Over a month later I checked up on the thread I started, and after reading the responses, decided to add a response, quite likely based on some LSD-induced contemplation from the night before. It's obvious based on reading this, that it was after writing my "One" essay, (which for some reason, I never ended up posting -- or at least I cannot find it through Google Groups).

Actually, this is more of a follow-up to the original post I made, "LSD: Beware of Paranoia".

In that original post, I mentioned how the meaning of life, the universe and everything had something to do with "One".

After some contemplation, I've come up with some answers.

First of all, we know no concrete limits to the universe, we're not sure how big it is, or how small something can be broken down... but no matter how infinite the universe is, it is 'one' universe. (Even with the ideas of multiple universes, the collective of all universes would be one collective, and the word 'universe' signifies all.)

With the widely accepted "big bang theory", the universe as we know it, was once 'one' dense ball of matter.

...and now some food for thought...

How do we know that this 'one' dense ball of matter was not a highly advanced life form? What form was it in? Seeing that heat increases with pressure, it is likely that this dense ball of matter was quite hot... like a star. If it was an advanced lifeform, completely beyond our comprehension, was it God?

How do we know that many stars aren't highly advanced life forms? They exist for billions of years... on their time-frame of existance, our whole existance (as humankind) would seem like a couple minutes... our lifetimes milliseconds. Even if we could detect their higher intelligence, we wouldn't live long enough to detect a single thought... and even if we could capture a though, would we have a chance of comprehending the thoughs of something vasty superior to ourselves?

Back to the pre-universe being God, why did it explode? Did it detect other balls of fire (lights) far off in the distance, and want to reach them? Was exploding its way of eventually reaching those other lights, knowing that someday it would all come back together as something better?

God could have "seen the light", and sacrificed itself to make itself better.

The meaning of life is simple:
To better oneself through mutually beneficial relationships.

Communication is very important to all life forms... hence the development of senses. Complex lifeforms (like humans) have a complicated communication system (nervous system) just to communicate with itself. For while we consider ourselves to be one person, we are made up from millions and millions of cells.