Modern Physics

This is a great video about how little we really know and understand about modern physics.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-20058382-10391705.html

The Tiny Christian Universe

This is something that has never crossed my mind before. As fundamentalist Christians believe the universe/Earth is somewhere between 10,000-6,000 years old. Now if this were true the universe would only be 20,000-12,000 light years across. Pretty interesting article below.
http://www.nobeliefs.com/comments11.htm

Religion is going extinct!

A new study shows that religion is on the decline in NINE western democracies! Although it does not predict anything about America, this still gives me some hope for America.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/305020

Order

Right now, it is raining methane on Titan. The planet Uranus, apparently trying to live up to its name, is orbiting the sun sideways, while Venus spins backwards. There are stars exploding, black holes gorging, galaxies colliding.

And here we sit, on a planet pock-marked by collisions, rocked by earthquakes, shaken b...y storms. A planet doomed to be fried in radiation as its magnetic fields collapse, until finally the sun grows into a red giant and leaves nothing of the Earth but dust.

Here we sit, glasses on our noses, inhalers in our pockets, braces on our teeth, waiting to die as our heart muscle expires, our cells decide to grow forever, or a blood vessel just pops, and sometimes in unnatural ways, too.

Here we sit, and some of us say, behold, look at the order of it all.

Claustianity (work in progress)

Three hundred years ago, Claus threw the Great Present down the Big Chimney and started the universe and earth. From smaller presents all organisms were created. This all took place in one day, called December 25th or Christmas.

When we die, if we have been nice we go to Present Land located in the invisible workshop at the North Pole where we receive any presents we want. If we have been naughty then we are sent to Unpresent Land (in Centralia, Pennsylvania) where we are made to mine coal for all of eternity.

When we are born we are Holidized (have eggnog poured over our heads) to get rid of any naughtiness we might have. We are allowed to do this any time we want as we get older but after being Holidized the first time we can then just drink the blessed 'nog.

We have elves that help us with specific problems. My favorite is the patron elf of what to get someone for Christmas, he's very popular.

Pain

Pain gives life to the world.
Pain makes you stronger.
Pain is giving it everything you have,
And watching the clock run out and your team lose.
Pain is running until your muscles feel like they are being ripped apart,
And knowing that it is the only way you can ever get better.
Pain is losing your uncle, your grandmother, your grandfather, and your dog all in one summer,
And as that summer ends your house flooding and you losing everything you own.
Pain is watching as the girl you have been in love with your entire life fall in love with a jerk.

A jerk that will cheat on her,

Use her for his own sick needs,

Make her feel like she is worthless,

And then throw her out of his life like she was a common whore.

Pain is being six years old and hoping your father will not get drunk again and beat you,

The way he has so many other nights.

Pain is someone shoving a red-hot iron into your flesh,

Burning and tourturing you and then spitting in your face as you cower in fear.

Pain will hunt you no matter where you go.

Pain will swim to the deepest abyss in the ocean to find you.

Pain will climb to the highest mountains just to make you hurt.

Pain will always be closing in on you,

Whispering in your ear:

"I am coming for you and there is nothing you can do to stop me."

But without pain we could never truly appreciate life,

Without pain we could never truly appreciate how beautiful the world really is.

Reality

i know i will never be with her...
but i will always wish we could be together.
i am losing my grasp on reality...
slipping out of consciousness and into another dimension of pain.
it all started such a short time ago...
the first time i ever felt emotional pain.
i have moved on since then....
but i have closed myself off to anything coming close to it again.
i am not sure if i am truly sane anymore...
the music being the only thing keeping me from breaking.
i see things that arent really there...
wishing and hoping they were real.
visions of other's happiness...
knowing i wont allow myself to truly feel anymore.
i have become numb....
so numb that i just dont care about anymore.
thoughts of death seem pleasing...
but i know that is unfair to everyone around me.
call me what you will, go right ahead...
i wont care because most of you will ever see me again.
i will be gone from your lives forever...
never to return from the abyss of new realities