Power

What exactly is power? Power is the ability to do or act, or the capability of doing or accomplishing something. It also refers to roughly twenty other definitions ranging from political power to molecular power, but that's not the subject that I'm focusing on. Power is what enables us to do and act by our own choices. And if I may quote someone,"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it's absolutely awesome." -Despair.inc. This is a true statement. Power does corrupt. When one has power GIVEN to them that is. However, when one works hard and goes through trial and error to get this power, depending on their circumstances, they may: first, be bad when they search for power and end up using it wrongly anyway. Second, they seek it with good intent, yet make bad choices to get it and thus become corrupt. Third and rarest of all, they don't seek for power, but through good choices and good example are handed the power by those who want them to have it. The third person is who all of our greatest leaders were or aspired to be. George Washington lead with example on the battlefield, executed wise and cool headed orders, and was elected into office against his wishes. Abraham Lincoln sided on the values that were deemed right and made complementary choices in order to bring those values into fruition. He then was hated by the Confederate states because of the fact that they all thought of slaves as animals that were property, yet he saw them as human beings that wanted their freedom and rights. Ronald Reagan led with the awareness of the American peoples' needs. He lowered taxes, gave wise words of advice, even if those words were taken from scripts that he had used in films that he starred in at Hollywood. These men used their heads and made the right choices, not for themselves, but for the benefit of others, and thus are known as the best leaders of our country. Others, however, have used their power irrationally and have payed for it dearly. Hitler used his power to enslave the countries of Europe using brute force to get them to surrender. He used his power and made the choice to get rid of the people that he hated by imprisoning and killing them in the most brutal of ways. Gas chambers, firing squads, torture, furnaces, etc. He was then opposed by those who desire freedom for everyone and was defeated. This is why we desire the ability to act like those in movies that have superpowers or have extreme skills that put them in extreme circumstances that make them loved and admired by those innocent bystanders that the superhero is trying to protect. But, because of the natural way of mankind, none of us would survive long with powers such as these. We would become corrupt and would seek to use them for our own purposes. That is why we must temper ourselves to become rational enough and wise enough to use any power correctly that we are given. Otherwise, we will destroy ourselves with that power if we use it incorrectly.

Modifications

I have applied a few modifications on my blog so that everyone can post again. Apparently, the template that I was using was preventing you all from doing this. Sorry for the inconvenience! And now, I will post something of philosophical nature. What is the ability to see? It is the comprehension of our environments through visual learning. But, how is it that when someone is blind, they see darkness? Why is it that when someone is deaf, they can still sense that they are hearing nothing? How is this? How is it that we have these senses, but not others? Perhaps we cannot know the full extent of our senses because we don't know the absence thereof. Even those who are born with these absences of ability are able to sense that there is something missing with their body. Is this knowledge embedded in our minds? Or is it our observances of our surroundings? These are things that only God can answer.

Deception

Human beings were born into the world, having many traits with which to ensure their own survival. Deception was infused into the human personality, for the sole purpose of protecting one's self against dejection or rejection of the village. What is this cursed thing, this thing that causes pain to all who use it, and to those that it is directed towards? By definition, deception is the same as its definition. Confusing, isn't it? It puts forth the interesting question of how do we tell deception from truth? We can usually tell by the past character observations of the person talking. If they have deceived in the past, they are probably still doing it. If a person is morally trustworthy, people expect him/her to be truthful and honest. Another way we can tell is by certain and minute details that speak of truth or lie. If something is described thoroughly, most of the time it is a truthful statement. However, if it seems rushed and blends together badly, there is most likely falsehood. But, there are those that are professionals in lying and tricking. And these are the people that we must look out for the most. But, these people are easily distinguished between themselves and honorable people. Those who are trustworthy are hardworking, long suffering, positive, and are good examples of Christ. Those who are master deceivers can be singled out because of their dirty dealings, their dark personality, the bad feeling they bring, and the uncertainty that you feel when around them. We can protect ourselves from these people with practice. But, how do we protect ourselves from ourselves? How can we distinguish what is truth and lie inside our minds when they feud with each other, yet both make reasonable arguments in your head? The deception of yourself lies within your own pretenses and can only be decided by you. But make sure you think everything through, try to notice the details that will make it a false idea, test it against your own experience, and if you don't have any experience in that field, go to someone who does. I made a grave error of judgment and thought that life had stabbed me in the back with a rusty knife. Little did I know that it was me who was doing the stabbing. Imagine my surprise when I realized this. All that despair and sadness was for naught? D'oh! And this is where I am, kicking myself and laughing at how quick I was to judge, and how that ended up being a source of great pain for myself.

Emptiness

When somebody asks, is the glass half full or half empty, you automatically think, "I'm an optimist, so it's half full." But in reality, the glass isn't half full nor half empty. It's actually full of water and air. So long as one is present, the other is present in the same amount in volume. But, when the glass is taken away, then it's just scattered water on the floor and air that has diffused into the air within the room. Thus the water and the air must exist separately because there is nothing to hold them together. Eventually, though, the water will evaporate and will diffuse into the air. However, it will never reunite with those exact air molecules, no matter what kind of environmental miracles occur. In this sense, many things need other things in order to survive properly without grief. Humans need clean water to survive without grief, because with dirty water, humans still survive, but with many diseases that are transfered among those who drank that water. Humans need shelter to survive without grief, because we could survive without shelter, but we would be subject to all of the elements. Humans also can survive without well cooked food, but it would be tedious. Love, hate, pain, comfort, sight, blindness, sleep, insomnia, fruition, and emptiness. These are but a few of the things we live with, some very pleasureable and joyful, others, painful and greivous. The impossibility of the water and air reuniting fully is guaranteed because somebody decided to take the glass away. And now, that bond will never be recreated fully. And this, my fellow people, is what has happened to me, because of me being naive, reckless, and impatient. And now, the glass has been taken from me, and I can never fully reunite with the other element that was inside the glass.

