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This is one that makes sense.
If 400,000,000 years ago a tumbling rock had changed the course of the stream that is now the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon might not exist.
A butterfly flapping its wings in China could cause a storm in Florida, if you think over a period of millions of years.
Theories like E=MC² don't seem to make sense, because they lack practical explanations

The Sun's life span is 10 billion years. Oldest living creature on earth, bacteria that was revived after being dormant for 250 million years. Giant Tortoises live 177 years, Fruit Flies live 37 days. Protozoans - Animals that split from a single parent. Do they have live spans? The oldest Human - 122 years old. (Jeanne Louise Calment, 1875 - 1997) Odds of living over 100 - 1 in 10,000 One fly, after 1 year/7 generations, will have spawned 5.6 trillion flies

We are learning only as far as we can see.
We're guessing about the size of the universe. Its just a guess.
We're guessing about whats in an atom. Its a lot of theories.
We seem to relate everything we see to our own life span.
For instance, rocks aren't alive because we can't see them move.
Our lives are too short to observe sun's explode or galaxies expand.
Our lives are too quick to observer lifeforms that evolve quicker than ours.
We are to small to see outside of our universe.
We are to big to see deep inside an atom.
We won't begin to learn about this universe until we are free of our bodies.
Only until we evolve into something like a spirit form, will we have the ability to truely explore this universe.

In the beginning, god was everything.
He existed as a union of both everything and nothing. A single entity. He existed in the form of thought.
God had no mass, energy or time as we know it. His universe was peace.
His was the universe that we would call Heaven.
This was a place where there was no movement, no beauty, no music and no pleasure.
And perfection is lonely. And god said to himself "Is this all that I am. Am I nothing more".
With one thought, god created everything we see.
With the power of a trillion suns, God exploded himself across the universe.
He created polarity.
He created mass, energy and time.
He created the living and non-living systems.
Within the non-living systems:
He encoded subsystems of memory for everything that occured to the form.
He left ways to decrypt the systems existance.
Within the living systems:
-He encoded little memory, ingnorance, the will to survive, to replicate and discover.
-He created the concepts of chaos and order, pain and pleasure, life and death.
-He divided himself into an infinite number of life forms.
-Each entity would view god from their own worlds.
-Each would record a different perspective, to help decide gods next creation.
And with these life forms that god could break the silence of perfection.
These polarities were designed to reform to recreate Gods heaven.
With everything recollected, anything that exists in the universe can be recreated.
God is learning from us. You are a part of him.
We are all the same, but we were born to be ignorant, and to be diverse.
We are here to teach God all of the unreasonable possibilites that can exist.
We are gods children, and we are here to entertain.
Given a life of immortality, given everything that exists, wouldn't you do the same thing?
--- Just a thought ----
Author: Jim Cutlar

1. The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in another.
2. Mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth.
3. Something believed or accepted as true, especially by a group of persons.
None of these beliefs are reasonable:
- Magic, Miracles, God, Heaven, Hell, Wizards, Demons, Ghosts, Spirits
They were created out of greed, and sold to an irrational population.
Most of us have asked ourselves, are any of these concepts logical?
We knew they weren't logical the first time we heard them.
We either trusted those who told us, or were brain washed into accepting them.
By selling these concepts, it gave people power.
These concepts give those that believe, the right to kill, kidnap, rape and steal.
Selling beliefs motivates the world today. It is, in itself, power.
Belief fuels the stock market, controls children. It gives suicide bombers hope.
It has always been about avoiding pain and seeking pleasure.
Through power, we gain comfort.
Perhaps, its long forgotten why these concepts were created. Maybe no one knows who or why they were conceptualized. The designers either knew, or they were insane.
90% of the world's population believes in the above concepts.
Most people either cannot reason, or choose not to reason, that all of the above concepts are seriously flawed.
The inability to reason is called insanity. To see the truth, a person must question all concepts.
Science seeks the truth. Religions, governments and individuals seek power.

