Spontaneous Creation or The Big Splat

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Spontaneous Creation or The Big Splat: According to the great Dr. Stephen Hawking, the creation of the universe occurred absent the presence of a god or goddess*. Therefore, (not sure if we are quoting him or the BBC News) the creation of the universe was spontaneous. We also (here at the AZD) now refer to it as "The Big Splat" (relative to the Big Bang) - kind of like a paintball or an egg being splattered against the fabric of space time. And, there you have it! But the godless creation of the universe seems somehow meaningless and purposeless. One can only imagine a cartoonish god (like the Seth McFarlane god of 'Family Guy' or the Terry Gilliam god of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail') splattering a great egg against the wall. And where did the wall come from?


However, the argument could be made that absence of a Creator at the beginning does not rule out the existence of the same...


Incidentally, we can't wait for the great Stephen Colbert's take on this in his hilarious "Stephen Hawking is Such an *ssh#l@" segment.


FOM: *Stephen Hawking: God Did Not Create the Universe (from BBC News), REUTERS News Agency on the subject, Anti-Time and SearchEdu.com on Spontaneous Creation

Please note: This posting appears simultaneously in our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary.

Hand-Me-Sideways

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Hand-Me-Sideways: Like hand-me-downs, but only in a lateral transition. We recently heard of someone cleaning out their closets, similar to our age, so now we have some hand-me-sideways clothing. Don't put that in the trash - somebody needs it...

The House Always Wins

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You may be winning at the table now, but remember - the house always wins in the long run.

The Food Corridors

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The Food Corridors: 'Novel' concept for a new type of non-profit / charity to bring much needed food aid and implements (dowsing rods, well points, shovels, picks, buckets, rope and so on...) to those in the world facing the common enemies of malnutrition, starvation and famine. The charity organization is just now in the concept stages, but we will accept donations and pledges. Please hold on to your donations if you need a tax relief receipt immediately. The idea is to build 'food corridors' for humans much like animal habitat corridors. The concept appears to work for wildlife, why not humanity??? http://bit.ly/6ghax

You may also contact us through our current Twitter webpage: http://twitter.com/georgek1029, new web pages are being planned for this new non-profit.

Please note; this posting appears simultaneously on our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary and on Tumblr.

FOM: Draining a Nation , Guatemala’s children languish from malnutrition , World Focus Tags: ‘Saving the Children’ and Mau Forest. World food aid at 20-year low, 1 billion hungry, Grow More Food in 50 Years Than All of History?, Asia Faces Food Shortage By 2050 Without Water Reform, World Food Programme (UN), Kenya faces starvation due to drought: UN (CBC News Report Link), Kenyan Herders Devastated As Long Rains Fail (Gabrielle Menezes, WFP), Bread for the World, World Hunger Year Website, Food Security, G8 pledges to boost food , supplies, Climate Change May Spur Chronic Hunger, Oxrfam Says and Oxfam .

About Hedonism

Today, we found an article on Science Daily that argues hedonism determines value. Is this the ultimate basis for human nature? We find it hard to agree. (Of course, if you look at our previous post, see what hedonism did for Paris Hilton...). Is that what life is all about? A few shekels?

Of course, the article makes persuasive arguments about values like frienship, family and so on...(nothing about Blogger or Twitter...).

References: Hedonism As The Explanation Of Value & Hedonism

Paris Hilton

God help us. Paris Hilton is now in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. (But don't bother checking the online version just yet...maybe there's still hope...).