You know, I may dislike people as a whole, but damn it if they don't make me laugh! I think the ultimate satisfaction is when they lower themselves to try and beat me at my own game. At that point I just won, and well... it makes me laugh.
For those of you who don't know me, you have a 50/50 chance of hating me or loving me. There's no real in-between. I like it this way because I know what I can expect from people.
Anywho, someone who particularly dislikes me thinks I hate him. In all honesty, I don't hate him. I disagree with him a helluva lot, but I certainly don't hate him. There are about seven people I truly loathe in this world. Nevertheless, the guy I mentioned isn't one of them. But man did he explode on me. I couldn't help myself. I just started laughing so hard. People are fun. A lot of them are damn idiots, but they're fun.
Bless you people. You're such a great source of amusement to me, and I don't think you even know it. So let me take this opportunity to thank you. Thank you. Dear god, thank you.
For those of you who don't know me, you have a 50/50 chance of hating me or loving me. There's no real in-between. I like it this way because I know what I can expect from people.
Anywho, someone who particularly dislikes me thinks I hate him. In all honesty, I don't hate him. I disagree with him a helluva lot, but I certainly don't hate him. There are about seven people I truly loathe in this world. Nevertheless, the guy I mentioned isn't one of them. But man did he explode on me. I couldn't help myself. I just started laughing so hard. People are fun. A lot of them are damn idiots, but they're fun.
Bless you people. You're such a great source of amusement to me, and I don't think you even know it. So let me take this opportunity to thank you. Thank you. Dear god, thank you.
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You are a Self-Discoverer |
![]() You're not religious, but you've created your own kind of spirituality. Introspective and thoughtful, you tend to look inward for the divine. You are distrusting of all forms of organized religion. You especially dislike religious gurus and leaders, whom you feel are charlatans. |
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content
One day a scorpion was standing on the bank of a river and spotted a nearby swan. He called the swan over and asked if the swan would be so kind as to take the scorpion across the river. The swan at first said no stating how the scorpion was only trying to sting him. The scorpion replied "If I were to sting you, we'd both drown in the middle of the river. That's certainly something I'd never want to do." Agreeing with this logic, the swan let the scorpion crawl onto its back. The swan swam into the river, and as he reached the middle of the river, the scorpion stung the swan in the back. As the swan began flailing in the water he screamed out "What are you doing?! Now we are both going to drown! Why would you do that?!" The scorpion replied "It's what I do."
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amused
If we could all just remember that I'm always right, we could save a whole lotta time. Seriously. Better than to draw some issue out for a goddamn year just to say at the end "Oh, you were right." I know I was right, goddamnit! That's it. I'm gonna have to beat bitches like hot-cakes now.
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pleased
This is probably not original seeing that it's so very hard to have an original thought nowadays, but here it is nonetheless:
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they do make an even. That's good enough for me.
And how!
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they do make an even. That's good enough for me.
And how!
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And I'm sick. Allow me to express my feelings with the following:
Goddamnit. Jesus H. Christ hanging off the cross. Mary Magdalene and all the saints. Goddamnit. Pontius Pilate at the last supper. Peter, Paul, and all the other apostles. Jesus H. Christ. Goddamnit. I mean it.
Mmmm....sacrilege.
Goddamnit. Jesus H. Christ hanging off the cross. Mary Magdalene and all the saints. Goddamnit. Pontius Pilate at the last supper. Peter, Paul, and all the other apostles. Jesus H. Christ. Goddamnit. I mean it.
Mmmm....sacrilege.
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drained
Okay, I promised to post my theory, so here it is in all its craziness.
It all started back in high school. Senior year. Pre-cal class. We were studying those damn limits, and you know the problems that occur when a limit is some number over zero (i.e. x/0). Things get bitchy. Let's not forget how long I've had the fact drilled into my head that you can never divide by zero and get a real answer. I was always angry that they told me I could not divide by zero and get an actual answer other than "no solution". I cried bullshit. So I got to thinking, when can you divide by zero? Why doesn't something like 6/0 work? Well, think of it in the way you first learned to divide. Take 6/3 for example. Read it as a sentence worded in this way: What do you multiply 3 by to get 6? 2, of course. Now go back to 6/0. What do you multiply 0 by to get 6? Ummmm....shit. Any number multiplied by 0 is 0. That doesn't work. Then I came to this thought: 0/0. What do you multiply 0 by to get 0? Any damn number you want, real or imaginary. 0/0 is not "no solution". Rather, it is EVERY solution.
Okay, I latched onto that word "nothing". What is nothing, after all? I now mathematically define it by any number that is divided by 0. If 0 is in the denominator, it is the very definition of nothing. Therefore, using a variable, x/0 = nothing for any number x. Great, I've defined nothing. How is that useful? Well.... When you divide by 0, it's defined as nothing. However, 0/0 gives you everything. But that's still a case of x/0 meaning it is therefore still under the definition of nothing. This had a large impact on me. Something, 0/0, is still a case of Nothing. Have you ever thought about what a paradox it is that anything exists in the first place? I mean, let's say there is a creator god (just for giggles)... Sure you can explain all of the cosmos as a creation of this god, but what created the god? What came before the god? People will try to tell you the god has just always been here. Immortal. Um, okay. Have proof for that? You don't? Well I do. How can even a god, which is under the category of something, have always been when only nothing can come before it? This is where that 0/0 comes in handy. Something has just been designated as a special category of Nothing. In truth, there's only Nothing. It is just that the Something is contained in that Nothing.
Even if you don't think a god created everything, it still works out just fine. I'm merely offering an explanation how Something came from seemingly Nothing. The truth seems to be that the Something and the Nothing are one. That's why there's no beginning before the Something. The Something, just as The Nothing, has always existed. And they always will exist. And don't think that because I'm capitalizing the words that I'm making them Forms (as in Plato's theory of Forms). No, there's no Form of these things. They just two different names for the same thing. The cosmos. Existence.
