Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Genesis
Happy 1st birthday, confession chat!
A LOT has transpired and changed and re-arranged after that. You kicked off the restless nights, the dreamy days and all the wonderings in between.
I personally have to thank you for shaking me off my retardation. You really had my jaw drop there, and my walls crushed in that same moment. Surely, it took some bleeding and tremendous risk to bring you out. But look at you now! Who would have thought?!
I will always thank the Divine hands that made you happen - in the fullness of time!
Thank you. It was a complete awakening from grave deprivation. I owe you the life I now enjoy, and you just keep opening more windows I never thought existing before!
Indeed, I will always look forward to more birthdays of you.
I've never been the same since.
A LOT has transpired and changed and re-arranged after that. You kicked off the restless nights, the dreamy days and all the wonderings in between.
I personally have to thank you for shaking me off my retardation. You really had my jaw drop there, and my walls crushed in that same moment. Surely, it took some bleeding and tremendous risk to bring you out. But look at you now! Who would have thought?!
I will always thank the Divine hands that made you happen - in the fullness of time!
Thank you. It was a complete awakening from grave deprivation. I owe you the life I now enjoy, and you just keep opening more windows I never thought existing before!
Indeed, I will always look forward to more birthdays of you.
I've never been the same since.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
2012 movie trailers
Ok... so for the longest time now, there have been doomsday movies.
2012 is basically a pre-narration of an event that hasn't taken place. It's based on the idea that the Mayan calendar ends on december 21, 2012, and therefore that is the date the world ends (or some huge world wide cataclysm happens.)
Here is my subjective opinions on the matter, based on what I believe to be objective reasoning.
1. Assuming a non-believer, strictly scientific, based-on-observation point of view. I would observe past history relating to dates concerning end of the world ideas. All of them have failed, and we are the proof of that. However, the scientific method claims to never achieve the 100% truth but close to it. So, it is only fair to say "for that 0.1% possibility of doomsday happening, we can only try to improve on the quality of life for the time we have left, and enjoy what we have, or we can try to prevent the event from happening." Which is probably innevitable since we've no idea, nor observation of what will happen.
2. Another scientific less skeptical point of view would have us do research concerning the possibility of cataclysmic events altering the Earth and bringing us to an extinction. 2012 seems a little too soon for world destruction. I say this because evolution theorist mark evolution of this magnitude as a process of billions of years. It's not a one year to the next type of thing, but rather a slow progression that we will probably outlive.
(By the way, I'd like to see the observation, records, replication of those billions of years events.... Oh, oops, I forgot, we don't live more than 100 years, so we can't witness and observe, nor replicate the events. It's ok, I think it is fair to conclude such events lasting billions of years happend by drawing conclusions on the environment around us during the past 200 years and deduction of possibilities. Yeah, 200 years of observation, record, and analysis will inequivocably give us 99.9% scientific accuracy of what happened during a billion years process. Can someone tell me when the next earthquake will happen? )
3. Jumping on the religious van-waggon. I can only speak from what I've read. Assuming that the vast majority of the world are either Christian or Muslim, and they believe in God, they probably follow what Scriptures say? I'm not 100% on what the Muslims believe in terms of end of the world, but I know for a fact they wouldn't believe anything outside of their belief system. As far as Christians and the Holy Scriptures is concerned, the Bible states that God destroyed the world roughly around 3.5 thousand years ago (give or take 500) with the "Flood" (book of Genesis). And will, in the end of the world, destroy it with fire according to Hebrew & Christian records of Divine revelation, the date of which events are not stated as a specific day but are marked by sequence of events (namely, religious-socio-economic-political-militaristic events happening on earth at that time, plagues and destructions of various kinds, miracles, and then God's coming to deal with humanity according to their works). Again, no specific date for this events. At least not yet.
4. Ok, I'm going the extra mile to bring the rest of those who believe that we're some sort of alien experiment. If this is in fact truth, then there's nothing we can do, and who is to say that aliens don't have shifts in schedule of planned events?
5. For all the animists who believe in the "consciousness of the planet" itself. Then it would be interesting to know how the Mayans got that date.
Finally, in defense of the Mayans. Nobody knows what happened to that civilization, and all we have are archeological artifacts.
But I ask a few simple questions to everyone:
If you have a calendar hanging somewhere inside your house, does that calendar have a final day, or is it infinite?
Does it say the date of when you moved into that house, and does it say when you will stop living in that house?
