Atheism

Now, just to clarify, I am not an atheist. I am agnostic, someone who is willing to believe there is a higher intelligence (or are higher intelligences) if there is proof that they exist. Atheists deny the existence of higher intelligences. It’s only because there is no proof of any higher intelligences that agnostics are currently indistinguishable from atheists. So my view is a lot more open minded. Also, I’m not writing this to rage on anyone’s religion. I’m just annoyed because I found definition of atheism that I find offensive to science.

Wrong, on several counts.

For starters, the universe was originally energy. Very hot and dense energy too. Think of it like a very hot energy drink with the consistency of tomato ketchup, all ravelled up to about the size of an electron. And the universe did not just ‘explode’ for no reason. In fact, it didn’t even explode, it expanded. In its hot and dense state, the universe was already expanding and cooling down, but, at one point, a phase transition occured that made the universe expand massively all at once. A phase transition is when a substance changes states between solid, liquid, gas and plasma. This is what the universe ended up as after it expanded so rapidly. Quark-gluon plasma to be precise, plus a few other tiny subatomic particles. And for every particle, there was an equal and opposite particle, or antiparticle. For a while, these particles and antiparticles randomly collided, all very excited because the temperatures of the universe were still high, and they were continuously created and destroyed in these collisions. Then a random reaction occured that meant there was a higher amount of particles(or matter) than antiparticles(or antimatter) in the universe. After this, quarks and gluons combined to create protons and neutrons, but, because the universe had continued to expand and cool down, the universe was no longer hot enough to make new pairs of protons and antiprotons or neutrons and antineutrons, so a lot of protons and neutrons were destroyed, along with all of the antiprotons and antineutrons. The same thing happened with electrons. Photons (tiny bundles of energy that make up electromagnetic radiation) now made up most of the energy in the universe as all the other particles had slowed down and lost energy. Then neutrons combined with protons to form the nuclei of helium, lithium, beryllium and boron, with most protons staying uncombined as hydrogen nuclei. After a long time, the nuclei combined with electrons to form atoms. They began to gravitationally attract each other until eventually they formed stars, and the stars, through nuclear processes in their cores, created, and still do create, all of the elements from carbon to iron. And then, when the stars die in supernovae, heavier elements are produced. So we can all say we were created by stars, which is quite a nice thing to think about.

As for magical rearrangement, small organic molecules called protobionts can occur spontaneously in conditions much like the environment of primordial Earth. From these molecules evolved organisms known as prokaryotes. These were single-celled microorganisms pretty similar to bacteria. These are believed to be the original life on Earth, and from them, over an extremely long  time, evolved the dinosaurs, and humans for that matter.

Whoever made this should do their freaking research and learn not to be so damned hypocritical.

Wally

Food

For whatever random reason, my mind has been throwing up stupid things about various edible things, which is ironic, as because I am currently coughing my lungs up, I’m struggling to eat a cheese sandwich. And cheese is my favourite! =( So, I’ve decided to indulge my brain so maybe it will leave me alone and let me sleep.

Purple: Why is it, when you have rainbow sweets like Skittles or Jelly Babies, purple is always the best flavour? And there’s always so few of them. Which annoys me, because I’m kind of OCD with food and eat in taste order, with the best last and when I’m sharing sweets and people take a handful, in my head I’m going ‘If you’ve got any purple ones, you’d better put them back right now‘. Yeah, my sister has only just noticed the order thing, she was saying ‘Why aren’t you eating your bacon, you love bacon.’ (Bacon is awesome.) and I just kind of gave her a look like ‘You don’t know that about me yet and you’ve known me your entire life’. She really can’t be my sister, she’s adopted. Tangent end. So yeah, purple rocks.

Juice/squash: With the squash, it’s kind of another purple thing. Everyone’s favourite is blackcurrant, so why the hell to people try to give us orange? Orange doesn’t taste as nice, and they cost the same. Give us blackcurrant! With the juice thing, it’s more me being confused about something that’s simple (Brain: Oh, and that’s never happened before. Me: Shut up, brain.). I really like apple juice, but when they mix it with other stuff like mango juice (*cracks up and runs to ‘When the forum starts claiming your life’  thread*) I don’t like it as much. I don’t like orange juice as much as I like apple juice but I really like orange and passionfruit J2O. It confuses me. Either way, pineapple juice beats them both.

Ignore my crazy rambling if it scares you too much.

Argh, this took so long… Brain! Start functioning properly and let me type!

