Judgement Day

by Michael Spears

  Do you want to know why I think I’m in Tasmania? I mean, why I’m really here? I think I’m here because my time has finally come. I’ve probably offended just about every religion in the world, even though all I’m guilty of is speaking the truth. Organised religion has always feared the truth, if they had a leg to stand on they wouldn’t fear the truth, they would embrace the truth. I’ll probably be the most hated man in the world, at least for a short while, but I am unrepentant because I have done nothing wrong. Tasmania has only a small population, the only way in (or out) of here is by air or by sea, this is probably the safest place for me to be right now. Maybe that’s paranoid, I don’t know, because maybe no one will ever even know I existed.

  So here I am. Writing about my religion on my phone, using the computer at the library to publish it. I’m at the end. I’m broke, homeless, and in Tasmania. The initials “JC” are carved into the tree where I sit, I know I’m in the right place. I don’t know what I’ll do if no one finds me here, but it doesn’t matter, it’s not for me to ask. I’ll just wait for that next sign to point the way. We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Before I finish this section of the book, I’d just like to say that I feel bad about the way I talked about my mum (and Ken) in this book, but that stuff all happened a long time ago. Truth be told, these days I’m actually a bit of a mummy’s boy. It’s embarrassing, I’m a 34 year old man and I message my mum more than anyone else, except my English friend Sian. Without her help I would have starved to death on this ill-fated trip, and I was really flattered when her and Ken drove all the way down to see me. It’s just a shame I can’t tell them what I’ve really been working on down here, but they’ll probably disown me when they read my book, at least briefly. They may change their minds when I declare world peace. Maybe they can be dicks, but if they managed to raise the king of the world, then surely they must have done something right. So I’m sorry mum and Ken, I love you both, thanks for everything.

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  Do You Have No Knowledge Of Good & Evil?

  An open letter to Britney Spears.

  Dear Britney,

  I have a question to ask you, it's a question that I already know the answer to, but I need you to know the answer and to understand what it means.

  Do you have no knowledge of good & evil?

  This is not a question you will need to think about. To answer it you need to look inside yourself, to peer into your soul. If it is true, that you have no knowledge of good & evil, it should hit you in the face, blow your mind, turn your whole world upside down. Suddenly everything you think and feel will make sense.

  Perhaps you’ve always wondered what's wrong with you, perhaps you’ve always thought you were weird. Maybe you don't understand the world, maybe people call you “naive.” Maybe you wonder why people take advantage of you, it’s because you don’t judge people so you always think the best of them. You would never take advantage of someone else, so you trust others to treat you with the same respect. You’re probably the world’s worst liar, by that I mean you don’t know how to lie, you’re helplessly honest. You’re probably terrible at relationships because you don’t like hurting people’s feelings so you don’t say what’s on your mind, you probably don’t stand up for yourself, and you never ever tell people what they can and can’t do. You probably struggle with addictions, so it’s best not to get addicted in the first place. You’re probably terrible with money. You probably don’t like laws and rules and paperwork and red-tape. You probably hate being told what you can and can’t do, but you probably either do what you’re told or pretend to do what you’re told because you have trouble defying authority. This is what it’s like to have no knowledge of good & evil.

  Unfortunately we live in a world filled with people who claim to have the knowledge of good & evil. People like us get walked all over, because we are not selfish, we do not judge, but the world is a selfish place, and the world does judge us. We don’t understand this world, for although we were born of this world, we are not of this world.

  If you have no knowledge of good & evil, you will know it. Everything you’ve ever struggled with will make sense. You will understand that it is not you who is mad, but the world that is insane. The knowledge of good & evil wasn’t a theory, it was a discovery I made about myself. If you ever doubt the existence of God, all you need to do is look inside yourself and you will know that it is true.

  I’ve never cared about money, or power, or fame. All I’ve ever wanted is you, I can only pray that one day you’ll know I exist.

  Eternally Yours,

  Michael Spears.

