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HAD TO SHARE THIS ONE WITH Y'ALL........


An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problemscience has with God, The Almighty.He asks one of his new Muslim students to stand.....

Professor: You are a Muslim, aren't you, son?

Student : Yes, sir.

Prof: So you believe in God?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?

Student : Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?

Student : Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't.How is this God good then? Hmm?

(Student is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?

Student :Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?

Student : No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from ?

Student : From...God...

Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?

Student :Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe theworld around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?

Student : No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student : No , sir.

Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God?Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: Yes.

Student : No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, megaheat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold.We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something.You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness,isn't it?In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darknessdarker, wouldn't you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality.You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity andmagnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at workand cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain,felt it, touched or smelt it?.....No one appears to have done so.So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his faceunfathomable.)

Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it Sir.. The link between man & God is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive.

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$200 million Georgia Aquarium

The big deal here in Atlanta now is the opening of the Georgia Aquarium. $200+ million for over 100,000 fish, a bunch of sharks and a few whales. It is supposed to be the largest aquarium in the world, with its largest tank (sorry, "marine habitat") holding over 6 million gallons of water with glass two feet thick. The plastic latex that lines the glass costs $8 million alone! Imagine people a dead fi ‘ungry in a dis ya America and hundreds of homeless in downtown Atlanta, and dis is what dem bring come gi we?!?
The founder of Home Depot, Arthur Blank, came up with the plan and most of the money. Him must really love fish! It was on the Today Show this morning, and even though it is kind of pricey it is apparently sold out for the next few weeks. I can’t even log on to their website now because they are receiving too much traffic.
Don’t get me wrong, I man love watch (and eat) fish too, and from what I hear the place suppose to well kris, with nuff educational dis and dat for the kids. But dat is some serious money!
Anyway for those of us in Uncle Sam country, enjoy the Thanksgiving Holidays, stuff yourself, and stay lazy as Monday will be back sooner than you think!

Jr Gong @ the Vibes Awards

Anybody catch Damien Marley’s performance on the Vibe Awards earlier tonite on UPN? Fairly decent rendition of his hit "Welcome to Jamrock", his backing band was tight, his vocals were on target. One factor stood starkly out though; This one-drop reggae song did not quite fit in with the vibes of what was basically a Hip-Hop awards show. Yes it was a fairly well known hit in African American (I hate that term!!) circles, and yes half the audience was sort of dancing to the reggae music, but the other half had a look of "What the hell is this?".
I’m sorry they didn’t, or couldn’t, pull on Sean Paul for the show. Hip-Hop and Dancehall are much closer cousins and obviously would have fit in quite well together. Don’t get me wrong, I was glad to see Junior Gong get the national exposure, I have nuff respek for him and especially for the real talent behind him, Stephen Marley. Damien needs the exposure a lot more than Sean, but the one-drop just did not fit in, didn’t sit right, round object in a square hole. He had one Bobo Dread behind him constantly prancing and waving an Ites, Green and Gold flag as is now common on the Jamaican stage, and about three dready looking types just standing stationery wrinching up dem screw face, looking as vex as possible. That I know most of the audience just did not get.
Good performance still, just on the wrong stage.

Paint Ball Day

Had an office "Outing" today. Instead of dutifully reporting to our offices and cubicles we went to Pain, I mean Paint Ball. At first I was very skeptical. I thought this it would be a childish waste of time, and my plan was to humor them for about an hour or so and then find an excuse to try and cut out early.
I was quite wrong, that was the most fun I have had in years (well with those guys anyway). Tense!! But fun!! The Co2 guns shoot the little paint pellets really hard (they actually have a kick), and far too so that once you get out there you are having fun BUT you really don’t want to get shot! And the folks I work with are really very competitive! Not to mention there are a couple ex-marines in the group also. They took the games so seriously!
It was about 15 of us, we split into two teams, and battled each other on large fields (football size) with all sorts of contraptions that one could hide behind. They had refs and all. We "played" at least six or seven games. Once you were shot you would raise your gun in the air and be escorted off by a ref. The team with the last man, (or woman), standing won.
Ever seen "Private Ryan"? Even though it was all in fun it had this Private Ryan kind of feel to it. Sometimes you were pinned down surrounded by two or three of the enemy moving in closer and closer to you, most of the time you just stick you gun out and shoot without even looking because you don’t want to get hit. Did I mention that those balls REALLY hurt? We had to wear protective masks while fighting and always point the gun down with the safety on once out of the game.
Had a good time, had a surprisingly good time! Didn’t get a chance to really get the boss good though as she was always on my team.

