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Two Reasons Why We No Longer Use Lead Paint

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On Ebola

Poetic Justice

On Energy and Entropy and the Human Species

The universe is headed into a state of decay.  That is, the physical universe is constantly heading toward entropy.  Science suggests that this is a one way path and that the universe will eventually "cool" and decay into nothingness more than 100 trillion years from now.  Of course, there are a variety of other theories, but this one is most largely accepted currently and it creates an interesting backdrop to what I wish to say about humanity.  Ultimately, in this theory we must focus on the fact that there is an end, beyond which there is nothing.  Following this theory, time is finite not infinite.  Everything will come to an end eventually. So as we know, the universe as we understand it is tending toward entropy and there is nothing we can do to stop that process any more than we can put light back in a star, energy back in a battery, or steaks back in a cow.  Matter is constantly degrading toward energy and dispersing across the fast emptine...

On Deity and Justice

Look at the Crusades, Armenian genocide, Hitler's final solution, Stalin's genocide, Pol Pot, every person who starves to death while nations throw out food, multinational corporations paying starvation wages while raking in billions, rape, war, child abuse... No one's god has solved those problems, or any number of them. Humanity needs to come to terms that we are alone in the deity sense, whether completely or effectually. We are responsible for enabling justice or inhibiting justice. Pain, suffering, hate, death, destruction, they all happen because WE let them. So long as we pass the burden of justice fulfillment off on one's god, we will not have solutions to these problems.