Here is where some people may disagree that Nothing can exist. Did you ever think that maybe you were thinking of the Nothing in an incorrect way? To me, the Nothing seems to have some amazingly special and unlimited characteristics that allow all this and more to be.
What was the first to come out of the Nothing as Something? Um.... Invalid question. It's eternal. There is no beginning. There is no end. There is merely change. AHA! Change. Let's discuss that.
Change. We know what it is. We know how to measure it (i.e. Time). But do we really understand what it entails? It has been proposed that if there was a god, Unmoved Mover, and so on, it could not be part of existence because then it would be subject to change. If a god is subject to change, it could go from a state of existence to a state of non-existence, and then you have mortal gods. Then we have a problem since, by definition, a god is undying. Think about change. Changes bring about the end of one thing and the beginning of another. With my theory of Something and Nothing being one and the same, that means a god would HAVE to be subject to change. Problems have arisen. I've already seen that the problems really don't pose a threat to the theory. What, exactly, is able to change without being subject to destruction? I thought about that one a long while, and the answer I came up with is the Mind. Anyone who knows Aristotle knows he stated the Unmoved Mover as a perfection of Mind. A perfect mind. Aristotle is one of those people who thought the Unmoved Mover could not be part of existence due to the change problem. I'll tell you why he's wrong. Minds do undergo change. What is the measure of this change? Thoughts. A new thought designates a change in state of mind. Think about it, your thoughts are changing ALL the time. Did you ever stop to think that your mind was constantly dying with each change in thought and a new one born with each new though? Of course not. That's a little extreme. Just because you don't think the same way you did just a second ago or 8 years ago does not mean you stop being you. I'm still Blaine. I was Blaine when I was 6 years old. I'm still Blaine at the age of 21....
BAM! Mind. Now we, being humans, have bodies. We are all painfully aware that bodies are not eternal. Hence people like Aristotle positing the theory that an immortal being...being a perfect mind. No body. And I think he's right in that respect, but I think Mind exists just as a body exists. However, the changes Mind undergoes are different from the changes a corporeal body undergoes. Mind can be immortal. Even in existence or outside of existence. They are all the same. On the other hand, perhaps all thoughts are going on simultaneously, eternally? If so, then there is no change for the Unmoved Mover. It's all golden even still.
This poses some interesting possibilities that are just that, possibilities. If there's a perfect mind out there that we could define as a god, then it is thinking, has thought, will think everything that's possible of being thought. And then some. Humans and other animals of higher thought processes are quite odd. We seem to have a truncated form of mind. However, one possibility is that since the one perfect mind is everything, then the minds in us are just glimpses of the thoughts of the perfect mind. Why can't we have the full form (not Form) of mind in us? Bodies... They aren't immortal. They can't exhibit it all. That's why we can appear as individuals. Different thoughts going through different bodies at different changes. They look drastically different. We seem like individuals. We might not be. Only individual in body and thoughts but not in mind.
Time. Let's discuss that now. Changes are measured in time and in thoughts. I'll tell you why time doesn't really exist, and then we'll apply that to thoughts. Time is a measure of change. Change is very real. This is analogous to something like the word "meter". A meter doesn't really exist. It's just a human word made up to represent a certain distance. To say a meter exists is getting into something like Plato's Forms. There's a Form of a meter. Well that's just retarded. The same goes for time. It's a made-up term to represent a measure of something just like meter. It doesn't really exist. It just helps us cope with physical world. Did you know scientists think there are around at least 500 universes, and failing that, 500 sections of one giant universe each with a different set of natural laws? Think about it, with an infinite amount of space and matter, any and every possibility is able to be played out at once. What good is it to get so entrenched in learning tiny specifics of one area of knowledge when it will no more help you understand everything than knowing that the fact that water is wet will help you learn to swim? It doesn't. Your body is mortal, remember. It will undergo changes that will bring about its end. You try to learn everything while concentrating at equally mortal natural laws and you fail at life.
Interesting. That just coincided if you didn't notice. Nothing and Something is one and the same. There is an infinite possibilities all being played out at once. No such thing as time. Something/Nothing being eternal (i.e. no time). Every thing plays into the other. So, what we just discussed is that time isn't real. Time is a measure of change. Change is real, but it's all happening at once. To our bodies, it all seems VERY organized. A sequence of events ruled by time. To something immortal it's all the same. All going on at once. Was going on before. Is going on now. Will go on in the future. In this way all thoughts in the perfect mind go on at once. When you separate them...individualize them....then you think there is time. You think one thought ends when the other begins. No, only in a physical body does that happen.
What can one take from this? The only true immortal is some perfect mind. It appears to undergo change by change in thoughts, but that doesn't mean it ceases to exist. In fact, the changes aren't really there. All thoughts are being thought at once eternally.
What does that mean about us? What happens to us? I'd imagine that there are several possibilities to that as well. For one, since Nothing and Something are the same, if there is Oblivion (i.e. Nothing) after we die, maybe it is some sort of existence? Perhaps our bodies may die, but the thoughts, really being part of the eternal mind, return to their source? Even if our minds aren't part of the eternal mind, think about it.... Everything that can exist is existing right now given infinite space and energy. There's no reason to believe there is a limited source of energy. If energy, being Something and therefore Nothing, has boundaries, then what the fuck is outside of Nothing? Therefore, to us we seem constrained by limited time, but perhaps the base energy that makes up everything will once again arrange itself in such a way to bring you about again. This whole existence about again. All the different possible ways for the existence to happen could be created along with it. Well, infinite energy and space means they already do exist. And they'll continue to exist. It could be every time we go to sleep we die. We wake up and live again. We dream that others die and never come back, but perhaps we'll see them again? Maybe in the Oblivion existence, eh? Sure, energy could arrange itself in an infinite amount of ways, but there is no time. There is eternity. You could exist body-wise and mind-wise an infinite amount of times. What it all comes down to is, I can think of no plausible possibility to suppose we ever really stop existing. Either in mind or possibly even in body.
