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Somewhat recently I became interested in reading up on the Big Bang, the creation of the universe, and where this whole cosmic train is heading. The Big Bang, well all scientists can say is that they have no way of knowing how that dot of matter came to be or why it exploded. The big minds of that field, like Hawkings, say that because they cannot possibly determine what happened before that all they can do is work on what happened since then. A lot of them are even agnostic, claiming that the Big Bang is proof of something, maybe not an intelligent ‘creator’ but creation itself doesn’t follow a logical premise so there has to be more to it than that.
What I wonder is what is beyond our little universe, and a more prominent question in my mind is why we are here at all. It doesn’t make any sort of sense for there to be a universe or for there to be anything. When you think about it in the large-scale terms why is there anything at all? Why isn’t there just a vast never ending nothingness? The idea of an intelligent creator, or even a catalyst for creation doesn’t make much sense. If the universe had any sort of logic at all there wouldn’t be a universe to begin with. Or maybe it’s some sort of rule that there mush be something, that the universe cannot just be an empty dead space.
Last night my little brother was telling me that he had to attend a seminar about how it’s important to preserve the oceans, about how it’s important to save the whales and such. I found myself laughing. I said that the sun will become too hot to support life on the surface of the planet after a billion years. After two the oceans are going to be boiled and eventually dry up. After the sun turns into a red giant in another few billion years then world will be utterly destroyed, as it sinks into the enlarged sun. Pretty much our entire solar system will be annihilated when that happens. After another few billion years Andromeda, a nearby solar system like the Milky Way, is going to crash into us and merge with our solar system, probably destroying all the cosmos we’ve charted. If we’re a space-race by this point we will probably be in great danger during this event. Assuming we live we’ll start to see a lot of the stars die out and turn into black dwarfs, after an even longer period of time we’ll witness the universe tear itself apart thanks to the law of thermodynamics. Energy will continue to burn as entropy increases. The end result will be a universe that slowly over time uses up all it’s heat energy and begins to degenerate into a frozen wasteland of atomic soup. The Universe’s continued expansion will result in space tearing itself apart as things decay further, after about a few trillion years, we’ll be in a cosmological dark age where even the supermassive black holes have died out.
Basically, in a long enough time line, we are cosmologically doomed.
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Imagine you’re a devout Catholic, you grew up in a strict Catholic house under strict Catholic rules and when you got old enough you got sent to a strict Catholic school. Your whole life, all you know if is piety and love for the lord. You believe everything the Bible and church officials say. When you are old enough, you decide to go into the priesthood and you study and pray and pray and study every day.
You take your position as a priest very seriously when it’s granted to you. Patiently guiding your flock through the trials and tribulations of everyday life. You listen to confessions, some dark and terrible, some innocent and harmless. You follow the laws, or at least as many as possible, and eventually through simple talent, political savvy, or perhaps a little of both, you become a Bishop. Maybe over the years as your faith strengthens, you become Arch Bishop. Perhaps you have what it takes, and when the time is ripe you become the Pope.
You ascend, and sit in your pope throne, and you think to yourself. Now I am the leader of the all the Christians, and the lord will speak to me and tell me what I must do to guide my flock. You sit in your throne and you hold your hands up and you say, lord I am here and I will listen to your divine words. I will follow them to the letter o’ lord, for I art thou humble servant. I beseech you o’ lord, speak and I shall listen.
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Then sitting there around the pious who are admiring your rise to Popehood, in that holiest of holy rooms, you realize for the first time in your life. Even if it is for half a second before you come up with some programmed excuse or justification to reassure yourself that the lord won’t speak directly. You’ll have to interpret metaphors and hidden symbols, really just guesswork of course but you’ll do your best. Before all those thoughts hit you, for just a split second you come to realize that no one or no thing is up there, and if they are then they aren’t going to say anything to you.
