Gravity vs Intelligent Falling. Round 2.

so like i was saying, back in the 1600′s this guy was sitting under a tree, minding his own business and this apple decides to nail him in the head and BOOM! Gravity. or so the story goes…

first off, the apple didnt hit his head. he observed it falling from the tree, hitting the ground, and rolling a little. but here is the question…how do we really know it was an apple? it could have just as easily been a pear. or maybe he was chillin on the beach with a mojito and saw a coconut drop. hell, maybe some kid in a tree fell and busted his face open and he watched the blood roll downhill.

personally, i do not think it was an apple. there are 2 apples on earth that are universally known. adam’s apple from the garden of eden and newton’s apple. however, in the 1600′s only adam’s apple was known. the world at the time was very much into god as the “interventionist,” that things happened because he wanted them to. this finding, however, changed it to a stiff divide between that god and a god who creates based on order and leaves us to our own devices.

I think using the apple was a direct mockery of the apple from the bible and a giant middle finger to the “god” of that time (since its well known fact that god changes based on the year and who you ask and where they live). it hadnt even been two centuries since the dark ages and the spanish inquisition and the countless millions killed in the name of this god. newton saw an opening and went for it, never having realized the long lasting effects of his decision. how could he?

he took his science and put it up directly against religion, and won. and here we are. its kind of like those clowns in kansas no longer teaching evolution in their schools. a big middle finger to the scientific community. but thats the south for you.

we salute you newton!

–M–

into the darkness…

In the end, i oft wonder (dare i say hope) that when i die i am sent to another plane of existence. A place where the righteous battle the damned in a struggle that has lasted so long that no one knows way the fight. Yet they fight on in a war where no side is right but both sides are wrong.

In this new land, i will bow to no one and fight under my own flag. There will be others like me and together, we will band together. As we travel across this land, those we encounter will be killed if they force us to bend to their ways. For what is worse, a fallen angel…or a demon with a conscience?

Time and again, we will come to expect death. Time and again…we will escape it. And when the sweet embrace finally takes us, pulling us into a warmth that would make anyone want to sleep forever, we are sent to the next plane. And we learn something…

…you never truly live…until you die.

–M–

Pascal’s Wager vs. Gallo’s Counter

Pascal’s Wager is simple and elegant, very to the point. simply put “that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should wager as though God exists, because living life accordingly has everything to gain, and nothing to lose.”

Now this is where Gallo’s Counter comes in. Those of you who know me know that i walk with a cocksure arrogance and maintain an overwhelming amount of self-confidence. i personally believe that i can take on any situation. this situation is no different. i intend to live my life as i see fit, and if in the end there actually is a god…then i will ask for forgiveness and he will grant it to me. how do i know this? it says so in the this bible that everyone talks so much about.

“We are made right in God’s sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done… We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us.” Romans 3:22,25

–M–

Heaven. As boring as it sounds.

From what we can gather through scripture…heaven is a place where there is no suffering, no pain, no war. a place where nothing bad happens to anyone ever. a place of pure joy, ecstasy, and happiness.

Sounds pretty boring to me.

If you ask me, id rather come back to earth and enjoy all that is this majestic blue orb. You’re talking to a guy who used to work a supermax prison unit in Texas and for the Department of Defense guarding a nuclear submarine base. A guy who wants to be a cop, more specifically SWAT, so he can run into buildings full of people who want him dead. That sounds a hell of a lot more fun to me. thats my happiness, thats my zen.

You can all go to heaven…im staying right here.

–M–

 

Im Agnostic (and you are too!)

What you are about to read is very VERY important…it could very well mean the end of all the horrific and nightmarish acts and atrocities people commit toward each other “in the name of religion!” As it turns out…we are all Agnostic! Isn’t that wonderful news! Now that we are all the same, we have no need to rape and kill each other for being different!

Now I know that this transition is going to take time, that it won’t be accomplished overnight. But it is a very simple conversion to make. All you have to do is understand why you dismiss all other religions as false, then you will understand why yours is dismissed for the same reason. Then the understanding that we all “believe” will be realized and you will recognize that its not who or what you believe, but that belief exists.

