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I’ve been thinking lately about the nature of good and evil. The brainwashed religious masses see it as a black or white issue. If you’re religious and follow the bible, you’re good. If you’re a satanist, or an atheist or an otherwise non-believer, you’re evil.

This is typical of the brainwashing that these people receive, and I’m sure it seems logical in their little view of life, but real good and real evil wear many different faces, and many of those faces are not the stereotypical visages of good and evil that one might expect.

Good and evil can be very blatant things. Look at Adolph Hitler or the leader of Iran threatening to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. Look at the muslim terrorists cutting people’s heads off and torturing people just because they don’t agree with the way they live or their philosophy or whatever. These are blatant examples of evil, and can be instantly recognized and pointed out without fear of contradiction.

Then on the flip side there are those who work with sick and dying children and old people, those who work with wounded veterans and those who rescue abused animals and take care of them. These kinds of people and their actions can be instantly recognized as good.

Where the confusion comes in, is when those who either think of themselves as good or actively claim that they themselves are beacons of goodness in this evil filled world are actually the ones generating evil through their own hypocritical thoughts and actions. These people are the most dangerous elements of society, because they actively threaten individual freedom and thought, and that in and of itself, while not an obvious and blatant evil, is equally as dangerous.

These hypocrites, bolstered by the brainwashing they receive in the church, social organizations or political organizations they hang out with, honestly believe that everything they try to keep us from saying, thinking or doing is for our own good and for the betterment of humanity.

For example, I was reading some news the other day and I came across a story about a high school principal who ordered one single picture of two male students kissing blacked out of every single yearbook before they were handed out to the students. He thought he was doing the right thing, but in fact he was perpetrating a great evil upon not only his students, but on society in general. The fact is, gay people exist. They’ve always existed and they will continue to exist as long as humanity exists. By trying to hide the fact that some of his students are gay, he’s perpetuating the stigma and intolerance that religious people and others have been putting on the gay community throughout history. These people have committed no crime. They live like you or I, they pay taxes, they work and they have every capacity to love that any heterosexual person does. By caving into the pressure to try to hide them away perpetrates an evil upon these students who are only living as nature made them.

Then there’s conservatives and liberals. They both consider themselves to be beacons of goodness and understanding, and yet they both have worked tirelessly to repress individual freedoms guaranteed to us by our constitution. Conservatives work tirelessly to prevent gay people from being able to marry the ones they love, prevent women from having the right of reproductive freedom, etc… Liberals, who claim to believe in free speech, actually are the biggest anti-free speech and anti-freedom hypocrites there are. Look at the colleges that are loaded with liberal college students who are all about free speech when they agree with it, but when a conservative comes in to do a talk or a speech, they’re shouted down and harassed by those who claim to love free speech so much. Political correctness was invented by liberals and is nothing more than a way of keeping people from expressing themselves and what they really think. This inhibits their individual freedoms, and this in and of itself is an evil act.

Religious people claim that atheists and satanists are inherently evil and should either be converted or avoided at all costs. In fact, the most logical, sane and rational people I know are atheists and satanists. They’re also some of the best people in a personal sense, and here’s why…

When a religious person does volunteer work or other generous acts, it’s usually because they feel they’ve been directed to do it by the will of their god and that by doing said acts, they will be guaranteed a place in heaven. That would lead one to believe that maybe there’s no genuine desire to do these acts at all, and they’re only doing them because they feel like they have to as “good christians” or whatever the religion happens to be. Atheists and satanists have no such driving forces behind their actions. When atheists and satanists do kind acts, it’s because we genuinely want to do them. There’s a genuineness there that you can never be sure of with people who base their “kindness” on the fact that they might get some nice little check mark in St. Peter’s great big book of deeds. So where’s the evil in this if the kind acts are being done regardless? The evil is in the hypocrisy, and the stigma that is put onto others for no good reason other than that they aren’t “believers” in the “one true god” as they like to call it. Atheists and satanists are discriminated against constantly, both personally and in the workplace, simply because they don’t conform like mindless sheep to the religious dogma that has been driven like a nail into the minds of those who fall into its trap.