Each cell is an individual life form.
Each cells has it's food and it's own parasites.
All of these cells are what makes up you, as a living oganism.
When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see them.
When you die, most of them become energy sources for their parasites.
Only a handful of these cells decide how you, as a living organism, behave.
I believe those cells is what our souls consists of.
I believe what motivates our souls is coded in the DNA.
The DNA would contain the instructions for how every life form must behave on this planet. If this is true, this world then would be acting as single living organism, which like us, consists of all its sub lifeforms.
God must exist in the smallest of things. He is not heavenly. He is small in size, but his numbers are infinitesimal.
The concept of a large life form consisting of smaller individual life forms should not be that difficult to grasp. If tis is the case, we all have a function that fills a need for the whole. The individual skin cell has no concept of the person that hosts it. It simply fulfills its need to survive, and our need to have skin.
I would think we are natures finest invention.

It's important that the scientifically literate person understands and accurately applies appropriate science concepts, principles, laws, and theories in interacting with society and the environment. Here are the concepts.
Change: The process of becoming different. It may involve several stages.
Interaction: When two or more things influence or affect each other.
Orderliness: The sequence which either exists in nature or is imposed through classification.
Organism: A living thing or something that was once alive.
Perception: The interpretation of sensory input by the brain.
Symmetry: A repetition of a pattern within some larger structure.
Force: A push or pull.
Quantification: Numbers can be used to convey important information.
Reproducibility: The repetition of a procedure should produce the same results if all other conditions are identical. It is a necessary characteristic of scientific experiments.
Cause and Effect: The belief that natural phenomena do not occur randomly. It enables predictions to be made.
The Chaos theory has caused some rethinking of this principle.
Predictability: Patterns can be identified in nature. From those patterns inferences can be made.
Conservation : An understanding of the finite nature of the world's resources, and an understanding of the necessity to treat those resources with prudence and economy, are underlying principles of conservation. In physics, the term 'conservation' also has a unique meaning, as in the conservation of energy.
Energy-matter: It is the interchangeable and dependent relationship between energy and matter.
Cycle: Certain events or conditions that repeat themselves
Model: A representation of a real structure, event, or class of events intended to facilitate a better understanding of abstract concepts or to allow scaling to a manageable size.
System: A set of interrelated parts
Field: A region of space which is influenced by some agent.
Population: A population is a group of organisms that share common characteristics.
Probability: The relative degree of certainty that can be assigned to certain events happening in a specified time interval or within a sequence of events.
Theory: A connected and internally consistent group of statements, equations, models, or a combination of these, which serves to explain a relatively large and diverse group of things and events.
Accuracy: Recognizing that there is uncertainty in measurement, this involves the correct use of significant figures.
Fundamental Entities: These are units of structure or function which are useful in explaining certain phenomena. Example: The cell is the basic unit of organic structure. The atom is the basic unit of molecular structure.
Invariance: This is a characteristic which stays constant even though other things may change. Example: Mass is conserved in a chemical reaction
Scale: A change in dimensions. This may affect other characteristics of a system.
Time-space: The mathematical framework in which it is convenient to describe objects and events.
Evolution: The series of changes that can be used to explain how something got to be the way it is or what it might become in the future. It is generally regarded as going from simple to complex.
Amplification: An increase in magnitude of some detectable phenomenon.
Equilibrium: The state in which there is no change on the macroscopic level and no net forces on the system.
Gradient: A gradient is a description of a pattern or variation. The description includes both the magnitude and the direction of the change (Light intensity decreases in a predictable manner as the distance from the light source increases).
Resonance: The action within one system which causes a similar action within another system.
Significance: The belief that certain differences exceed those that would be expected to be caused by chance alone
Validation: A belief that similar relationships obtained by two or more different methods reflect an accurate representation of the situation being investigated.
Entropy: The randomness, or disorder, in a collection of things. It can never decrease in a closed system. Example: When salt is dissolved in water, its particles are dispersed randomly