Wally

Rock, Paper, Scissors

We’ve all used it to solve an argument, right? And you use the standard form of:

But there are other versions. Like The Big Bang Theory version:

RPS-7:

RPS-9:

RPS-11:

RPS-15:

Then there’s RPS-25:

And as if it couldn’t get any better, there’s RPS-101:

That thing is crazy, but I really want to learn it. I think I’d need a psychiatrist if I managed any further than RPS-15. The ways to play everything after the Big Bang Theory version can be found here: http://www.umop.com/rps.htm Have fun, little minions.

Wally

Keep Calm

Everyone seems to be addicted to old world war Keep Calm posters. And you know what? So am I! Here are a couple of my favourites.

       And my personal favourite… 

Wally

Did you miss me?

I. Am. So. Pissed. Off. Right. Now.

I haven’t been on here in ages, but now I am and I’m in full rant monster mode.

The problem is these idiotic SOPA and PIPA bills. Just to clarify:

They will kill the Internet.

Yes, that deserved three different kinds of emphasis.

They are pure insanity. I know they’re supposed to stop piracy. These Acts are just big media corporations trying to stop people nicking their stuff. But that is not how you fix the problem. What you’ve got to do is provide better quality and make it cheaper. If the real thing is much better than the pirate copy and at a reasonable price, you’re bound to get more customers and you’ll beat piracy. It’s win-win.

Let me just take you back to when Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He created it to share information. If SOPA and PIPA go through, that will blown out of the water, off Earth and into the atmosphere, past Mars, hey, look, the Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus, out of the Milky Way, out of the fricking Universe and into the Void beyond. Dead, gone, finito.

Thing is, SOPA and PIPA are like when a couple of kids in your class muck around and your teacher keeps back the whole class. Wait, scratch that, it’s like they keep back the whole freaking school.

Take Youtube for instance. If a couple of their users infringe on copyright, media corporations will be able to shut down the site. If their users have the potential to infringe on copyright, they’ll close down the site.

Think about other websites. Any one of them you can share anything on. Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, MSN, I Can Haz Cheezeburger, DeviantArt, PhotoBucket, WordPress. That means this blog could disappear if these Acts go through.

They could even muck around with your email. Any links or images you put in, they could look at them and might decide that they infringe on copyright.

People would get so scared to put anything in the media because of the amount of power these Acts could give the media corporations. Long term, you’re talking death of entertainment, not just the internet.

People are calling it censorship, it’s fricking dictatorship! It harkens back to the Nazis and their Aryan ideal. Except instead of it being the way you look (though that does happen and in more subtle ways), it’s what you can look at and find out. Think about that. It’s bloody terrifying.

Please, please, please, for the sake of the world and the future generations, sign any petition you find against it.

To be quite honest, it’s a massive overreaction to piracy and it’s a lousy excuse to start up government and corporate censorship.

If it does happen, I will lose outlets for my frustration with the world, and if that happens, I really don’t know what I’d end up doing to people…

Wally

How awesome is this…

I love Disney. I particularly love the villains because most of the princesses just end up sitting around waiting for someone to come and rescue them (Apart from Nala, Mulan and Pocahontas, of course). So when I was shown this, I was very happy. Thank you, Mally, from the HIVE forums. I may fail ALL the tests, but at least you have made my life that little bit more complete.

Awesome. Just pure awesome. I especially like Aurora (bottom right).

Wally.

Christmas

I’m getting a bit sick of people saying it’s nearly Christmas. Enjoy the last few hours of autumn, will you? It’s November, and will be until midnight tonight. Only at 00:01 on 1st December will I start putting up with Christmas songs, Christmas stuff in shops, adverts about Christmas and annoying Facebook statuses. Until then, be prepared to have a spoon thrown at you if you say it’s nearly Christmas.

It’s not that I don’t like Christmas. Who the heck wouldn’t? Presents you don’t deserve and being able to go Roman on the food? Count me in. But quit it with the premature celebrations. I’m an autumn girl, and I like to enjoy it. Please don’t keep reminding me that snow’s on the way. It’s pretty, but I prefer it when it’s on the other side of the window to me.

I spent the first decade of my life without snow, wondering what it was like. Now I have it, I’d prefer to go back to those ignorant days. That’s why ‘when hell freezes over’ makes me laugh. To me, hell is a very cold, brilliant white, suffocating place. I haven’t have a traumatic experience with snow, I just really don’t like it.

I really sound like a stick in the mud. Meh. I always feel guilty at holidays anyway. My thoughts= Christmas & Easter: I’m not Christian, why am I celebrating this? (The way we celebrate Easter really confuses me anyway, but I’ll do that some other time. Like Easter. Might make more sense.) Halloween: I put absolutely no effort into my costume, I do not deserve these sweets.

Anyone else feel the same?

