Thoughts On Things

Entry 26

Surely the saying of, "there's someone out there for everyone," and other such sayings, are mathematically false, no? Let us say that there is a straight man who wishes to date a woman his age, give or take 5 years. And now let us say there are 5 million other men with identical tastes. And now, let us say there's a similar amount of straight women with identical criteria, only their partner being men, of course. What are the odds that the 2 numbers are identical? Of course, there's some further things I could say on the matter, but one will come to a conclusion on those things through a moment of thought. I believe the example illustrates my point fairly enough, anyway. This of course does not even account for other personal biases. She must be kind, he must be handsome etc. It also does not account for chance of meeting, or country of residence, language spoken. If everyone on Earth were to get married to another person suiting their tastes, millions would be left out. If everyone on Earth were to be married to legally edible candidates, many would be left out. If everyone on Earth were to get married to one other person, regardless of law and personal opinion, even then, one could still be left out. So, no, there is not somebody out there for everybody. 

I've seen one theory to prove God's existence that claims that the world and universe are far too useful and convenient for us, and that they must have been designed with us in mind. Of course, this is not the case in my belief. Instead, we evolved. We were designed for the world by evolution, by natural selection. And anyway, most of the universe is useless to us at the moment, deadly in fact. But, we will adapt, and strengthen this argument greatly, as we will truly be able to utilize every aspect of the universe. When that happens, I hope someone looks back, and sees that the universe, and most of our world, was deadly and useless. 

I'd like to think that God, or the idea of spirits, originated from someone thinking about why they want to live and do things. Thus, God is our subconscious mind, our evolutionary brain. Instead, I believe it came from someone looking up, many looking up, and seeing nothing but bright lights, or a seemingly infinite darkness, and being terrified and overwhelmed, and putting it down to a higher power. What an excuse of an explanation. What if I put down every maths formula I couldn't understand to God?

That classic question of, "If you punch yourself in the face and it hurts, are you strong?" Seems to apply to all of man at the moment in regards to nuclear bombs and other such weapons. If we wipe out ourselves, along with the planet, are we strong, or are we weak?

I've been thinking about race a little lately, mainly black and white. I don't seek to speak on the topic of racism in any great detail, as I can never understand it fully as a white man myself. But I've been mainly thinking about the names, white and black. Of course, they must've come from the white man, for they would've been the only ones with permission to name things in the past. And I've been thinking about how the association must not be purely with color, else at the very least the black man would be called the brown man. Thus, I've come to the belief that it must be the longest lasting act of racism, one that will continue for ages. White is associated with purity, cleanliness, good, and black is associated with evil, fear, unknown etc. I'm fairly certain this belief came before race, with the fear of black being instead a fear of the darkness, a natural human weakness, and the praise of white being associated with light and day, which is our most productive time. Of course, I'm not certain myself. It's entirely possible the black man and white man were named first and the rest came later, but I do not believe this to be the case. I am of course aware that there are very dark skinned black people and that, maybe, this was more common in the past due to a lack of interracial reproduction, thus causing the names black and white to be actually named after color entirely; but once again, I see this as unlikely. 

It is like how the word good were created by the nobility and associated with the nobility, whereas the word bad was created by the nobility and associated with the poor.

Once again, these are just, almost entirely, unfounded beliefs, but ones I believe to be fairly accurate. 

Good night.