Speaking of religious people, what about those who use religion as an excuse to stop stem cell research that could help handicapped people to live better lives? They’re forcing people to live a life of suffering just so they can feel good about themselves by protecting a few cells in a dish. We’re not talking about a fetus or anything here…just a small collection of cells. These are the same people preaching about how horrible torture is, and yet they impose that torture on the handicapped simply because they’re bound by a corrupted belief system. Again…evil.

Another example. You see commercials on television for Christian Children’s Fund begging people to send money to feed all these starving kids in these third world countries. Well maybe there wouldn’t be so many starving children suffering if all of these “caring” people in these religious organizations would supply these people with birth control and teach them how to use it. By not doing that, they’re knowingly allowing children to be born into a life full of hunger and misery. Once again…evil hidden behind a good face.

It’s not just religious people, or political people that perpetrate these evils. It’s people in your every day life as well. People like the office back stabber who’s friendly to your face and then works quietly behind the scenes to get you fired. Or how about the guy or girl you’re dating who tries to “change” you into someone you’re not rather than loving you for who you are. These are small evils to be sure, but they are evils that impose upon your life and happiness nonetheless.

So what am I saying with all this? What I’m saying is that evil comes in all forms and often has a kind face claiming to only want what’s best for you. Whether it be the religious fanatic, the office back stabber, the purveyors of political correctness or the leader of Iran threatening to wipe out an entire race of people like Hitler tried to do, evil can come from those who believe themselves to be good just as easily as it can come from those who are just flat out blatantly evil. Read each person’s actions and judge them not only by their words, but by the meaning behind their words as well as their actions, and you will learn to spot those who would perpetrate evil against you, no matter what face they wear.

For years we’ve been told that someone who left point A and flew through space to point B at the speed of light, and then returned to point A would find that it was some god awful number of years later when they returned.

If you think about it, the whole theory doesn’t make sense at all, and here’s why.

Similar to my feelings on multiple time lines, I believe that time is constant, and this whole theory can be broken down by using the same methodology I used to come to my conclusions about time travel and multiple time lines.

So let’s say we have a spaceship.  It takes off and flies out into space at light speed.  It travels for let’s say 1 year at this speed and then stops on a planet, sets up a telescope and looks at the earth.  What will they see?  Right.  They’ll see the Earth as it was exactly when they left, because they were traveling at the speed of light.  Theoretically, if they traveled faster than the speed of light and had some kind of a super telescope, they would be able to look back at the Earth and actually see themselves taking off.  If they merely traveled at the exact speed of light, they would see things continuing from the point at which they actually left the Earth, because the light they’re seeing is the same light that was leaving the Earth when they took off.  It arrived at point B at the same time they did, so what they would see is in fact the moment they left, and on from there.

Now, in actuality, one year has passed, since it took them one year to make the journey.  Perceptually, looking through that telescope, it wouldn’t look like any time had passed at all.

So they pack up their gear and return to earth at light speed.  The return trip takes one year, and they arrive home.  So how much time has passed?  Right.  Exactly two years has passed, because that’s how long they took to travel to point B and back.  They didn’t travel back in time, or forward for that matter.

In fact, if they had the ability to observe point A constantly on the outgoing trip and the return trip, on the outgoing trip events at point A would appear to be frozen, and on the return trip, events would appear to be going at double speed because they’re traveling at light speed back against the outgoing light from point A, which is traveling at light speed in the opposite direction.  So when they got back to point A, it would all be synced up again and the travelers would return to real-time perception.

Now, there really is no way to use speed of light travel to go back in time, simply because you would have to go way faster than the speed of light, and then be able to look back at your point of origin to be able to see what happened in the past, which is pretty much impossible and always will be unless they can figure out a way to bend space back on itself to allow for a shortcut in the perception of the light emanating from point A, which would most likely never happen.

