Did God Create Evil?

I read this elsewhere on the internet. Further thoughts on it at the bottom

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A University professor at a well-known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question.

"Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes, sir, he certainly did," the student replied."

The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition.

The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the
Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course," replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The other students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a world that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

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I thought this was interesting. Not because of anything having to do with god or spirituality, but because of the way that an argument can be constructed to prove or disprove anything. It reminds me of the simple cross correlation of modern Pastafarianism, involving pirates and global warming.

I hope you too can now look at some arguments in a different way.

-AllenKll

RIP George C.

My Life is in the middle of a complete breakdown. A Cancelled flight, A Stolen car, A Towed car, A Speeding ticket, bounced checks, An exploding lobster, etc.
But today instead of being completely selfish, I want to pay tribute to one more thing in my life that just fell apart:

Yesterday George Carlin died.

I was big fan of George, and had seen him in person a couple of times. I adored his satirical view of the world, and how he made me think about the simplest things in a whole new way.
A Renaissance man, he commented about any and everything. "Taboo" was not in his extensive vocabulary.

I wonder who will be able to fill his shoes, I don't know of a comedian today that has the balls to say the stuff he did, nor of one that can deliver with his special sort of deadpan.

This ones for you, George; you will be missed.

"Shit,
Piss,
Fuck,
Cunt,
Cocksucker,
Motherfucker,
Tits"

God Bless the internet.

-AllenKll

Heroes! ....... ORLY?

This CNN Article claims that the boy scouts that set up a triage station after a tornado struck are "heroes." WTF? They are trained to do that. "Be Prepared," is the boy scout motto. They practice first aid, survival skills, etc. They did what they were told to do. Does this make them a hero?

So let me see... I'm trained to solder. So if I solder something, that makes me a hero? Bull shit. It makes me responsible.

Let's see... Firefighters are trained to fight fires. So, if they put one out are they a hero? no. If a firefighter runs in to a burning building and saves a baby, is he then a hero? yes.

Why? What's the difference? Well, as far as I can tell firefighters aren't trained to run into buildings to save people. It's just something they do if they feel it is right.

So applying this to the boy scouts. If some average joes (not boy scouts) set up a triage station to treat injured people. are they heroes? Maybe... more so than the boyscouts.

That doesn't seem to be a good explanation... Let's try this one:
Being a hero requires more those above simple tasks. I think that it requires unnecessary risk of personal injury. In this case, the tornado was over. They were helping the cleanup. No heroism there.

Had a boy run out from the shelter to grab another boy who had fallen and was frozen in fear as the tornado approached, he would be a hero.

Further I don't like the way CNN billed the story. They tried to make it out as if the 4 boys that died were the heroes. When all they did was... uhm... nothing; they died. It's not until you read the whole article till you see what they actually meant.

So another set of disorganized brain dumpings. I'm just too pissed and too lazy to edit it. But if I did, would I be a hero?

Learn Chinese in 5 minutes!!

Here are some simple phrases I came across on the internet to help you better learn chinese:

   * Did you go to the beach?.............Wai Yu So Tan?
   * I bumped the coffee table...........Ai Bang Mai Ni
   * I think you need a face lift...........Chin Tu Fat
   * It's very dark in here..................Wai So Dim?
   * I Thought you were on a diet......Wai Yu Mun Ching?
   * This is a tow away zone................No Pah King
   * Our meeting was rescheduled.........Wai Yu Kum Nao?
   * That's not right!....................Sum Ting Wong
   * Are you harboring a fugitive?.......Hu Yu Hai Ding?
   * See me ASAP................................Kum Hia
   * Stupid Man!................................Dum Gai!
   * Small Horse...........................Tai Ni Po Ni
   * Staying out of sight....................Lei Ying Lo
   * He's cleaning his automobile.........He Wa Shing Ka
   * Your body odor is offensive...........Yu Stin Ki Pu
   * Did that monkey throw something?.......Hu Flung Pu?

Hmm.. maybe it's more... like Chinglish... Practice anyway.. there will be a quiz.

God, Eczema, and Sandwiches

I think I might actually be starting to believe in a higher power. There's been a lot of things in my life that have been going tangential to optimal. And yet... I may be coming though unscathed.

case in point? Eczema. From time to time throughout my life, I've had eczema on one place or another. Nothing large, but it usually goes away after a month or so. Well recently, I had eczema on my finger, and it had been annoying me for 5 weeks or so. Just now, - well, as of a few days ago - it is starting to clear up.

What does this have to do with a higher power? I'm getting to that. Hold on.

McDonald's new southern style chicken sandwich. I've seen ads for it. It looked good. It looked simple. Why would McD's carry and promote such a simple item? No clue... I wanted one... I've wanted one for about 5 weeks. Last week I drove to a McDonald's to try one.

I used the drive through. Do any of you people know me? I HATE drive throughs... I feel they are the epitome of our lazy society. And yet, I felt the urge to use the drive through. I did. I ordered 2 sandwiches and a sweet tea.
My order was repeated back to me. I paid. The guy at the window verified my order. I said yes. I got the bag and began to drive away.
I looked in the bag. I had gotten a Fish sandwich meal. "Oh well," I said. I happily ate the yummy fries, and the not so yummy, but decently tasting Fish sandwich.

There is a point... it's coming...

Today, my eczema is almost completely healed. I decided on a whim to look up eczema online. In my research, I found that Omega-3 acids heal eczema fast.

WTF?!?

How is it that all of those odd coincidences and strange occurrences all completely aligned to get me to eat a fish sandwich to get omega-3's to heal my eczema?

I couldn't have planned that much of an elaborate plan if I wanted to!

The multi-million dollar McD's ad campaign for such a simple sandwich...
The craving for McD's...
The drive through...
The screwed up order...
The lack of my standard argumentative nature to make my order correct...

That is all one hell of a coincidence... or, maybe one "heaven" of one.

I'm not ready to turn monk or vicar or anything... but, these coincidences are hard to ignore.

Cleaning Advice

Note to self of the future:

Although it will seem like a wonderful idea to clean the iced tea mixing pitcher by putting in soap and a few cups of water and mixing vigorously, please do not do it.

You will succeed in creating the most wonderfully dense and terrific looking lather of a foam within the pitcher. However it will actually fail to clean the device as you had hoped, no matter how white it looks.

Further, you will, in your joy of the foam, attempt to then turn the pitcher upside down and mix vigorously, which for a few seconds will work wonderfully. However, gravity will still apply to you, and the pitcher, and more specifically the loosely fit lid of the pitcher, which will inevitably come loose. This will in fact explode foam all over your once-clean kitchen, your once-clean dishes, your once-clean floor, your once-clean walls, your once-clean stove, and your-once clean roll of paper towels.

So in addition to having to clean the pitcher by hand anyway-as you will have noticed the foam didn't do anything inside the pitcher - you will also need to clean the aforementioned once-clean items.

At some point in the process, probably on your way to change your once-clean clothes... you will also begin to wonder why a "back splash" is so dyslexically named.

:hugs from your past self:
-Allen