HundReD tHoUgHtS c0m¡c III

Source: xkcd

This is like a kind of comic-fashioned synthesis of what I think about reality, remember.

Comics that worth a hundred thoughts: I, II.

g0 DenMaRk! g0!

The Danish government have forced some of their ISPs to block the connections to the famous Swedish bittorrent site the Pirate Bay, and the only thing that led to was even more Danish traffic…in fact the blocking increased the traffic with
12 percent. The main reason for this was of course all the media attention plus the fact that a lot of Danish users switched to OpenDNS (where nothing is blocked).

Pirate Bay to IFPI: Danish ban has led to even more traffic [arstechnica.com]

The Jesper Bay - Sådan kommer du udenom spærringen af The Pirate Bay [thejesperbay.org]

Source: fosfor gadgets

This is the right response to government oppression. Whether due to the media or intentioned, this will teach the Danish government not to fight against The Internet.

I'm definitely with you, people!

wHat d¡d tHe w0Rms d0 t0 p¡ss 0fF g0d?

I was blog surfing and came across two interesting thinking blogs that made me rofl for a while.
The first one is Saint Gasoline, the description in the header reads: ''A fine mixture of intellectualism and fart jokes'' and has a self-proclaiming comment: ''OMFG! this comiblog is totally sort of funny!''. It is actually a comiblog and I want to single out the post The Idiot’s Guide to Genesis. One of the best paragraphs is the very last

Not content with simply punishing Adam and Eve, God also decides to punish
all snakes, even though it wasn’t really a snake that tempted the humans, but
Satan. God, not caring, punished snakes. He ripped off all of their legs, and
banished
them to crawling about on the ground like worms. (No one yet knows
what the worms did to piss God off.)

The comments took me to the Heather Annastasia's Politics and Religion Blog where I read The Garden of Eden, post on the same subject but that made me roflofl. I just need to share this with whomever read this blog (sigh..). Here you have an extract

So just for laughs, I picked up Genesis and started to read it literally, which is when I reached my epiphany: that it was God who lied and the serpent that told the truth

Hope you enjoy it!

HundReD tHoUgHtS c0m¡c II

Source: Too Much Coffee Man

We all have our own perceptions, shared or not with the rest, I think that arguing because of them is worthless than arguing about opinions. Opinions are like butts, we all have our own and you may like or dislike other's, but that's it. And perceptions are like hairdos, you can choose the one that better fits you, you can try to convince the rest that other does are possible, but choosing the style is a matter of opinion.

Comics that worth a hundred thoughts: I

Ze¡TGe¡st---aDdiN' fUel t0 tHe f¡Re

This is the first part of a documentary film called Zeitgeist The Movie, you can find it in their site. This first part is quite aptly named The greatest story ever told. I have been a bit monothematic lastly, so (for a change) I decided to link this video and let it think for me.



I'm not sure if everything that's said is true, but at least it has encouraged me to learn more about what I've been criticizing lately.

mAn sYntHes¡zeS (ArT¡f¡c¡al) geN0me

ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2008) — A team of 17 researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has created the largest man-made DNA structure by synthesizing and assembling the 582,970 base pair genome of a bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0. This work, published online today in the journal Science by Dan Gibson, Ph.D., et al, is the second of three key steps toward the team’s goal of creating a fully synthetic organism. In the next step, which is ongoing at the JCVI, the team will attempt to create a living bacterial cell based entirely on the synthetically made genome.

Once I thought that the day we (humanity) were able to create DNA, the belief in a Creator God would be compromised. Nowadays I think that the ones who believe that The Creator God created us in his image and likeness can escape the problem by thinking that been able to create life is just a consecuence.

I'm just happy to read the news and looking forward to own a synthetic alive non-violent pet.

P.S.: By the way, while reading something about believes, I came up to this post. The author claims that logic doesn't rules reality, it caught my attention beacuse in my last posts I just claimed the contrary, that is to say that I believe in logic and that reality is not real, it's just a perception. As I see it, logic is the tool we have to test our perception in order to change it if needed.

ReaL¡Ty, aRe y0U tHerE?

The reality is nothing more than assuming certain perceptions as unquestionable truths, and since each one of us have our own perceptions which might not agree in some cases, i think that the reality is a paradox, the reality is not real!

In this way, only the people who believe in any kind of God may think that there is an universal observer who knows what reality is and hence, they think that reality do exists and is real.

The interesting point about perceptions (and reality) is that if you are aware of it, you can change (and choose) them. So, in fact, everybody has something to do (in some sense) with their reality.

Here I have an example:

This is a not very known reversible animation from Nobuyuki Kayahara , you may perceive it as turning in one of you ways, namely clockwise or counterclockwise, but it is possible to perceive it turning the other way. I know people with more or less ability to turn their perception and also someones unable to change it, but I think that it is all about opening the mind. I've read that, in this case, the perception (of the turning) is related to the prevailing hemisphere of the brains, I don't think so because I can choose and change the turning way of the dancer as I want.

In the case of our reality, there is like a kind of social agreement of what the reality is. If two or more people perceives a car as red-colored, then the ones who watch it blue (or what else) are freaks or simply color-blind.