on modern science

Thesis Statement:
Modern practices of science have taught humanity that it's okay to be ignorant, as long as you can justify it.


Science. Since the renneisance, Science has been about using a combination of deductive and inductive reasoning to arrive at new conclusions, new ideas, and new ways to do things.
Now, what's wrong with this, you say?
nothing, of course. We're advancing society and the human race through logical thinking.

So i was at school today, and we were talking about the differences between agnostics and atheists. We decided that an Agnostic person doesn't believe in God, but will let you prove it to you.
One of my favorite teachers ever said, "i'm an atheist. you can prove God to me, but i'll still know you're wrong."
the topic devolved into how "God cant exist because God is supposed to be compassionate, but he lets all sorts of people die all the time, and since i would help those people if i were God, it makes me better than him, therefore he cant exist. And dont even start with that original sin crap."

People rag on Christians all the time because, probably out of the fact that we know we're right and have a passion for spreading the Gospel, we're always trying to get people to believe what we do. They call us ignorant.
But by that very statement about being more compassionate than God, you might as well take a tattooist's pen and tattoo "Ignorant" on your forehead permanently.
Or if you're a three stooges fan, you might even opt to go for "Ignoramus".

You see, Mr. Knight, you basically just told me that you know nothing about God, the bible, or christianity as a whole. You really just know that you dont like what I believe, even though you dont know what it is.

We've gotten rid of God through science with PERFECTLY logical statements like that. "god cant exist because blah blah". And it makes sense, yeah.
But if you think about it, it PROVES that the one true God isn't anything that a human could have made up; everything humans do is logical. We only do something if it makes sense to us.
If a human had made up God, He would have made more sense, like the Greek gods, who behaved exactly like humans do, just with mythical powers.

at the same time, God makes perfect sense.
Why are people all over the world dieing?
its not God's fault, obviously. God is faultless.
If we go back to the fact that humans brought the entire world's pain and suffering on ourselves, and knowingly disobeyed God, what's his motive to save us anyway?
We screwed up. He isn't obligated to rescue us from our messes.
Yet he showed compassion by sending his son, his SON, to us, let us kill him, and through that we're saved from an eternaty of suffering.
logical?
no.
compassionate?
absolutely!!

You say you would get rid of all the suffering in the world?
Scenario: A man walks into Wal-Mart with a loaded AK-47, yells at everyone to get down, and then shoots everything he sees.
Suffering? Of course. People would die.
How would you prevent this, if you were God?
To me, what would make the most sense would be to make the crazy guy with the gun not so crazy.
how do you do this?
hmmm....
how about you show the ultimate sign of compassion by sending your son to die for the mr. assault rifle in everyone, and if we're smart enough to figure it out, we can accept reality, ask for forgiveness, and then realize how easy it is to not shell out a few grand on military surpluss weapons.

You cant apply the same rules of deductive reasoning from science to God.
when you can come up with proof that he doesn't exist, without any of your lame logic holes, i'll believe you. maybe.

i'll probably come back to this later after i realize how incoherant it is.

on pharmecuticals

one of those "hot topics" in the world these days is pharmecuticals. and i have absoutely no idea if i spelled that correctly.
but in my latest sudden urge to write a blog, i'm going to throw my own ideas on the table.

First of all, ask any left wing politician or the latest scientists, and they'll tell you straight up that modern medicine is the best its ever been, and that we're saving millions of lives through advanced knowledge of diseases and better treatment options.
my take: this is a complete load of crap.
while we certainly appear to be able to treat ailments better than ever before, it is by no means the result of better understanding of anything. Truth be told, we're just throwing so much money at the problem, that we can afford more trial-and-error than ever before, so we are able to get it right easier.

lets look at one of the most popular anti-depressant drugs in history: Prozac.
This stuff's main ingreadient is this junk called Fluxotine. It's been around since the '80s, and it's company, Eli Lilly, claims that it's helped over 50 million people.

Before i continue, allow me to give my own testimonial of the drug.
last year, this creepy phyciatrist guy put me on prozac. Not because i was depressed, he just seemed to think it would help me somehow. err...
okay... so we get it, and i start taking the stuff. a few weeks in, and, nothing's happened. so he doubles my dosage.
woo.
i was on this stuff from around may until the end of july. and it didn't do anything. i stopped taking it, and wow, i didn't notice any change.
now we go back to why he perscribed it, and the answer is....... for no reason whatsoever. Doctors perscribe stuff like prozac as if it's a "cure-all", not just for depression patients, but also for anorexia and such.
there have been countless "cure-all" drugs on the market before. Take, for example, COCAIN. Sigmund Froyd got himself addicted to it during the height of it's LEGAL popularity in the 20's. It helped everything from anorexia, depression, stomach aches, you name it. The only problem is that once you got addicted it it, obvously, you were stuck on it. and it got pricey after a while.
Of course, people finally figured this out, and it became illigal.
good.
now, back to prozac.
I'm not saying it's dangerous like coke is, but, its idiotic to treat anything like a cure-all drug.

Let's switch gears.
direct your attention to http://www.prozac.com/how_prozac/how_it_works.jsp?reqNavId=2.2
this is Prozac's official page on "how it works".
take note of how many times they use words such as "appear", "seems", and "may". just by reading their very official sounding language, you get the impression that WE DONT KNOW HOW IT WORKS. and no, we dont.
we just know that it seems to increase serritonin levels, and through testing, we know that an imbalance of serritonin seems to be a cause of depression.
and of course, treating serritonin imbalances doesn't actually cure depression, it just makes the symptoms go away.
HELLO?!
we're not making millions of people actually BETTER, we're just treating their symptoms.

King C. Gillette, guy who invented Gillette razors, had an ingenious buisiness strategy that revolved around William Painter's Crown Cork bottle cap with the idea that a Successful Invention is one that has to be purchased over and over again.
over and over again, does that remind you of all them brown translucent medicine bottles?
The pharmecutical industry is enourmous, and they get you hooked on drugs that, even though they've been through hundreds of animal and human tests, we dont even know why or how they work.
and they get you to buy them month after month!

to all you left-wing, "i have FAITH in modern medicine!!" idiots: Go Die in a Hole.
the end.
goodbye.
wit, out!