Wally

Realisation

I have been very lazy recently. Oh well. I see a post on the horizon. Just a warning, this made sense in my head. Please tell me if I sound like a drunken two year old.

I have realised that Twilight is pretty much Romeo and Juliet plus a couple of supernatural elements and minus all the dying.

Bella is Juliet, Edward is Romeo. The Cullens are the Montagues and the Quiluetes are the Capulets. Bella fits with them because she’s one of the ‘normal’ people. Jacob is Paris/Tybalt. But then James could also be Paris and Victoria could be Tybalt (Apart from trying to kill Bella(Juliet) instead of Edward(Romeo)). Alice, in a weird way, is Mercutio. Rosalie is Lady Capulet (Somehow… I’ll explain in a bit.). Charlie is the Nurse.

Explanation time! Bella/Juliet and Edward/Romeo is obvious. As are Cullens/Montagues and Quiluetes/Capulets (I’ve only just realised that Quiluete and Capulet rhyme. =D). Jacob is Paris because he presents the second option for Bella/Juliet, who she shuns. Tybalt because Paris is clueless but Tybalt hates the Montagues with a vengeance. James is Paris because he’s interested in her (Well, in a way.). Victoria is Tybalt because she attempts to kill Bella in vengeance. Tybalt was also after vengeance when he went after Romeo (For different reasons, yes, but that’s besides the point.). Then Victoria gets killed by Edward just as Tybalt gets killed by Romeo. Victoria and James also fit with the Cullens because they’re vampires. Alice is Mercutio because she can’t see the wolves in her visions and that’s kind of making her human and considering she’s over 1o0 years old she’d probably be dead if she were, Mercutio was killed. Rosalie is Lady Capulet because it seems like she hates Bella but she really hates her decisions. Charlie is the Nurse because he eventually finds out what’s going on and tries to help out but gets it all wrong sometimes.

Plus with the actual events (Albeit in a different order). Bella starts going out with Edward. James tries to kill Bella (Ooh, Bella’s Mercutio too and James is also Tybalt), Edward kills him. Tybalt kills Mercutio so Romeo kills Tybalt. Edward leaves because of a moral issue, she’s heartbroken, gets pushed towards Jacob. Romeo gets banished and has to leave, Juliet’s heartbroken and gets pushed towards Paris. Bella tries cliff diving unsupervised, as you do, Edward thinks she’s dead so tries to kill himself, but Bella stops him. Juliet takes a potion to make it look like she’s dead, Romeo thinks she’s really dead, kills himself so she kills herself. So all in all, the Twilight series, or at least the first two books, are pretty much a slightly convoluted summary of Romeo and Juliet.

If I salute Stephanie Meyer for anything, it’s for teaching teenage girls about Shakespeare.

Guess what we’re doing in English currently? *Glares at R&J analysis homework.* It’s not that I don’t like Shakespeare. I’m just feel very happy when they kill themselves. Give me Hamlet any day.

Wally.

Does illness cause strange dreams?

I mean I have strange dreams at the best of times, but today, I slept until about one o’ clock and I kept waking up and then going back to sleep. I woke up because of the dreams. I can’t really remember them that well, but I know one involved a blue parrot, another involved a tractor and the one I remember best involved a lot of different things,

It was like a TV advert, but it was selling animals, Like a dog for an alarm clock, a cat for a scarf and a rabbit for a rodent catcher (I. Have. No. Idea.). Then the end of it, there was a cat eating a rat and a row of four cages like squirrel traps with rabbits and guinea pigs in them. they looked too big for the traps but they fit fine. There was a rabbit in the end one and it was just lying down. The rest were hopping around and everything. So I picked the rabbit up and there was a load of beetles and whatever under it and they started attcking me. Literally with a bugle call and everything. That’s when I woke up and stayed awake and now I’m writing this. It was really freaky.

Wally.

Stairs

I am quite possibly the least coordinated person in the world, so a flight of stairs is a personal nightmare. Particulary if it’s a spiral staircase.

I’m not afraid of falling, I’m afraid of landing. It bloody hurts. I’ve fell down and up (and once across) stairs more times than I can count, and I’m pretty good at counting.

My first encounter with a spiral staircase was when I was six or seven, I think. We were exploring a castle in North Wales. I can’t remember what it was called. There was a rope to hang on to, but I was scared stiff. I was getting dizzy. Since then I’ve been absolutely terrified of spiral staircases.

I went to France and there was a tower thing that had about three hundred steps and they were really steep. That wasn’t the best part of my trip.

So, yeah. I’ll probably end up living in a bungalow when I’m older. Doesn’t seem so bad to me.

Wally.