Saturday, April 10, 2004

Dedication to my toilet

Ever since I moved house, my favourite place has been (drumroll please) the toilet! I love it, man! Anyway, that's why I'm dedicating this entry to my toilet. It's a beautiful place.

As you walk in from the dance studio, a beautiful glass folding door greets you, and in case you're so blind that you can't see the profile of the toilet bowl from behind the glass, the word "Bathroom" is sandblasted onto the door. The glass is coloured marine blue, so light entering via the door gives the room a slighly bluish tinge, reminding you of the sea. 

As you enter, you see a beautiful square sink with a unique looking tap (the handle is in the shape of an X, the initial of my first name). A good-sized mirror is flanked by two sleek, shiny white shelf units.  As you take another step, you come within an inch of the toilet! And it's a beautiful toilet. It has a graceful, curvaceous profile, and its seat is made of plastic and contoured to your butt. A nice place to contemplate on life, or enjoy a good book. As you enjoy the delicious experience on sitting on an ergonomic toilet seat that's not too cold or hot, you'll notice that the floor looks like the place has been carved out from a limestone mountain. The walls are tiled in a matt white, which if you didn't know by now, is my favourite colour. 

Directly in front of you lies the shower. It's quite spacious, though not quite big enough to do a full arabesque. Maybe an attitude and some battement jetes. The heater is really really cool (I mean hot - wait never mind, terrible pun) and you can adjust the temperature of the water to an exact degree (Centigrade). The heater also feature a digital clock, so you won't be late for school on those dreadful Monday mornings. 

After a shower, you'll notice that the towels are readily accessible from a stylish shiny towel rack, all you have to do is partially - not even fully - slide open the shower door, and you can stick your arm out and grab it. Close by also, are the hand and face towels racks, situated conviently near both the sink and the shower, which you can swivel to a convenient position for use.

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Where does a circle start?

Do you ever wonder how, if sickness is passed from one to another, it even starts in the first place. Go to any sick person now, and they'll say, so and so passed this to me. So, who starts it? Or what starts it?

[Edit: studying to be a doctor, I realise that sickness is generally caused by invading pathogens, but that doesn't really answer the question, which is really, where does it all begin?]

Newton's third law states that every action has a reaction, and an equal and opposite one at that. If God created that law, then he must have known that once he had started the world, it would never really end. I mean, think about it, if in the end, the Solar System expands further and further until the Earth is so far away from the Sun it goes all cold and dead, that would lead to a reaction. I can't say what it is. But the reaction would then become an action and lead to another reaction. Excuse me if I've taken the law into the wrong context, but it seem to me that there would be an unbroken chain of action-reaction things occuring, and it would be impossible to break the chain.

To illustrate this point I'll go back to the spark which got the fire going. To get the spark, there had to be someone who lit the match or something. The person did it as a reaction to coldness. This is caused by a change in the weather. And so on and so forth. To continue the fire incident onward, the person would probably roast marshmellows over the fire to make good use of the heat, and because the person was hungry, and then eat the marshmellows, and from there you can either follow the path of digestion, or say that the person felt sleepy after eating, so he went to sleep, and of course he had to wake up. And so on and so forth...

So as far as I can see, all God had to do was set off the right reaction (which probably wasn't easy), and he would start the mechanisms to get the clock moving. I think one of the first things he must have done was to invent the action-reaction law. From there, everything under the sun and otherwise, would start itself.

Addendum: If God created the world, who created God? Logically (or perhaps illogically) speaking, God should be an action as well as a reaction to something that happened before him. If there was no spark to get the fire going, then...this wouldn't even exist. The concept of existence wouldn't even exist.

[Edit: There are two possible conclusions to make: 1) So there is no God, although this does not answer the question of how the chain-reaction of life started. We are left to question. 2) That God, if He exists, exists beyond the laws of this universe, and to the extent that He has properties that are beyond this universe, cannot be understood. In a way, this seems logical, but requires a bit of a feat of mental agility to grasp; up to the limits of logic, it is possible to glimpse God, but there is only so far that logic can take us, beyond which we can only depend on God for divine revelation of himself to us.]