...Are We Alone in the Universe? Throughout its history humankind asked itself this question and constantly tried to answer “no”. The idea of sentient living beings who are not people is present in writings of historians, geographers and other scientists for as long as the science itself exists. Mermaids, cynocephali, various bizarre species of beastmen, antipodes: all of them were embodiments of this dream. In course of time, the limits of the known Universe expanded and it became known that no such creatures existed. The only place to seek for non-human life now is other planets. Is there any hope for finding it? There are a great number of theories concerning extraterrestrial life. According to the “rare Earth hypothesis”, the conditions on Earth are close to unique and the possibility of them taking place on any other planet is close to zero. However, this theory takes it for granted that the appearance of life requires conditions identical to those on Earth. But is it true? If life on other planets exists, it may be completely different from what we are used to not only in form, but in fundamental principles as well. Of all the chemical elements only carbon and silicon seem to be suitable for being the basis of life, although silicon can form connections with far less other elements. Needless to say, we have never encountered silicon-based lifeforms, but if they exist, they may have properties that have nothing in common with what we used to associate life with. According...
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...occupation for you. Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that an idea or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self-confidence is having confidence in oneself. Confidence can be a self-fulfilling prophecy as those without it may fail or not try because they lack it and those with it may succeed because they have it rather than because of an innate ability (Wikipedia). Just like a seed planted on soil, confidence is like a seed which we should plant in our minds and hearts and which requires our utmost attention in enabling it grow. Below are three ways by which you and I can grow this seed (Thanks to Huffington Post): 1. Affirm that you are not alone: What that means, is that we often abandon ourselves, and that creates a feeling of tremendous insecurity. You are the one who has got to have your back and heart. There are three...
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...Stress at Work Have you ever had a job or position that left you feeling pressure, anxiety, discontent, or completely disconnected? You are not alone; nearly everyone who is employed has experienced those feelings at one time or another in their life. The world, in which we live, is fast paced and ever changing. Companies have grown increasingly demanding and as a result the workload has increased while the workforce has not. As less people are used in the work force the workload is ever increasing. The stress at work can eventually spill over into all aspects of that person’s life thus causing more damage and further issues. The key is to recognize the stress and the impact it has and use the best way to manage stress while still being able to adapt to a changing working environment. Recognizing the Stress In order to solve any issue, we must first acknowledge the problem and then understand what is causing us to have that problem. Stress can creep up on anyone; it can remain un-detected for quite some time. Our body is a wonderfully constructed marvel of engineering brilliance. More often than not, when something goes wrong, there are warning signs exhibited. While it is very common to have busy days at work, there is a difference between being busy and being stressed. The various signs of stress may include frequent headaches, stomachaches, elevated blood pressure, lack of sleep, depression, and many other symptoms. There are a multitude of things that can contribute...
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...with people who may have problems that others might feel uncomfortable with. I am also a very good listener. I love to share the Gospel with others and bring the lost to know Jesus Christ. I am truly blessed to have these gifts that God has given me. PART TWO: Specifically, how can you use your gifts at this time? How might you misuse your gifts? Be specific. There are many ways I can use my gifts today. In my Church there are people who often come to me to “unload” what’s going on in their Lives. I am always there to listen and give them the best advice I can. I show mercy by going with a group from the church to visit the ones who are shut-ins and letting them know that we care for them and that they are not alone. Outside the church I volunteer for Domestic and Sexually abused women’s shelter. I do a weekly Bible study and I teach some of them how to cook. I soon will be taking the required training to be a Christian Counselor. I also post Scripture, Devotionals, and prayers on my face book page. There are many ways I can misuse my gifts as well. With being capable of earning trust quickly, and empathizing with people, I need to be very careful with caring for males. I could easily be fooled into thinking that I’m caring for a female, and it could easily become unhealthy very quickly. I need to be careful that I don’t push a solution on someone who...
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...Getting Started, No Looking Back Thesis Statement: The word, “College” can be intimidating all by itself; then to add the word, “Personal Responsibility”, can make anyone fearful but also excited at the same time. Now you start thinking, there’s no turning back now, I am a grown up, and start to think, I can do this; how hard can it be? But, the real learning starts, the real study habits are formed, and the real accountability has just begun. Introduction: While in some of our minds, getting started on any assignment, particularly doing a paper is hard to do, but can come easy to others. I have to remind myself that I am in (or should I say, back in) college now and there will be no one there to hold my hand. It is called, “personal responsibility” I. What is personal responsibility: Personal responsibility owns up to whatever is set before you, big or small, a little or a lot. It is holding your own self accountable for your actions, because all of your actions will have consequences behind them. In college life, keeping yourself on track is solely up to you, making the grade can be the difference between passing or failing, receiving a degree or not. II. Personal responsibility and college success: Personal responsibility is key to college success even more so than ever, there is so much competition in the workforce now. Good work ethics is a must and in college life this characteristic trait is a good format to get started. Looking back to your youth...