Is time travel impossible?  Who knows?  I don’t think so, but it’s certainly not achievable by means of faster than light travel, because that’s not real time travel.  That’s very literally nothing more than waiting for the light to catch up with you at your current location.  If that were real time travel, then we’d all be time travelers.  If you look up at the moon, you’d see where it was a few minutes ago, because it takes a few minutes for the light reflecting off of it to reach the Earth.  So you’re literally seeing what the moon looked like and where it was in the past.  That doesn’t make you a time traveler, it just makes you far enough away from the moon that the light can’t get to you instantaneously, and yet you’re looking at a past event.

Time is both perceptual and constant.  From the human, relativistic standpoint, it’s perceptual, and from a universal standpoint, it’s constant.  The moon example is a good one.  We perceive the moon to be in a position it was in several minutes ago, while the moon has in fact traveled a great distance from where we perceive it to be.  From the moon’s perspective however, it’s right where it should be, because it’s operating in real time, while because of the lag in the time it takes for the light reflecting off it to reach Earth, we’re only left with an outdated perception of it’s current, real-time position.

I know it’s a deep concept and I don’t know if I really explained it well, but it was just something I’ve been thinking about recently, and I felt like I needed to get it out there.

I was listening to Dr. Laura’s show today on the radio, and god damn, what a bunch of moronic freakin’ sad sacks call that show.  I can totally understand why she gets frustrated when she tries to give them advice and they keep whining.

Now I’m not saying she always gives good advice, because she doesn’t.  But damn, these people are such weak little whiners, they obviously need someone dominant to tell them where to go and what to do.

I’ve always thought I’d be a good advice show host or advice columnist.  I don’t have a PHD, and I wouldn’t be like, “Doctor Duane,” but it doesn’t matter because you don’t learn about life from books.  Life and the experiences it provides is its own best teacher.  Hell, I could give people textbook answers to problems, but that’s not being realistic.  The only way to really help anyone in need of advice is to give them common sense, realistic advice that will actually make sense to them.

Hell, most of these people already know what she’s going to say before she says it.  They’re just so weak that they need someone else to say what they already know to be true, so as to gain some validation for what they know they have to do.  Then again, some people are completely clueless and beyond help because they won’t do anything you tell them anyway.  They ask for advice, but they have no intention or desire to follow any of the advice you give them.  They just go through the motions because it seems like something they should do.

Anyway, so what do you all think?  Do you think I’d make a good advice show host?  Is common sense advice better than the advice these snotty PHD idiots keep throwing at people?

Hell, if there’s anyone out there who can get me my own show, I’m there!

I was flipping around the radio today and I came across one of the religious morons talking about stem cell research and how he was against it because life is sacred and you don’t create life to destroy it.

As is typical with religious based moral arguments, this one is full to overflowing with hypocrisy.

First, let me just say that all of these “caring” religious folks obviously don’t care about the suffering of others since they’re so against researching a process that could potentially help them. Now why are they against this? Well, first they say that the embryos are viable human lives. Um, since when is a collection of cells in a petri dish considered human life? When was the last time you saw a small collection of cells crapping in a diaper or eating at a burger joint? You didn’t. Why? Because it’s a collection of cells, not a living human with a functioning brain and self awareness. At that level, they’re no different than plant cells or any other kind of cells. There is absolutely zero sentience or conscience present, so claiming that they’re destroying human life is just stupid.

Then they say that you don’t create life to destroy it. Um, how many of these idiots eat meat? Beef, chicken, pork, fish…all lives bred (read: life created) by man to be destroyed for our own consumption. And make no mistake, these animals are fully formed, conscious and sentient beings. They’re aware of their existence, desire self preservation and have conscious thought processes just like we do. So I guess because they’re not human, their lives have less value than ours? Why? We’re just another animal like they are. What makes us so much more important? You people have no problem killing them…and eating them, and yet you have a hemorrhage over scientists using some cells in a dish to help suffering people.