One last thing. People might wonder, if our minds are really just physical, transitory instances of the perfect, eternal mind, why only certain beings seem to have these higher thoughts. We're going into the subject of biology now. The brain. The brain is the bridge between mind and body. It lets the mind occupy a body. It's not that the perfect mind is picking and choosing what to inhabit. It's just certain animals have evolved a physical machine within their body that just so happens to be a temporary house for mind.
Okay, I lied. This is the one last thought I have to share. Remember the Teilhard thang? Perhaps the perfect, eternal mind does have a corporeal component. Since there is only eternity and everything exists at once, then there have always been and always will be physical beings with the capacity for higher thoughts. Perhaps it is one god with many bodies? We seem to Teilhard like our minds our evolving toward the Omega Point, but that denotes time. No time. Everything now. It has already happened. In fact, it's not something that came to happen, it always has been. We, and every other higher-thought being, have been at the Omega Point all along. This physical world is just really fucking with our minds. It's hard to ignore the physical world when you are part of it. There's a good reason why philosophers have been trying to determine what is real (i.e. eternal) and thinking only on that. You with your physical body trying to think on transitory things is futile. Infinite amount of things to think about. Only the one perfect mind can think of all at once. What's real is that there's a base energy that composes everything. What's real is that there is no time. What's real is that everything is possible. Stick to the eternal truths. Do away with the transitory ones. What's true today in the physical world could be different tomorrow. Today I am alive. Tomorrow my body may be dead. Therefore, to call something truth, it has to be eternally true. Then again, if you remember, our existence could be eternal too. Haha! It gets crazy near the end. The deep thoughts in philosophy usually do.
Addendum:
One more possibility about the perfect mind and our minds. If the perfect mind is perfect, it knows everything capable of being known. However, the mind is incorporeal. How could it know about the corporeal world? Some people say it doesn't because the corporeal world can't be known due to it's tendency to change. It cannot be known. Well, remember, there is the very real possibility that the corporeal world is just as immortal as the incorporeal world. It's just to us it seems like it is not. So how would the incoroporeal even begin to go about knowing the corporeal? Maybe that's where we come in? I mean we as in any corporeal being with the capacity for higher thought. Not just humans. Any animal. Native or extra-terrestrial. Remember, our numbers are infinite. Therefore, the incorporeal Unmoved Mover now has an infinite amount of corporeal, sensory devices in the corporeal world. The individual, corporeal thinkers when taken all together know all the corporeal. The Unmoved Mover knows the incorporeal. All taken together, we make up the final being that knows all. So, what it all comes down to is there is one ultimate being (The Omega) that knows all. But to know all there has to be all. Enter existence stage right. To know all The Omega must be a part of all. All is part of The Omega. Just a god trying to get to know everything by knowing itself. Maybe that's why we humans have such a high priority on trying to figure out who we are with relation to the world? In doing so, we get closer to knowing ourselves and the world both at the same time. And then The Omega gets closer to knowing itself. Maybe the reason we are here really IS just to figure out who we are...
And for those confused: God = god = the perfect mind = corporeal + incorporeal = Unmoved Mover = The Omega Point = The Omega
It all started back in high school. Senior year. Pre-cal class. We were studying those damn limits, and you know the problems that occur when a limit is some number over zero (i.e. x/0). Things get bitchy. Let's not forget how long I've had the fact drilled into my head that you can never divide by zero and get a real answer. I was always angry that they told me I could not divide by zero and get an actual answer other than "no solution". I cried bullshit. So I got to thinking, when can you divide by zero? Why doesn't something like 6/0 work? Well, think of it in the way you first learned to divide. Take 6/3 for example. Read it as a sentence worded in this way: What do you multiply 3 by to get 6? 2, of course. Now go back to 6/0. What do you multiply 0 by to get 6? Ummmm....shit. Any number multiplied by 0 is 0. That doesn't work. Then I came to this thought: 0/0. What do you multiply 0 by to get 0? Any damn number you want, real or imaginary. 0/0 is not "no solution". Rather, it is EVERY solution.
Okay, I latched onto that word "nothing". What is nothing, after all? I now mathematically define it by any number that is divided by 0. If 0 is in the denominator, it is the very definition of nothing. Therefore, using a variable, x/0 = nothing for any number x. Great, I've defined nothing. How is that useful? Well.... When you divide by 0, it's defined as nothing. However, 0/0 gives you everything. But that's still a case of x/0 meaning it is therefore still under the definition of nothing. This had a large impact on me. Something, 0/0, is still a case of Nothing. Have you ever thought about what a paradox it is that anything exists in the first place? I mean, let's say there is a creator god (just for giggles)... Sure you can explain all of the cosmos as a creation of this god, but what created the god? What came before the god? People will try to tell you the god has just always been here. Immortal. Um, okay. Have proof for that? You don't? Well I do. How can even a god, which is under the category of something, have always been when only nothing can come before it? This is where that 0/0 comes in handy. Something has just been designated as a special category of Nothing. In truth, there's only Nothing. It is just that the Something is contained in that Nothing.
Even if you don't think a god created everything, it still works out just fine. I'm merely offering an explanation how Something came from seemingly Nothing. The truth seems to be that the Something and the Nothing are one. That's why there's no beginning before the Something. The Something, just as The Nothing, has always existed. And they always will exist. And don't think that because I'm capitalizing the words that I'm making them Forms (as in Plato's theory of Forms). No, there's no Form of these things. They just two different names for the same thing. The cosmos. Existence.
Here is where some people may disagree that Nothing can exist. Did you ever think that maybe you were thinking of the Nothing in an incorrect way? To me, the Nothing seems to have some amazingly special and unlimited characteristics that allow all this and more to be.
What was the first to come out of the Nothing as Something? Um.... Invalid question. It's eternal. There is no beginning. There is no end. There is merely change. AHA! Change. Let's discuss that.
