?

Anaiya Arnold wrote: Your creator assumption is not possible unless either something came from nothing or there was never a state of nothingness. Your whole reason for assuming a creator though is because you do not find either of these things believable, but your creator is not possible unless one of them is true. I think this is completely right and applicable to every single theory that mankind has ever come up with for the inception of the universe / multiverse. If you trace every single theory back to the initial source you have to accept the fact that the first thing that ever happened in the history of everything is that something appeared from nothing.

I think the most currently accepted theory is that our universe is infinite. The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light and is speeding up. We have no idea why so we stick a fancy label on the driving force and call it Dark Energy. Ultimately all the galaxies move away from each other either on their own or in clusters and the only observable light will be from our own local cluster. Eventually all the stars will run out of fuel and star formation will be exhausted, any proton decay or other stellar remnants will disappear and only black holes will be left in a void barren universe that exists in a state of absolute zero. The Big Freeze. So I think the universe is infinite in it's expansion and that expansion will ultimately result in a virtual nothingness. I see our particular universe as being like a science experiment. The experiment in our case was a test to see whether or not matter or anti-matter would prevail. Matter won, barely. So the experiment happened, we are living in the dissipation of that chemical experiment. Eventually the experiment will end as the left over's from the chemical reaction fade away. The "intelligence" that triggered it will loose interest and stop watching. The universe or science lab will still exist. It will just be closed for business as there will be nothing left to see here.

Rene Erlanger wrote: What else can you in your Crystal Ball? Any guesses when total Sims falls below the 30k mark? I've just paid close attention to what you have written since your return and based my speculation on that. So you tell me? :matte-motes-big-grin-evil:

Qwalyphi Korpov wrote: I was afraid of that. I supose we'll soon see you sporting an upscale hat/face bag too. No don't worry, I wont let it go to my head. :matte-motes-big-grin-evil:

WHO'S THE MAN? what was that? I said WHO DA MAN? Yes, thats right, it's me. There will be no shutting me up now. :matte-motes-big-grin-evil:

Lucinda Bulloch wrote: Just needs a bit of Drum N' Bass over the top and that could be a BANGIN tune!:smileyhappy:

Sy Beck wrote: Good reply myself and one I have been ruminating upon to be smartass back at myself again. Before I'm able to answer myself I guess I'd have to answer what is conscious thought. It's not matter, it exerts no force by itself, it occupies no particular space, but in its operation it can be anywhere at anytime and these are just a few of its peculiarities. Once I've nailed that bit of fog to the wall I might have a better answer for myself me. Of course in this scenario I am God, so a touch more respect next time when you're addressing your deity otherwise I'll forget you, by which I mean me. Things get confusing and paradoxical in this concept. I LOL'ed. But then obviously you already knew that. :matte-motes-sunglasses-3:

Sy Beck wrote: And what if there is no universe, no space, matter or time and I am just a concious entity alone, but capable of imagining all those things and all that exists around me and able to imagine the physical and emotional sensations they might possess and/or express and all of you are just constructs of my conscience? I look forward to hearing back from myself shortly. Je pense, donc je suis I think I heard this theory on the afore mentioned Morgan Freeman show. It is an interesting theory and a really neat and tidy one with no room for any unanswerable questions apart from one. If you are just a conscious entity and all existence is a manifestation of your consciousness, then all we need to know is how you came into existence sy?

Teagan Tobias wrote: POOF Whilst I do enjoy the works of Liza MInnella and I can carry showtune or too, I don't think there is any need to be homophobic! :smileywink: j/k

Phil Deakins wrote: The only conclusion that can be drawn is that something created existance (space, matter and time) - your intelligent designer. So, to answer your question, an intelligent designer created the universe. ALthough that is my current belief, I don't believe it 100%. Not completely convinced. We are trapped in a bubble and until we can escape that bubble and look at it from the outside, put it into context, I don't think we'll ever be sure.

