Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
"Patchouli Oil Act of Supreme Umbrage" a digression in words - comment poast to Troy's ProvocativeRamblings http://randomdigressions.blogspot.com/
Noble of you to be s0open to compromise with the one drop thing but... YOU KNOW, deep in your soul, tolerate even an It-Bity drop, when one considers the statistically frequent concomitant occurrence of less than ideal personal hygiene habits[1] of the Patchouli scent fanatics, well, one tends to see the light and smell the coffee with rapidity, yes? .Rephrased, it is apropos to decry the Patchouli Oil Act of Supreme Umbrage! For even when it be diluted to smidgen of a minuscule droplet of existent singularity, even this act which our sin-stained minds stive to minimize and overlook brothers and sisters, this is still an Umbrage to Proust, his grandma’s cookies and our fellow human beings less cognizant of the white lady. ANY, yes I mean ANY release into the atmosphere will not only register with a sinus siren’s wale of olfactory malice worthy of an Aeschylus Fury Scorned but it only can Magnify to become a roving new-age glade scent dispenser of the most primitive, reptilian-brain acknowledged aromas signifying only objects demanding burial far away from town and equally far from the town’s well.
I hate to sound so much like everyone favorite proselytizer of the unyielding, enlightened truth, but indeed the Umbrage demands unwavering prohibition.. We really cannot delude ourselves into thinking we've evolved nary the slightest measure in refinement to allow misguided do-gooders free-reign. Hell, I’ll write the grant application for the deviated-septum repair surgery in Canada, just don’t make me smell your misguided delusion. Any notion [2] that a purer, civilized Aesthetic now exists among the refined nostrils of home sapiens sapiens when a de facto approval is suffered for some Pro-Proboscises societal inclusive and utterly quixotic pursuit.. Maintain what you know deep down in your hearts, the logos tells you just as it tell me[3] slightest accommodation is provided for those...those second-hand scenting, factories of rank.
Patchouli oil is wrong.
And stop rationalizing with adolescent notions of accruing hypothetical “cool- points” with the free-loving hippy chicks of youth. The sacrosanct obeisance act of Patchouli scent release abruptly makes you remember something from your early childhood and that you can’t quite recall in less than primal and visceral regurgitation contractions. You just turn that congested-nostril to the issue blowing in the wind (and as much as we would all like to delude ourselves, a hot hippy chic will NOT be more likely to provide good lovin' to any of us by such shameless pandering. She’d see right through it, surely…. Then add in the deeper question reflecting our fundamental character and integrity -- “How could: anyone with a shred of dignity even consider a floral, sun-baked road kill radiating toxic-wasted and HOT, hippy chick given us good lovin’? Isn't that just hypocrisy in pure form? Are we monsters?
WAIT Did I actually type that, whoa, how could I possible fail to recall all those philosophy classes at Radford? I studies Negativity Land T-shirts, camels, botany and oh, yes, I remember, I remember: First principles first. The answer abides, Dude! Use the force, technology and trickle-down economics! That ointment our mothers thrust upon us, the moving out of your parents basement at last and before 40, mentholated rite of passage[4] Come on everyone and say it out loud: VIX!!!!
Okay, nix that, as long as there co-exist hippy chicks and good lovin' even when used with that hideous Patchouli stink, any compromised is worth it as long as we've got that old, rusty jar of Vix vapor rub there is no rational reason to abandon the shot at hot hippy chic love, given or received.
the beauty of it is just so profound, Wizard. Buy VIX and expand your love potentiality.
++Give peace a chance y'all!++
-- The UberWench
(who incidently is a post-modern, pseudo-hippy chick wannabe who just sprays a bit of the old Jovan Musk and is DONE!)
http://ProvocativeMediocrity.blogspot.com/
[1] Yup, I mean that don’t really seem to take all that many showers or spent much time in the deodorant section of Walgreens.
[2] Even the drawling of a picture of a shadow of a. cave with some Play-Dough Formations dolled up in sexy hemlock leaves of golden meaniness.