Change. We know what it is. We know how to measure it (i.e. Time). But do we really understand what it entails? It has been proposed that if there was a god, Unmoved Mover, and so on, it could not be part of existence because then it would be subject to change. If a god is subject to change, it could go from a state of existence to a state of non-existence, and then you have mortal gods. Then we have a problem since, by definition, a god is undying. Think about change. Changes bring about the end of one thing and the beginning of another. With my theory of Something and Nothing being one and the same, that means a god would HAVE to be subject to change. Problems have arisen. I've already seen that the problems really don't pose a threat to the theory. What, exactly, is able to change without being subject to destruction? I thought about that one a long while, and the answer I came up with is the Mind. Anyone who knows Aristotle knows he stated the Unmoved Mover as a perfection of Mind. A perfect mind. Aristotle is one of those people who thought the Unmoved Mover could not be part of existence due to the change problem. I'll tell you why he's wrong. Minds do undergo change. What is the measure of this change? Thoughts. A new thought designates a change in state of mind. Think about it, your thoughts are changing ALL the time. Did you ever stop to think that your mind was constantly dying with each change in thought and a new one born with each new though? Of course not. That's a little extreme. Just because you don't think the same way you did just a second ago or 8 years ago does not mean you stop being you. I'm still Blaine. I was Blaine when I was 6 years old. I'm still Blaine at the age of 21....
BAM! Mind. Now we, being humans, have bodies. We are all painfully aware that bodies are not eternal. Hence people like Aristotle positing the theory that an immortal being...being a perfect mind. No body. And I think he's right in that respect, but I think Mind exists just as a body exists. However, the changes Mind undergoes are different from the changes a corporeal body undergoes. Mind can be immortal. Even in existence or outside of existence. They are all the same. On the other hand, perhaps all thoughts are going on simultaneously, eternally? If so, then there is no change for the Unmoved Mover. It's all golden even still.
This poses some interesting possibilities that are just that, possibilities. If there's a perfect mind out there that we could define as a god, then it is thinking, has thought, will think everything that's possible of being thought. And then some. Humans and other animals of higher thought processes are quite odd. We seem to have a truncated form of mind. However, one possibility is that since the one perfect mind is everything, then the minds in us are just glimpses of the thoughts of the perfect mind. Why can't we have the full form (not Form) of mind in us? Bodies... They aren't immortal. They can't exhibit it all. That's why we can appear as individuals. Different thoughts going through different bodies at different changes. They look drastically different. We seem like individuals. We might not be. Only individual in body and thoughts but not in mind.
Time. Let's discuss that now. Changes are measured in time and in thoughts. I'll tell you why time doesn't really exist, and then we'll apply that to thoughts. Time is a measure of change. Change is very real. This is analogous to something like the word "meter". A meter doesn't really exist. It's just a human word made up to represent a certain distance. To say a meter exists is getting into something like Plato's Forms. There's a Form of a meter. Well that's just retarded. The same goes for time. It's a made-up term to represent a measure of something just like meter. It doesn't really exist. It just helps us cope with physical world. Did you know scientists think there are around at least 500 universes, and failing that, 500 sections of one giant universe each with a different set of natural laws? Think about it, with an infinite amount of space and matter, any and every possibility is able to be played out at once. What good is it to get so entrenched in learning tiny specifics of one area of knowledge when it will no more help you understand everything than knowing that the fact that water is wet will help you learn to swim? It doesn't. Your body is mortal, remember. It will undergo changes that will bring about its end. You try to learn everything while concentrating at equally mortal natural laws and you fail at life.
Interesting. That just coincided if you didn't notice. Nothing and Something is one and the same. There is an infinite possibilities all being played out at once. No such thing as time. Something/Nothing being eternal (i.e. no time). Every thing plays into the other. So, what we just discussed is that time isn't real. Time is a measure of change. Change is real, but it's all happening at once. To our bodies, it all seems VERY organized. A sequence of events ruled by time. To something immortal it's all the same. All going on at once. Was going on before. Is going on now. Will go on in the future. In this way all thoughts in the perfect mind go on at once. When you separate them...individualize them....then you think there is time. You think one thought ends when the other begins. No, only in a physical body does that happen.
What can one take from this? The only true immortal is some perfect mind. It appears to undergo change by change in thoughts, but that doesn't mean it ceases to exist. In fact, the changes aren't really there. All thoughts are being thought at once eternally.
What does that mean about us? What happens to us? I'd imagine that there are several possibilities to that as well. For one, since Nothing and Something are the same, if there is Oblivion (i.e. Nothing) after we die, maybe it is some sort of existence? Perhaps our bodies may die, but the thoughts, really being part of the eternal mind, return to their source? Even if our minds aren't part of the eternal mind, think about it.... Everything that can exist is existing right now given infinite space and energy. There's no reason to believe there is a limited source of energy. If energy, being Something and therefore Nothing, has boundaries, then what the fuck is outside of Nothing? Therefore, to us we seem constrained by limited time, but perhaps the base energy that makes up everything will once again arrange itself in such a way to bring you about again. This whole existence about again. All the different possible ways for the existence to happen could be created along with it. Well, infinite energy and space means they already do exist. And they'll continue to exist. It could be every time we go to sleep we die. We wake up and live again. We dream that others die and never come back, but perhaps we'll see them again? Maybe in the Oblivion existence, eh? Sure, energy could arrange itself in an infinite amount of ways, but there is no time. There is eternity. You could exist body-wise and mind-wise an infinite amount of times. What it all comes down to is, I can think of no plausible possibility to suppose we ever really stop existing. Either in mind or possibly even in body.
One last thing. People might wonder, if our minds are really just physical, transitory instances of the perfect, eternal mind, why only certain beings seem to have these higher thoughts. We're going into the subject of biology now. The brain. The brain is the bridge between mind and body. It lets the mind occupy a body. It's not that the perfect mind is picking and choosing what to inhabit. It's just certain animals have evolved a physical machine within their body that just so happens to be a temporary house for mind.