The measure of intelligence
Take a brain or any information processor, input information (knowledge), check the conclusions (output). The conclusions it reaches is a reflection of the quality of the processor. The information went in, was processed and conclusions were reached. These conclusions tell us about the quality of the processing. This is the essence of intelligence. A brain that has processed the information available to it in a modern civilization and comes to the conclusions that there is a personal, all knowing, all powerful and loving god behind the universe is inferior to a brain that comes to atheistic conclusions. The question of dolphin intelligence
Trapped in Plato's cave
If dolphins had an intelligence anywhere near ours, surely it would be hell, stuck in a kind of Plato's cave, with no hands to construct things, no tools, no telescopes, no microscopes, no ability to research and experiment with reality, no ability to explore the nature of reality, and consequently not knowing about the universe, atoms, etc.
Would a super intelligence be able to work it all out purely by thinking? Deduce the fact of atoms and valence bonding, molecules, evolution, genes, cells, neurons and synapses, the universe, the big bang, black holes, E=MC squared, etc? All is not knowable
I believe the universe is finite and therefore knowledge is finite, but all knowledge is not knowable because it would take a structure with more atoms than there are in the universe just to know the position of every atom in the universe. And then of course there is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle which states that it is not just practically, but fundamentally impossible to accurately know both the position and momentum of a particle. Because human intelligence is limited there is probably knowledge that is beyond the scope (understanding) of even the best human brains. Reason, instinct and intelligence
Rational reason is a sign of intelligence.
One of the factors that is supposed to distinguish man from other animals is the ability to reason. Instincts are genetically inherited programs, i.e. behavior patters shaped by natural selection. A spider builds its web on instinct. Even though a spiders' web is a fairly complex structure, a spider cannot be described as intelligent. Instinctual behavior cannot be described as intelligent. Whenever there is a conflict between reason and instinct, reason should override instinct. By behaving instinctually humans reduce themselves to the level of lower life forms. Territoriality and tribalism are primitive instincts that nowadays manifest themselves as nationalism and patriotism and which are often the root causes of wars. Emotions are instinctual. Breeding is instinctual.