[3] Not to mention all my imaginary friends here laughing at you. Ha! Ha- Ha! Ha! They heckle and you wonder “but who knows? Who can be really sure of anything in this quantum-physical touch world of karmic nihilism rounded in punctuated relativity, for the love of God, how can any of us know if we’re more here than not here right here right now?” (Please slap-her post haste lest she frighten all the men-folk into listening to Rush Limbaugh)! Well, I’m here to tell you, there is something else… a world of… oh, sorry, (um-hm) The Logos Shadow Puppets, you know the ones, biding their time following vainglorious birthing rituals of the twitching Wizards among us. Those mighty sorcerers inducted in the clandestine Dionysian acts involving scrumptious gluing, small objects of plastic and flip-side surfaces in places of notoriety. Don’t feel under you desktop, if you find anything there’s that all you, brother but maybe, next time when you least expect to be acutely aware and we all know when those moments occur most.. Freeze that grin and pay attention – well, actually yeah, when you accidently pay attention it is sometimes we need not scream out in lamp-shaded nudity “The Horror!” Sometimes, if Oh my friend, do not doubt it, those seemingly quaint kitschy plastics harbor a chathulu-depth navigable. Oh yes, they know Patchouli oil STINKS. You can be sure, they know it in spades!
[4]Yup, those of you quick on the draw, that does mean that YOUR MOTHER was NEVER a hippy chick so stop those nasty thoughts right there young man and go wash your hands! NO SOUP FOR YOU!
I hate to sound so much like everyone favorite proselytizer of the unyielding, enlightened truth, but indeed the Umbrage demands unwavering prohibition.. We really cannot delude ourselves into thinking we've evolved nary the slightest measure in refinement to allow misguided do-gooders free-reign. Hell, I’ll write the grant application for the deviated-septum repair surgery in Canada, just don’t make me smell your misguided delusion. Any notion [2] that a purer, civilized Aesthetic now exists among the refined nostrils of home sapiens sapiens when a de facto approval is suffered for some Pro-Proboscises societal inclusive and utterly quixotic pursuit.. Maintain what you know deep down in your hearts, the logos tells you just as it tell me[3] slightest accommodation is provided for those...those second-hand scenting, factories of rank.
Patchouli oil is wrong.
And stop rationalizing with adolescent notions of accruing hypothetical “cool- points” with the free-loving hippy chicks of youth. The sacrosanct obeisance act of Patchouli scent release abruptly makes you remember something from your early childhood and that you can’t quite recall in less than primal and visceral regurgitation contractions. You just turn that congested-nostril to the issue blowing in the wind (and as much as we would all like to delude ourselves, a hot hippy chic will NOT be more likely to provide good lovin' to any of us by such shameless pandering. She’d see right through it, surely…. Then add in the deeper question reflecting our fundamental character and integrity -- “How could: anyone with a shred of dignity even consider a floral, sun-baked road kill radiating toxic-wasted and HOT, hippy chick given us good lovin’? Isn't that just hypocrisy in pure form? Are we monsters?
WAIT Did I actually type that, whoa, how could I possible fail to recall all those philosophy classes at Radford? I studies Negativity Land T-shirts, camels, botany and oh, yes, I remember, I remember: First principles first. The answer abides, Dude! Use the force, technology and trickle-down economics! That ointment our mothers thrust upon us, the moving out of your parents basement at last and before 40, mentholated rite of passage[4] Come on everyone and say it out loud: VIX!!!!
Okay, nix that, as long as there co-exist hippy chicks and good lovin' even when used with that hideous Patchouli stink, any compromised is worth it as long as we've got that old, rusty jar of Vix vapor rub there is no rational reason to abandon the shot at hot hippy chic love, given or received.
++Give peace a chance y'all!++
-- The UberWench
(who incidently is a post-modern, pseudo-hippy chick wannabe who just sprays a bit of the old Jovan Musk and is DONE!)
http://ProvocativeMediocrity.blogspot.com/
[1] Yup, I mean that don’t really seem to take all that many showers or spent much time in the deodorant section of Walgreens.
[2] Even the drawling of a picture of a shadow of a. cave with some Play-Dough Formations dolled up in sexy hemlock leaves of golden meaniness.
