I wiped out a few stupid paragraphs. Here's your freaking color change. *pout*
20 May 2006
10 May 2006
Double Rantings
Greetings, I am Paul. I'm sitting on the floor in Maren's house, using her laptop. Sort of. And now, I will regale you now with my theories concerning the theory of cause and effect. As I understand it, mass and energy contradict the universal application of cause and effect. The Big Bang itself holds with the fact that in the beginning everything was in one little ball, and everything burst out from that point.
By the way, I'm Maren. Nothing afore mentioned is true, except for what Paul will now tell you. Ahem.
I may not have done my research properly, but the conservation of mass and energy means we've never actually seen creation of either one. There's always something before it--a conversion, some little subatomic particles breaking up or colliding, etc. Anytime we look for a genesis, we find something before. Even now one theory about the big bang tries to explain that all matter and energy got into that tiny ball as the result of a previous collapse of a universe, and that this universe is just one in a long course of yo-yoings. Whichever's right, the fact remains that matter and energy were not created, they just were. This is a very unseemly breach of the laws of cause and effect. We either get into an infinite loop of conversions from something previous, with no initial starting point (which violates cause and effct) or we find a point where things just jumped into being out of absolutely nothing (which once again is firing at cause and effect). Even religious explanations can't appease cause and effect--if God, the gods, the universe, an Unmoved Mover, or whatever vocabulary word is convenient brought the universe into being, where did they come from? Some of what Joseph Campbell listed as more primitive mythologies might say the universe just happened, but that starts on the supposition that cause and effect didn't apply initially.
So. Either we find a beginning point to creation--which, because there was absolutely nothing before this creation, would be an effect without a cause--or we continue in an infinite loop of conversions--which once again decides that no initial cause was necessary. Either way, cause and effect did not apply to the start of the whole process.
Oh well. And by the way, pink makes me feel pretty.
~Paul
By the way, I'm Maren. Nothing afore mentioned is true, except for what Paul will now tell you. Ahem.
I may not have done my research properly, but the conservation of mass and energy means we've never actually seen creation of either one. There's always something before it--a conversion, some little subatomic particles breaking up or colliding, etc. Anytime we look for a genesis, we find something before. Even now one theory about the big bang tries to explain that all matter and energy got into that tiny ball as the result of a previous collapse of a universe, and that this universe is just one in a long course of yo-yoings. Whichever's right, the fact remains that matter and energy were not created, they just were. This is a very unseemly breach of the laws of cause and effect. We either get into an infinite loop of conversions from something previous, with no initial starting point (which violates cause and effct) or we find a point where things just jumped into being out of absolutely nothing (which once again is firing at cause and effect). Even religious explanations can't appease cause and effect--if God, the gods, the universe, an Unmoved Mover, or whatever vocabulary word is convenient brought the universe into being, where did they come from? Some of what Joseph Campbell listed as more primitive mythologies might say the universe just happened, but that starts on the supposition that cause and effect didn't apply initially.
So. Either we find a beginning point to creation--which, because there was absolutely nothing before this creation, would be an effect without a cause--or we continue in an infinite loop of conversions--which once again decides that no initial cause was necessary. Either way, cause and effect did not apply to the start of the whole process.
Oh well. And by the way, pink makes me feel pretty.
~Paul
05 May 2006
Adoption
I'm sitting here again, toying with a laptop and sitting in the basement, watching the tv. The computer was blaring awhile ago, until The Powers That Be made the boys turn it off for the night. Dolly got backfrom babysitting awhile ago, too, and has now joined me and her sister in watching Ben-Hur. The funny thing about all this, of course, is that it's not my basement, laptop,
sisters, or brothers, and yet I'm supremely comfortable and accustomed to sitting here. Most people only have one family; I'm doubly blessed with a second family to love. They've been a haven for me through all manner of hideousness.
On top of everything else they've done for me, the fact that my second family is in many ways a polar opposite to my first has exposed me to an entirely different home--chaos and vibrancy, fierce emotion and struggle. I've learned a lot about humans and life just from being so long with the family that's adopted me.
That, I think, is one of the greatest labors we're assigned on this earth--to learn, and specifically to learn about ourselves, about humans. And the family, I think, is definitely the best classroom and workshop.
~Paul
sisters, or brothers, and yet I'm supremely comfortable and accustomed to sitting here. Most people only have one family; I'm doubly blessed with a second family to love. They've been a haven for me through all manner of hideousness.
On top of everything else they've done for me, the fact that my second family is in many ways a polar opposite to my first has exposed me to an entirely different home--chaos and vibrancy, fierce emotion and struggle. I've learned a lot about humans and life just from being so long with the family that's adopted me.
That, I think, is one of the greatest labors we're assigned on this earth--to learn, and specifically to learn about ourselves, about humans. And the family, I think, is definitely the best classroom and workshop.
~Paul
01 May 2006
Well, then
I appear to be back home. And I already want to cry over how slow dial-up is. *shakes fist at modem*
And since I have multiple people up in arms over my most recent cliffhanger, I'll quickly say that yes, I missed the written portion of my Japanese final, and yes, that's how it's staying. Next!
When was the last time, by the way, you saw a little kid who qualified as "burnt out"? Practically everyone on my dorm floor qualified in some way after finals, and I know I am, but little kids seem to just get a night of sleep and they can run around screaming the next day. Even junior high kids still seem just fine. At what point do we start losing our vitalilty and pick up the ability to actually be drained for an extended period of time? Stupid high school years.
Okay, that's all I have for now. Bwahaha. Ha. Haaaaa. !
~Paul
And since I have multiple people up in arms over my most recent cliffhanger, I'll quickly say that yes, I missed the written portion of my Japanese final, and yes, that's how it's staying. Next!
When was the last time, by the way, you saw a little kid who qualified as "burnt out"? Practically everyone on my dorm floor qualified in some way after finals, and I know I am, but little kids seem to just get a night of sleep and they can run around screaming the next day. Even junior high kids still seem just fine. At what point do we start losing our vitalilty and pick up the ability to actually be drained for an extended period of time? Stupid high school years.
Okay, that's all I have for now. Bwahaha. Ha. Haaaaa. !
~Paul
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