PSYCHOLOGY AND PROGRAMS

I am a sum of programs.
You are born with a few basic, core genetic programs like heart beat, breath, suck nipple, cry, basic movements etc. The way the brain is structured enables it to write and update its own programs. These are learned programs. Most motor function programs are learned programs.
The other day I injured my wrist and had to brush my teeth with my left hand, which led to the realization that I do not have a 'brush my teeth with my left hand' program. This would be a waste of valuable brainspace. Of course this also applies to a myriad of other motor functions like handwriting etc.
Some programs are inherited, some are formed by experience, a few are latent and need to be triggered.
Most psychological problems are caused by faulty programs. A small fault can cause a program to get stuck in a loop resulting in an obsessive compulsive disorder. (O.C.D.)
A child molester might have a faulty sex program, a psychopath has a latent override his/her conscience program that is triggered by lack of affection in his/her childhood.
Addiction is a program similar to the thirst program. Frequent ingestion of the drug causes a chemical dependence which results in the writing of an irresistible desire ( addiction ) program. Speech
Probably the biggest and most complex program is the speech program. Most of our thinking is done in a language. If you could map a dissected brain you would probably be able to tell by the wiring pattern what language that person spoke (and many other character traits for example if that person was fascist or liberal, theist or atheist.)
The visual program is probably the next largest and complex program. Memes and Brain viruses (some info on memes) (more info on memes)
A brain virus is a meme complex that has it own self replicating instructions and has a detrimental effect on brain performance, much like a computer virus has its' own self replicating instructions and has an negative effect on computer performance. Religion is a type of brain virus, it reduces the performance of the brain.
People who do not believe in evolution are suffering from religious virus brain damage. (for an example of R.V. brain damage check out the creation science. website) The Inquisitions are another classic example of the ill effects of a religious brain virus. It caused mass superstition and paranoia resulting in the gruesome murder of millions of people. Traditions are brain viruses. An example of the ill effects of a tradition virus is the brutal removal of millions of women's clitoris in northern Africa and the Middle East. Some differences between a computer and a brain.
Obviously the most noticeable difference between human thinking and computer information processing is human consciousness, awareness of self, awareness of ones thoughts.
Structural differences
In a computer there is a clear distinction between hardware and software. Microchip wiring is fixed. Programs are stored in the hard drive.
In the brain on the other hand the wiring is flexible and constantly changing. Experiences actually change the wiring patterns of the brain. Programs are in the wiring pattern (neural networks). Brains write, install and update their own programs. Dreams
The organic equivalent of defrag?
The sorting and refiling of short term memories into long term memories.
I believe that we have some sort of sense extrapolation program. If you are woken during this refiling process, these often unconnected memories pop into your consciousness, this is when the sense extrapolation application kicks in and concocts a story that more or less makes sense out of these unconnected memories. MEMORY
Memory is the most important function of thinking. When thinking about what a thought is, think first about what memory is. What is a memory? It has to be a stored pattern. It occupies space.
Without memory, thinking cannot take place. Conception requires memory. Because we do not receive information in whole pictures instantaneously, but rather in a steady stream through time, the beginning needs to be remembered in order to conceive the whole picture. This is a very short term memory function. Without this ultra short term memory a word would vanish the instant you received it and you could not link it to the next word. This even applies to the syllables of a word. Memory can be divided into 4 basic functions.
1. The reception. (receiving the information)
2. The placing into storage of the information and maybe some kind of address function, but then you would need to remember the address and that would also require an address and so on ad infinitum . Memories are interlinked so one memory can trigger another. The number of links each memory has to other memories is probably high enough that each memory is only a couple of links away from every other memory. This system doesn't require addressing, thus doing away with that type of filing system. This system also has self organizing properties, the more we use a memory the more linked it becomes the easier and quicker it is to retrieve. Links fade over time, recalling reinforces the links, thus little used less important for our day to day functioning, memories fade away, making space for new more usefull memories. This process is not intellectually controlled, so we trend to store a lot of trivial stuff and lose intellectually important, but not often used stuff.
3. The actual storage.
Computers store memory in a one dimentional binary stream whereas organic memories store the information as three dimentional patterns.
4. The recalling from storage.
Any one or more of these can malfunction. I know what the word 'word' means. I know what the word 'means' means. The word 'memory' is stored in my memory. When speaking a sentence every word has to be recalled from memory. How does your brain know where to search for that word considering that it does not know the word until it finds the word? Cry wolf (only an idiot completely trusts his memory)
Not only have I completely forgotten important things, or my memory has completely distorted things but I have remembered things that never actually happened.
You can read something and the memory can slowly fade from consciousness but still be floating around only to pop up later to be perceived as an original thought. Duplication?
Maybe some or most of our memories are stored at various locations. (many copies) These parallel memories would reinforce each other and it would speed up recall. A malfunction is less likely. Maybe every time we recall a memory another copy is made. Forgetfulness
Because our brains are limited, forgetfulness is a vital brain function. One of the ways we forget is if a memory is not recalled it tends to fade away. The path gets overgrown, the groove fills in. A self organizing system of forgetfulness.
If we remembered every detail of every situation our memories would soon be filled to capacity. Memory compression
Memory is not like a photograph or a video, we only remember some details of a scene the rest is approximately filled in on recall. No wasted space
It is often stated (usually by mystics) that we use only 10% of our brain capacity. Maybe only 10% is used for conscious thinking but the rest does certainly not lie idle. As a thought experiment think about removing 90% of the brain, any 90% in as little sections as desired, right down to individual neurons. Do you really think this would not affect the performance of the brain? Why would our brains have evolved to their present size if only 10% was used? A lot of brain space and energy is used up on our senses and related skills like speaking. A complex thought can be transferred into a complex pattern of pressure waves (sound) that you can pick up with your vibration sensors (ears) and decipher. This is obviously a very complicated operation needing a lot of neurons. A sound wave has a frequency and an amplitude. A particular sound like a word or a dog barking will have a pattern of changing frequencies and amplitudes. Every sound we recognize is stored in our memories as a pattern of changing frequencies and amplitudes. Not only do we recognize probably millions of sounds but we can make our own sounds. So the sound and the instructions to manipulate our voice boxes to reproduce that sound have to be stored, and stored in such a manner that they can be almost instantly recalled. Obviously a lot of brain space is used.
Imagine a Martian scientist observing Homo Sapiens having a discussion. (It could be about the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics, black holes, point singularities, infinity etc., or it could about the weather ) He would detect complex sonic vibrations coming from their mouths. Their thoughts are being converted into sound waves. To know what is going on he would have to decode those vibrations. A very complex task.
Seeing, (converting a certain spectrum of electromagnetic waves into colour) also requires the use of probably billions of neurons.
Every colour, shape, object, substance, landscape etc., that we recognize is stored in our brains. Again a massive amount of brain space. THOUGHTS ON LIFE
"Life results from the nonrandom survival of randomly varying replicators" Quote from Richard Dawkins, ( a prime example of a high quality organic thinking machine.)
"Life is a cancer of matter." Quote from I don't know who.
Life, we take in raw materials, give of waste products and spread our genes. Have a nice day!
Life is a losing struggle against entropy and atrophy. Atrophy is biological entropy. We always lose. The future is death. Death comes in two ways, slowly increasing atrophy (disease and senility) until you are so atrophied that you stop functioning, or sudden drastic atrophy normally caused by external circumstances like a car crash. Keeping fit is a battle against atrophy. Humans start atrophying after about twenty five years but the signs really become noticeable at about thirty five to forty years. If you look in the mirror and see that your skin is wrinkling, you know that it is deteriorating and so are all your other organs including your brain. Death (been there done that!
I don't understand what all the mystery surrounding death is about.
I did not exist before I was born, and I won't exist after I die. The two states are the same. I have been dead for + - thirteen billion years. I know what it is like to be dead.
Life! You don't exist, then you exist, then you don't exist. Evolution stinks ("Mother Nature is a whore." Curt Corbain)
The mess that the world is in with war, genocide, torture, military spending, greed, corruption, hunger, starvation, disease, insanity, genetical deformities, rape, over population, pollution, poverty or even the meaningless 'live to work' life of a 9 to 5 existence, is all a consequence of evolution. Unfortunately this is the only way it could be, life has to be a struggle. The struggle is the evolutionary pressure. The system of evolution stinks, but without it there would be no life, no intelligence, no consciousness and the universe would not be aware of its existence.
I don't blame individuals for the horrific deeds that they commit, I blame nature. Stage two evolution
Up till now evolution has been a process of random mutations subject to blind natural selection. A non-intelligent system which required flukes (the rare random mutations that actually improve the chances of survival) to progress. Billions of years and millions of flukes have resulted in an intelligence high enough to actually consciously/intelligently influence evolution.
Second stage evolution is evolution with intelligence behind it. Technological development is second stage evolution. It is much faster than first stage, survival of the fittest, blind natural selection evolution. Just look at the current pace of computer development. Genetical engineering could vastly improve Homo Sapiens intelligence, but in the end I believe non organic intelligence will prove to be superior because it can evolve far quicker (no generations) and it has the ability of adding on to, and/or improving its current systems. It is far more precise and reliable, and it is not so sensitive to the environment.
Microchips have many advantages over organic circuitry; there is no disease, no death and no suffering. Intelligence will be able to function in much harsher environments; no food or air is needed, a much wider operating temperature range, a much longer life span. (Speed will not be so important when exploring the universe. It could switch of for millions of years.)
In the big picture the preservation of Homo Sapiens is not significant. The preservation of intelligence is, no matter what form it is.
One should see life and man as merely a stepping stone in the evolution of intelligence. True AI
When a computer asked "What am I? Where do I come from?"
I believe that computers that are self aware are just around the corner. Love
As life got more and more complex so the gestation period got longer and more debilitating. It also took longer for the offspring to become self sufficient. In this period of vulnerability, the chances of survival were greatly increased if the male hung around. A coupling mechanism evolved. In Homo Sapiens consciousness this mechanism is called love. Love is a behavior pattern that has evolved (mutation and natural selection) . It is chemically activated. Love is the glue that keeps a couple together thereby vastly improving their offspring's chances of survival. Non loving pre-humans died out.
Love is a genetically evolved, chemically activated brain state, that leads to behaviour that increases the survival rate of the offspring of higher order mammals. On Morals
The core of morals should lie in liking oneself. If you don't like certain behaviors in other people you cannot behave like that, if your are going to like yourself. I dislike liars, cheats, thieves, rapists, murderers, etc. therefore I cannot be a liar, etc. myself. If you don't like hypocrites then you must not be one yourself.
Any behavior that does no harm to others is not immoral. Parenting
The only rational reason to have children is if you find life to be so absolutely fantastic that you want to create more of it.
Can you guaranty that your future child will be happy? Nothing is a bigger waste of time than rearing children who grow up to be unhappy. The last thing this planet needs is more messed up people.
Most messed up children are caused by messed up parents.
It seems to me that the root cause of most of the psychologically messed up people on this planet is defective bond syndrome. Defective bond syndrome needs to be made more prominent in the collective consciousness of society. Any future parents need to know about this syndrome, the causes, the symptoms and the long term effects. Mother you had me I never had you.
You decide to have a child, a child does not decide to be born, this makes you 100% responsible for that child's well being. Parents who think that their children owe them because they had them and provided for them, shouldn't have had children. If you don't consider the child's needs before your own, you shouldn't have had children. A parents first priority should be the happiness of their child, if they don't consider their childs happiness before their own, they should not have had children. Children do not owe their parents anything, parents decide to have children, children don't decide to be born. Breeding
Breeding is a primitive instinct.
Planet Earth is not only going to experience overpopulation in the future, it is overpopulated now. Symptoms of overpopulation are mass starvation, wars, deforestation, pollution, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, soil erosion, squatter slums, rampant crime, stress, etc., etc.
Any couple who have more than two children are guilty of compounding a serious problem.
A couple having a child now should realize that when that child reaches fifty there could be up to ten billion people trying to live on this planet. There will be a shortage of resources like land, water, food, clean air, most metals and fuels. Wars will be fought over these resources. Rain forests will have disappeared. There will be catastrophic pollution and poverty. Genetic greed
There is a instinctual need to spread ones' genes, however because of the overpopulated state of this planet it should be viewed as genetically greedy and morally wrong for a person to have more than one child, i.e. two children per couple. Genetic suicide (Be the ultimate rebel)
Rebel against nature, rebel against your genes, step above your primitive instincts, commit genetic suicide, don't breed. This planet is already way overpopulated. Go to Religion and Atheism