[3] Not to mention all my imaginary friends here laughing at you. Ha! Ha- Ha! Ha! They heckle and you wonder “but who knows? Who can be really sure of anything in this quantum-physical touch world of karmic nihilism rounded in punctuated relativity, for the love of God, how can any of us know if we’re more here than not here right here right now?” (Please slap-her post haste lest she frighten all the men-folk into listening to Rush Limbaugh)! Well, I’m here to tell you, there is something else… a world of… oh, sorry, (um-hm) The Logos Shadow Puppets, you know the ones, biding their time following vainglorious birthing rituals of the twitching Wizards among us. Those mighty sorcerers inducted in the clandestine Dionysian acts involving scrumptious gluing, small objects of plastic and flip-side surfaces in places of notoriety. Don’t feel under you desktop, if you find anything there’s that all you, brother but maybe, next time when you least expect to be acutely aware and we all know when those moments occur most.. Freeze that grin and pay attention – well, actually yeah, when you accidently pay attention it is sometimes we need not scream out in lamp-shaded nudity “The Horror!” Sometimes, if Oh my friend, do not doubt it, those seemingly quaint kitschy plastics harbor a chathulu-depth navigable. Oh yes, they know Patchouli oil STINKS. You can be sure, they know it in spades!
[4]Yup, those of you quick on the draw, that does mean that YOUR MOTHER was NEVER a hippy chick so stop those nasty thoughts right there young man and go wash your hands! NO SOUP FOR YOU!
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on the subject of God...
Near the close of the 19th century, the German philosopher, Frederich Nietzsche made international headlines with the laconic statement: “God is Dead.” In his 1882 book, Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Gay Science), he wrote: “God is dead! God remains dead. And we have killed him.”[1] I believe Nietzsche was asserting that critical reasoning, applied through the vehicles of science, mathematics and philosophy, had proven that a supernatural exegesis was no longer necessary to explain anything.
Continuing on until today, science is frequently the skeptic’s weapon of choice to attack the validity of the Bible. Some people in fact, consider science and Christianity to be mutually exclusive. Others hedge their bets, accepting and rejecting just enough of both to unite the two in a way that simply feels right to them individually – what one might call a causality collage approach. Yet what if science, with all its empiricism and rationality, actually reinforced both the truth and accuracy of the Bible? The answer to this question is that this is indeed the case. Repeatedly, the research results of scientists the world over and from a plethora of different disciplines, demonstrate the Bible’s factual verisimilitude.
The origins of life and the universe are the penultimate questions mankind has sought to answer throughout history. Indeed, an even marginally thorough study of just one topic is as colossal an endeavor as the names imply. However, several, widely acknowledged theories, based upon sound scientific discoveries and the subsequent application of critical reasoning, demonstrate how science and rational thought can buttress Christian theology.
The famous physicist, Stephen Hawkings said: “Almost everyone now believes that the universe, and time itself, had a beginning at the Big Bang.”[2] Science has supplied quite a lot of evidence to support Big Bang theory. In fact, such evidence is frequently cited by biblical critics to justify their agnostic or atheistic ontologies. Yet, the scientific discovery of background radiation, which ultimately led to the theory of the Big Bang in the first place, [3] decisively proved wrong a great number of older, non-theistic theories of how the universe and life managed to come into existence. Two examples of refuted hypotheses are the Random Chance Argument and Steady-State Theory. [4] Once science refuted such arguments of statistics and the historical infinity of all existence, a clearer picture of the true nature of the question of the how the universe came into being materialized. If the universe began with the Big Bang, what (or who) caused the event? If a non-theistic argument is continued to its logical conclusion, the concept of something coming from nothing must be embraced. Furthermore, along with this concept’s intrinsically illogical nature, a counter argument must be supplied to contend with thousands of years of Western Thought’s refutations. Pre-Socratic philosophers such as Parmenedes all the way to modern thinkers such as Bertrand Russell have argued the irrationality of such a theoretical position.