Okay, I lied. This is the one last thought I have to share. Remember the Teilhard thang? Perhaps the perfect, eternal mind does have a corporeal component. Since there is only eternity and everything exists at once, then there have always been and always will be physical beings with the capacity for higher thoughts. Perhaps it is one god with many bodies? We seem to Teilhard like our minds our evolving toward the Omega Point, but that denotes time. No time. Everything now. It has already happened. In fact, it's not something that came to happen, it always has been. We, and every other higher-thought being, have been at the Omega Point all along. This physical world is just really fucking with our minds. It's hard to ignore the physical world when you are part of it. There's a good reason why philosophers have been trying to determine what is real (i.e. eternal) and thinking only on that. You with your physical body trying to think on transitory things is futile. Infinite amount of things to think about. Only the one perfect mind can think of all at once. What's real is that there's a base energy that composes everything. What's real is that there is no time. What's real is that everything is possible. Stick to the eternal truths. Do away with the transitory ones. What's true today in the physical world could be different tomorrow. Today I am alive. Tomorrow my body may be dead. Therefore, to call something truth, it has to be eternally true. Then again, if you remember, our existence could be eternal too. Haha! It gets crazy near the end. The deep thoughts in philosophy usually do.
Addendum:
One more possibility about the perfect mind and our minds. If the perfect mind is perfect, it knows everything capable of being known. However, the mind is incorporeal. How could it know about the corporeal world? Some people say it doesn't because the corporeal world can't be known due to it's tendency to change. It cannot be known. Well, remember, there is the very real possibility that the corporeal world is just as immortal as the incorporeal world. It's just to us it seems like it is not. So how would the incoroporeal even begin to go about knowing the corporeal? Maybe that's where we come in? I mean we as in any corporeal being with the capacity for higher thought. Not just humans. Any animal. Native or extra-terrestrial. Remember, our numbers are infinite. Therefore, the incorporeal Unmoved Mover now has an infinite amount of corporeal, sensory devices in the corporeal world. The individual, corporeal thinkers when taken all together know all the corporeal. The Unmoved Mover knows the incorporeal. All taken together, we make up the final being that knows all. So, what it all comes down to is there is one ultimate being (The Omega) that knows all. But to know all there has to be all. Enter existence stage right. To know all The Omega must be a part of all. All is part of The Omega. Just a god trying to get to know everything by knowing itself. Maybe that's why we humans have such a high priority on trying to figure out who we are with relation to the world? In doing so, we get closer to knowing ourselves and the world both at the same time. And then The Omega gets closer to knowing itself. Maybe the reason we are here really IS just to figure out who we are...
And for those confused: God = god = the perfect mind = corporeal + incorporeal = Unmoved Mover = The Omega Point = The Omega
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Okay, here's what I'd like to do. Yes, I still owe you a follow-up post about my theory, and I promise it will happen eventually. However, there are some other things I'd like to get through first. For instance, if you look WAY back to the beginning of this blog, I said it was most certainly not my first one. However, due to just random occurrences paired with dislikes of other blogs, this one has become my main blog. My brain child. And that child might be brain-dead, but that's okay. Anywho, I have another blog that is much older than this one. I also believe it has many more posts. I did a lot of quizzes back in the day, and I love the results. I'm gonna transfer those quizzes to this blog. Be prepared for a fucking huge post containing quizzes....It'll be coming eventually.
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I've been having to read the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins in my Psychology class. Do not get the impression that by stating that I have to read it that I do not like it. In truth, I think the book is amazing. I can easily see how this book could so easily make so many allies and enemies among the human population.
I just read the 11th chapter of the 30th Anniversary Edition of the book, and it has truly struck close to home with some thoughts I've had for a while now. This chapter I believe to be one of the most important within the whole book.
What is life, and how does one define if something is living? So many people have not yet begun to even think of these sorts of questions. I began thinking of it around my freshman year of college. Why is it that the definition of what is living is so narrow? Because we only know of one type of life? Fuck that. Stop being a bunch of dumb-asses. Humans have amazing brains and minds with great capacities to think. Just because you cannot physically see it does not mean it is not there in some other portion of the universe. There has been a debate on whether viruses (that should by all Latin-root rights be viri for plural....) are actually living or not. Even if you hold life down to something as narrow as things that have nucleic acids forming chains that self-replicate, even viri still fit that. When was the last time you saw a non-living rock with RNA? No, fuck that. Even under narrow definitions a virus is still alive.
I took this further though a few years back. What exactly is life except that which reproduces in one fashion or another (asexual/sexual), needs to consume resources to continue to propagate...that's pretty much all I based it on. Those thoughts brought me to fire. It seems alive to me. It spreads and gets larger. More energy is added to it to create more fire. The energy is the consumed resources it needs to continue growing and spreading. I'm sorry, fire seems damn well alive to me.
Regardless whether or not you think fire is alive, does it not seem possible that there are other forms of life that don't conform to double-stranded DNA that lives in cells? Chapter 11 seems to think so (thought I'd let you forget about your reading assignment, didn't you?). Memes...think of them as particular aspects of culture. Relate them to the genes. Memes can propagate themselves in the minds of many individuals just like genes can physically propagate themselves in the bodies of many individuals. Memes can compete for resources. Limited number of people in the world to believe in the meme. Also, limited brain-capacities for memes within one individual. Read the book and especially that chapter to get a better explanation than what I can give.
What I took away from it was this... Just like genes, memes are not alive. However, they constitute an entity that is living. Culture. Culture is alive. It mutates. Changes. Evolves. Adapts. Culture is a much better living organism than us. By better I mean it's life expectancy. A certain culture can live a long time. What's interesting to think is that with the dawning of the electronic information age, cultures are mixing more rapidly than ever. It's not out of the question to conceive a singly worldly culture to which all humans subscribe. And would this culture ever die? Not really, it's an organism that can undergo evolution without having to spawn duplicates of itself that are slightly different from itself in order to evolve. Think of it as you being millions of years old, but your body has evolved from the ancestors of homo sapiens itself. You are still you, but you are different. Culture is one helluva organism. Something has just evolved from the state of corporeal to that of an incorporeal state. Sound familiar?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Don't know him? That's unfortunate. Read up on him. What particularly interests me is his Omega Point theory. It coincides quite nicely with what I said above. We humans seem to be evolving to a certain, defined point. What that point is no one can really say. It's not intelligent design. It's just happening. The evolution of the mind has really opened up the door of possibilities. Self-replicators (genes) making cells. Cells making tissues. Tissues making organs. Organs making the body. One organ in particular is the brain. The brain made something on its own though. The mind. Everything up to that point was very physical in nature. Now we hit the mind. Incorporeal. It doesn't seem to have stopped there. Your individual mind may die when you die. Many minds have come together to make culture though. Culture is the new evolutionary organism among the human race. We are getting closer and closer to a point of an immortal, living organism. The Omega Point. The ultimate complexity of the mind. The perfection of mind. A god. I don't believe what I said above was coinciding with the Omega Point theory. I am certain that similar thoughts are what drove Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to this theory.
