I’d like to thank God, my Dad, and my Psychology teacher Mrs. James for inspiring this.

“There is a well established principle in the social sciences which states that whenever the cooperation of two people is enlisted towards the completion of some task that is of equivalent importance to both (and which cannot be successfully completed except through the close cooperative enterprise of the two people), those two people will come to like each other, they will become friends, and their values, attitudes, goals, etc., will tend to become increasingly similar. This is known as the principle of the superordinate goal.”

An Atheist was on Bill O’Reilly, tonight, and he was a seemingly nice guy, but Bill and he had their disagreements and what not. He was very respectable, but a good point was brought up before I left to go to Olivia’s house. O’Reilly brought up the fact that mass muderers like Stalin, Hitler, etc. were all undoubtedly Atheists, which is true and a valid point. The guy on his show simply came back with the fact that Atheism is not the reason why they killed people.

This is where some may get offended, but I was thinking, “They were Godless! There was no reason not to channel their anger into people they hated! There was absoloutely no valid reason to respect them as individuals in their minds, because in their minds, all of these people were the cause to their problems. They were the reason why their lives were not as prosperous as they could have been.”

Now, God doesn’t always exactly cure people of the willingness to sin, but he does do one thing if you have faith! He gives you direction. When there is no direction to go in life, you can always take one which is to try to sin less! It is a great goal, and part of it is to spread the word. This word. It will bring you nothing, but happiness, even if it takes personal sacrifice.

Spreading the word is where other people become involved. And this is where the superordinate goal comes in. All people should come together and listen to the real message of peace sent by God! And I say this not as my God, but your God, our God. Whomever/whatever that may be regardless of the fact that we sometimes call it God, or Allah.

Some say “give peace a chance,” but anyone who says that as the stereotypical liberal hippy must understand that there is a lot more to that statement than it sounds. If you are a stereotypical, liberal, conservative-opposing, peace lecturing hippy, then look at your feelings towards someone like George Bush, or maybe some other more extreme person like Ann Coulter! I bet your feelings do a great job of resembling your teachings about peace! Same goes for any red-blood, true blue conservative American. Are you doing a good job of spreading Jesus’ real message of peace? Or are you maybe to centered on the fact that people should suffer lawful consequences of not following it? Sure… this and that maybe right according to religion, but since when has force worked to get people to cooperate?

Our only answer is to accept God’s goal that he has set for us; to work together for a common goal that none of us can achieve without the others’ effort: act more like Jesus. If you play your part in this goal by making your life a work in progress by eliminating hate, lust, and greed, your life will be so much happier!

If you’d like to know anymore about it, read the Bible! Or maybe there’s something else written in different words that can tell you the same thing! Either way, God sent the message here in multiple ways to be read! Find the one that you can best understand!

This being said, regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum and what you think is the right thing to do, whether it be a civil freedom or an economic freedom, our Government should not legislate upon that. Our Government should legislate on that 1) individual rights must be conserved and 2) if some person’s decisions clash with the first principle, the Government shall act accordingly to protect the first principle.

We went to Church this morning and there was a great message that I wish more Churches would focus on more often… especially in the “Bible Belt” area.

It wasn’t too centered around Easter. It was a start to a new series they’re going to be doing over the next month or two about “breaking free” from the “chains”. Today’s sermon was all about hypocrisy and how much of hypocrites Christians can be. There was a pretty intense Ghandi quote that George, my mom’s Church’s pastor, read us. He said, “I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians.”

I loved to hear that this message was being preached because I was watching things that really hurt me to see yesterday. I was watching out of curiosity these little video segments from Michael Moore’s An Awful Truth. First of all, yes it was Michael Moore, and completely twisted. He is a very mislead man. But, the thing that hurt me to see was the video footage of these “Christians” in Kansas and other states saying “God Hates Fags” and “Burn in Hell Fags”. I don’t really understand how we’re getting a message out as the body of Christ that Christ is loving. We’re supposed to teach that God loves everyone regardless of what they do.

Am I trying to say that we should let gay people start having sex on the streets? Not at all, but c’mon people! We were just told in Church today to be wise about how we witness to people. It was just really good to hear a Church talk about it. So, think about it for today! I love you all!

And to any homosexual readers, on behalf of Christ, I personally welcome you into the Church to hear his message anytime!

I picked up one of the physics books I bought a long time ago and started reading it yesterday. I have not read anything of that sort since January, so I figured I better get back on it.

It’s called Faster that the Speed of Light by Joao Magueijo. The basic idea of the book is very rebellious but still respectable in the world of physics. It’s a speculation against Einstein’s great theories of relativity. All books about modern physics have explanations of the special and general theories of relativity before they go into what they’re about. I’ve read about the theories of relativity in like 5 books now, so I just started on the chapter that follows general relativity.

It was the perfect place to start. With every book about physics, I’m always learning new ways of looking at relativity. It’s one of the most “open to the reader” theories ever. That’s why I love it so much. The reader can analyze what’s being said and then play around with the ideas in thought. The first thing I read about was the theory of ether.

Ether was an idea that came up around 1905 when Einstein published special relativity. In every other book I’ve read, it sounds like a really cracked out idea that doesn’t make much sense, but this book did a great job of explaining why they came up with it. Ether is just a substance that exists in the void of space that we cannot see or track down. They said that it exists everywhere that we can see. The reason why we needed to pretend there was “something” in the “nothingness” of space was because light waves were going through nothing. Every other wave has a medium that it vibrates through. Sound waves, ocean waves, etc. But light had no known medium. One might ask, “well, how would you go about proving that there is ether?” There were experiements carried out called the Michelson-Morley experiments. Basically, if there is an ether ocean everywhere, then the Earth is rotating around the sun through it. So the experiments were trying to prove that there is an ether wind, that light travels slower if you point it against the direction of Earth’s rotation around the sun. It makes sense!

Unfortunately, for the ether theory advocates, the light did not change speed. It held one universal speed regardless of where they pointed it. The negative results support Einstein’s special theory of relativity all the way. What’s crazy is Einstein was basically saying that light is a vibration that has no medium. It is the only wave that can propagate through a perfect vacuum. That meant that nothing could change its speed. At least that’s what he thought in 1905. His equation was energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. It was soon after that he realized… things could bend light- change its path. If light has an energy, then light can be converted into mass, which means it has gravity. Not only does it have gravity, but it is pulled by gravity, as well. Since it moves so quickly, there is a very little effect relative to light flying by Earth because Earth’s pull is relatively weak compared to the sun’s pull.

I’m starting to get off topic, though. As you can see, it’s easy to roam away from the main point when thinking about relativity. It’s pure genius. I hope you enjoyed the lesson and understood!