End of Spring Break

Well, today's the last day of my break. After today, there are 50 days left in my semester, 1200 hours, and so on.

I have to say that despite not doing anything particularly astounding, I must say that this week--ten days if we're technical--has been somewhat changing in long term ramifications.

I went from making the worst mistake of my life to returning full heartedly to the crusade that I aimed to begin at the beginning of the year, and I intend on seeing through t its natural conclusion--my victory.

Being alone for eight days made me sure that I want to stay that way for a very long time. I have never been mroe certain of my ascertation never to marry and never to have children. This world is growing worse and worse with each passing year, and I will not put anyone else through it, especially children that I would have.

I saw an interesting article tonight that says that Islam is now the worst's largest religion, supplanting Catholicism. While this is a natural development, what I find as surprising is that the news organization divvies the Christian religions up into their constituent elements (Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy), but doesn't do the same thing with Muslims into their groups (Shiites and Sunnis). If you do that division, what will happen is you lose Iran, most of Iraq, a lot of Syria and parts of Lebanon and a whole bunch of other areas. If you apply the same treatment to all religions, as should be done, Catholicism will still be the larger religion. I find it odd that they didn't do that. It was actually the Vatican that put it out, so maybe they were doing it to prompt more Catholic breeding. Next thing you know, they'll start encouraging premarital sex so that more Catholic babies will begin popping out.

I think it would be better for all of these religions involved to measure their following not on births but on practice. I think you would find the total number of Muslims and Christians much closer than expected.

The largest growing groups though continue to be evangelicals and other assorted religions like Mormonism. All of this is concerning to me because I live in Colorado Springs, the evangelical capital of the world basically, and I can only imagine what will happen if evangelicals come into power--forced praise and worship sessions, obligatory testimonials, funds constantly funnelling into religious organizations. The Republican party has already been conquered. There's very little left for sensible people to join.

I think someday in my lifespan, there will be a great war, far more influential than what's going on now in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are really only a few possibilities that I see happening. First, there may be a great Islamic civil war, the likes that Christians saw in Europe in the 1600s where up to 30% of populations can be killed. The rising power of Iran is testimony to this. If they get nuclear weapons, they will not only kill the Jews of Israel, but also the Arabs of the Middle East.

The second option is that Islamic fundamentalism wins out in the Middle East. War then essentially will be between everyone and Islam. If places like China think they'll be saved, they'll be sorely mistaken. The US and Europe are but the first fronts. Latin America and China would be next.

The third is the last superpower war, between the US and its few remaining allies and Russia/China and their last few remaining allies. A nuclear war strong enough to wipe out life on earth.

Obviously there is very little rosy disposition about the future I see.

Anyways, in other developments, I have thoroughly studied up my citric acid cycle for my biochemistry quiz on Wednesday, I have thoroughly ignored logic, and I now have 64 pages on my thesis. Major improvement from my 18 a little more than a week ago. My guess is I'll have at least 20 more pages, maybe at least 30. This is definitely going to break my record of 72 pages that my Stalinism essay was back in freshman year.

I am so tired. I haven't slept well in the last three days.