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I always find it funny how the mild stuff people will get all worked up and pissed off, but the major stuff they don’t seem to much mind. At least not unless the major stuff actually inconveniences them in any way shape or form. Everyone’s all for a war until the price at the pump goes up. Still, that’s a little beside the point at the moment.
When I write, I find the most petty of comments will send people into a towering inferno of rage much quicker than, say, long and ponderous thoughts about the nature of humanity, god, and the state. I could talk about sociological generalities all day, which I do because I find them interesting, and because I think it’s the duty of all people capable of grasping these sorts of things to at least give them some thought or discuss them a little with the population at large in some way, shape or form. There’s another reason as well, which is a bit more perverse, and that is I hope my comments can spurn someone and get them to try and disprove my position. Not really a debate, a debate is boring, more of a brief flash of anger at, say, being confronted with a perceived truth in such a relatively callous manner. I like to get people, especially people I deem as stupid, angry. If I can’t get someone to think a little at least if I piss them off I feel I’m doing my job. I don’t really care so much of the nature of the response I get so much as the response itself. Anger at least shows the person is thinking about what I said, perhaps not in the way I may have hoped, but hell… I’ll take what I can get. Impotent rage is so very amusing to me. Yet, and I must admit this, I do not get the types of replies I hope from people most of the time.
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al-Qaida leaders showed much anger and fear in regards to the new U.S. president in newly recorded video footage, regarding him as a “killer of innocents” and responsible for the recent battles in Gaza, despite Barack Obama not being in office when they began. They fear that they will no longer have a perfect example of American peacekeeping now that Furher Bush is back in Texas.
But what does the new US president think of this? Obama told his adviser yesterday that this is the perfect time to make friends of our Muslim detractors, and is setting up bedrooms in the White House and lots of extra soap for top non-al-Qaida representatives (officials say al-Qaida can’t be trusted with all the free condiment packets). Those are nice touches, but not enough to impress the hardened middle east war veterans, so what was it that finally convinced them to take a great American vacation?
Free pancakes every morning!
These staunch believers in the Muslim faith will take advantage of good old US hospitality with over 300 channels of DirecTV including their favorites like I Love Lucy and Pokemon.
This news follows shortly after polls in Muslim countries concluding that Barack is actually well-liked there. Muslim families to stay in the White House have been advised not to touch anything.
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As the United States nears the historic inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama, a couple things are on many American minds, including among them “God, I’m glad the old president is out” and “God, I hope the new president doesn’t get shot in the head”. Smart thinking, but one has to be prepared for the worst on the eve of such a dramatic change in the country’s history. President George W. Bush left such a hole in the U.S.’s reputation that foreign countries are possibly more excited than ever about who takes the reins.
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Way up north in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a man was acquitted of murder (that means he wasn’t convicted, just so you know) when he got a jury to accept his self-defense plea, citing that the victim, who had allegedly threatened him in the past, was stabbed a total of 39 times, but “wouldn’t bleed properly the way he should’ve bled, according to the movies.”
(editor’s note: LMAO WTF?)
One day prior, a man tried a similar self-defense plea but was not acquitted, due to the facts that he a.) stabbed the defendant 68 times and oh yeah b.) had sex with the corpse. I can’t understand why the jury had it out for this guy. He obviously raped a dead body to protect himself. These things happen….
….In Canada.
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Recently the porn industry has suffered, much like the banks and automotive industries. Of course with the porn business, at least they could legitimately say the reason their businesses were failing is was not associated with greed, incompetence, or corruption. They were just busy fucking.
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.
Francis said in a statement that “the US government should actively support the adult industry’s survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people.”
“People are too depressed to be sexually active,” Flynt said in the statement. “This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex.”
“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind. It’s time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly.”
So far, there has been no congressional reaction to the request.
I feel that the flaccid response from congress shows the true impotence of the elderly congressmen in being able to form a rock solid plan for giving cold hard cash right into the backdoor of the porn business and keep the nations sacred porn industry erect.
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