#4: A Polita-wha???

Politics are a very intrinsic part of today’s society but they also can lead to huge debates, name calling, fist throwing and even more inane acts of idiocy.  And this happens between “mature” adults who are supposed to run our country.  A part of me almost believes our country would be better run by infants, but of course we all know that to be a fallacy as they do not possess the cognitive thinking skills required to make decisions beneficial the nation as a whole.  In this I took a political compass test and even though I thought I was more centered it showed that I was left-libertarian.  While I am still debating over what this means for me has an individual I do know I am in good company as The Dali Lama and Ghandi are also left-libertarian.  That makes me feel good about where I stand, knowing that my “test” is almost the exact same as these two famous figures of world history. 

Originally growing up I considered myself republican and nowadays would consider myself more of an independent.  However with this test if may behoove me to take a closer look at my political foundation and delve deeper into its core.  I’ve always found politics to be a bore because they never seemed to affect me much, but as the years have passed that has definitely changed.  It is hard to care about our electoral system when in its setup it feels like one vote doesn’t matter. If the electoral college wasn’t involved and our president was elected by popular vote I know I would feel like my vote had more power.  This year could be one of the most important election years for our society in my lifetime.   

P.S. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are almost the exact same on this political spectrum. Be weary of who you vote for.

#2: A Haunted Reality

A chanting that you can barely hear or understand occurs down a dim hallway with light from a TV escaping the room.  As you walk closer you begin to hear a rhythmic and repetitive chant: “they say, they say, they say” is what your mind takes in.  You turn and begin to run in terror trying to escape the voices, the ones who tell you what you should buy or should do or who you should be.  While you’re running the voices just get louder and louder, you turn to see that the TV that was once set on its stand in the room is now chasing you blaring advertisements in your face.  The horror has just begun as you realize that it’s not alone but accompanied by the very devices you thought you were safe from.  The phone that you so often use to play games or stay in touch with your friends has now become a collaborator, determined to brain wash you.  It has become an ally and enemy wrapped up in one nice, neat little package.  Not very threatening looking or suspicious because after all, it is what is kept closer to you than anything else.  Your next sight you see disturbs you to your core.  You see your laptop hopping a long with a mischievous dark glow.  It’s opened your favorite browser to the next gadget you want showing all these people having a great time and it seems to be hinting at: “you could be one of us” but only if you had what it shows.  You run, headed for the door to escape your nightmare and see it shining like the sun as it seems to offer hope of freedom. Grabbing the handle you twist it open and exit as hurriedly as you can and lock it behind you. Exhausted you place your back on the door and slide to the ground. A few moments go by and you realize that this, this isn’t right.  You open your eyes and there in front of you are even more advertisements targeting you directly, either via social media, billboards, politicians, movies, music, news channels or by clothing worn on a stranger.  Eventually though, you realize you have the strength to move and not be persuaded by what you want but by only what you need and your nightmare drifts away as you wake up.  You realize it was only a dream and breathe a sigh of relief. Or was it?

"#1: God vs Evolution"

In the beginning of Summary: Theory for Beginners the author goes into detail talking about evolution.  I have nothing against evolution or its theory but I do have a problem when someone, no matter how well educated begins to talk about evolution as fact.  Evolution is still considered a theory.  Evolution is as a theory as creation, but evolution is able to being scientifically tested whereas creation is taken as a "God-did" this and anything "God did" is untestable but taken as religious fact.  However as anyone ever really thought about the ability of the two theories to coexist?  What if God did create the beginnings of everything and from there guided nature into what we call evolution of species?  Is this theory improbable? Probably.  Doubtful? I say unlikely.  The chance of anything evolving from absolutely nothing has to be zero.  Even in the Large Hadron Collider where they are trying to create an explosion similar to the Big Bang Theory still has something that wasn't here previously, molecules of all shapes and size.  The smallest known particle or atom had to be created by something, something that can cause physical objects to come into existence. Whether a person believes in the Christian God or not, to understand that nothing is always equal to nothing is a simple test of logic. An outside force of some unknown power had to have a hand in the beginning of our world and our universe.  Even a simple mathematical formula can show this concept: Void*(0) = 0. When something is affected or multiplied by zero, it always equals zero. Now if we change the equation Void*(G) = unknown explanation that we collectively call our universe. The author also suggests that since we no longer have to hunt and/or plant for survival we have “evolved”.  The actual term for this change in our world is called adaptation.  We have adapted to our current advances that make life easier.