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| Sorry for the long delay. I seriously forgot about this blog! I hope to have more posts soon.
Holy smokes! I just watched a video on youtube.com that BLEW MY FREAKING MIND! If you are interested in it (and it's a playlist... a long one), type in "down the rabbit hole" in the search box at the site. You will have to fully pay attention and try to grasp what they are saying, but if you do you will be astonished. Feel free to rewind when you say WTF, as I said it many times while watching this.
Here's the short summary of the movie for those who cannot understand what they are saying (trust me, it's hard, and I don't judge at all):
- If an atom's nucleus was the size of a marble, the electron that orbits around the nucleus would be the thickness of a hair... and would circle 2 miles away. WTF!?!? That is tiny AND hard to understand! There is so much space in between atoms, and that's why we never truly touch anything, as you may have learned in physics.
- Matter, such as a marble, shot through one slit, makes one line on the back wall behind the slit. So, it would make sense for the marbles shot through two slits to make two lines on the back wall. This is what happens with matter. A wave, sent through one slit, makes one line where the highest intensity of the wave hits. However, a wave sent through two slits creates something interesting. It actually sends out two waves past the slits and the waves cancel each other out in some places. This is called an interference pattern. The result on the back wall is many different lines. This is what happens with waves.
NOW, I told you that to tell you this (hehe). They decided to shoot electrons (little bits of matter) through one slit. Of course, they found that it created one line on the back wall. Makes sense, right? So, they shoot the electrons through two slits, and what did they find? An interference pattern. How can this be? They thought perhaps the electrons were bouncing off each other, causing such a pattern. So, they shoot the electrons one at a time. They still found an interference pattern. How could matter cause that? How?
But wait, it gets better. They wanted to observe this happening, so they used a measuring tool to do so. They shot the electrons through the two slits, expecting an interference pattern. What they found simply knocked them off their seats. The electrons created just two lines on the back wall, just like matter should. WTF!?!? So, when observed, the electrons actually change the way they respond??? How? How could electrons know they are being observed???
You can find this information on youtube.com in Part 4 of the video at exactly three minutes into it.
- Atoms were together in the beginning of the big bang. When the big bang occurred, these atom pairs, much like twins, were seperated. But what is interested is if one atom is on one side of the universe, and its twin is on the other side, then if something happens to one of the atoms, the other atom changes instantaneously. ... Whoa. How could this happen?
Anyway, I am trying to get a grip on these facts. There is something bigger and far more complex out there that we haven't discovered yet. Is it God? Is it a force? We don't know, but something weird is definitely going on here.
~ The Outspoken Angel ~
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| Seriously, how can someone NOT see that it is happening already?
I'm not going to jump into the whole this-is-why-you-should-believe-in-global-warming thing. I think that most people have been exposed to the idea and the facts that point to how this is happening now. But unfortunately, we are very slow to change (something that is a huge problem with our society... we should be calculating measurements in the metric system, which the rest of the world uses, but when we tried to convert, Americans basically freaked out).
My point? I don't think the future for my children looks very bright at all. And my grandchildren? Heh.
Anyway, the thoughts that have been going through my mind concerning this issue are frightening me. What will happen to my children, my grandchildren? What about the human race all together? Will we cease to exist?
I feel very proud of our species in many ways, but in even more ways I am ashamed. Yes, we have found cures to many different illnesses, but we have also crafted ways to kill each other in large numbers. Many certainly have tried to save other species that may have gone extinct without our help, but many have also killed those species for FUN. We have tried to recycle and take care of our planet, but with our dependency on oil for energy, we have continued to harm our planet in irreversible ways. The latter will cause not only many species to become extinct, but we as a species may kill ourselves through our own indifference.
Then, after reading this rant, I stop. I think. I realize that I am a part of the problem. Do I drive? Yes. Do I use energy in my home? Yes. I am helping kill the species of this planet at an increasingly quick rate.
But what can I do? I feel so helpless.
If all we had to do to stop global warming in its tracks was to not use our remote controls for our televisions... well, we would be doomed. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I believe we are all going to suffer tremendously for not letting go of our convenient lifestyles.
~ The Outspoken Angel ~
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| Sometimes I go to bed at night and wonder if the whole day had been a dream. Then I go to sleep and dream about the next day. It never turns out to come true, however. In some cases, this can be a good thing.
There are so many things we don't know. I get a little astonished by this fact. Certainly we humans can discover the deepest secrets of life and the universe! Aren't we smart enough?
Then I remember the things that we probably will never know. I don't think we will ever surely know why we are here and what was the cause of... well, everything. This worries me a little.
In the situation where a Christian tells me they know for certain that there is a god, I get very annoyed. I don't understand why I allow this to bother me, but it does.
I'm kind of typing about thoughts that are on my mind. The other day I got a little paranoid about these damned thoughts. It wasn't fun.
~ The Outspoken Angel ~
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| I wish that I could know for sure what happens after we die. I wish I knew. It bugs me not knowing.
"Bugs" is an understatement, actually. It personally annoys the hell out of me. And it gets me all upset some days. My boyfriend definitely does not understand why I get that way. He's an atheist, and doesn't really think about death too much. I, however, think about death a lot, even as an agnostic atheist.
I'm not suicidal. I just happen to think very much about what it means to die. Am I weird?
I wonder if I'll ever get over it.
~The Outspoken Angel~
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| Good gracious, it's been awhile. I certainly have been stressed, too. But I am not going to go into the details; I do not want this xanga to be about my stupid drama.
I thought about checking out the bible again. This time, I'm going to seriously try to understand it. Not that I didn't before, but I just took it for granted when I was a Christian, and now I want to look at it in a different way. My friend "dared" me to read the bible on my own after I told her I tried to talk to many people about helping me understand the bible. Does anyone know of scripture about mental disorders, such as bi-polar?
The reason I am asking is this: I am bi-polar. In fact, I take medicine for it. Ever since I started taking this medicine, I have felt no closeness to any god at all. I blame it for my atheism. Whether this is a good or bad thing is not to be decided yet, for I don't know whether it is better to have faith or whether it is better to go on thinking there is no afterlife. Surprisingly, the idea of there being no afterlife at all has helped me appreciate life to the fullest. Even so, it has made me terribly sad before, and I don't know what to think about the philosophy quite yet.
~ The Outspoken Angel ~
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