But then I realize that things break and humans break because cells and molecules get stressed and go in a direction we don't like. As big-brained apes we have a large degree of control over our daily lives and we can limit how the physics affects us. If something is frustrating you, instead of getting stressed, think of a way to solve the problem.
Human Cell Collections
Even human behavior is the result of physics. The world is now packed with humans and every human is seeking comfort, pleasure, and idyllic happiness. When others take advantage of you and step on your head to gain some advantage, let them. Remember that we humans are simply a collection of 30 trillion cells, which is soon going to be the same number as the U.S. federal debt. For 2.9 billion years we existed as single cells and then 600 million years ago the first multicellular organism appeared and it said, "Hey, look at me, I'm more effective when a few of us cells join together." So for another 598 million years we kept getting more complex and our ancestors didn't even appear on the scene until a mere 2 million years ago.
So, your brain now becomes the spokesperson for your 30 trillion cells and when you say something crappy and hurtful to me I know you are just trying to relieve frustration or you get some kind of pleasure by being a little shit. But we are all just massively complex cell clusters, so I get it. People tell me that I should not take crap from anyone because it will only get worse, but I don't care because I'm an old man now and getting closer to having my ashes sent to Pluto.
I do notice that when people are hiding inside their automobiles or in front of their computers that they even get even more shitty and rude. To me, I know these people are just being their real selves and when they are nice it's actually just window dressing. So, come on people, let's always be civil to one another, even on the highway and online. Don't be a crap because you are representing mother nature's greatest disaster, which is the homo sapiens. You are the only species that can not only destroy its own habitat, but can also turn an entire planet into a dark cinder ball.
Christian Apologetics
So, I've heard John Lennox and Ravi Zacharias slice and dice atheists and spit them then out on the streets. But it's all based on straw man arguments because no one ever said or claimed the things they are shredding. Just because we don't know something is not an intellectual surrender. Science has only had 450 years to do its thing and in another 450 years we will know everything there is to know, and poor God will be squeezed out and unemployed. We don't know what caused the Big Bang and what space was like before it, but no one ever said that physics was creating something out of nothing. Then there is the entire topic of predetermination, which we might just need to force physics models to work, and it bodes well with some Christian denominations but not with others.
But, my point being, is that I believe the universe is mechanical only and no supernatural explanation is needed to explain String Theory, Chaos Theory, or quantum entanglement. Either we just have to discover new theories or we don't truly understand the theories we've got. And as for the mystery of gravity, and Dark Energy and Dark Matter, well, maybe these things don't exist at all — maybe we are just looking at the problem wrong or haven't figured out the right questions to ask.
And to say that only a God could create a universe that's so fine tuned for life is total crap because, hey, in case you didn't notice, the universe is NOT fine tuned for life. In fact, we could be the only industrial society in this whole freaking place. So, trying to force religion in this cold, dark universe is simply beating up on straw men — those poor scarecrows who never said or claimed any of the things that the Bible defenders are attacking.
Critical Thinking
I harp on this over and over because it's our only hope as a species. I love those rare moments when someone I know is "awakened" and suddenly becomes a critical thinker and a sentient being. I figure that for humans to survive and to save the world we need to get critical thinking up to about 20 percent of the population, and it's only 5 percent now. I have to help awaken 15 percent of the world's humanity, and that's why I blog. A critical thinker is the person who has the courage to question all the mythology that's been shoved down their throats since childhood. Very few people do this because their delusional world makes them feel comfortable. Without your self-created world you will be naked. You will be shunned, persecuted, and in some parts of the world you'll be murdered. And your only crime is questioning mainstream society and all the lies you are fed. I'm starting to think that most people don't even have the capability to question because their artificial reality has been firmly built into them.
Nuclear Fusion
Fusion is the ultimate orgasm of physics and can help us solve the two big problems we have now with fission reactors — safety and dealing with the waste. Humanity really screwed up when we pursued fission technology instead of fusion. We did this because we wanted to kill millions of people effectively, and the electrical industry just sort of piggybacked on the war-making fission technology. If we weren't so obsessed with killing people and radiating our planet for millions of years we could have started building clean, safe fusion reactors, which could power the heavy industry needed to build millions of electric cars. We could have done it, but we didn't. Instead, fusion reactors are always "30 years away" from being commercially viable and the energy needed to create a fusion reaction is close to what the reaction creates, so we still have a long way to go. Solar panels and wind turbines are an interim solution but can't provide the energy to run a steel smelting plant.
