More thoughts from Erik.

Every once in a while I have some thoughts about just stuff really. Last
Sunday I was thinking about people saying there is no way to prove there
is a God. This thought was provoked by my co-worker, I wont use his real
name, but i'll give you a hint, It starts with a S and ends with a cott.
He hates everything that has anything with God, Religion, and stuff he
says "controls his life", Yes he used to be Mormon. There really are many
ways that you can at least provide a lot of evidence that there is a God.
After all if you made a world wouldn't you stick your "signature" on it
somewhere?

The best place to start with any thought is at the beginning so i thought
about all the basic of basic things to do with God and good, and basic
human instincts.

I sent some of you a text that there is no such thing as Cold, Darkness,
and Evil, because they can not be tested, or measured, except by measuring
their opposites.

The way scientists measure how cold something is, is by measuring the
amount of heat it gives off. Example of this is what they do to try to
reach absolute zero. At absolute zero all molecular motion does not cease
but does not have enough energy to transfer its motion to another
molecule. The motion in an object is set by energy. The type of energy
that makes the molecules move is heat energy. The faster a molecule moves
the hotter it gets, once it starts moving to fast it begins to "shed" some
of its parts, or rather particles. When a molecule, or an Atom starts to
shed its parts, it is said to be radio active. The "free radicals" collide
with other atoms and start a chain reaction, hence radioactive poisoning.
But lets back up some....a lot.

When you touch something that is hot, you only know its hot because its
molecules are hitting yours so hard and fast that your own molecules begin
to become damaged, which hurts...or rather burns.

Back to my point. You can not measure cold without measuring heat.
Therefore cold does not exist in and of itself, it can only be quantified
by its opposite.

The same can be said of Darkness.

Darkness is only measured by "collecting" the photons flying around in the
darkness. The human eye can pick up these photons that bounce off objects,
and the brain creates an image based on the photons the eye collects.

The only way to measure darkness is by measuring the amount of light. You
can measure light intensity but not dark intensity. Darkness, like cold,
is not a thing. Its the absence of its opposite. Like coldness it is not a
substance, it is not physical, and therefore does not exist.

To make a short story long, Evil is what you get when you take good away.
We are taught in several places in the book of Mormon that mankind are by
nature carnal, selfish, and devilish. That without Jesus Christ we can be
no other thing, but evil. Wickedness never was happiness because happiness
is the product of righteousness. It is the measurable quality that
quantifies your righteousness. True happiness is only obtained by being
close to God, such closeness is only obtained by being righteous.

So how do we be both happy, and righteous? "the spirit of God is given to
all those who keep my commandments, (crap...NO one can keep all the
commandments all the time, old, young, smart, dumb, good, bad, EVERYONE
will sin as long as they are mortal.) So according to this scripture in DC
45 there is no way to be happy....Except there is more in that scripture.
"and to him that seeketh so to do"

Someone once asked mother teresa why she was doing everything she was
doing, when there was no way for her to possibly make even the smallest
dent in the amount of suffering in the world. What she said was prophetic,
and true.

"God does not require that I succeed. He only requires that I do the best
I can."

Both these scriptures say that to be happy all we have to do is seek to
keep the commandments. As we do this our ability to keep the commandments
will increase, making it seem easier to do. As a product of this increase
in our ability to keep the commandments, our happiness will also increase.

Everything is by default Cold, Dark, and Evil, and when everything is
cold, dark, and evil, everything will be completely dead, both temporal
and spiritual. Only by introducing heat, light, and Good, can life thrive.



There was a reason that Jesus said "I am the light, and life of the world."

So there are some long thoughts of mine. The fact that there is light,
heat, and happiness demonstrates the presence of God.