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...Text 1 Summary: The text is about the man Tal Ben-Shahar who talks about happiness. How that he for five years had trained so hard to play in the Israeli Nationals squash championship, and won. Although it gave him immediately satisfaction and he were happy, then after a while, the happiness slowly fainted away. He questioned why only hours after his big win, why he is not happy anymore. He tries to convince himself that the feeling he has is only, the temporary low following an overwhelming high. As the mouth goes by, he finds that it is not. He then realize that he has to think different on happiness. He then surges obsessed after the answer to the question: where to find lasting happiness. His conclusion is “We can experience sadness at times and still enjoy overall happiness” Text 2 outline: You cannot buy happiness; you can buy the latest smartphone, the newest car etc. However, that happy feeling, that wound last. Michael Crichton says “If you want to be happy, forget yourself” he claims that people that lives for others and dedicated their lives to the more unfortunate is often very happy. You have to get busy in life in order to live it, you have to forget your own self-importance, and help others, before you can help yourself. The key to happiness is not materiel things. If we look at the first surveys of happiness, they started in 1946, and then we can see that people actually become more and unhappy, in the progress of the technology. Japan’s economy were completely...
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...Chain of Command Owner Project direction/coordination and development. Community Manager Focuses on community input/feedback, collects information from CoC and relays back to Owners. Head Admin Head Admin of all Community Staff, reviews community promotions & demotions. Senior Admin Supervisor of administrators. In charge of handling higher community issues. Admin Deals with in-game issues and keeps moderators in check. Helps assign forum tags, TeamSpeak tags and assists Moderators. Mod Deals with lower community issues and helps out with Support Team duties. Mainly in charge of doing applications, assigning civilian tags and assisting Support team. Head Support Head Support of all Support Team, reviews Support Team demotions/Promotions, Last in Support COC Senior Support Helps with Support Team and assists Head of Support with duties, Deals with lower range Support issues. Second in the Support COC Support team Helps out the community with technical issues/doing civilian interviews. First step in the Chain of Command & the Staff Team. When you need any help you will need to follow the Chain of Command. Also unless told by Mod+ you will not contact the developers on your own, they will mostly be working on stuff that has nothing to do with your problem. If you would somehow actually need a developer someone of the staff team will get one for you. Do not contact any MOD+ unless you need them personally, if you will need a higher ranked staff member...
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...against One of the most popular questions today is, “Are we alone in the universe?” Believe it or not, you’re in the minority if you believe that absolutely no intelligent life exists outside of planet Earth. In the United States alone, at least half of all Americans say that we’re not alone in the universe. Fifty percent of Americans already believe that there is some form of life on other planets, while only seventeen percent believe there is not. A quarter of Americans believe that intelligent extraterrestrial visitors have already come to Earth and have been doing so for a long time. (source) Here’s one of them: “Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” (source) (source) – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain, and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences There are multiple reasons why the extraterrestrial question continues to gain popularity. People are starting to ask questions about the world around them, utilizing critical thinking and investigative skills. After thoroughly looking into this topic, it seems inevitable that you will arrive at these conclusions: We are not alone, and we are being visited. The first one that comes to mind is Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister, the man responsible for combining the Canadian Air Force, Army, and Navy into one united force, now known as the Canadian Forces. Someone with such a background coming...
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...than a millionth of a second came forth a bang of all mass, energy, and space-time that ever was and ever will be. After billion of years humans came into the picture; and with the coming of humanity the universe finally had a way to experience itself, through us. Humanity has always gazed upon the night sky always wondering, questioning, dreaming, even before our long recorded history, but for most of these questions, wonders, and dreams, they could only be put in the realm of mere speculations and theories. The 19th and 20th century's could be considered to be the epicenter for the ground work in subjects including...
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...If there were to be such a thing, it alone must be a perfect, thus leading to an assumption of there being an intelligent designer for these infinite amounts. Philosopher Robin Collin had argued against this by mentioning, of a "many-universes generator" being the source of these infinite universes if such a thing existed. It alone must have an intelligent designer behind it, explaining how the idea comes to mind and how it was created. Also, there cannot be an infinite amount of anything because like everything in the world there is always beginning and an end to a...
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...Ways in which he argues for the existence of God and his nature. One of the five arguments he writes about is called the “First Cause” argument. It establishes that the universe is a casual series of events that are all traced back to a first cause. Aquinas’ logical argument for the existence of the traditional monotheistic God and that He is the first cause of the universe convinces me because of the unbreakable logic of the argument and the consistency with modern day knowledge of the beginning of the universe. Aquinas’ “first cause” argument is one of the many cosmological arguments that try to answer the question about the origins of the universe. The first premise of the argument is that some things or events are caused. Followed by the second premise, which says that some things cause themselves or some things are caused by something other than themselves. We know the third premise is, nothing can cause itself. So the conclusion of the first 3 premises is that if something is caused, then it is caused by something other than itself. Therefore, if something is caused by something other than itself, then a causal series or a series of cause and effect is established. Thus, we know cause precedes its effects. How do we know that nothing causes itself like the third premise states? Just from experience alone we know that there is no such thing as self-cause. In nature, we as humans have never observed something to cause itself nor will we if the laws of nature continue to...
