A Miracle Within a Miracle.

I recently came upon something interesting when I was thinking about Jesus. I believe that during the mass, the bread and the wine are transubstantiated into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. This is very miraculous, because man-made things do not routinely become divine, to say the least. However, when I thought about this, not only is the transubstantiation a miracle, but the "act" (for lack of a better word) is miraculous too.
Think about this: Jesus asked us to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Christians have been doing it for centuries. But look closer, and there is a second miracle. In a normal human, thousands of years of eating of the flesh and drinking of the blood would have depleted all the muscle and blood to be eaten and drunk. But because Jesus is not normal, he can multiply his own flesh and blood to feed the masses, like he did with the fish and the loves during his ministry. It was ########## reading of that story, many months ago, that triggered the thought, which I couldn't say at the beginnig or else you would figure out "the secret" and the dramatic tension would be broken.
God is real, and this just goes to show that everything has a purpose, and nothing is accedental. And, if you're wondewring what's up with the fish, it's that I just figured out how to do pictures (press the "add picture" button; what a novel concept!) and fish are cool.

The All-New Navigatrix!

This is not a post. I decided to make a way of navigating about the blogging community, so on this pseudopost you will find links to all the other blogs I think you might care about. I know there is a way to do this on your side bar, but oh well, enjoy the convenience.

First, Ryans 2 (count 'em!) 2 blogs
http://theoneblogtrulethemallmepie.blogspot.com/
http://theoneblogtorulethemallme.blogspot.com/

Also, Paul's
http://blacklight-arena.blogspot.com/

Victoria's Next
http://my-stream-of-consciousness.blogspot.com/

Izzy's as well
http://izzygalvez.blogspot.com/

If you can think of any more, or can tell me how to do the links, tell me about it so that I can make this more convienent for you.

Will

I'm A Nerd!

I have for your enjoyment, on this page, a link to wierd al's "white and nerdy" video. I just learned how to do links, thanks to Paul. Anyway, if you have not seen the video, it's really hilarious, and if you have, then watch it again, because it is still hilarious. It embodies the "soul of a nerd"

Will

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJehVbe7Cxs

True senses.


Here is one theory I recently theorized; it is about the brain and the response of stimuli.
First, imagine something you have touched, now something you have seen, now imagine something you have heard, now smelled, now tasted. How do you describe what you have just imagined? You can clearly imagine in your mind the thing you are touching, seeing, hearing etcetera, but you cannot actually feel, or see or hear this thing. Despite this though, you can "picture" something in your mind and still see other things with your eyes at the same time. What are these things in your head. Obviously, they are thoughts, created by chemical reactions taking place within the brain. But then how can you feel like you're experiencing an event in you thoughts, by imagining it? I theorize that when the brain receives a stimulus, like seeing a house, chemicals react in the brain to what your eyes are telling it (the brain), so that your brain can say "Oh, it's a house". Similarly, the thoughts one experiences are replications of these chemical reactions that told the brain the eyes see a house. So, in other words, when a neuron wants to send the message that the eyes have seen a house, it releases "chemical A", and when the neuron thinks about the house, it releases chemical A again to replicate the experience. It is "response without stimulus", because the neurons are saying that a house has been seen, when the house has not actually been seen. There is a stimulus, of course, it is stimulus the act of replication of chemical reactions that replace the stimulus, but since the experience that under normal stimulus/response reactions is absent, it can be said that it is "response without stimulus". I call these "true senses" because when one thinks about such experiences (such as seeing a house) one only experiences what the sense really is: a chemical reaction in the brain, they don't see with their eyes and hear with their ears, they do it all within their head, and are this time, conscious that they are doing so. Which brings me to a little side topic: how do we know what feelings are, and where they are gathered? I say this because we cant really describe things we feel; the next time you touch something, ask yourself, "what exactly am I feeling (in the sense of reaction, not the thing you are touching)?" Also, how do we know that we hear from our ears, and feel that we hurt our arm in our arm, if all the processing of information is done in the brain? Just some interesting things to think about.

The Stupendous Story Of Me and The Magic Paper.


One week ago, on my birthday, I dropped my binder. There is absolutely nothing abnormal about that: I must have dropped it hundreds of times by now. However, when it fell, a folded piece of paper fell out. The paper said on it "do not open until 11-14-06". Guess what the date was? 11-14-06. "Wow" I said. Out of the innumerable times I have spilled my binder all over the place, why is it today, they specific date demanded on the paper, that it fell out. It was like it was meant to happen. When I opened it, it had a list of tactful pickup lines; and I'm not talking about the kind that go: "Do you believe at love at first sight, or should I walk by again?" No, these were actually intelligent: They said things like "You give the sun a reason to shine" and "When God made you he was showing off" What, by the name of Thomas Edison, could this mean? You tell. I Haven't the foggiest clue.

Time.