  This is cool. So I was reading the story of Adam & Eve the other day. The story goes that Adam was lonely so God created a helper for him. Point is that Adam was already alive when God created Eve. So I was thinking about how I’m nine months older than you. I googled how long it takes from conception to birth, it’s 266 days. Your birthday is 267 days after mine. That’s cool. That’s really cool. Basically, as soon as I was born, you were conceived. That was probably the last piece of evidence I needed to convince myself that I’m right about you.

  This could go one of two ways, either you’ll think I’m a fucking lunatic, or you’ll know I’m right about you. I’m banking on the latter, I’ve seen too many things over the years, I know it’s true. I know that there is a God, I know exactly who He is and I know that He would not lie to me. Actually, there is a third way it could go, maybe you’ll never even know I exist, but I don’t believe that either. One day I’ll succeed.

  Jesus Christ Mick, do you have to be so pathetic? (The other guy)

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  THE THEORY OF SPACEFLUIDITY & THE SUPER-UNIVERSE

  Eureka!

  Excerpt, By Edgar Allan Poe, 1848

  “And now, before proceeding to our subject proper, let me beg the readers attention to an extract or two from a somewhat remarkable letter, which appears to have been found corked in a bottle and floating on the Mare Tenebrarum…The date of this letter, I confess, surprises me even more particularly than its contents; for it seems to have been written in the year two thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. As for the passages I am about to transcribe, they, I fancy, will speak for themselves.

  ‘Do you know, my dear friend,’ says the writer, addressing, no doubt, a contemporary – ‘Do you know that it is scarcely more than eight or nine hundred years ago since the metaphysicians first consented to relieve the people of the singular fancy that there exist but two practicable roads to Truth?…

  ……

  …the savans contenting themselves to proscribing all other competitors, past, present, and to come; putting an end to all controversy on the topic by the promulgation of a Median law, to the effect that the Aristotelian and Baconian roads are, and of right ought to be, the sole possible avenues to knowledge : - “Baconian”, you must know, my dear friend,’ adds the letter-writer at this point, ‘was an adjective invented as equivalent to Hog-ian, while more dignified and euphonious.

  ‘Now I do assure you most positively’ – proceeds the epistle – ‘that I represent these matters fairly; and you can easily understand how restrictions so absurd on their very face must have operated, in those days, to retard the progress of true Science, which makes its most important advances – as all History will show – by seemingly intuitive leaps. These ancient ideas confined investigation to crawling; and I need not suggest to you that crawling, among varieties of locomotion, is a very capital thing of its kind; - but because the snail is sure of foot, for this reason must we clip the wings of the eagles? For many centuries, so great was the infatuation, about Hog especially, that a virtual stop was put to all thinking, properly so called. No man dared utter a truth for which he felt himself indebted to his soul alone. It mattered not whether the truth was even demonstrably such; for the dogmatizing philosophers of that epoch regarded only the road by which it professed to have been attained. The end,
with them, was a point of no moment, whatever : - “the means!” they vociferated – “let us look at the means!” – and if, on scrutiny of the means, it was found to come neither under the category Hog, or under the category Aries (which means ram), why then the savans went no farther, but, calling the thinker “a fool” and branding him a “theorist”, would never, thenceforward, have anything to do either with him or with his truths.

  ‘Now, my dear friend,’ continues the letter-writer, ‘it cannot be maintained that by the crawling system, exclusively adopted, men would arrive at the maximum amount of truth, even in any long series of ages; for the repression of imagination was an evil not to be counterbalanced even by absolute certainty in the snail processes. But their certainty was very far from absolute. The error of our progenitors was quite analogous with that of the wiseacre who fancies he must necessarily see an object the more distinctly, the more closely he holds it to his eyes. They blinded themselves, too, with the impalpable, titillating Scotch snuff of detail; and thus the boasted facts of the Hog-ites were by no means always facts – a point of little importance except for the assumption that they always were. The vital taint, however, in Baconianism – its most lamentable fount of error – lay in its tendency to throw power and consideration into the hands of merely perceptive men – of those inner-Tritonic minnows, the microscopical savans – the diggers and peddlers of minute facts, for the most part in physical science – facts all of which they retailed at the same price on the highway; their value depending on the fact of their fact, without reference to their applicability or inapplicability in the development of those ultimate and only legitimate facts, called Law.