I think all of you hypocritical idiots out there need to re-examine your thinking on this issue, and actually show some compassion for the suffering people that exist here and now, rather than putting all your sympathies with a collection of cells in a dish.

I’ve been thinking lately about how the common thing we’re told about time travel is that if you go back in time and change things, that the way the future played out would be altered.  This theory always sounded wrong to me, and I’ve thought about it for a long time.  Here’s what I’ve determined…

If you go back in time, you’re coming from a future that’s already been fully formed.  When you go back in time, you’re an outside and completely separate entity entering that time line.  You can meet yourself, interfere with the events of that past time, and do whatever you want.  By simply entering the past, from your fully formed future, you could create a fork in the time line.  One would continue on to your present day as though nothing happened, while the new fork would contain the results of the changes you created when you went there, leading to a different, but equally fully formed, parallel future.  The only way you could view alternate time lines would be to jump from one parallel fork to the next so you could see how your alterations affected the future in that particular time line.

Now some people might say, “Well if you go back in time, you would have been a part of history, and if anyone knew you traveled back in time, there would be some report of it.”

Not true.  Until you go back in time, you haven’t been there yet.  Therefore, in your time line, it never happened.  When you do go back in time, that new fork is created.  So there may be some record of you going back in time in the present of the new fork, but not in your own fork.  So once you return to your own time, you know you’ve traveled back, but up until the point that you did it, you would never know that you had actually done it, because the only record of it would be in an alternate time line.

I know it’s confusing, but it makes sense.  The whole paradox thing wouldn’t and couldn’t happen, and no changes can be made to our time line that we live in because for us to see those changes, we’d all have to port over to the parallel time line that contained the event changes, in which case, even more branches would be created off of that parallel time line, and it all becomes a big confusing mess of infinite parallel time lines.

If you don’t understand what I’m saying, it’s ok.  I do.

I actually got to thinking about this tonight because some idiot was on Coast to Coast AM last night talking about time travelers and  dimensions and stuff, and the guy was so full of crap I’m surprised he wasn’t doing his interview from the toilet.  Most of the stuff he was talking about sounded like it came straight out of Star Trek: Enterprise.  Either that or he sat around smokin’ a lot of wacky weed until he went on a Twinkie binge and came up with all this crap right before he went into a sugar coma.  In any case, he was an idiot.  I really miss the days when Art Bell was hosting it full time and he had quality guests on there.  George Noory gets a lot of idiots, and a bunch of the idiots are religious idiots talking about angels and spirituality and all that crap.  He gets a lot of callers like that too.  The whole thing has just gotten lame.

Anyway, those are my deep thoughts for the evening.  Maybe next time I’ll explain my thoughts on multiple dimensions.

How many times has this happened to you?  You’re working on a project, doesn’t matter what it is, it can be anything, and you’re having a really frustrating problem that’s keeping you from getting it finished.  Often it’s just one tiny little thing, but it’s always something.

Then, EUREKA!  After hours spent trying to find and fix the problem, you find out that the problem was just something incredibly easy and stupid, and everything starts working perfectly with all the pieces fall ing right into place.

So now how are you supposed to feel about that?  Most people want to feel a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment after overcoming a frustrating problem.  Granted, solving a problem brings its own satisfaction, and solving a problem that makes everything work is even more satisfying.  Unfortunately, riding piggyback on that satisfaction is a profound sense of stupidity that such a small, easy to fix and obvious problem hung you up for several hours or more trying to figure out what it was.  That feeling of stupidity really puts a damper on any potential satisfaction you might have gotten out of what you were doing.