You may ask why a perfect being, a god, would have to be a mind. I have a theory of my own. And I'll need to post about it right after this one. Stay tuned for another damn-long post.
I just read the 11th chapter of the 30th Anniversary Edition of the book, and it has truly struck close to home with some thoughts I've had for a while now. This chapter I believe to be one of the most important within the whole book.
What is life, and how does one define if something is living? So many people have not yet begun to even think of these sorts of questions. I began thinking of it around my freshman year of college. Why is it that the definition of what is living is so narrow? Because we only know of one type of life? Fuck that. Stop being a bunch of dumb-asses. Humans have amazing brains and minds with great capacities to think. Just because you cannot physically see it does not mean it is not there in some other portion of the universe. There has been a debate on whether viruses (that should by all Latin-root rights be viri for plural....) are actually living or not. Even if you hold life down to something as narrow as things that have nucleic acids forming chains that self-replicate, even viri still fit that. When was the last time you saw a non-living rock with RNA? No, fuck that. Even under narrow definitions a virus is still alive.
I took this further though a few years back. What exactly is life except that which reproduces in one fashion or another (asexual/sexual), needs to consume resources to continue to propagate...that's pretty much all I based it on. Those thoughts brought me to fire. It seems alive to me. It spreads and gets larger. More energy is added to it to create more fire. The energy is the consumed resources it needs to continue growing and spreading. I'm sorry, fire seems damn well alive to me.
Regardless whether or not you think fire is alive, does it not seem possible that there are other forms of life that don't conform to double-stranded DNA that lives in cells? Chapter 11 seems to think so (thought I'd let you forget about your reading assignment, didn't you?). Memes...think of them as particular aspects of culture. Relate them to the genes. Memes can propagate themselves in the minds of many individuals just like genes can physically propagate themselves in the bodies of many individuals. Memes can compete for resources. Limited number of people in the world to believe in the meme. Also, limited brain-capacities for memes within one individual. Read the book and especially that chapter to get a better explanation than what I can give.
What I took away from it was this... Just like genes, memes are not alive. However, they constitute an entity that is living. Culture. Culture is alive. It mutates. Changes. Evolves. Adapts. Culture is a much better living organism than us. By better I mean it's life expectancy. A certain culture can live a long time. What's interesting to think is that with the dawning of the electronic information age, cultures are mixing more rapidly than ever. It's not out of the question to conceive a singly worldly culture to which all humans subscribe. And would this culture ever die? Not really, it's an organism that can undergo evolution without having to spawn duplicates of itself that are slightly different from itself in order to evolve. Think of it as you being millions of years old, but your body has evolved from the ancestors of homo sapiens itself. You are still you, but you are different. Culture is one helluva organism. Something has just evolved from the state of corporeal to that of an incorporeal state. Sound familiar?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Don't know him? That's unfortunate. Read up on him. What particularly interests me is his Omega Point theory. It coincides quite nicely with what I said above. We humans seem to be evolving to a certain, defined point. What that point is no one can really say. It's not intelligent design. It's just happening. The evolution of the mind has really opened up the door of possibilities. Self-replicators (genes) making cells. Cells making tissues. Tissues making organs. Organs making the body. One organ in particular is the brain. The brain made something on its own though. The mind. Everything up to that point was very physical in nature. Now we hit the mind. Incorporeal. It doesn't seem to have stopped there. Your individual mind may die when you die. Many minds have come together to make culture though. Culture is the new evolutionary organism among the human race. We are getting closer and closer to a point of an immortal, living organism. The Omega Point. The ultimate complexity of the mind. The perfection of mind. A god. I don't believe what I said above was coinciding with the Omega Point theory. I am certain that similar thoughts are what drove Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to this theory.
You may ask why a perfect being, a god, would have to be a mind. I have a theory of my own. And I'll need to post about it right after this one. Stay tuned for another damn-long post.
- Location:West La La
- Mood:
contemplative - Music:Pandora's Box
With two tests today, one in psychology and the other in physics, coupled with me desperately needing to do laundry, you'd think that today would not be a good day. However, for some reason, I feel pumped. I'm happy. Sure, there are things in my life that greatly sadden me, but not today. This day is mine.
- Mood:
energetic
Other good lines (some slightly modified) that apply include:
"New outfit. New Religion. Same old wacko underneath."
"Is it someone you?"
"...Yesssss..."
"Well that narrows it down....a little."
And I cannot think of anymore off the top of my head. Perhaps it's time I go through and watch them all again? I believe so. I have nothing better to do than beat bitches and take names.
School...hehe...well, it doesn't stand a chance. At least not all of the classes.
I'm tired. I know what I want, but I doubt it exists.
"New outfit. New Religion. Same old wacko underneath."
"Is it someone you
"...Yesssss..."
"Well that narrows it down....a little."
And I cannot think of anymore off the top of my head. Perhaps it's time I go through and watch them all again? I believe so. I have nothing better to do than beat bitches and take names.
School...hehe...well, it doesn't stand a chance. At least not all of the classes.
I'm tired. I know what I want, but I doubt it exists.
- Location:Juice
- Mood:
disappointed
| You Are 72% Evil |
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- Mood:
complacent
Okay, I don't have the urge to herbal, but I do have urges in me nonetheless. I miss creating websites. I miss image-editing. I miss making desktop wallpapers. What I would like to do is have all of my mini-websites coalesce into one site to rule them all. It would be so much easier that way, you know? If only I had lots of time to work on this, but alas, I do not. I'll just try to keep working on it little by little. Who knows? Maybe it'll be really kick-ass!
