During the recording of (1972′s Vol 4 album):
“I was full of cocaine. That stuff makes you talk the biggest load of horse crap. There shouldn’t be a problem (left) in the world, ’cause we solved them all in the bathroom of a hotel with a bag of that white powder.” Ozzy Osbourne
“So let me ask you something?”
“If there is no God…”
“If there is no thing called God…”
“If He is nothing…”
“Can’t something come from Him”
Stephen Colbert (speaking to Lawrence Krauss)
On the Thursday, 06/21/2012, episode of the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert had theoretical physicist, Lawrence Krauss on to talk about his new book, “A Universe From Nothing: Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing.” I have a B.A. degree in Philosophy, and have always been fascinated by the search for ultimate truth re: the existence of “God”, the “meaning of life”, the “origin” of the universe, etc. The big questions. So existentialism, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion are some of my areas of greatest interest. And I love Mr. Stephen Colbert. I think he might be the smartest, and quickest, comedian (via his character on the Colbert Report) I have even seen…no hyperbole. And I was blown away with how he handled, or as Stephen would say, “nailed”, him. The crux of Lawrence Krauss’ argument is that “God” is unnecessary in explaining the origin of the universe, and quantum mechanics can now explain how something comes from nothing. Thus “God” is not needed to explain anything. Not an issue of “belief” or not, just unnecessary. Thus no “God”. “God” is nothing…
Now watch the genius of Stephen, “If He (God) is nothing…can’t something come from Him?”
He blew Lawrence’s mind.
And anyone who was listening…including me.
My comments on Lawrence Krauss’s ideas as presented on the Colbert interview,
1.) quantum mechanics may be able to explain “how” something can come from nothing, however, I’m guessing, it can’t explain the WHY? Many philosophers and scientists dismiss the question, however I don’t believe a self-conscious being (i.e. a human being) with deep, concrete, existential questions can just scoff at and not address the “WHY” of existence, and thus, the “WHY” of the origins of existence. Not just the mechanics of it.
2.) Just because “God” is not required in explaining the possible origin of the universe, that does not “prove” that “God” couldn’t, or doesn’t, actually exist.
3.) He didn’t address alternate theories re: multiple dimensions, multiple universes (vs. “the universe” equaling all of reality), the universe was always here, or even that there is an “eternal cycle” of the universe coming into and out of existence (i.e. constant cycle of: noting, then something, then nothing, then something…always and forever).
“Hard time getting to ya babe,”
“Double take, figure real rough trade,”
“Wait and see I’m a real good lover,”
“Can’t judge a book by its cover.”
Lemmy (Motorhead,”Shine”, 1983)
“I am, a back door man, I am, a back door man…Well the, men don’t know, but the little girls understand.”
“When everybody’s tryin’ to sleep…I’m somewhere making my, midnight creep.”
“Yes in the morning, when the rooster crow…Something tell me, I got to go.”
Howlin’ Wolf
“Don’t want ‘em to get your goat, don’t show ‘em where it’s hid.”
David Lee Roth (“Stay Frosty”, Van Halen)
“Yes…It is a vast conspiracy. And the total lack of evidence is all the evidence I need.”
Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report 03/27/2012
“I’ll see you in robot hell, you son of a bitch.”
Stephen Colbert
Supreme Allied Commander, Colbert Super PAC
1.) Thor (2nd season)
2.) Shrimp Incident (2nd season)
3.) Krazee-Eyes (3rd season)
4.) Ben’s Birthday Party (4th season)
5.) The Blind Date (4th season)
6.) The Car Pool Lane (4th season)
7.) The Ski Lift (5th season)
8.) The Anonymous Donor (6th season)
9.) The Ida Funkhouser Memorial…(6th season)
10.) The Bat Mitzvah (6th season)
11.) The Reunion (7th season)
In chronological order.
This is an e mail I sent to a family member re: Mark Emery’s arrest for, “conspiracy to manufacture marijuana”, in 2010. And the whole concept of “manufacturing” naturally growing plants:
Words are very important in law?
I assume they have technical and very specific meanings?
What’s funny, or NOT funny, is that they convicted him (he plead guilty) of a “single count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana”.
Manufacturing is something you do to make bombs, guns, weapons, trucks, planes…crystal meth, and even alcohol. Man made stuff. Man made. Man u facture. Man makes it.
I didn’t know that a plant was “manufactured”? I thought plants were natural and “grew” in nature? When you teach a child about a rose growing, do you say, watch how it is manufactured? Or do you say, watch how it grows? Did they teach you in biology, about how plants “manufacture”?
Plants grow.
No plant should be illegal, it’s really stupid.
It’s really weird that any governments, in any time period, in any part of the world, ever…have made plants of any kind illegal. Think about it. Something grows in the forest or woods, people find it, and then a government says you can go to jail or even be killed if you possess or grow the plant (the plant which is totally natural and was put here by “God” or “evolution”).
Poison ivy, poison oak, poisonous berries or mushrooms, none of them are illegal.
Poisonous mushrooms that you could murder someone with are LEGAL, but mushrooms you can get high off of are ILLEGAL!?
And plants aren’t “uranium”. You can’t make nukes out of weed. You can’t make nukes out of any plants. No plants should ever be illegal.
Just really dumb.