The Death of Evolution

One controversy that is going around in the world of science is the Theory of Evolution. It was conceived by Charles Darwin that we humans are evolved from moneys, seeing as they are our closest animal relatives. Maybe, but how can we prove it? There are those who believe that the first life on Earth began when some lightning struck a mass of chemicals at the exact time when conditions were right for life, and that started the first microorganisms. That guy obviously missed out on his High School biology class. In my biology class, we have discussed the term "spontaneous generation" which is when something non-living spawns something living. This was proven by Louis Pasteur to be a false pretense. It was PROVEN. How could something living have come from something non-living? Then, on another issue, the complexity of the human genome and the genomes of all of the other species is WAY too diverse to be in any way related. How could evolution have occurred when a disease called Tay Sachs is caused by the misplacement of one base on the ENTIRE DNA strand? One base out of billions can cause death before age 5. So how could the DNA of a monkey have mutated safely enough to give the offspring the intelligence of a human? Everything is supervised, is how. We control nothing of the human genome and the effects that it has on us. We are learning, but it will take several decades before we understand the genome. This all speaks of a Creator. One Supreme being that supervises and oversees everything in the universe. Otherwise, we would all have never existed in the first place. You can't get bacteria out of a place where bacteria didn't already exist. You can't get humans from monkeys because of the complexities of the human genome and the severe effects that it has when even one base out of billions is messed up. God exists. There are too many things that would have gone wrong had there not been a god. He watches you. He loves you. And He's the whole reason that we are here today.

Undeniability of God

Many people disbelieve there is a god because they say there is no proof. Well, I have to strongly disagree with you. You say there is no proof, yet how is it that atoms came together to make molecules? And then how did those molecules join with others to make particles? If it were a random sort of thing, there would be millions of elements and molecules that all had their distinctive differences. Now, on to the subject of life. How is it, may I ask, that these assorted molecules were able to come together to make a being that had enough intelligence to move, to eat, to drink, to sleep? Trees, an assortment of cells that are made up of millions of atoms. These cells are encoded with DNA which is a combination of 4 molecules over and over to give the tree its characheristics. How is it that these molecules don't interchange very often? How do they keep their pattern, when this pattern has over 600 billion parts to it? And you would think that proteins, complicated as they are, would also have an ifinite number of equations and combinations. But where is the proof of this? There are too many things that are believed to be part of a code that goes through reality. But how did this code get here? Too many explanations for too many problems lead to many more unsolvable problems that can only be solved by inserting the human religion equation. There HAS to be a controlling hand, an omnipotent being that controls even the smallest things in life. Gravity, lightspeed, electromagnetic tracing, telescopic effects, weather, natural disasters, and many more things scream that there has to be a God, otherwise, none of this would work. This universe and its laws are to complex to have just "happened". The fact that life even exists is proof of God. He's there. He's watching. And no matter what you say, He will never go away.

Gravitation

What in the world is gravitation? The definition of gravitation is a natural phenomenon in which two objects with mass attract each other. But what is gravity, to be exact? Nobody really actually knows for sure, because we don't exactly know what gravity is, or how it is generated. Electromagnetism is much stronger than gravity, but it can be measured and can be traced. We can find the electromagnetic source by tracking the field around that which is producing the field. But gravity, that is something that is only measured by the effect it has on matter. We can't really gauge how the congregation of matter creates gravitational pulls and fields. Einstein suggested that gravity is something's effect on time-space. He spoke of a three dimensional grid going through all of space, and when something has a lot of matter, it acts like a bowling ball on a suspended and stretched out blanket. The ball creates a bowl-like shape, and anything that gets sucked into the bowl is sent towards the ball. This is the same, only it occurs on all three dimensional planes, which is hard to comprehend. Einstein also said,"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." And he's right, according to the equation used to find out how much gravitational pull two objects have on each other. According to this equation, the pull between two humans is almost nothing. But, gravitation is mostly applied in physics, like with satellites orbiting the planet. In reality, the satellites are falling fast enough to miss the earth, and thus are kept in orbit. This explains the weightless sensation in space, because we are basically falling endlessly.

Curiosity

Is curiosity really the thing that killed the cat? Or was it what it found that ended up killing it? Maybe it was something that was undeniably captivating, yet ended up killing or hurting it so much it wanted to die. Love is one of the things that when encountered, can either make you feel as though you are on top of the world, or it will send you to the depths of despair. This is something, that when discovered, is good. But, beware of the things that kill, both spiritually and physically. Pornography is something, that once discovered, can become one of the most addictive things on the planet. This kills you spiritually and will probably keep you from going to the temple if you let it progress from there. Drugs are a physical addiction that kills you slowly by making you want more and more until it kills you. As you can see, there are a lot of addicting things out there, one of which is food. Many people eat food when they are nervous, discouraged, or tense, and end up gaining exponential amounts of weight over short periods of time. And so, I bring this subject to a close.