Thoughts to Think About

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

Would a fly without wings be called a "walk"?

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It is twice as large as it needs to be.

Its bad luck to be superstitious.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Have you ever noticed anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

What's another word for thesaurus?

If quitters never win and winners never quit who came up with "Quit while your ahead"?

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that a hostage situation?

What is the speed of dark?

If you put a slinky on an escalator, would it go on forever?

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

Imagine a world without hypothetical situations.

NEW Blog!

Check out my newest creation!

http://christinamorrell.blogspot.com

I've started to upload some of my art work to another blog.

I felt that not only was this site important as a tool to gather all the funny little musings of my creativity, but the work is just as important.

As of right now, most of what I've loaded is school-project related pieces. Soon though, I'll be adding my personal projects which is where the strongest links from these posting will come from. Perhaps the links from these posts to my work will only be understood by me, but that's just how my brain works. If you don't get it then I guess the voices in your head don't explain things to you as well as my voices do.

Kiwi!

Digital Blasphemy

With as much time as we spend on our computers each day it was only a matter of time before artists began creating and selling images for desktop backgrounds.

One such 3D artist I've enjoyed decorating my background with has been Ryan Bliss at Digital Blasphemy. Be sure to check out his free and users gallery.

Unexplained: Intuition

Whether we call it gut feelings, a 'sixth sense,' or something else, we have all experienced intuition at one time or another. Of course, gut feelings are often wrong (how many times during aircraft turbulence have you been sure your plane was going down?), but they do seem to be right much of the time. Psychologists note that people subconsciously pick up information about the world around us, leading us to seemingly sense or know information without knowing exactly how or why we know it. But cases of intuition are difficult to prove or study, and psychology may only be part of the answer.

Talk to God

What better way to get to know God then to just chat with him online!


Repenting and forgiveness made easy!!


Chat with iGOD

Only You

Music video by one of my favorite directors Chris Cunningham

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"SteamPunk"

SteamPunk laptop

Past and future together at last. So much fun to be had from crossing eras, who knows what we'll be doing once we've exorcised the scientific romance out of the Victorian.

http://steampunkworkshop.com/

The Religion "Shit List"

Shit Happens in various World Religious

Taoism:
Shit happens.

Confucianism:
Confucious say, "Shit happens".

Buddhism:
If shit happens, it isn't really shit.

Zen:
What is the sound of shit happening?

Atheism:
No shit!

Agnosticism
How can we KNOW if shit happens?

7th Day Adventism:
Shit happens on Saturdays.

Hinduism:
I've seen this shit happening before.

Protestantism:
If shit happens, praise the lord for it!

Presbyterianism:
This shit was bound to happen.

Episcopalianism:
It's not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve the right wine with it.

Methodist:
It's not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve grape juice with it.

Quakers:
Let us not fight over this shit.

Catholicism:
If shit happens, you deserved it.

Judaism:
Why does shit always happen to US?

Sunni Islam:
If it happens to be shit, it's Allah's will.

New Age:
For $300, we can help you get in touch with your inner shit.

Jehovah's Witnesses:
Knock Knock, "Shit Happens."

Secular Humanism:
Shit evolves.

Darwinism:
This shit was once food.

Creationism:
... And the Lord said "Let there be shit" ... and there came piles of it.
After six days of this shit, He rested.

Christian Science:
Shit happens in your mind.

Mormonism:
Excrement happens. (you can't say 'shit' in Utah)

Energizer Bunny:
Shit happens and happens and happens and ...

Southern Baptist:
Shit will happen. Praise the lord!

Orthodox:
St. Sergius found his faith in deep shit.

Fundamentalism:
There's no shit in the Bible.

Twelve Step:
Shit happens one day at a time.

Amish:
This modern shit is worthless.

Zoroastrianism:
Shit happens half the time.

Mysticism:
This is really weird shit.

Paganism:
Shit happens for a variety of reasons.

Satanism:
SNEPPAH TIHS.

Scientology:
This shit happened before, but we can clean it up if you pay us enough.

Wicca:
And it harm none, let shit happen.

Spam:
Spam happens.

Voodoo:
Let's stick some pins in this shit!

Televangelism:
Your tax-deductible donation could make this shit stop happening...

Rastafarianism:
Let's smoke this shit!

Unexplained: Deja vu

Deja vu is a French phrase meaning 'already seen,' referring to the distinct, puzzling, and mysterious feeling of having experienced a specific set of circumstances before. A woman might walk into a building, for example, in a foreign country she'd never visited, and sense that the setting is eerily and intimately familiar. Some attribute deja vu to psychic experiences or unbidden glimpses of previous lives. As with intuition, research into ,human psychology can offer more naturalistic explanations, but ultimately the cause and nature of the phenomenon itself remains a mystery.

