Comments | apagleisgunna: Kinda bored

apagleisgunna

Kinda bored

Aug 27, 2006 23:09

Kinda bored, not much going on...actually, absolutely nothing. The most exciting part of my day was attending chapel this morning with the 'rents. That's right...I actually went to church. They talked me into it on account of my born-again grandma who really wanted me to go. Then it turns out she didn't even go. blah. It wasn't all that ( Read more... )

blah, steak, religion

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THis reminds me... ohsweetness August 29 2006, 02:52:38 UTC

Of when my mom and I went to a Chinese Christian church. It was very odd. Everyone sang all these songs that I didn't see written down anywhere and I mouthed "watermelon, cantelope" the whole time. Then everyone had brought food and ate and many people tried to save me and to join them full time.

Yeah it was freaky...

Are you converted now? :)

Re: THis reminds me... apagleisgunna August 29 2006, 04:08:53 UTC

Ha! They wish they could convert me. And it's a good thing you didn't eat the food -- the next step is the kool-aid.

o0omarko0o August 29 2006, 13:44:51 UTC

I'm getting to the opinion that belief in a supernatural cop/best friend/micromanager is a straight up mental illness, organized or not. Organizing just allows people at the top to manipulate or exploit those below whether they believe what they are saying or not and whether they are malicious or not.

I personally can't eliminate the concept of a creator of the universe. Stephen Hawking gave a pretty good argument as to the limits of such a creator like not being able to create the universe before the big bang but only at that point or some later one. I've heard of other theories that the universe never had a beginning but my cosmology and physics knowledge is too weak to understand that.

But yeah, churches are just great ways to waste an hour and spread colds.

apagleisgunna August 30 2006, 13:22:54 UTC

The universe would have to be 'closed' for their to have been no beginning (and subsequently, no end). If it's closed, universal expansion will cease once it is overcome by the gravitational pull of the net mass of the universe, at which point it will begin to contract until all matter is condensed again into a super-dense point which, presumably will be followed by another big bang. I like that theory better than the 'open' universe theory: expansion will continue until the inevitable, slow heat-death of the universe...that's just so much more depressing.

o0omarko0o August 30 2006, 14:00:26 UTC

I thought the only difference between an open and a closed universe was the end, not the beginning. closed is the big crunch and open is heat death. If the big bang theory is still favored, that would mean that the universe started as a singularity either way. Since information cannot get out of a singularity, any creator who set up initial conditions before the big bang singularity would find that all that work was for nothing since none of that information would have any effect post big bang. That's the limitation that Hawking put on god. creating a singularity at t=0 or doing the trickster-god thing and creating the universe 6,000 years ago and just making it look like it was older are fine ( ... )