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There is no God-Creator, but there is the Cosmos, which creates suns, planets and living beings. There is no omnipotent God, but there is the Universe, which governs the fates of all celestial bodies and their inhabitants. There are no sons of God, but there are mature and thus rational and perfect sons of the Cosmos. There are no personal gods, but there are elected leaders of planets, solar systems, stellar groups, milky ways, islands of ether and the whole Cosmos. There is no Christ, but there is a brilliant man and a greater teacher of mankind.

Μπλε Λάμψεις από Καραμέλες Μια έμμεση απόδειξη της έλξης φορτίων με αντίθετα πρόσημα μπορούμε να δούμε με μια καραμέλα με γεύση π.χ. μέντας. Αν προσαρμόσετε τα μάτια σας στο σκοτάδι για 15 περίπου λεπτά και μετά πείτε σε έναν φίλο να δαγκώσει ένα κομμάτι της καραμέλας στο σκοτάδι, θα δείτε μια ασθενή μπλε λάμψη στο στόμα του φίλου σας σε κάθε δαγκωνιά. Όταν μια δαγκωνιά σπάει έναν κρύσταλλο ζάχαρης σε κομμάτια, κάθε κομμάτι θα καταλήξει πιθανότατα με διαφορετικό πλήθος ηλεκτρονίων. Υποθέστε ότι ένας κρύσταλλος σπάει στα κομμάτια A και B, με το A να καταλήγει με περισσότερα ηλεκτρόνια στην επιφάνειά του απ’ ό,τι το B (Σχ. 21.1.4). Αυτό σημαίνει ότι το B έχει θετικά ιόντα (άτομα που έχασαν ηλεκτρόνια προς το A) στην επιφάνειά του. Επειδή τα ηλεκτρόνια στο A έλκονται ισχυρά από τα θετικά ιόντα στο B, κάποια από αυτά τα ηλεκτρόνια μεταπηδούν διαμέσου του διάκενου μεταξύ των κομματιών.

From: Steve JobsTo: Steve JobsSubject:Date: September 2, 2010, 11:08 p.m.I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.I do not make any of my own clothing.I speak a language I did not invent or refine.I did not discover the mathematics I use.I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.I am moved by music I did not create myself.When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.Sent from my iPad

I’ve spent years staring at that photo, wondering what kind of life she led, what happened to her children, and what she’d think about cells from her cervix living on forever—bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by the trillions to laboratories around the world. I’ve tried to imagine how she’d feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization. I’m pretty sure that she—like most of us—would be shocked to hear that there are trillions more of her cells growing in laboratories now than there ever were in her body.

Resurrection of the body is to be preceded by a judgment passed upon the works of charity, fulfilled or neglected. As a result of this judgement, the just are destined to eternal life. There is a destination to eternal damnation as well, which consists in the ultimate rejection of God, the ultimate break of the communion with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Here, it is not so much God who rejects man, but man who rejects God.

No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons. This quick, inevitable interest attaching to everything seems marvelous until the hand of God becomes visible; then it seems reasonable that what interests Him may well interest us. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow mountaineers.