Did you purchase calendars for the next 100 years until we hit the carpet?
Is it possible that the Mayan calendar ends in that date, because they said, "oh boy, this calendar will last us long enough so we have to make another one for a long time"? :)
These are my ideas. They may sound silly, but seriously, what if the Mayan calendar manufactures ran out of business and that was the last calendar they made. Imagine we had a calendar manufacturing company in our little town and it ran out of business.
Just because the last calendar made ends in a future date, that doesn't mean that's the end of the world. does it?
People just fear the unknowns, but I don't think we should act without reasoning because of fears.
I'll leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions regarding that Mayan calendar's last day.
2012 Everyone, the END OF THE WORLD. lol
2012 is basically a pre-narration of an event that hasn't taken place. It's based on the idea that the Mayan calendar ends on december 21, 2012, and therefore that is the date the world ends (or some huge world wide cataclysm happens.)
Here is my subjective opinions on the matter, based on what I believe to be objective reasoning.
1. Assuming a non-believer, strictly scientific, based-on-observation point of view. I would observe past history relating to dates concerning end of the world ideas. All of them have failed, and we are the proof of that. However, the scientific method claims to never achieve the 100% truth but close to it. So, it is only fair to say "for that 0.1% possibility of doomsday happening, we can only try to improve on the quality of life for the time we have left, and enjoy what we have, or we can try to prevent the event from happening." Which is probably innevitable since we've no idea, nor observation of what will happen.
2. Another scientific less skeptical point of view would have us do research concerning the possibility of cataclysmic events altering the Earth and bringing us to an extinction. 2012 seems a little too soon for world destruction. I say this because evolution theorist mark evolution of this magnitude as a process of billions of years. It's not a one year to the next type of thing, but rather a slow progression that we will probably outlive.
(By the way, I'd like to see the observation, records, replication of those billions of years events.... Oh, oops, I forgot, we don't live more than 100 years, so we can't witness and observe, nor replicate the events. It's ok, I think it is fair to conclude such events lasting billions of years happend by drawing conclusions on the environment around us during the past 200 years and deduction of possibilities. Yeah, 200 years of observation, record, and analysis will inequivocably give us 99.9% scientific accuracy of what happened during a billion years process. Can someone tell me when the next earthquake will happen? )
3. Jumping on the religious van-waggon. I can only speak from what I've read. Assuming that the vast majority of the world are either Christian or Muslim, and they believe in God, they probably follow what Scriptures say? I'm not 100% on what the Muslims believe in terms of end of the world, but I know for a fact they wouldn't believe anything outside of their belief system. As far as Christians and the Holy Scriptures is concerned, the Bible states that God destroyed the world roughly around 3.5 thousand years ago (give or take 500) with the "Flood" (book of Genesis). And will, in the end of the world, destroy it with fire according to Hebrew & Christian records of Divine revelation, the date of which events are not stated as a specific day but are marked by sequence of events (namely, religious-socio-economic-political-militaristic events happening on earth at that time, plagues and destructions of various kinds, miracles, and then God's coming to deal with humanity according to their works). Again, no specific date for this events. At least not yet.
4. Ok, I'm going the extra mile to bring the rest of those who believe that we're some sort of alien experiment. If this is in fact truth, then there's nothing we can do, and who is to say that aliens don't have shifts in schedule of planned events?
5. For all the animists who believe in the "consciousness of the planet" itself. Then it would be interesting to know how the Mayans got that date.
Finally, in defense of the Mayans. Nobody knows what happened to that civilization, and all we have are archeological artifacts.
But I ask a few simple questions to everyone:
If you have a calendar hanging somewhere inside your house, does that calendar have a final day, or is it infinite?
Does it say the date of when you moved into that house, and does it say when you will stop living in that house?
Did you purchase calendars for the next 100 years until we hit the carpet?
Is it possible that the Mayan calendar ends in that date, because they said, "oh boy, this calendar will last us long enough so we have to make another one for a long time"? :)
These are my ideas. They may sound silly, but seriously, what if the Mayan calendar manufactures ran out of business and that was the last calendar they made. Imagine we had a calendar manufacturing company in our little town and it ran out of business.
Just because the last calendar made ends in a future date, that doesn't mean that's the end of the world. does it?
People just fear the unknowns, but I don't think we should act without reasoning because of fears.
I'll leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions regarding that Mayan calendar's last day.
2012 Everyone, the END OF THE WORLD. lol
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