School is blah. I hate school.
Still very much involved with the guy. I like him. A lot. And that's all you need to know.
Damn, I keep thinking about that site idea. It's turning me on! LOL. Okay, not literally. But it is the new hotness. I'm off like a prom dress to work on that!
School is blah. I hate school.
Still very much involved with the guy. I like him. A lot. And that's all you need to know.
Damn, I keep thinking about that site idea. It's turning me on! LOL. Okay, not literally. But it is the new hotness. I'm off like a prom dress to work on that!
- Mood:creative
Let's see. Updates. Updates. Who has the updates?
School started up again last week. This semester sucks. That's all I'll say. My friend Andrew decided to play matchmaker between me and another friend of his. No, there were no songs about asking a matchmaker to make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch. I just went for the tailor. I'm just kidding! Actually, I really like the guy. Last night, after going to a gay callout thing on campus, we ended up going to the Nightspot and talking for several hours. It was damn good times. Christ, it was windy and cold on the way back. Baby Jesus was crying. Apparently Storm was angry. I must find some way to placate her.
I think I kicked my bio lecture homework's ass! Pretty good for not going to class a few of the days. I really will start going on a continual basis. Same for physics. Maybe. I need to find out if attendance is necessary or not. Then we'll see.
And dear god, I might be schizophrenic. We were discussing the symptoms of schizophrenia in my genes and behavior class. I fit it damn near to a T. It wasn't good. Then I remembered that people diagnosed with schizophrenia are not always diagnosed correctly. There are conditions that could exist other than schizophrenia. Asperger's Syndrome is among those. Then I remember that I have that. And all was well. I'm not schizophrenic so far as I know.
School started up again last week. This semester sucks. That's all I'll say. My friend Andrew decided to play matchmaker between me and another friend of his. No, there were no songs about asking a matchmaker to make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch. I just went for the tailor. I'm just kidding! Actually, I really like the guy. Last night, after going to a gay callout thing on campus, we ended up going to the Nightspot and talking for several hours. It was damn good times. Christ, it was windy and cold on the way back. Baby Jesus was crying. Apparently Storm was angry. I must find some way to placate her.
I think I kicked my bio lecture homework's ass! Pretty good for not going to class a few of the days. I really will start going on a continual basis. Same for physics. Maybe. I need to find out if attendance is necessary or not. Then we'll see.
And dear god, I might be schizophrenic. We were discussing the symptoms of schizophrenia in my genes and behavior class. I fit it damn near to a T. It wasn't good. Then I remembered that people diagnosed with schizophrenia are not always diagnosed correctly. There are conditions that could exist other than schizophrenia. Asperger's Syndrome is among those. Then I remember that I have that. And all was well. I'm not schizophrenic so far as I know.
- Mood:
happy
It's 70 outside. Why the fuck is it 70?!? Goddamn warmness. I want my winter cold, damn it! Oh well, at least it looks like it'll storm. Here's hoping for the best!
Yet another day of one class is here. Sociology. Ugh.
Gina Torres, I love you. Melinda Clarke, I love you too. lol
Actually, this is interesting looking at her IMDB profile (Melinda's).... I must present this new bit of information to a friend. It'll help to make a new connection.
This weekend will be very busy what with writing a bunch of bio lab reports.
An update on my feelings towards certain people. Each sentence (both simple and compound) applies to one person and one person only unless noted otherwise. I despise you. As for you, well, you I hate, and I am disgusted with you as well. And you, you are just pathetic. You two...you ought to die. You I'm unsure on because you both have your good moments and yet you fuck everything up when you talk sometimes. You I care about a lot, but I don't know if you really feel the same way about me. As for all the friends, none of you have fucked up which is why you are all in the green.
Yet another day of one class is here. Sociology. Ugh.
Gina Torres, I love you. Melinda Clarke, I love you too. lol
Actually, this is interesting looking at her IMDB profile (Melinda's).... I must present this new bit of information to a friend. It'll help to make a new connection.
This weekend will be very busy what with writing a bunch of bio lab reports.
An update on my feelings towards certain people. Each sentence (both simple and compound) applies to one person and one person only unless noted otherwise. I despise you. As for you, well, you I hate, and I am disgusted with you as well. And you, you are just pathetic. You two...you ought to die. You I'm unsure on because you both have your good moments and yet you fuck everything up when you talk sometimes. You I care about a lot, but I don't know if you really feel the same way about me. As for all the friends, none of you have fucked up which is why you are all in the green.
- Mood:
apathetic - Music:Future Proof - Massive Attack
Bio test in 1 hour and 19 minutes. I've gone through the lecture notes twice today. Honestly, it doesn't seem that difficult at all. I mean, c'mon! Who doesn't know that a receptor protein (when it binds its ligand) activates a g-protein which in turn activates phospholipase C. Phospholipase C cleaves PIP3 into IP3 and DAG. DAG remains in the inner cell membrane while IP3 goes to ligand-gated calcium channels in the endoplasmic reticulum. IP3 then binds to those channels and thus opens them allowing calcium to flow from the endoplasmic reticulum lumen into the cytosol of the cell. Easy peasy.
The fact that I actually find that shite easy is depressing.
Or how 'bout the receptor tyrosine kinase? When it is activated by binding to its ligand, it activates the Ras-activating protein which in turn activates the Ras protein which exchanges its bound GDP for a GTP instead. It then goes off to activate MAP kinase kinase kinase which phosphorylates MAP kinase kinase which phosphorylates MAP kinase which then goes off to do a multitude of things within the cell.