Unexplained: Near-Death Experiences and Life After Death

People who were once near death have sometimes reported various mystical experiences (such as going into a tunnel and emerging in a light, being reunited with loved ones, a sense of peace, etc.) that may suggest an existence beyond the grave. While such experiences are profound, no one has returned with proof or verifiable information from "beyond the grave." Skeptics suggest that the experiences are explainable as natural and predictable hallucinations of a traumatized brain, yet there is no way to know with certainty what causes near-death experiences, or if they truly are visions of "the other side."

Bible (The break down)

What is God?

WHAT IS GOD?
OUR SPIRITUAL DILEMMA
WHAT IS SALVATION?
THE WAY OF SALVATION

CHRISTIANITY

Personal & Trinitarian
Separation from God because of moral guilt
Conscious, personal fellowship with God for all eternity
Receive the gift of God's forgiveness by faith in Jesus Christ

JUDAISM

Personal & Unitarian
Separation from God because of moral guilt
Conscious, personal fellowship with God for all eternity
Turn to God and live a moral life

ISLAM

Personal & Unitarian
Separation from God because of moral guilt
Enter Paradise for an eternity of sensual pleasure
Perform the 5 Pillars of Faith

HINDUISM

Pantheistic or Polytheistic
Ignorance that all is one
Freedom from conscious, individual existence ("moksha")
Better reincarnation by improving karma

BUDDHISM

Pantheistic or Atheistic
Ignorance that all is one
Freedom from conscious, individual existence ("nirvana")
Escape reincarnation by following 4 Noble Truths & 8-Fold Path

Word Art (1)

Quietly now my mind loudly wonders,

feelings I found are over and done for.
Distance, a sound of deafening thunder
is fading away.

~Christina Lynn Morrell

Robot Snails

False: Lightning never strikes the same place twice

In fact lightning favors certain spots, particularly high locations. The Empire State Building is struck about 25 times every year. Ben Franklin grasped the concept long ago and mounted a metal rod atop the roof of his home, then ran a wire to the ground, thereby inventing the lightning rod.

False: Seasons are caused by the Earth's proximity to the sun

The Earth's distance from the sun during its yearly elliptical orbit actually has little effect on temperature. It's the angle of the Earth's tilt--toward the sun in the summer for the Northern Hemisphere and away in the winter--that dictates climate.

Ancient split

C. jejuni and C. coli are thought to have shared a common ancestor, or parent, in the ancient past. When the microbial descendent split up and evolutionary pressures stepped in, two new species began to take shape and fill different niches within the guts of wild chickens, pigs and other animals.

Although the definition of a species is one of the most hotly debated topics among biologists, Sheppard said the two microbes are strikingly different, despite sharing about 85 percent of their genetic code.

"Chimpanzees and humans are known to be about 98 percent genetically similar, so the bacteria's converging toward becoming a single species, as we think, is pretty impressive," Sheppard told LiveScience. "That's a big genetic gulf to leap. Maybe like a lobster mating with a fly."

Sheppard said the bacteria likely began reversing their growing divergence, or genetic separation, when human agriculture came along.

False: A dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's

Despite a habit of licking things no human would dare, Fido's mouth is often touted as scientifically more sterile. Truth is, oral bacteria are so species-specific that one can't be considered cleaner than the other, just different.

False: The Great Wall of China is the only manmade structure visible from space

There are several variations on this folkloric statement, and they're all quantifiably false. Astronauts can spot the Great Wall from low-Earth orbit, along with plenty of other things like the Giza pyramids and even airport runways. But they can't see the Wall from the Moon.

God Particle' Likely To Be Found Soon

Article here

Higgs said initial reaction to his ideas in the early 1960s was skeptical.

“My colleagues thought I was a bit of an idiot,” he said, noting that his initial paper explaining how his theory worked was rejected by an editor at CERN.

He said a colleague spent the summer at CERN right after he did his work on the theory.

“He came back and said, 'At CERN they didn't see that what you were talking about had much to do with particle physics.'

“I then added on some additional paragraphs and sent it off across the Atlantic to Physical Review Letters, who accepted it. The mention of what became known as the Higgs boson was part of the extra which was added on.”

Zeitgeist

Small link

Interestingly enough meditation can be found in most major religions.

Meditation is a discipline in which the mind is focused on an object of thought or awareness. It usually involves turning attention to a single point of reference. The practice may engender a higher state of consciousness. Meditation is recognized as a component of almost all religions, and has been practiced for over 5,000 years.^[1][2][3] Meditative disciplines encompass a wide range of spiritual and/or psychophysical practices which can emphasize development of either a high degree of mental concentration, or the apparent converse, mental quiescence.

The word meditation comes from the Latin meditatio, which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, then later evolved into the more specific meaning "contemplation."