The only other possible direction for adherents to the Big Bang is a concession of ignorance as to the causality of the event, a willingness to admit that a logical, non-theistic argument does not exist. Once this is established, by following both science and critical reasoning, what remains is bias. Admittedly this is a strong statement, but Christianity, offering at the very least a plausible theory, can account for the more philosophical problem of something created from nothing as well as the scientific question of how did it occur at all – a supernatural creator.[5] Obviously, concrete proof against this theory cannot be readily offered, as there are no scientifically supported contending theories in the first place. Therefore, if the Creationism of Christianity is rejected outright, without any impartial consideration, we are left with only the preconceived and prejudicial bias of the individual, a condition science has always strived to eliminate.
Science continues to reinforce the soundness of the biblical explanation of the universe and life’s genesis with Intelligent Design theory, which demonstrates, via empirical research in several branches of study, the enormous amount of information and discrete precision necessary for life to occur in the universe. One example being the four-letter chemical alphabet of DNA that provides every living cell with all the instructions it will ever need to perform the required functions of life.[6] Furthermore, molecular biologist Michael Behe’s research into the chemical makeup and complexity of even the simplest single celled organisms, simultaneously confirms both Intelligent Design theory and Biblical Creationism. Behe’s conclusions stand Darwinian Evolution on its head by completely refuting Darwinian theory’s presupposition “…that nonliving chemicals, if given the right amount of time and circumstances, could develop by themselves into living matter.”[7] Behe, utilizing the time-stamp provided by Big Bang theory, which limits if not negates the “right amount of time” component, then demonstrates that the circumstances, far from simply involving just the right chemicals, require the conditions be so exact as to statistically negate the possibility in the first place. He says “…the odds of creating just one functional protein molecule (200+ being necessary in a typical living cell) would be one chance in a 10 with 60 zeroes after it.”[8]
Hopefully this brief synopsis of just a few scientific theories that support the Bible, shows how science and rationality can comfortably co-exist along side Christian theology. Christians today need not fear an erosion of their religious beliefs due to embracing the study of science. Instead, an unbiased education in the sciences can provide empirical evidence to further support their faith. Physicist Robert Griffins succinctly summarizes science’s contribution to religion in saying: “If we need an atheist for a debate, I go to the Philosophy Department. The Physics Department isn’t much use.”[9]
Apparently, Nietzsche was wrong.
[1] John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1992).
[2] Stephen W. Hawking & Roger Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996); quoted in Lee Stroble, The Case For Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins, 2000).
[3] Ibid.
[4] J.P. Moreland & John Mark Reynolds, eds., Three Views on Creation and Evolution (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins, 1999).
[5] Ibid.
[6] Jimmy H. Davis & Harry L. Poe, Designer Universe: Intelligent Design & the Existence of God (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2002).
[7] Lee Stroble, The Case For Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins, 2000). See also, Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (New York, NY: Free Press, 1996).
[8] Ibid.
[9] Robert Jastow, “The Secret of the Stars” New York Times Magazine, June 25, 1978, quoted in: Lee Stroble, The Case For Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins, 2000).
Continuing on until today, science is frequently the skeptic’s weapon of choice to attack the validity of the Bible. Some people in fact, consider science and Christianity to be mutually exclusive. Others hedge their bets, accepting and rejecting just enough of both to unite the two in a way that simply feels right to them individually – what one might call a causality collage approach. Yet what if science, with all its empiricism and rationality, actually reinforced both the truth and accuracy of the Bible? The answer to this question is that this is indeed the case. Repeatedly, the research results of scientists the world over and from a plethora of different disciplines, demonstrate the Bible’s factual verisimilitude.
The origins of life and the universe are the penultimate questions mankind has sought to answer throughout history. Indeed, an even marginally thorough study of just one topic is as colossal an endeavor as the names imply. However, several, widely acknowledged theories, based upon sound scientific discoveries and the subsequent application of critical reasoning, demonstrate how science and rational thought can buttress Christian theology.
