After meeting and speaking with so many people who are non-Christian, "pseudo-Christian" and "post-Christian", I've been really considering the possibility of trying to get at least an associates in Biblical studies, so that when I get my doctorate I could ask LeTourneau to let me teach a class on heresy. It's not intended to be a joke; I really think that it'd be a fun class to teach if I ever make it to professor status.

The scary thing is how plausible some of these theories are. That's part of what would make a class on Heresy so cool. I could really challenge people's faith. Heck, who knows. I guess once you know, the only thing you can lean on is your experience. It's like people who believe in "law of attraction" -- if you try it enough times and it works, you start to believe it.

Then again, how real is our imagination, really? If I am totally nuts and I believe that I'm flying around and saving people, even though I'm not; and if you take me to an insane asylum and leave me there, but I still believe I'm a free, happy super hero, then whose world is more real? How much does my world exist, really? Can you be certain that it exists only to me? Lets say I hallucinate the existence of a few people standing in the room with me, and I know their personalities and histories intimately. Do they exist? Would God give them souls? If one of my hallucinations dies, who's do say I won't meet him/her/it in heaven?

I'm not saying I don't believe in absolute truth. Even though we can't always be certain about reality, and even though we might not know the truth, we can know for sure that there is a truth. There is an explanation for existence, and we would be in huge danger if we didn't at least look for it.

This is the primary theory I've been hearing all summer, compiled and greatly summarized.

So... where to start... The important thing to remember here is that these people do not believe Scripture to be 100% God-breathed. They say it was written by men, and although it may have been divinely inspired, it's just a text written by men. As such it's only the authors' best recollection, opinion, and perspective. Most of these people are also skeptical of the committee that picked out which texts are Bible-worthy and not.

Consider a family of fruit flies living in your house. Each one lives like 20 hours or less or something like that. One day, great great granddaddy fruit fly is on the wall next to little baby fruit fly. Granddaddy fruit fly looks up at a passing human and says to baby fruit fly, "you see that being there.". Baby fruit fly listens. "Those beings have been here as long as I've been alive. They were here during my father's life, and his father's life, and his great great great grandfather's life, as far back as our family can conceive. They never age, and they are infinitely powerful to change, create, and destroy the environment. They are immortal. They must be Gods."

Imagine that somewhere out there in the distant vastness of infinite space, there is a wide two dimensional plane, which moves like the smoothly vibrating surface of a lake and the waving of a flag in a constant wind. On this vibrating plane, there exists an entire universe of two dimensional people. You find that plane and find that you are able to see and comprehend all of it very quickly, because you can see every inner working of each organism or machine that exists there. You can bend the plane, punch holes in the plane, fold it, introduce fire or wind to any part of it. With some time, you may even be able to reconstruct the organisms there simply by gathering two-dimensional elements together. The people there will pray to you and call out to you always, and consider you as a potential answer to the question, "where do we come from"?

Punching a hole in a two dimensional plane like that might cause nearby two-dimensional creatures to be sucked out into the third dimension (where their energy, not being enough to sustain three dimensions of matter, would promptly disperse). It would be really similar to a worm hole in our dimension. Shoot, worm holes might be 4th dimensional hole punches in our universe.

There are many dimensions. We live in the third dimension, and here we are able to directly see the second and first direction. Then, using the distance between our eyes and some subconscious math, we can perceive depth (our own third dimension). Someone in the 4th dimension could easily see and manipulate anything in our dimension -- but there maybe 5 dimensions, or 10 dimensions, or 20, or maybe more.

We know that our universe is composed of tightly compacted energy, held together by frequencies on some invisible medium across the universe. We might suppose invisible strings stretch across everything at once. That is to say, God created the universe and everything in it by first playing a chord on the strings of existence. I'm always hearing differing opinions about whether or not, at this point, God created a big pile of souls for insertion into whatever beast was intelligent enough to deserve one.

So at this point, lets say God has a functioning and organized universe with no life in it. It's just about to finish its Hadean or 'shapeless' era. Right here he looks in and says "man, I'm really awesome. Just look at this cool universe... if only it had a little more flavor..." So he adds life. Most pseudo, or post-Christians I've talked to will say He took his cosmic salt shaker and shook some DNA onto a few planets and watched it evolve.

At any rate, God picks out our solar system for life. At this point, Earth doesn't exist and there's an ice giant called Tiamat in between Mars and Jupiter. God finds a dim brown dwarf star with a large satellite planet ("X") and spins it into a *huge* orbit around our sun (approx 35K earth years to orbit once). On it's second or third pass, planet X collides with Tiamat. The debris becomes the asteroid belt, and a large remaining chunk of Tiamat falls into orbit closer to the sun. The ice melts and that greater halfof Tiamat becomes earth. If you look at earth right over the pacific ocean, all you can see is water. It looks like the earth might be just water. That's because Earth is lopsided. The continental drift is earth repairing the roundness of its solid mass.

At the point of that collision, some would say that DNA from X was seeded on earth, and henceforth evolution brought about neanderthals. This implies the existence of extraterrestrial life, and there are some really cool stories about early human existence, derived from the Sumerian creation narratives. I'll type that story up in another blog.

Anyway, back to frequencies. If it's true that our energy is held together by frequencies on some universal medium, then it's conceivable that IF we really have free choice, then we have the power to modify those frequencies. Similar to the way a butterfly flapping its wings in France might indirectly cause a hurricane in the states, the sound of you farting could indirectly cause a transdimensional shudder or storm.

Ok ok, so lets take all this and draw on it. I'm sure I'm leaving out something, because there's a lot more to tell. But anyway you eventually arrive at this terrifying idea that if there ever was anything to witchcraft, then it's leftover superscience from before the tower of Babel. (Right out of left field, I know. It'll make a little more sense if I ever get to explain more about those aliens later.) Basically, the idea is that if you design an object with perfect proportions and perfect shape, and then make just the perfect resonating sound into it, you have the potential to alter the chord of the universe and do basically anything with seemingly limitless power. Like, drawing a circle on the floor in soap or chalk and then saying the magic words into it. If you don't happen to resonate with existence, then at the very least you might pique the interest of a being in a higher dimension who can act on your intentions.

That all sounds really crazy, and I just realized I forgot to elaborate on that fruit fly analogy. That one also has to do with the aliens.

... This blog is just too long to get into that. I'll do it later.

But interestingly enough, almost everyone I've talked to at least believes that there is a God who literally lives forever and has lots of power, whether or not he's "The Bible God". They just have some really interesting ideas about who that God is. They also mostly believe that Jesus existed, and most of them also believe he had super healing powers.

To put any of my reader's minds at ease: I don't buy all of this. However, the part about Tiamat and the asteroid belt might as well be true. Also, that stuff about higher dimensions seems to be in line with what (extremely little) I know about string theory. I have a lot more studying to do before I make an educated opinion on most of this.

For now, I still believe the Bible to be 100% true. I'm content with Jesus being salvation for sins and such.

"All my life, there you go. Oh please stay, just this once anyway."