Eastern meditation techniques have been adapted and increasingly practiced in Western culture. ^[4]

Definitions of the word "religion"

I've been asked about my faith in the past and knew exactly what to say and how I was defined but now... what can I say?

I believe in God, Christ, and what I read in the bible. By definition that would typically peg me a Christian, but how far that word has come from being a simple and good term to explain beliefs, to striking fear and loathing in the hearts of those of other faiths. And ironically, they are often even quicker to dismiss me for my supposed narrow-minded thinking, then attempt to learn and understand my spiritual life.

I've known my fair share of crazy, religious intolerant folks who'd sooner beat you over the head with a bible, then hear your side of things. I've seen zealous fools who'll take parts and passages they like to push a point but ignore the overall message. I've heard the damning messages of preachers straining their voices and breaking our ears condemning all who hear to love their God. And I've rolled my eyes, watching people take literal translations as truth over science. On a larger scale, wars have been fought, many have died, and little has been gained in the name of "religion". Where does that leave us? I'm honestly asking.

If religion implies ritual, then I am certainly not religious. I read and study, pray and meditate, learn and grow, at different times and in different ways.

If religion implies strictly held dogmatic thinking, then I am certainly not religious. My theories on life and God changes and evolves everyday. As with any other principle you learn, with each piece of knowledge you acquire the greater your understanding becomes. You abandon previous misconceptions and strengthen greater truths.

If religious implies my faith comes from a book or passed down laws, then I am certainly not religious. I learn theories from text books, bibles, science, and history. Life is where these can be applied and tested. It's here that I've learned my greatest lessons and found faith.

I don't know where that leaves me when defining my religious beliefs, but I've never been comfortable with labels anyhow.

Christina Lynn Morrell

Chaos Theory

This effect came to be known as the butterfly effect. The amount of difference in the starting points of the two curves is so small that it is comparable to a butterfly flapping its wings.

The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)

False: Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation

Not only is the Earth's rotation too weak to affect the direction of water flowing in a drain, tests you can easily perform in a few washrooms will show that water whirlpools both ways depending on the sink's structure, not the hemisphere.

Church of the Flying Spagetti Monster

As an interesting follow up to my first posted video, Darwin and God walked into a bar, I thought I'd call attention to the ever present fight in the teaching of this kind of subject matter in the classroom. More specifically, as a founded scientific theory. Belief in a Creator God or not, a pressing issue still very common in public schools today is whether or not to include creation or intelligent design while teaching such theories as "big bang" and evolution.

One such argument against the teaching of Intelligent Design in a scientific classroom has come in the form of the following letter and then an ever growing website/pastafarian following.

Open Letter To Kansas School Board

I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves the theory that makes the most sense to them. I am concerned, however, that students will only hear one theory of Intelligent Design.

Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.

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To continue reading the letter click here.

Star Truths

Truths and common thoughts need to be challenged and considered. Take something as simple as your mythological birth sign. Almost everyone knows their zodiac sign, but do you know your REAL birth sign.


"The most popular form of traditional Western astrology is sun sign astrology, the kind found in the horoscopes of many daily newspapers. A horoscope is an astrological forecast. The term is also used to describe a map of the zodiac at the time of one’s birth. The zodiac is divided into twelve zones of the sky, each named after the constellation that originally fell within its zone (Taurus, Leo, etc.). The apparent paths of the sun, the moon, and the major planets all fall within the zodiac. Because of the precession of the equinoxes, the equinox and solstice points have each moved westward about 30 degrees in the last 2,000 years, the zodiac constellations named in ancient times no longer correspond to the segments of the zodiac represented by their signs." (link)

In fact, today there should be 13 signs, not 12 Zodiac signs today. The common 12 and their corresponding periods are no longer accurate because they are based on stars positions as they were over 2000 years ago. The movement of stars are slight but after 2000 years its significant enough to change how we relate to them today.

Something so often thought of as a simple truth to our identity...

Think about that.

Constellation	Astrology Date	True Date
Aries	March 21 - April 20	April 19 - May 13
Taurus	April 21 - May 21	May 14 - June 19
Gemini	May 22 - June 21	June 20 - July 20
Cancer	June 22 - July 22	July 21 - August 9
Leo	July 23 - August 21	August 10 - September 15
Virgo	August 22 - September 23	September 16 - October 30
Libra	September 24 - October 23	October 31 - November 22
Scorpio	October 24 - November 22	November 23 - November 29
Ophiuchus	Not Included	November 30 - December 17
Sagittarius	November 23 - December 22	December 18 - January 18
Capricorn	December 23 - January 20	January 19 - February 15
Aquarius	January 21 - February 19	February 16 - March 11
Pisces	February 20 to March 20	March 12 - April 18