The famous physicist, Stephen Hawkings said: “Almost everyone now believes that the universe, and time itself, had a beginning at the Big Bang.”[2] Science has supplied quite a lot of evidence to support Big Bang theory. In fact, such evidence is frequently cited by biblical critics to justify their agnostic or atheistic ontologies. Yet, the scientific discovery of background radiation, which ultimately led to the theory of the Big Bang in the first place, [3] decisively proved wrong a great number of older, non-theistic theories of how the universe and life managed to come into existence. Two examples of refuted hypotheses are the Random Chance Argument and Steady-State Theory. [4] Once science refuted such arguments of statistics and the historical infinity of all existence, a clearer picture of the true nature of the question of the how the universe came into being materialized. If the universe began with the Big Bang, what (or who) caused the event? If a non-theistic argument is continued to its logical conclusion, the concept of something coming from nothing must be embraced. Furthermore, along with this concept’s intrinsically illogical nature, a counter argument must be supplied to contend with thousands of years of Western Thought’s refutations. Pre-Socratic philosophers such as Parmenedes all the way to modern thinkers such as Bertrand Russell have argued the irrationality of such a theoretical position.
The only other possible direction for adherents to the Big Bang is a concession of ignorance as to the causality of the event, a willingness to admit that a logical, non-theistic argument does not exist. Once this is established, by following both science and critical reasoning, what remains is bias. Admittedly this is a strong statement, but Christianity, offering at the very least a plausible theory, can account for the more philosophical problem of something created from nothing as well as the scientific question of how did it occur at all – a supernatural creator.[5] Obviously, concrete proof against this theory cannot be readily offered, as there are no scientifically supported contending theories in the first place. Therefore, if the Creationism of Christianity is rejected outright, without any impartial consideration, we are left with only the preconceived and prejudicial bias of the individual, a condition science has always strived to eliminate.
Science continues to reinforce the soundness of the biblical explanation of the universe and life’s genesis with Intelligent Design theory, which demonstrates, via empirical research in several branches of study, the enormous amount of information and discrete precision necessary for life to occur in the universe. One example being the four-letter chemical alphabet of DNA that provides every living cell with all the instructions it will ever need to perform the required functions of life.[6] Furthermore, molecular biologist Michael Behe’s research into the chemical makeup and complexity of even the simplest single celled organisms, simultaneously confirms both Intelligent Design theory and Biblical Creationism. Behe’s conclusions stand Darwinian Evolution on its head by completely refuting Darwinian theory’s presupposition “…that nonliving chemicals, if given the right amount of time and circumstances, could develop by themselves into living matter.”[7] Behe, utilizing the time-stamp provided by Big Bang theory, which limits if not negates the “right amount of time” component, then demonstrates that the circumstances, far from simply involving just the right chemicals, require the conditions be so exact as to statistically negate the possibility in the first place. He says “…the odds of creating just one functional protein molecule (200+ being necessary in a typical living cell) would be one chance in a 10 with 60 zeroes after it.”[8]
Hopefully this brief synopsis of just a few scientific theories that support the Bible, shows how science and rationality can comfortably co-exist along side Christian theology. Christians today need not fear an erosion of their religious beliefs due to embracing the study of science. Instead, an unbiased education in the sciences can provide empirical evidence to further support their faith. Physicist Robert Griffins succinctly summarizes science’s contribution to religion in saying: “If we need an atheist for a debate, I go to the Philosophy Department. The Physics Department isn’t much use.”[9]
Apparently, Nietzsche was wrong.
[1] John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1992).
[2] Stephen W. Hawking & Roger Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996); quoted in Lee Stroble, The Case For Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins, 2000).
[3] Ibid.
[4] J.P. Moreland & John Mark Reynolds, eds., Three Views on Creation and Evolution (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins, 1999).
[5] Ibid.
[6] Jimmy H. Davis & Harry L. Poe, Designer Universe: Intelligent Design & the Existence of God (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2002).
[7] Lee Stroble, The Case For Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins, 2000). See also, Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (New York, NY: Free Press, 1996).
[8] Ibid.
[9] Robert Jastow, “The Secret of the Stars” New York Times Magazine, June 25, 1978, quoted in: Lee Stroble, The Case For Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins, 2000).
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