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Tomorrow there is no Mom's Morning Out. It seems like it's the first time in a long time, that I haven't gone. In a way I'm glad. I just keep thinking about all the people I forgot to phone about possible session ideas for the Spring. Some programmer I'll turn out to be! This evening Matthias and I were sitting on the couch. He reached over and started playing with my hair. He'd throw it in my face, and then back, then in my face and then back. He repeated this several times, each time laughing. Suddenly he got up and went over to his art drawer. He pulled out his scissors. "I'm going to cut Mommy's hair. Okay?" "No, it is NOT okay!" I don't think his little crayola scissors could even cut hair, but I'm not going to let him try either. This is when the "do not cut your hair" lesson came into play. Somehow I doubt he'll remember this little conversation. But I hope that he does. A friend sent me this via e-mail today. I've heard it before and thought it was kinda cool. The University Professor challenged his students with this question: "Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!" "God created everything?", the Professor asked. "Yes, Sir," the student replied. The Professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil. Since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil." The student became quiet before such an answer. The Professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, Professor?" "Of course," replied the Professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?" "What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the law of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat." The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?" The Professor responded, "Of course it does." The student replied, "Once again you are wrong, Sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You can measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct, Sir? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally, the young man asked the Professor, "Sir, does evil exist?" Now uncertain, the Professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing but evil." To this, the student replied, "Evil does not exist, Sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when a man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light." The young man's name -- Albert Einstein. Christmas is officially "just around the corner". I hope you've begun your shopping. This is the time I love. The anticipation of something. We don't put any presents under the tree until Christmas morning. Last year he was speechless when he woke up and we told him to look under the tree, and he saw all these presents that weren't there the night before. It was pretty cool. I'm sure it'll be harder and harder to do that as he gets older. But for now, it's priceless.
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Postoji li zlo? i, je li Bog stvorio zlo? Mnogi osporavaju autentičnost ove zgode. No, bez obzira je li se dogodila ili ne, odnosno je li njen akter bio čuveni znanstvenik (ako to nije bio Einstein, bio je neki einstein) – moramo priznati da je zanimljiva Sveučilišni profesor postavio je svojim studentima sljedeće pitanje: ‒ Je li Bog stvorio sve što postoji? Jedan mu je student smjelo odgovorio: ‒ Da, Bog je stvorio sve što postoji! Profesor će potom: ‒ Ako je Bog stvorio sve, onda je stvorio i zlo. Budući da zlo postoji a uzevši u obzir princip da nas određuje ono što radimo, onda je i Bog zao! Student je zašutio, a profesor je pun sebe konstatirao kako je još jednom dokazao da je ono što kršćani vjeruju zapravo mit. A onda je drugi student podignuo ruku i pitao profesora smije li ga nešto pitati. ‒ Naravno ‒ odgovori profesor. Student ustane i reče: ‒ Profesore, postoji li hladnoća? ‒ Kakvo je to pitanje? Naravno da postoji. Zar ti nikad nije bilo hladno? Studenti su se zahihotali na kolegino pitanje. Mladić je odgovorio: ‒ Zapravo profesore, hladnoća ne postoji. Prema zakonima fizike, ono što mi smatramo hladnoćom u stvarnosti je odsustvo topline. Svako tijelo ili objekt prema proučavanju ima ili prenosi energiju a toplina je ono što čini da tijelo ima ili prenosi energiju. Apsolutna nula znači potpunu odsutnost topline, sve stvari postanu inertne i nesposobne za reakciju na toj temperaturi. Hladnoća ne postoji. Mi smo stvorili tu riječ da opišemo kako se osjećamo ako nemamo toplinu. Student nastavi s pitanjem: ‒ Profesore, postoji li tama? Profesor odgovori: ‒ Naravno da postoji. Student će na to: ‒ Opet ste u krivu, profesore, ni tama ne postoji. Tama je u stvarnosti samo odsustvo svjetla. Svjetlo možemo proučavati, ali tamu ne. Zapravo, možemo se poslužiti Newtonovom prizmom da pretvorimo bijelo svjetlo u mnoge boje i proučavati različite duljine svjetlosnih valova za svaku boju. Ne možemo mjeriti tamu. Najobičnija zraka svjetla može prodrijeti u svijet tame i prosvijetliti ju. Kako možete znati koliko je određeni prostor mračan? Mjerite količinu prisutnog svjetla. Nije li ovo točno? Tama je pojam koji ljudi koriste kako bi opisali što se događa kada nema svjetla. Na kraju, mladić upita: ‒ Profesore, postoji li zlo? Sad već pomalo nesiguran, profesor odgovori: ‒ Naravno, kao što sam već rekao. Vidimo zlo svaki dan. Najčešće u svakodnevnim primjerima čovjekove nečovječnosti prema drugim ljudima… U zločinima i nasilju diljem svijeta. Ove manifestacije nisu ništa drugo nego zlo. Na to će student: ‒ Profesore, zlo ne postoji, ili barem ne postoji po sebi. Zlo je jednostavno odsustvo Boga. Baš kao i tama i hladnoća, to je pojam koji su ljudi stvorili da opišu odsutnost Boga. Bog nije stvorio zlo. Zlo nije poput vjere i ljubavi koje postoje baš kao što postoje svjetlo i toplina. Zlo je posljedica onog što se dogodi kada u čovjekovu srcu nije nazočna Božja ljubav. Baš poput hladnoće koju doživljavamo u odsustvu topline, ili poput tame koja se događa kada nema svjetla. Profesor je šutke sjeo. Mladić se zvao Albert Einstein. Nepoznati autor