Thoughts 2

Heres a short rant on creationism and intelligent design...leaving alone weather god exists or not (whole seperate issue) there are many many many things wrong with ID
The argument: they say that we shouldnt believe in evolution because its not really a theory and even if it is its a shaky and innaccurate theory and that ID is an acceptable alternative theory to evolution
the retort: In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch, as it can in everyday speech. A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from or is supported by rigorous observations in the natural world, or by experimental evidence (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations, and is predictive, logical, and testable. In principle, scientific theories are always tentative, and subject to corrections, inclusion in a yet wider theory, or succession. Commonly, many more specific hypotheses may be logically bound together by just one or two theories. As a rule for use of the term, theories tend to deal with much broader sets of universals than do hypotheses, which ordinarily deal with much more specific sets of phenomena or specific applications of a theory. this all just copy and pasted from an amalgam of sources otherwise known as wikipedia (the above is damn accurate so dont say that wiki is a bad source) but anyways going on the above definition of a theory evolution fits it. its a framework for describing the natural phenomena of why animals are here and why they look like/behave as they do. it originated and is supported by rigorous observations (even if darwin didnt do enough theres hundreds of pages of support researched by other scientists) tehre is also experimental evidence (fruit fly research) it is predicatable, logical and testable (again fruit flies) now on the other hand you would be hard pressed to fit ID into that definition because we all know that we can test for the existence of a creator and that we can predict what types of insects and rodents will be around hundreds of years from now because this creator lets us know and furthermore a creator is not natural also by the logic they use gravity doesnt really exist either its just that creator thingy willing things to stay on the surface and such

Ramblings 2

Oooo its time for a rambling rant about religion. im just gonna do bullet points to make things clearer

1. you cant take the bible literally...why? because it makes a hell of a lot more sense when u look at it like you would asops fables
2. christianity doesnt make sense...how can you say something like homosexuality is a sin when its in the old testament and yet it also says in the old testament that its a sin not to observe saturday as the sabbath and to disobey the dietary laws and to stone a child if he/she talks back to thier parents...you cant pick n choose if christianity is as it says seperated from the jewish faith then they cant claim to believe in anything thats in the old testament because they dont really believe in or follow the 613 commandments (ok so no one really does however they still dont follow the biggest ones like the dietary laws and shabbat on saturday and the high holidays (the new year and day of atonement))
3. islam by including much of christianity and judaism it has most of thier flaws
   
4. i dont care what other ppl believe however i believe in the saying "my rights end where yours begin" (ironically this was told to me an orthodox rabbi) which means that just as i have no right to smack you around you have no right to tell me or anyone else that they cant love a member of the same sex (there are of course limits like no one has the right to kill someone in cold blood)
   
5. i dont believe in god why? because theres satisfactory explanation for why god would give man such a contradictory text (according to judaism and therefore christianity and islam moses was given the bible at mt sinai which is kinda wierd and even if he just gave him the 613 commandments theres contextual evidence that the bible was not written by 1 person/entity (eg the two slightly different creation stories)) amoung other things
6. i kno alot of community support comes from religion but why do we need religion for that? why cant everyone just be nice
7. one of the most quoted biblical sayings is the whole "do unto others as you would have done to you" aka "dont hit me if you dont want someone to hit you" however christians tend to react quite coldy and unfreindly if u say ur an athiest (ive had at least 2 attempts of ppl to try to convert me) not to mention ive heard plenty of bigoted remarks and beliefs from people who claim to be uber religious and believe that the bible is 100% truth
   
8. stop thinking that jesus is gonna come down and save ur ass because u fucked up/are in unfortunate cirucmastances...did jesus help all the god fearing christians who died in the Holocaust (believe it or not folks Hitler killed off approx 5 million gypsies gays communists pows, political pows, people with any physical or mental disability etc) ok not all those in that list were god fearing christians but im sure quite a few of them were and if jesus didnt help those people why should he help u? instead of relying on jesus to help or do something for you why dont u try doing it urself (ok i understand he can be a source of inspiration but theres a difference between using him as a role model and asking him to save ur cat)
9. think about how much bloodshed has been caused by religion (crusades, european religiouos wars, several massacres and at least 1 genocide, middle eastern religious wars, the war on terror, etc)
10. we kno that there are alot of biblical books and texts out there that arent part of the bible and yet are they wrong and if they are why? why isnt the gospel of judas in the bible (yes there is such a thing) why is the jewish version of the old testament and the christian version differnet (theres some books in the jewish one that arent in the christian one and vice versa)
11. theres alot of the bible that we dont kno what the actual hebrew means (we dont kno if it was a serpent in Eden and we sure as hell know it wasnt an apple since those are native to north america)
    
12. this might be redundent but theres 2 creation stories...why?!
13. different translations=different interpratations=conflict and whose right anyways?
14. dont get me started on ID and evolution thats a whole nother long rant with terrible english to be written at 1 am