Oh I forgot to ridicule that TV show Ancient Aliens, has anyone seen that? Those guys are desperately clutching at straws more and more in every episode. In their eyes Humans have achieved nothing and Aliens are pretty much responsible for every achievement Mankind has made in history, And it has become more ludicrous the longer the show stays on the air as they have to invent more content. Good entertainment but utter nonsense IMO.

wiked Anton wrote: i believe in God, and you call it intelligent design.....so what? you may not think you pray, but you talk to it anyway. so there ya go.....you think you all by yourself, but you not am i?............there is just way too much going on here for it to be an accident, coincedence, or anyting ese. you can believe aliens came and spat on our dirt and up we sprang, and it that is the caes, where are they now?...the only "ufo's" are man made experiemntal craft.anyway, you can belive what you wish (goes for everybody) and if its wrong you have to go to hell without a fuss....coz you were warned.... There is no clear consensus on the nature of god in our civilisation. Literally thousands of gods and deity's have been documented. The concept of gods have essentially been created throughout our history to compensate for our lack of understanding, it has also been used to impose order and force doctrine onto people. People have swapped religion for science as a way to answer their questions but science has revealed such a complex universe that some are still forced to compensates for their ignorance by believing in an intelligent design as I do. If you want to call the intelligent design God, then that is fine with me. As for the existence of Heaven and Hell and the Christian God, or any other god for that matter, well I can't disprove them. In a multi-verse containing an infinite number of universes I guess it would be a certainty that your vision of heaven and hell does exists, especially if you factor in theories on parallel universes and parallel multi-verses. Everything you can imagine has, does and will exist. You bring up UFO's which is an interesting discussion in it's own right. LIke you, I don't believe UFO's have visited earth. I do believe that life exists and evolves outside of this planet, how could I not when I consider the vastness of the universe? I think the components for our universe were created through intelligent design and the big bang was the delivery system, from there I believe everything is down to natural selection from the ability of stars to host habitable plants to those habitable planets having the necessary components and conditions to create life, to that life evolving an intelligence. I think the odds of any given Star hosting a planet of space-faring aliens is extremely tiny. But the number of stars in our galaxy alone is astronomical so that will still result in many hundreds of thousands of civilisations having existed in just our galaxy. However due to the vastness of time only a few thousand exists today. I guess we also need to consider parallel universes and other dimensions as a source for alien visitors but I've spouted enough nonsense for now so I sill stop. :matte-motes-asleep-2:

Lucinda Bulloch wrote: Think I am wasting my time, so to be in a band is cool so all he thinks must be right to, LOL. He was in D:ream they must have been one of the most uncoolest bands ever. Take That wannabes are how the press dubbed them at the time. Plus he looks like a woman in that video. So no, not cool. However his ability to present complex science to the general public is cool. He gets good ratings and gets people watching programs about science rather than all that dreadful reality show rubbish. Anyone that can successfully present science on mainstream TV is cool in my book.

Porky Gorky wrote: My speculation may have been pulled straight out of my arse without any research as leliel Mirihi was so kind to point out. But everyday we go without seeing the Q4 report, my speculation becomes more feasable. I still don't think we are going to get a Q4 report. If I am wrong I shall eat my hat / face bag. /me walks around looking slightly more smug everyday.

Helium Loon wrote: Just had to chime in here on a couple of things..... Cool thanks. I read that 3 times and I think I understand all of the big words now :matte-motes-big-grin:

I've not seen anything on the subject of fractals , I will definitely check that out, thanks!

LOL thanks Tatiana :matte-motes-wink: I think nearly every universe origin theory falls apart if you look at it too hard. If you believe in intelligent design or a God or deity then you need to answer the question how did they come into existence in order to create the universe in the first place as Charlotte said. If you believe that the universe was not designed on purpose but merely happened then that needs to be explained too as things don't just appear from nowhere without a source according to what we know about the laws of physics. And the likelihood is we will never know as a species.

Charolotte Caxton wrote: Intelligent design? Then what could have possibly created that intelligence? Questions like that make my brain ache. :smileyfrustrated:

SIngularities are theorized to exist at the core of black holes and it has also been theorized that the multi-verse is essentially made up of multiple singularities. Taking your theory on negative and positive balance, couldn't we have this balance across multiple universes too? So negative and positive universes all ultimately balancing each other out? I think singularities fit right into some multi-verse theories.

He is a musician in his own right. He used to play keyboards in a band called D:ream who had a few #1's in the mid nineties,