January 2011
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I'm thinking about renaming my cat Glenn Beck
‘cause he cries a lot.
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Drums & Art
Recording some drums with my drummer friend Sam today.
Then after that I’m gonna send some comic book story ideas over to my artist friend Sam (different Sam) so he can work on what the main characters and scenes will look like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJxOpspAu0w
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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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-I don't care what people believe, but I do care that there are many false statements in this:
-First of all, this wasn't Einstein, this was believed to be either Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, father of India's missile program and the former president of India or just a completely made up story (probably the latter). Einstein was known to be an Atheist or at least Agnostic.
-Here's a quote from Einstein: "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."
-So it's pretty obvious that someone changed it to Einstein so that you'd think, "Well if Einstein, the smartest man ever, believed this, then it must be true"
-Also, about the "Do you teach your students that we evolved from Monkeys?". A philosophy teacher would not teach evolution to their class, also, a professor would not say yes to that, because a professor would be smart enough to know that this is false, we did not evolve from monkeys. We are related to monkeys. Let me try and break it down: You came from monkeys, in the same sense that you came from your cousin Jimmy, you didn't, you just share a couple relatives and some DNA.
-About the "Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes?" "...No" part is also false. This professor probably hasn't personally observed evolution, but we as humans have:
( http: //findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_114/ai_n15855372/ )
-Take the peppered moth theory for instance, the majority of peppered moths were white, and the trees they rested on were also white, which it made easy for them to hide from predators (this also explained why there weren't many black moths). But because of pollution. the trees that these moths rest on turned black from soot, causing the black moths to be the majority, because they could hide from predators easier, and because the moths needed to be black to survive it became the common inherited gene among these moths. This is called evolution.
-The part about scientist needing to believe in faith is true, but they don't rely 100% on faith. There is evidence involved.
-On the other hand, we don't have evidence against God, and I hope we never do, because God is a necessity/very important to a lot of people, and never try and take away from someone
(You can still believe in both Evolution & God btw)
~ZacJones13
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I was going to sleep at 10 tonight
but Jim Carrey AND The Black Keys on SNL?! Fuck yeah.
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May have been our best gig yet
& since it bugs me so much that when you youtube “La Vonettes” there’s only a cover of a song we just so happened to play bad that day; I made my Mom and Step Mom record some songs. So I will be making a La Vonettes youtube. Give us a little bit of internet cred
La Vonettes (the band I'm in) was interviewed for... →
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Oedipus was one nasty mother fucker
It's not who you know, it's whom you know.
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Slappin' Da Bass
11:11 on 1/1/11. Make a good wish