Rough Sunday

Rough day at church today. I run the sound board, and let me put it this way, it ran me today. Problem is during the week the musicians and singers fiddle with the levels on the mixing board when practicing. Come Sunday now I have to be fighting hums, feedback, floor monitor level problems etc. I don’t think many of them realize how hard I actually work every Sunday so they can sound good. Its basically like staging a live concert with over 30 channels to juggle in three hours every week. It leaves you mentally drained ! You see this Christianity thing is all about spreading God’s Word (before him come back an wipe de slate clean as promised), but there are those who do that directly and upfront and there are others like me that work behind the scenes to make sure the upfront ting can run smooth and seamless. Is a wholeap a work (and money) go into putting on de church ting every week, if only you sitting in the congregation knew!
Which brings me to another tangent; This other behind the scenes guy, David Roberts, that mainly works the video and slide set ups, and is up early working hard to make sure everything is right on Sunday morning was finally sitting in the audience listening to the Preacher preach in the second row as all he had to do was done. Poor David start to dose off, him tired. De Pastor/Preacher notice and while preaching suddenly bawl out loud loud ….."and DAVID ROBERTS THERE WILL BE NO SLEEPING IN HERE!! That’s right if you doze off I will scream out your name!". David just wake up and neva feel no way, but him wife did well vex at de preacher! If it was me mi woulda cuss him. Wake me up and embarrass me! Me woulda sey "A whadi R*SS do yu bwoy!! yu tink a school dis!!". He over stepped his boundary. David and I have been in church for many, many years now and there is no sermon that anybody can preach that we haven’t heard already in some other shape or form. We work tirelessly every Sunday to make sure The Gospel get presented without a hitch, I guess after a while people begin to just take you for granted.

A Word Of Advice

A word of advice to those of you even considering coming to live with Uncle Sam permanently. Get a plan of action and try yu best to keep Corporate America OUTof it. The institution will chew you up until no taste is left and the spit you out once you are no longer needed.
I work with a fairly large financial organization and they just sold off one of their divisions to a company in South Carolina. They let go a whole side of people that had been faithfully with them for 15 to 20+ years. Gave them some monkey money for severance and just put dem outa street like dem a nuh nutting. Good people too, real nice, good, warm southern folks. They work their asses off for years, got so good and knowledgable at what they did that the company refused to change their duties significantly over the years. Just kept them in that rut doing what they do best and nothing else. Pure folly (not the word I really want to use!).
Don’t get me wrong America is irie still BUT use it for what it is; a place where you have the greatest opportunities to start YOUR OWN ting and succeed at it. No one can complain; all the resources are available; the knowledge if you don’t have it, whatever tools etc you will need, the huge middle class customer base, tons of marketing channels, working capital to borrow, and I could go on and on. Unoo listen: don’t get stuck in an office job in this country. Do it only with a solid plan to get out after a few years. Always work at setting up your own lickle hustlings and just keeping building on it. That is the main advantage this USA provides. That is the way to make SERIOUS money in this land, and thts why we are all here right? If I wanted some b*mbo hole to pushing me around day after day I could have stayed in Kingston and got that. You will NEVER make real money working for someone else unless you are stealing from that person or organization. Professional or not, THE OWNER is the person that makes the real money, period, full stop, end of post.

Dozing Off

Just dozed off watching the BET 25th anniversary thing on tv…YAWN…I think I missed about half of it. Saw who I really wanted to see though; New Edition, crazy Bobby Brown & poor old druggy Whitney. What was wrong with her voice?? She could barely talk!! Really watched it just to get a little time in with the Missus as we really don’t spend much time together during the week. We watched, commented on people, I dozed in and out of consciousness, …..until towards the end she started passing some SERIOUS gas. Dat wake mi up fi real ! I was outa there!!
(No,... she does not ever, ever read this blog or I would be dead!).