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...organism on the Earth. However, to come to this point, we went through 4 billion years of this phenomenon called evolution. However, the Universe, to our knowledge, is approximately 15 billion years. My idea is that in this 15 billion years life could develop everywhere. This means that how do you think we came to exist in the Universe. Most people think that planet Earth is unique in the whole Universe. Even ancient scientists, such as the genius Aristotle, put the Earth at the centre of the Solar system. However, now we know that it is not true. May be we were wrong in thinking that we are alone in the universe? The emergence of life on Earth gives obvious background for the assumption that the same conditions could emerge on other planets. This means that if life on the earth started 4 billion years ago, why it could not start somewhere else. Soviet astronomer Iosif Shklovsky cautiously suggested that favorable conditions for life exist on planets orbiting near the same age, cold enough and stable single stars of spectral type G, K, M (similar properties to the Sun). The number of stars in our galaxy can be estimated as 1000000000. Therefore, many planets like earth formed at the same time. Therefore, lots of time was to form the life. The discovery of planets in other star systems also indirectly indicates the availability of the universe conducive to the emergence of life in the "habitable zone." Now modern technology allows us to find out what what made planet, using...
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...the species. Darwinism does not speak specifically to the beginning of the universe. God's existence either as the starter or the responsible entity for secondary causation does not negate Darwinism. It may just be a methodology for explaining secondary causation that according to current understading is rather haphazard or random. Gregory Mendel was an Augustian Monk and considered the founder of mondern genetic theory, his life alone should be proof that God and Darwin can coexist. Mendel was interested in heredity and did major work in the development of the study of the genetics of plants before the science was even beginning to be developed. Historically issues of faith and science have collided and I would think that both theology and science have its place in the world as the search for knowledge continues. Religious Fundamentalism which requires a literal interpretation of the Bible as a substitute for science is bad theology and bad for science, and mistakenly puts the science and theology at war assuming that there is only one truth and it exists in one place and is not subject to any further interpretation. Simil arly mean spirited materialistic science which negates or belittles theology is similarly wrong headed and denies much of the basis from which it came. Historically I believe that both science and theology have their place in explaining man's and or women's place in the universe and their relation to other living beings. For much of history churches and...
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...The teleological argument is one of the five arguments for the existence of god. It attempts to prove gods existence by using our experience of the world or universe around us. This makes it a posterior in nature. Teleological arguments can essentially be broken down into two main types pre Darwinian and post Darwinian. We shall focus on pre Darwinian as these are the most traditional of these two arguments. Further sub division of teleological arguments can be identified in the guise of design qua regularity and design qua purpose. It is within these areas that we the find the thinking of two philosophers Aquinas(13thC) and paley (19C). The teleological design argument gets its name from the Greek word telos which mean end, goal or purpose it is this end or purpose that both Aquinas and paley are looking for that will suggest the existence of a divine creator. We will begin by outlining Aquinas fifth way from the governance of things or the design qua regularity argument. Aquinas observed the universe and concluded that everything in it must be working in some kind of order. In particular he noticed that natural bodies (flowers or insects) behaved in a regular way. For example a daffodil flowers every spring time he then goes on to notice the fact that these natural bodies lack intelligence, by this he means they are not conscious of there own movement. A daffodil does not know that it is spring time but flowers unconsciously. He concludes that as they lack the intelligence...
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...choose a neutral approach. Several arguments have been presented to prove and disprove his existence based on scientific explanations and personal explanations. Scientific explanations have laws and principles that can explain the natural whys we have in our present universe. Personal explanations are provided when science can not explain the causes but provide the intentions of something just as good an explanation as the scientific one. The Cosmological Argument by Bruce Reichenbach seems to most likely to convince a rational and open-minded agnostic that they should believe in the existence of God because nothing natural in this universe could have caused the beginning of the universe. Reichenbach states that “theists are in good company when they look for explanations either of the universe or a particular phenomena within it” (p. 187). The argument Reichenbach presents has a different structure, but I will present it in a shorter form as followed: the universe (the contingent) had a beginning, so everything with a beginning/effect has a cause or explanation, the universe had a cause, nothing natural could have caused it or caused itself, therefore a non-contingent (necessary) being, we will name God, caused the universe to begin. I will discuss the primary objections to the argument and then explain why this argument would most likely convince someone, namely an agnostic, on rational grounds to believe in God’s existence. The Cosmological Argument provides, under specified conditions...
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