Ready? Last one, I promise. A beta-adrenergic receptor binds epinephrine. The receptor is activated and it goes on to activate a nearby g-protein. This g-protein activates adenylyl cyclase which is an enzyme that converts ATP to cyclic AMP (cAMP). cAMP activates PKA (protein kinase A) which phosphorylates Glycogen Synthase, thus inactivating it. It also phosphorylates Phosphorylase Kinase into its active form. Activated Phosphorylase Kinase phosphorylates Glycogen Phosphorylase. Glycogen Phosphorylase phosphorylates glycogen, thus breaking it down into glucose.
Don't even get me started on protein synthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum (with special emphasis on how/why some proteins are embedded in the lipid membrane of a cell while others transverse the membrane and yet others are not embedded in a membrane at all.) Then there's all that nifty stuff about different cytoskeletan elements! Woot!
The fact that I actually find that shite easy is depressing.
Or how 'bout the receptor tyrosine kinase? When it is activated by binding to its ligand, it activates the Ras-activating protein which in turn activates the Ras protein which exchanges its bound GDP for a GTP instead. It then goes off to activate MAP kinase kinase kinase which phosphorylates MAP kinase kinase which phosphorylates MAP kinase which then goes off to do a multitude of things within the cell.
Ready? Last one, I promise. A beta-adrenergic receptor binds epinephrine. The receptor is activated and it goes on to activate a nearby g-protein. This g-protein activates adenylyl cyclase which is an enzyme that converts ATP to cyclic AMP (cAMP). cAMP activates PKA (protein kinase A) which phosphorylates Glycogen Synthase, thus inactivating it. It also phosphorylates Phosphorylase Kinase into its active form. Activated Phosphorylase Kinase phosphorylates Glycogen Phosphorylase. Glycogen Phosphorylase phosphorylates glycogen, thus breaking it down into glucose.
Don't even get me started on protein synthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum (with special emphasis on how/why some proteins are embedded in the lipid membrane of a cell while others transverse the membrane and yet others are not embedded in a membrane at all.) Then there's all that nifty stuff about different cytoskeletan elements! Woot!
- Mood:
calm - Music:Wind It Up - Gwen Stefani
I like this quote:
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
That is all.
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
That is all.
- Mood:
frustrated - Music:Do What You Have To - Sarah Mclachlan
So, Physics homework went unusually well tonight! I got it all only with the help of my physics textbook.
THE FUCKER IS BACK ON!!!!!!!.... I'm good. I'm calm. And Nate is awesome! I can't believe I actually sent that. Nate was right. I really am a crazy son of a bitch.
The week of rape is beginning in 3....2....1... lube it up!
Jeffrey, where the fuck are you?!? Lots to catch up on. A helluva lot...
THE FUCKER IS BACK ON!!!!!!!.... I'm good. I'm calm. And Nate is awesome! I can't believe I actually sent that. Nate was right. I really am a crazy son of a bitch.
The week of rape is beginning in 3....2....1... lube it up!
Jeffrey, where the fuck are you?!? Lots to catch up on. A helluva lot...
- Mood:
crazy
So it turns out taking a 2-hour nap is good for an all-day-long headache. I woke up to idiots screaming in the hallway. My head's not hurting as much as it was before, but damn it, every time I hear someone talk I want them to die for no reason. Well, I guess there is a reason. I just want silence is all. Now I sit here kinda feeling weird in the stomach. God, I hope I don't decide to throw up at all during the night. Or ever up here for that matter. I have to pee...something I think I'll have to leave the room for, but I really don't wanna move.
So..the Sociology test...I somehow got a 204 out of 200.... Yeah...WTF? There wasn't even extra credit on it. I'll talk to the teacher to make sure it isn't a typo online. It could be that my grade isn't like that in the actual gradebook but is like that only online. I don't wanna get my hopes up on a really high grade that actually may not exist. If it is the right grade, well hot damn!
If I hear or see the phrase "Different strokes for different folks" one more time, I'm gonna beat someone. Let's diversify, people. There are more ways to say that. For instance, "To each his own" or "Whatever floats your boat". These work just as well.
Okay, someone's gonna die in the hallway now. I'll be back later.
So..the Sociology test...I somehow got a 204 out of 200.... Yeah...WTF? There wasn't even extra credit on it. I'll talk to the teacher to make sure it isn't a typo online. It could be that my grade isn't like that in the actual gradebook but is like that only online. I don't wanna get my hopes up on a really high grade that actually may not exist. If it is the right grade, well hot damn!
If I hear or see the phrase "Different strokes for different folks" one more time, I'm gonna beat someone. Let's diversify, people. There are more ways to say that. For instance, "To each his own" or "Whatever floats your boat". These work just as well.
Okay, someone's gonna die in the hallway now. I'll be back later.
- Mood:
sick
So this morning as I'm skipping yet another bio lecture and sleeping in, I get up and first turn on my monitor and check the mail. I have an email from my bio professor. It turns out we have a test next week! Well fuck me... But thank the gods my professor sends out emails like this so I was aware of the test! :D I think it merits a me attending class again. Okay, next Monday it is then.
I get to go home today after Soc. I can't wait to see the dogs again. Unfortunately I have lots of work to do this weekend and next week. Not so much fun. Damn bio test, bio lab reports, research reports, and research presentations....ARGH! Goddamnit, bio. You really know how to pile on the rape all within the same week, you fucker.
I've been playing Tomb Raider Legend over again just for the helluva it. I had a hankering for some tomb raiding, and since digging up graves in the local cemetary is highly frowned upon, I thought this might be a better solution. I'm quite excited about the Tomb Raider Anniversary remake of TR 1 coming out next year! It'll be orgasmic!
I get to go home today after Soc. I can't wait to see the dogs again. Unfortunately I have lots of work to do this weekend and next week. Not so much fun. Damn bio test, bio lab reports, research reports, and research presentations....ARGH! Goddamnit, bio. You really know how to pile on the rape all within the same week, you fucker.
I've been playing Tomb Raider Legend over again just for the helluva it. I had a hankering for some tomb raiding, and since digging up graves in the local cemetary is highly frowned upon, I thought this might be a better solution. I'm quite excited about the Tomb Raider Anniversary remake of TR 1 coming out next year! It'll be orgasmic!
- Mood:
content