If you’re wondering why I’m writing this…yes, it happened to me today…again…  Since I used to be a PC technician, I got used to stuff like that happening, but it never gets any easier.  Today it had to do with gallery category images on a web page I’m doing for someone.  I set the category images and everything looked cool, but they wouldn’t show up.  Then I made a new category and it did show up.  So after about an hour or more trying to figure out why the hell it would show up on the new one but not the old ones I had added it to, I finally got the brilliant idea to clear my cache and reload the page.  DUH!

One of life’s little moron moments brought to you by me.

Anyway, there’s not much else going on really.  Had a dream this afternoon while I was taking my old man nap that I caught another mouse and it turned out to be friendly.  It had a fat little pot belly and red fur on its face.  It was really cute.  We were taking it somewhere to let it go and I handed it to Sharon and it crawled up her arm and gave her the boo boo jeebies.  She put it on the floor of the car, and it was about at that point that someone called and I woke up.  It was a really fun, cute dream.  I don’t usually have dreams like that.  Usually my dreams are about more stressful things.

Anyway, wife’s home now so I’ll wrap it up for this time.

I’ve been meaning to do a new blog post, but I haven’t really had anything interesting or funny to say, until now…

So I’m sitting out on the deck with my wife tonight.  We got the radio on listening to a repeat of last Friday’s Coast to Coast AM on the radio while we play cards.  She’s drinking iced tea and I was having a mug of iced coffee.

So George Noory had a Grim Reaper hotline for people who had near death experiences.  This dude calls in and starts talking about his near death experience, and just as Sharon is taking of a drink of iced tea, this guy says, “I was choking on some meat…” – and since we’re both that kind of people, I started busting up and Sharon snarfed her iced tea.

The harshest thing I ever snarfed was scotch & 7Up.  Man, you will never understand how bad that burned.  My eyes were waterin’ and I was snottin’ all over the place.  It was all my friend’s fault though.  We were drinking together and we were all drunk and all of a sudden just as I’m taking a drink, he looks over at me with a completely deadpan look on his face and says, “Fart in a jar, save natural gas,” which at that moment in time and in my somewhat woozy state of inebriation was about the funniest thing I ever heard.  Anyway…out it came.  Man that sucked.

A little earlier in the show, this 55 year old guy called up talking about his near death experience.  He said that the V.A. doctor gave him some medications and they messed him up real bad and that’s when he had the near death experience.  So George Noory asks him, “So what kind of medication did they give you?” and the guy’s all, “The wrong kind, I can tell you that.”   The guy sounded about 51/50 anyway, and the way he said it was just hilarious.

Anyway, he’s going to do a Ouija board show in a few weeks, and he always gets all these idiots calling up saying he shouldn’t do it because it opens a portal to evil forces who will screw over his life and all that crap.  It’s just more religious paranoia over something they don’t understand.  The ignorance of people really amazes me sometimes.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you had to take a common sense test and pass it in order to breed?  Would sure reduce some of the stupidity in the world.

Hmmm, what else can I talk about…

Got the third season of Sealab 2021 on DVD the other day.  Third season sucks bad.  It’s horribly stupid and Marco is barely in it.  Even when he is, he barely says anything, and a couple of times it sounded like it wasn’t even Erik Estrada doing the voice.  It just wasn’t a good or overly fun season, though it did have it’s moments.  Then again, Harry Goz died right at the beginning of the season, so after a few bad voice impersonations of Captain Murphy, they finally just removed him from the show, which completely sucked.  I guess it’s hard to be funny when someone you care about dies.

Anyway, I haven’t been feeling like myself lately.  I’ve felt really distracted and like I don’t know what to do with myself.  Every so often I get this feeling like I’m in a separate space, outside of everything that’s going on around me.  I have no idea why, and it’s a really strange feeling, but at least it passes eventually.

Oh, and by the way, the new issue of Rogue Cinema is up.  I have three reviews, and article and an interview in this issue.  It’s also our third anniversary issue.  The article is one of my wordy as hell instructional articles about movie reviewing and everything involved in becoming a movie reviewer.  I’ve written several articles lately that I’m rather proud of.

Anyway, that’s it for now.