Protestant1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.	King James Bible - Hebrew1. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 2. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make un to thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; Thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; And showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. 4. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath in honour of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother; in order that thy days may be prolonged upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. Bloch Publishing Company (1922)	Catholic1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 3. Remember thou keep the Sabbath Day. 4. Honor thy Father and thy Mother. 5. Thou shalt not kill. 6. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7. Thou shalt not steal. 8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods. Peter Gasparri, "Catholic Catechism" (1932)
Ex. 20: The First Tables of Stone (smashed by Moses)1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. 2. You shall not make for yourself a graven image. You shall not bow down to them or serve them. 3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 5. Honor your father and your mother. 6. You shall not kill. 7. You shall not commit adultery. 8. You shall not steal. 9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 10. You shall not covet. Adapted from Microsoft Bookshelf 98	Ex.34: The Second Tables of Stone (the words that were on the first)1. Thou shalt worship no other god (For the Lord is a jealous god). 2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn. 4. All the first-born are mine. 5. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest. 6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of in gathering at the year's end. 7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. 8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning. 9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. 10. Thou shalt not see the a kid in its mother's milk. K.Budde, History of Ancient Hebrew Literature	Ten Punishments 1. Ex. 22:20: He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 2. Lev. 24:16: And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death. 3. Ex. 31:15: Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 4. Ex. 21:15: He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 5. Ex. 21:17: He that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 6. Ex. 22:19: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be putto death. 7. Lev. 20:13: If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a w-man, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. 8. Lev. 20:10: And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be putto death. 9. Mark 16:16: He that believeth not, shall be damned. 10. Mal. 2:1-4: And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If you will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heartto give glory to my name,...behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces. Jyoti Shankar, Bubbles Online Magazine

