February 2011
28 posts
January 2011
29 posts
“Well, at least tables are valid HTML! SPACER GIFS?!?! That’s valid retardation!”
I bursted out laughing in the hallway at school… Oh boy.
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From.. God.
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(Student didn’t answer)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The class was in uproar)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
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That student was Albert Einstein.
Brilliant.
Beautifully done.
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wow, this was really albert einstein? had no idea he if believed in anything at all. when stories become about real people don't they hit so much harder?
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*Jonathan Section: *
You can't disprove faith, people choose to believe in one thing or another, whether that's a God, several gods or nature/mankind in control. If religion makes you feel better, or gives you purpose when you really feel you need it, go for it. If it is taking away from other people's freedoms, or the text is taken word for word (when really most religious texts are just moral guidelines) that's when there's a problem for me.
I personally don't believe in a god, but I believe in mankind. I believe in bettering people because I am also a person. Do I dislike people for following a religion? Not at all. We all have complex minds and I think everyone should embrace science even if they fear it. Is everything fact? No. But the strongest minds in the world are working to see how the world and life works. Einstein made the point of saying so far the closest thing humans could perceive or have "faith" in is what is being taught. The most difficult question to ask is, "why?" and people dedicate their lives to answering it.
I say just be a good person either way.
**Remember, Albert Einstein also later said these quotes: **
"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
And my favorite:
"You may call me an agnostic... I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being."
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*Charleys Section*
We also have to remember that the god that Albert Einstein wrote about in his career was a God that was definitely not the same as the Christian and Islamic view of God. The god that he proposed was a sum total of the physical laws of the universe.
Those powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal about the universe that was otherwise inexplicable. Laws that apply not only on Earth but the same laws that are still true in the center of the milky way and even out past that. The fact that the same laws of physics apply everywhere is crazy. Certainly that represents a power greater than anything we can imagine. Most importantly, Einstein's ideas represent an unexpected regularity to the universe - that need not have been.
This god is entirely consistent. The gods of different religions are all different, so they can't all be right and because they all contradict each other - they might all be wrong. Yet each believer thinks their choice is entirely true - and they have to because that's what "faith" is.
To think that any of us currently has all of the answers to such a huge question is ridiculous really - in my opinion. There's so much we don't and won't understand in our lifetimes. The people who are scared of that (or just scared of death and what happens after it) have religion. Not to rip apart anyone elses beliefs, no matter what you believe, educating yourself on every perspective/idea/religion can only test your current faith or secure it.
I just saw a book called “living with 7 hands”.
My first thought: wow, that’s an odd number of hands. (Using odd as in weird)
Imediately following that though: haha… It’s also a prime number of hands.
And laughed. :/
I just wrote to a friend:
“I think it would be more fun to look at how the cosmos exist today and trying to understand infinity and how we’re probably thinking about/perceiving things all wrong because of how we’ve been taught to think…. See, schizos do have it right.”
I honestly do believe we’re looking at everything (okay, maybe not EVERYTHING) all wrong...
“That’s the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via toomuchvodka)
“i woke up and you were gone and i was bundled up with all the blankets in a...”
– j
i love my friends…
sweethipbruisers:
sarawang replied to your post: hahaha…i did that wrong :(
i re-posted it. i don’t follow instructions very well :P yaaaaaaaaay! you’re going to be an adult!
oh haha, i didn’t see it. :P
YAY!!! being an adult sucks! :( hahahaha
i like your movie post on your page
“holy ____ batman! it’s in alphabetical order!”
I’d like to fill in the blank: scientific method, heart attack,...
gretasalpeter:
Check out GM’s cover of Hello...
favorite movies of all time.
death to smoochy.
dogma.
donnie darko.
(not in any specific order)
holy ____ batman! it’s in alphabetical order!
sweethipbruisers:
break-me:
britt-titts:
...
for your wallet.
i want these so bad!