–M–

 

The Book of Mike

Ages ago, in a time before mankind was even a glimmer of a shadow of a thought upon the immaculate fabric of the cosmos, there was only One. He looked upon the perfect order of the universe and was discontent, vowing to craft the greatest of all stories in the virgin darkness. His was an amazing power, one too great for any mortal mind to comprehend. With His left hand, He plucked a twinkling of amusement from His Own Eye, casting the glimmering jewel outward. With His Great Hammer, He shattered this Source of All Light, spreading the fragments through the Universe and arranging them to His own delight. With His right hand The One scribed the laws that would govern the Universe, simple limericks of gravity, electromagnetism, and matter, the foundations of all that Man would discover and name Science. One planet in particular He was proud of, crafting it with both His Mighty Hands, and His touch was quickly felt. Wherever The Great and Powerful One laid His Hand, life sprang forth, growing and evolving, borrowing from him the tiniest fragment of the Great Flame of Life which burned within Him, indeed, which comprised Him. And He did choose the mightiest of these lifeforms, communicating to them in the thought-language of Gods the path toward civilization and enlightenment. And so, Man did flourish across this great planet, filling its lands and leaving its mark upon the landscape. And then The One looked upon the great Chaos that He had wrought upon the once-immaculate cosmos, and He did smile, for it was His Chaos, and it pleased him. On a Whim, The One decided at that moment that forever will he walk among the Great Flock of His Creation, reborn time and again as one of them for as long as the Human Flock endures. And so His current form resides, taking the name Mike as His own, and the Flock is enriched by His Mighty Presence, even filtered as it is by the crude matter He dons to walk among them.

The Book of Mike 3:17-84

 

 

A very special thanks to ArgentBlaz.

Gravity vs Intelligent Falling. Round 1.

in 1687 Sir Isaac Newton was hit in the head with an apple. Now I’m sure he wasn’t the first person in history to be under an apple tree and have one fall and hit his head. I’m also fairly certain that people have been hit in the head by oranges, coconuts, pears, and bananas…yet it was an apple that sparked the idea in Newtons head about gravity. But what if Newton wasn’t the first to have the revelation, but just the first to publicize it? Perhaps Jesus was sitting under an apple tree, minding his own business, having a good time when an apple fell on HIS head. What if he looked at said apple and the thoughts of gravity started to flow through his mind?

But then he choose a different path…he said to himself  “self, someday…somewhere…someone will be hit with an apple again, and they will know what I know. But right now I have a greater opportunity.” And then Jesus decided to write a book, the single greatest work of fiction ever written. And in this book, the apple fell because someone wanted it to…and then all of mankind fell with it.

–M–

Open Your Eyes

Recently I asked several friends a question and was intrigued by the spectrum of answers. So now I ask you.

The Question: If this entire world we knew was a dream inside of another dream…where 1 second there is 1 million years here…and you became lucid and realized that these dreams were your own, would you want to wake up?

–M–

ps. I would definitely wake up. I would not be able to handle the thought of not knowing. How often do you get a chance to go backward through the looking glass?

Hell…The New Heaven

Some time ago it occurred to me that Hell, at the very least in the Christian faith, is more likely a paradise then a quote unquote Hell. Let us analyze my thought process for a moment.

Christianity teaches us that there was a great war in Heaven with Michael leading the angles and Lucifer leading the renegades. Ultimately, Lucifer fell and “was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him” Rev. 12:7-9.

Enter: Hell. So we got Satan down here in Hell with his army of fallen angels (commonly referred to as demons) and God up in Heaven with all the unfallen angels. Now at this point I highly doubt that God and Satan are friends anymore, let alone on speaking terms. Now, Christianity tells us that the Devil is down there, luring man away from God with his lies and deception and that he is trying to build an army so that one day he may wage another Great War.

But wait a minute…I thought hell was were bad people went to burn for their sins and be tortured for all of time? That seems to be inline with how God would run Hell…as if it were some sort of prison. But I highly doubt that Satan would run Hell in accordance with the way God would want it to be run.  I would think Satan would make Hell a joyous place for the fallen, so that they would happily serve in his army, do his bidding, and help overthrow the righteous.

Stop me if I’m wrong, but either Christianity has been sending mixed signals about who REALLY runs “down there” or Hell is starting to look a lot like Vegas. And I love Vegas.

–M–