In 2000 – 2,403,351 died, that's 6,500 a day.
The Average Life Expectancy was 76.9 years.
Leading Causes of Death:1. Heart Disease
2. Cancer
3. Stroke
4. Lower Respiratory Diseases
5. Accidents
6. Diabètes
7. Flu 8. Alzheimers
9. Kidney Disease

Leading causes of Death

Cause of Death	Lifetime Odds	Chances %
Heart Disease	5	20.0000%
Cancer	7	14.2857%
Stroke	23	4.3478%
Accidental Injury	36	2.7778%
Motor Vehicle Accident*	100	1.0000%
Intentional Self-harm (suicide)	121	0.8264%
Falling Down	246	0.4065%
Assault by Firearm	325	0.3077%
Fire or Smoke	1,116	0.0896%
Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.)	3,357	0.0298%
Electrocution*	5,000	0.0200%
Drowning	8,942	0.0112%
Air Travel Accident*	20,000	0.0050%
Flood* (included also in Natural Forces above)	30,000	0.0033%
Legal Execution	58,618	0.0017%
Tornado* (included also in Natural Forces above)	60,000	0.0017%
Lightning Strike (included also in Natural Forces above)	83,930	0.0012%
Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting*	100,000	0.0010%
Earthquake (included also in Natural Forces above)	131,890	0.0008%
Dog Attack	147,717	0.0007%
Asteroid Impact*	200,000	0.0005%
Tsunami*	500,000	0.0002%
Fireworks Discharge	615,488	0.0002%
		44.1187%