General
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
Ancient History,Evolution,Science, philosophy,astronomy, Music, 49ers football, MMA, Muay Thai , boxing, basketball, Surfing in the summer, Snowboarding in the winter, Biking,hiking, Samurai movies, Poker, Geology,Archaeology.
Music
Pennywise, System of a down, Sum 41, Green day, My chemical romance, 3 days grace, Cold, Mest, Unwritten law, Disturbed, Name taken,NOFX,Anti flag, AFI, plain white tees,linkin park, Godsmack,NIN,Less than Jake, Deftones, Rancid, Rage against the machine, no use for a name,Death cab for cutie, Silversun pickups, New found glory, Metallica, Dashboard confessional, 311, Incubus, Billy talent, Greydon Square, The Bastard Fairies and Bad religion
Movies
Rushmore, 12 monkeys, Donnie Darko, American beauty, Dark city, Transpotting, the 13th floor, the Shawshak redemption, Memento, Gladiator, Power of one, Azumi, Aragami,Star Wars, Shinobe, Saved, city of violence, Fighter in the wind, fullmetal jacket, Matrix, band of brothers, eLf, Thai warrior, Kill Bill, the Restless, Juno, chocolate,Wristcutters:A Love Story,Cashback,Lars and the real girl,No country for old men, fargo,sword of the stranger,the man from earth,the lost room and Reservoir Dogs.
Television
Heroes, History Channel, My name is Earl,Malcolm in the middle, Family Guy, Monk, Star trek, Stargate, extras, northern exposure, Seinfield, Dexter, Breaking Bad,The Reaper,true blood,skins,Ultimate Fighter,supernatural and Rome.
Books
Ender's Game, The Ten thousand, Early history of Rome,Mongol Warlords, Twelve Caecars, Greek legends, History of Japan, 2000 years of disbelief, History of Byzantium, Charlemagne: Father of a Continent, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, Lords of the Horizon: A History of the Ottaman Empire, Attila the Hun, Dawn of the Greatest Persian, 101 Myths of the Bible, The Pursuit of victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, Etruscan Civilization, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hellenistic Civilzation, Warfare in the Ancient World, The Rise and fall of Sparta, The works of Archimedes, The Power of Babel,The forever war,Myths of the Norsemen,Armor,Old man's war,the art of war and The God Delusion.
Heroes
My Mum and Pops, Charles Darwin, Epicurus, Herodotus, Peter the Great, Confucius, Winston Churchill, FDR, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, Temuchin, Hannibal Barca, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris.
Comments
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[From Applied Optics vol. 11, (14) 1972]
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26,
"Moreover, the light of the Moon shall
be as the light of the Sun and the light
of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days."
Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann
law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ...
[However] Revelations 21:8 says
"But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall
have their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone."
A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
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Charles Darwin's garden in Kent, England,
was re-created for a spring 2008 exhibition
at The New York Botanical Garden
‡ HAPPY NEW YEAR ‡
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~ thinking of you, tyberius ~
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happy holiday!
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thanks for stopping by with that lovely video!
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The Creed of Robert G. Ingersoll
To love justice, to long for the right, to love mercy, to pity the suffering, to assist the weak, to forget wrongs and remember benefits -- to love the truth, to be sincere, to utter honest words, to love liberty, to wage relentless war against slavery in all its forms, to love wife and child and friend, to make a happy home, to love the beautiful in art, in nature, to cultivate the mind, to be familiar with the mighty thoughts that genius has expressed, the noble deeds of all the world, to cultivate courage and cheerfulness, to make others happy, to fill life with the splendor of generous acts, the warmth of loving words, to discard error, to destroy prejudice, to receive new truths with gladness, to cultivate hope, to see the calm beyond the storm, the dawn beyond the night, to do the best that can be done and then to be resigned -- this is the religion of reason, the creed of science. This satisfies the heart and brain.
WHICH WAY?
The Truth
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