http://old.fawx.com/notes en-us 40 notes comments <p>lol</p> Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:50:14 PDT http://old.fawx.com/notes/2004/04/13/explaining-the-universe#comment-8826 http://old.fawx.com/notes/2004/04/13/explaining-the-universe#comment-8826 i had a very nice conversation tonight. this is going to sound very strange out of context, but it was a little lightbulb in my head. so here's to posterity:<br /> <br /> i think many organized religions believe in something artificial, outside the universe (the supernatural), in order to explain it and describe it. their argument has two tiers, two contexts, the second being incomplete and inconsistent:<!--more--><br /> <br /> <table border=0><tr><td valign="top"><p>level 1. our explanation for the universe is:</td><td valign="top"><p>it came from the supernatural.</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><p>level 2. our explanation for the supernatural is:&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><p>nonexistant. we have no explanation. that's why it's supernatural. duh.</td></tr></table><br /> <br /> using scope notation, it might look like this:<br /> <br /> <code>god<br /> {<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;universe<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<br /> <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br /> }</code><br /> <br /> i'm not satisfied with that. particularly the part where <code>god</code> isn't defined. if <code>god</code> isn't defined, we can't find the proper offsets for <code>universe</code>, so it's not defined either.<br /> <br /> i believe that the universe explains itself.<br /> <br /> so my definition looks like this:<br /> <br /> <code>universe<br /> {<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;universe<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;universe<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;universe<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;universe<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;universe<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ... ad infinitum ....<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br /> }</code><br /> <br /> it's all out there. you just have to keep looking. Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:20:00 PDT <a href="/notes/2004/04/13/explaining-the-universe">EXPLAINING THE UNIVERSE</a> <a href="/notes/2004/04/13/explaining-the-universe">EXPLAINING THE UNIVERSE</a>