Time is, to say the least, enigmatic. It exists everywhere and nowhere at the same time. However, one thing that makes me angry, people who think they can change the past. HaHaHa! How laughable.
I have been saying it for years, there is no way to change the past, even with a time machine. This is because if one believes that they are capable of traveling through time, then to them, time is a string of events, one occurring after another. Now, if Bob wanted to go back in time so that he would not get tripped by brad the jock at his senior prom and fell into the punch, he would get in his time machine and leave in, say 10 seconds. But, from the time he set the timer, he would have already left 10 seconds in the future, and 20 years in the past, when he got "punched" he would have already been there, in the past. Since the event Bob was trying to prevent was in the past, future bob would have already travelled to the past to save past bob, and future bob cannot be successful or else present bob would have no reason to go back in time, and would therefore negate the actions of future bob. So in summary, one cannot travel backwars in time to prevent past events, because their presence in the past would have already happened in the past.
Wrap your brain around that, and then go watch "Back to the Future", which is an excellent movie.

Vive Le Evolution!


Ha ha ha! Just a bit of tasteless humor to get us started on a topic I know Paul has been DIEING to see me write about.
Anyway, in the beginning, there was nothing. These words come from the bible, but for artistic reasons, I use them as me own. Only God exitsed, but since he had always existed, and had existed outside of time (which also did not yet exist), he did not exist in the universe we now live in, due to its lack of existence. At the risk of conjugating the verb "to exist" again, God decided to create the universe. First, I believe God created the laws of physics and nature (you know, the ones that insure his chosen people would not be sucked into space due to the lack of a tangible system of rules). These laws were created in a way so that at any given time, all particles in the universe are behaving according to God's divine will. Then, God created all matter, via the "big bang" he used physics and the big bang because God knew his ultimate creation, man, would have a very curious nature, and therefore would desire to understand everything around him. If man discovered that the only reasons that planes fly, or the atmosphere doesn't ignite when you light a match is because of God's miracles, then we would worship him only because of fear of the repeal of these miracles, not because we actually loved him. The big bang has often been described as a huge (hence the "big) explosion (hence the "bang"). From this point, God created all matter in the universe. Now a couple of weeks ago, an atheist was on "The Colbert Report", and had claimed that he had disproved the existence of God. He said that by saying some sort of supernatural deity who exists outside of time created everything is a very convenient belief, but not a good one. I disagree. Ask yourself: where did all matter come from if these is no God? Maybe is is just part of a bigger, much older whole. Then where did that come from? To me it seems as if matter creating itself or always existing is tremendously more far-feched than God. The concept of something creating itself from nothing into something gives me this frustrated feeling, because my brain is saying "Will, that logic makes absolutely no sense in any way, shape, or form." Also, it has been said that the big bang disagrees with the biblical concept of "chaos to cosmos". This is untrue. When the big bang happened, all matter in the universe was in the exact same spot. I don't want to take the time and describe Einstein's theory of relativity, but basically, according to his theory, an early universe like that would have been very chaotic, with many celestial bodies' respective gravitational fields. They are inherently more stable and less chaotic the farther they are away from each other, so by the action of spreading outward by the big bang, it created a much more peaceful universe. Also, that shows why the universe is expanding (I guess the reason isn't to get away from Chuck Norris).
Billions of years later, earth formed in pristine conditions: at just the right distance from the sun, and with Jupiter do deflect asteroids that might obliterate life on earth. These conditions have yet to be located elsewhere (if you get my drift). When there was things on earth like a surface that was not molten rock, water and an atmosphere, God created life. Life started out as a single cell, the most basic of all life. This cell then evolved into greater and greater life forms, through natural selection. Don't tell me that natural selection does not exist, because it is an effect between an organism and it's environment. Because of that, it does not technically exist, but we can see the effects of it (much like night, which also does not exist). Life went on, and on, and on, punctuated infrequently be mass extinction. Life got bigger and bigger, because at that point, natural defense was in its crudest form: if you're the biggest, you wont die. But then, a few million years ago, God created man.
When God made man, He did so along the same lines as he did other organisms, using DNA, cells, and other traits. Man was given a soul and free will, however, which insured their dominance over all other life forms. Man is very different form all other organisms. Other organisms have poisons, fangs, claws, camouflage, and other mediums of self preservation; man was just soft flesh. But man was given a brain that was much more advanced than any other organisms', because of this, God made man the stewards of his planet (earth). I am not sure if there was just two humans made in the beginning of time (a.k.a. Adam and Eve) or a whole group of humans made all at once. One one side, the genesis story could be a clever portrayal of man's unintelligible use of his free will, and that there were many humans, who over time resisted the holy path. Or, there could have been only one Adam and one Eve, and then a lot of inbreeding. They did it during the middle ages frequently, and people today aren't horribly disfigured.
In conclusion, evolution does, in every way, exist. One just need to know where they draw the line. You could be like Ryan Stiles, who on "whose line is it anyway?" said that first came Drew Carry, then apes, and then man. (I laughed hard at that one) Or you can believe in the divine will of God. It's your free will.