November 8, 2008, 10:58 pm by dc-agape.

Genesis Chapter 3:14-19

The curses of YHWH are related in the verses.  First, YHWH curses the serpent.  You remember the one Satan used to tempt Eve.  The argument from yesterday still stands.  If the talking serpent was responsible for the deception then punishment was deserved.  But a talking serpent?  I wish all animals could still talk.  Can you imagine the information that we could get from them?  But if the devil somehow took over the serpent’s body and then tempted Eve, why would an omnipotent, omnipresent creator punish a lowly animal for a supernatural being’s trickery?

Next we read the punishment for Eve and all women for eternity.  Interestingly he claims to greatly increase the pains of childbearing.  Does this mean that Eve had already had children?  The Word is strangely silent on this question.  Did Adam and Eve have sex in the Garden?  But YHWH adds that man will rule over woman.  I guess that misogyny is just fine with YHWH!  This is how YHWH puts it:

Gen 3:16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.  Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Finally, he curses Adam and all men for eternity.  YHWH curses man with the chore of having to work for his food instead of picking it from the vines and trees of the garden.  Now man will toll and fight thorns and thistles.  Before this first sin, man would not die, now man will die and return to the ground from whence YHWH created us.  Well that sums up life as we know to a T.  So here we have an omnipotent, omnipowerful, omnibenevolent god punishing all of mankind for the last 3440 years just for one person’s mistake (that was bound to happen).  What a loving god!

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November 8, 2008, 11:38 am by dc-agape.

     It’s been a little over a month since I started this site.  So, I guess it might be time to write a little about myself.  I will leave out my religious and sexual perceptive.  This post will be about how I got myself into chemistry.

     Believe it or not it started in 6^th grade (1981).  I was in public school in Williamson County, TN.  It was an odd year to say the least.  I learned for the 1^st time that I was not like everyone else.  To begin with, in the “current event” part of social studies I was way too progressive.  I was totally for computers becoming a household object.  I also believed in evolution (in good old Tennessee)!  But worst of all, I believed in woman’s rights…I saw nothing wrong with abortion (under most circumstances).  I was the odd man out, to say the least.  All that didn’t matter as soon as I got my first taste of chemistry.

     In science class we had those presentations from universities about different topics.  The experiments were neat, but not life changing.  This is an example of how much of a true bookworm I was in middle school.  The woman who came into our class had a simple sentence on the blackboard:

“Two molecules of hydrogen plus one molecule of oxygen makes 2 molecules of water.” 

Kinda boring right?  As soon as she started to talk she made a new line and on that line she wrote:

“2 H₂ + O₂ → 2 H₂O”

This was the life changing moment.  I instantly realized that I would not have to ever spell again!  It was like a secret language.  Using symbols instead of words, I was in love!  There turns out a reason why I was instantaneously in love with this concept.

     This was also the year that I learned, from state testing that I was “gifted” in math and science.  That “gift” came with a heavy price…in both language and social studies I was at least one grade behind normal.  So here was the reason that I loved this secret language, it bypassed my learning difficulties.  In seventh grade I had the most horrible realization…I had to learn how to spell all those long elemental names before I could use the symbols.  But it was already too late, I was hooked.  Since that day in 6^th grade, I have known what I was going to be when I grew-up.

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