random

what is random? isn't the term relative in the extreme?

we tend to use this word 'random' for many aspects of our lives, whereas in reality they are not random at all.

Let's look at some examples. One glaring instance is all over the most popular social networking sites, and we see it every day - one may have friends or friends of friends who post photo albums of them and their friends in varying states of intoxication and then proceed to name the album 'random'. Now if you look carefully, all these albums are essentially the same - there are people, and alcohol, inane smiles and various face-pulling grimaces, all the same fashion, clothes and hairstyles ad infinitum, ad nauseum...

So what's random about large percentages of humans doing the same thing night after night and year after year? What makes us think this is random enough for us to be baffled into believing our lives are unique? There's nothing unique about sameness and repetition.

Another example is the trend in philosophical fields to expound upon the randomness of existence, of the whole great universe coming into existence randomly and by chance. How many have deluded themselves into looking beyond the glaringly obvious order to be found everywhere and somehow attributing it to randomness?

If we look up and out, towards the stars we are amazed by it's order, and when we look down and in and in and in, without end, and the more we look, the more we are amazed at the order - so where's the randomness?

There has been talk of a 'chaos' which produces order (according to one of the Howard Johnsons of 'Blazing Saddles' Nietzche was the one who said that). We have Mr Hawking, our well-known robotic-voiced physics supremo talk about the history of time, and how it all comes from nothing and this Big Bang came suddenly without purpose and then the whole universe we inhabit worked itself into what it is today.

How can a sane person attribute this to chaos and randomness? Don't we remember those old philosophy lectures where the hairy proffessor puts forth the example of someone walking in the desert and finds a watch. Does he not assume it has a maker? Could a mind accept that the atoms and parts etc. made themselves come together? No.

So it is for our universe. It is the watch. Use that mind, folks, and see that it doesnt just come out of nowhere.

Randomness? It's merely our excuse for not wanting to recognise the majesty and the King of kings (of course it's not Jesus :))

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