That would be all...you may resume you regulary schedualed programming

Musings 2

"Hmmm i seem to smell slightly funky, i probably should do some self hygeination...hmmm should wash my clothes while im at it." Person A gathers up all the dirty clothes that are scattered throughout the room and searching for them all was like reading one of those I Spy books. After a tedious five minutes of gathering clothes, they manage to heave it all to the washer where they proceed to get a load going. Things however came to a sliding, skidding and slightly screechey halt when the mother barrels through shouting, "WHAT'S THIS! YOU'RE DOING YOUR WASH NOW?!..." there was more but person A decided to use thier power of selective hearing to ignore the rest and proceeded with the wash and then headed to the bathroom for what they hoped was going to be a nice relaxing session of ritual (not to mention practical) cleansing. However no sooner had they started the ritual the door was flung open. This completely started person A nearly causing some unpleasent physical trauma however they didnt have time to worry about what bodily harm might have been because the mother was now shouting enough obscenaties to make any film X rated. Between the copious swearing bits person A was mortified to when they realized that she was screaming at them to get outa the shower and how they had to take a shower now and how everything was wrong and Person A swore they heard something about a crossbow, terrorists and Dan Quayle. Person A was not sure what to do but knew they had a few options and they had to pick fast.
Option 1: jump out of the temple of clean to slam and lock the door
Option 2: throw things at the mother till she went away
Option 3: start screaming nonsense back at the mother in hopes that she would leave
Option 4: Futily attempt to reason with her
Of course Person A chose the logical choice of screaming illogical rants back at the mother in hopes that she would give up and leave.
Ladies and Gentlemen! Tonight we have a classic fight for your enjoyment! In the red corner is Person A! Person A was in the early stages of the ritual of clensing when thier mother bargged in and started shouting things that would make Jesus's rattle in thier box. And in the blue Corner is The Mother! Shes had one shit pie of a day which has sent her into a beserker rage and her child was unfortunate enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. *Ding Ding*
The fight took all of 6 min 9 secs in which egos were bruised and self images smashed and it all managed to come out dead even however the referee favors with Person A because "They didnt start it"
After what seemed like forever the mother finally slams the door with a defiant "THIS ISNT OVER YET!" and stalks off to do things Person A would much rather not think about. On the bright side Person A was able to finish the ritual in peace and quiet which then led to the obligatory burning of the midnight oil which they had scented earlier to smell like something awesomely refreshing and clean. There is a moral to this story and that is...always pay tribute to gods of clean for thier wrath is quite brutal...and smelly.

Ramblings 1

Ok...for those who may be reading this and do not know...i am Jewish and my family is moderately religious...so whenever we order in food like pizza or Chinese we use paper and plastic for our dishes and utensils...however we seem to always be chronically short of forks...this is a problem when i am trying to eat my vegetable lo mien and there is not a single plastic fork in the house...however when i go looking for one i always find dozens of plastic knives and spoons...why you may ask...well the answer is simple...whenever my mother goes out to buy plastic ware she either gets all spoons (i have no idea why) or gets knives, forks and spoons in one box (so there's like 5 of each)...she rarely if ever just gets a box of forks...its really annoying so today i found myself in such a predicament so i was forced to drive the 5 min to the local P&C and buy like 50 plastic forks...this problem could also be solved if they actually sold the ever useful spork...then we could have lots of spoons and yet i could always use them as forks...i say its a win win...but alas they do not sell boxes of sporks (at least none that i could find) so i have began work on a program to breed forks and spoons to get sporks (they say the reason sporks exist is because someone left thier spoons and forks together in the drawer)...if this isn't successful i could always try growing more fork trees and having a fork tree farm (thanks for the first one Joe)...hopefully from now on out ill actually be able to eat my lo mien with forks rather than fumbling around with chopsticks (the dreaded alternative)...

Thoughts 1

my philosophy professor is awesome...he's a rambling irish man who like any philosopher tends to go on tangets. A few of these tangets create some humorous quotes: "Well, i suppose you could in your final paper prove that everything is made up of strawberries..."
"We can't all just sit in our rooms and think that the sun is a toaster 'THE SUNS A TOASTER THE SUNS A TOASTER!'"
"...and you probably would forget it if you were dead."
so yes i am enjoying this class immensly which is a good thing.

Musings 1

george was normally a deep sleeper but he found it impossible to stay asleep when biff kept on zooming through the room reenacting famous moments in history. Much to Georges dismay he opened his eyes to see the recreation of archimedes figuring out how to determine density by volume. EUREKA!

Musings, Thoughts and Ramblings intro

Hello there! If you are here that means that your here because i made you visit or you managed to randomly find your way here. Either way im gonna say right off the bat that things might be a little strange and nonsensical there might also be a severe lack of grammer and so please do not tell me to put any in because chances are that i never will. I will update whenever i feel like so if you actually read this dont be surprised to see stretches of no updates. I hope that if you read this that you might get a smale giggle, chortle, chuckle outa it. So yep here we go!

-me