Reality
Physics are my only reality because when some human cell goes haywire and starts mass producing screwed up cells it's all about the genetic coding, proteins, and chemical imbalances. Eventually the cells-gone-bad create tumors, which interfere with critical life functions in the U.S.S. Human, until your ship sinks. No amount of prayer will change the work of gravity, genetic coding, and chemical reactions. From the moment of the Big Bang our existence was assured because we are simply an end product to the natural progression of physics. I know that Stephen Hawking is still getting beat up for the things he never said, but it's the things he did say, along with Einstein, that create my elusive reality, as best as I can grasp it. The truth is, physics doesn't care what you believe. And even though I was told at age 9 that Santa Claus was a lie, the North Pole is a real place. Do you get it?
As for Ravi Zacharias, he recently died a rich man with a net worth of $7.5 million, and all he did was say the things that Christians wanted to hear. It's true that he rubbed shoulders with the top theoretical physicists of our day but he found that he could make a bigger wad of dough being a Christian apologist. But now he'd dead and he gets to be a building block for the fourth iteration of our sun, which will come in a few billion years.
I've heard a few people say that God operates beyond physics, in another dimension. The fifth and sixth dimensions are small, weird places that must exist for Superstring Theory to work. I don't think any supernatural being would want to live there, but if you have proof, please do share.
Capitalism
Our current, failed economic system is another example of physics following its natural path. I am told that capitalism is good because it encourages efficiency and innovation. On the individual level that makes sense, but capitalism has moved to a new, corporate level where massive corporations just gobble up other corporations and there is little innovation, and only rich people getting richer. Because when you are rich and have capital it's easy to create more wealth. We are simply seeing the selfish and hoarding genes at work and while a few more people are joining the billionaires club the rest of us are struggling just to pay our bills. The billionaires are like the suns in our universe — the dust and particles gather from gravity and a great fusion furnace forms. Capitalism is the great failed system, and anyone who mentions socialism or Marxism is slapped down. Poor Che Guevara was hunted down and blown away in Bolivia by the American CIA because he challenged those rich, corrupt, filthy capitalists who kept getting richer. This is called "threatening our way of life," but the only people threatened are the top 1 percent. I am not advocating a French Revolution but I am suggesting that we move to a more fair and equitable economic system.
As for the Proud Boys they are simply a more presentable iteration of the National Socialists that controlled Germany in the 1930s. The language is spun differently but the ideas are the same. Physics drives animals toward more complexity and living cells toward a steady food supply and comfortable living conditions. The Theory of Relativity shows that space and time are intertwined, and quantum mechanics shows the mysterious and weird behavior of matter, which may be nothing but vibrations, but what is the energy that causes the vibrations? What do neo fascists gain by being neo fascists? It's all about resources and control, just like it was in World War II, and just like our cells were doing millions of years ago.
As for Ravi Zacharias, he recently died a rich man with a net worth of $7.5 million, and all he did was say the things that Christians wanted to hear. It's true that he rubbed shoulders with the top theoretical physicists of our day but he found that he could make a bigger wad of dough being a Christian apologist. But now he'd dead and he gets to be a building block for the fourth iteration of our sun, which will come in a few billion years.
I've heard a few people say that God operates beyond physics, in another dimension. The fifth and sixth dimensions are small, weird places that must exist for Superstring Theory to work. I don't think any supernatural being would want to live there, but if you have proof, please do share.
Capitalism
Our current, failed economic system is another example of physics following its natural path. I am told that capitalism is good because it encourages efficiency and innovation. On the individual level that makes sense, but capitalism has moved to a new, corporate level where massive corporations just gobble up other corporations and there is little innovation, and only rich people getting richer. Because when you are rich and have capital it's easy to create more wealth. We are simply seeing the selfish and hoarding genes at work and while a few more people are joining the billionaires club the rest of us are struggling just to pay our bills. The billionaires are like the suns in our universe — the dust and particles gather from gravity and a great fusion furnace forms. Capitalism is the great failed system, and anyone who mentions socialism or Marxism is slapped down. Poor Che Guevara was hunted down and blown away in Bolivia by the American CIA because he challenged those rich, corrupt, filthy capitalists who kept getting richer. This is called "threatening our way of life," but the only people threatened are the top 1 percent. I am not advocating a French Revolution but I am suggesting that we move to a more fair and equitable economic system.
As for the Proud Boys they are simply a more presentable iteration of the National Socialists that controlled Germany in the 1930s. The language is spun differently but the ideas are the same. Physics drives animals toward more complexity and living cells toward a steady food supply and comfortable living conditions. The Theory of Relativity shows that space and time are intertwined, and quantum mechanics shows the mysterious and weird behavior of matter, which may be nothing but vibrations, but what is the energy that causes the vibrations? What do neo fascists gain by being neo fascists? It's all about resources and control, just like it was in World War II, and just like our cells were doing millions of years ago.
