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Monday, January 15, 2007

This seems a bit pointless to keep up but every time I write here it kind of clears my mind so I keep on going anyway.

Faith is kind of funny is it not?
Some say that God saves if you believe in Him but are they not really saying that it is faith that saves you in that very same sentence?
Faith saves, that much I can tell for as sure as I can be.
But does all faith save? And what does it save you from?
Does faith in money save you from ever becoming poor?
Does faith in ambition save you from ever becoming inactive?

Perhaps not. Well, does faith in life keep you from ever dying?
I can not know, I guess that death is just another adventure even greater than life.
Death is also a part of life, an other part that is just as necessary as being born since we all live in the great circle of life.
Oh, how hippie I am starting to sound like, but am I wrong? Only time will tell.

Argh, all the clichées, must... say... something... original...
How about a cheese sandwich? They taste great if you melt the cheese, nutritious (if you are a baby) and delicious at the same time, can you beat that?

Nevermind that.

Now for something completely different, and more mindboggling (but not as delicious):

The Sun is an amazing thing. Even the old greek Thales recognized that in a way when he claimed water to be the original matter that created everything.
Why? Because water is mainly made of hydrogen of course and hydrogen take up 90% of all visible matter in the Universe. Hydrogen is what stars are made of, it is stardust.
When hydrogen is compressed at high pressure and incredible temperatures (millions of centigrades) a chain reaction starts that we call fusion.
This fusion (which is the opposite of the fission we see in atomic bombs and nuclear power plants) binds protons, in the center of the hydrogen atoms, together into larger nucleis.
These doubleprotoned nucleis then form helium at the same time as they throw away a lot of excess neutrons at high speeds (some forming neutrinos that hits Earth at near-lightspeed) which creates heat that helps to sustain the reaction. The heat then of course, causes electrons to excite and deexcite sending of photons in a wide spectrum of light to which only a small fragment is visible to our naked eye.

This majestic reaction is what fuels every change we can witness on Earth. It vaporizes the oceans so that it can rain. It feeds plants so that we can feed. It creates vitamines in our skin so that we can live sufficiently. It keeps the planet warm so that we do not freeze to death on a dark snowball.
Most important of all is that it created Earth, through fusion it created heavier and heavier particles and eventually threw them off, layer by layer. This "offspring" cooled down much later and formed the planets of our solarsystem.
Life owes alot to that glowing ball far away.
And this should be taken into account everyday.
It may sound off but we should welcome every new day it dawns upon us to grant us more life.
We should greet the Sun.

Offtopic.

What has faith got anything to do with the Sun?

Sun created Earth, then life, then plants, then animals, then man. Man "invented" faith?

I guess, but it is a little farfetched.

End of discussion.

1 Comments:

At 1:59 PM, Blogger Martin Gustavsson said...

Sun and faith. Very bindblowing.
so I give you:

Please Call Me By My True Names

A Poem By Thich Nhat Hanh

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope,
the rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the
surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes,
arrives in time to eat the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily in the
clear water of a pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who,
approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly
weapons to Uganda.

/Martin
http://myspace.com/martinvaxjo

 

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