  ‘Than the persons’ – the letter goes on to say – ‘than the persons thus suddenly elevated by the Hog-ian philosophy into a station for which they were unfitted – thus transferred from the sculleries to the parlors of Science – from its pantries into its pulpits – than these individuals a more intolerant – a more intolerable set of bigots and tyrants never existed on the face of the earth. Their creed, their text and their sermon were, alike, the one word “fact” – but, for the most part, even of this one word, they knew not even the meaning. On those who ventured to disturb their facts with the view of putting them in order and to use, the disciples of Hog had no mercy whatever. All attempts at generalization were met at once by the words “theory”, “theorist” – all thought, to be brief, was very properly resented as a personal affront to themselves…

  ……

  ‘Now I do not quarrel with these ancients,’ continues the letter-writer, ‘so much on account of transparent frivolity of their logic – which, to be plain, was baseless, worthless and fantastic altogether – as on account of their pompous and infatuate proscription of all other roads to Truth than the two narrow and crooked paths – the one of creeping and the other of crawling – to which, in their ignorant perversity, they have dared to confine the Soul – the Soul which loves nothing so well as to soar in those regions of illimitable intuition which are utterly incognizant of “path”.

  ‘Bye the bye, my dear friend, is it not an evidence of the mental slavery entailed upon those bigoted people by their Hogs and Rams, that in spite of the eternal prating of their savans about roads to Truth, none of them fell, even by accident, into what we now so distinctly perceive to be the broadest, the straightest and most available of all mere roads – the great thoroughfare – the majestic highway of the Consistent? Is it not wonderful that they should have failed to deduce from the works of God the vitally momentous consideration that a perfect consistency can be nothing but an absolute truth? How plain – how rapid our progress since the late announcement of this proposition! By its means, investigation has been taken out of the hands of the ground-moles, and given as a duty, rather than as a task, to the true – to the only true thinkers – to the generally-educated men of ardent imagination. These latter – “speculate” – “theorize” – these are the terms – can you not fancy the shout of scorn with which they would be received by our progenitors, were it possible for them to be looking over my shoulders as I write? These men, I repeat, speculate – theorize – and their theories are merely corrected – reduced – sifted – cleared, little by little, of their chaff of inconsistency – until at length there stands apparent an unencumbered Consistency – a consistency which the most stolid admit because it is a consistency – to be an absolute and unquestionable Truth.

  …“I know nothing about routes – but I do know the machinery of the Universe. Here it is. I grasped it with my soul – I reached it through mere dint of intuition.”’

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  Here end my quotations from this very unaccountable if not impertinent epistle; and perhaps it would be folly not to comment, in any respect, upon the chimerical, not to say revolutionary, fancies of the writer – whoever he is – fancies so radically at war with the well-considered and well-settled opinions of this age. Let us proceed, then, to our legitimate thesis, The Universe.”

  Note: A common characteristic of ground-moles is their poor eyesight. Ground-moles have poor eyesight because they spend most of their lives underground, fumbling around in the dark. It is for this reason that ground-moles wear coke-bottle glasses. This makes them easily distinguishable from the true thinkers.

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  Part 1: Gravitational Time Dilation

  Introduction:

  According to Einstein’s theory of General Relativity

  “in every gravitational field, a clock will go more quickly or less quickly, according to the position in which the clock is situated (at rest).”6

  If one clock is situated in a stronger gravitational field and another in a weaker gravitational field, the clock in the weaker gravitational field goes at a rate permanently faster than the clock in the stronger gravitational field.

  Furthermore, Einstein predicted the effect of gravitational red shift when the light measured comes from an object with a stronger gravitational field, Einstein proposed the testing of this effect as an experimental proof of the theory of General Relativity. In the words of Einstein

  “a displacement towards the red ought to take place for spectral lines produced at the surface of stars as compared with the spectral lines of the same element produced at the surface of the earth.”6

  According to Stephen Hawking’s book ‘A Brief History Of Time’

  “Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to be slower near a massive body like the earth. This is because there is a relation between the energy of light and its frequency: the greater the energy, the higher the frequency. As light travels upward in the earth’s gravitational field, it loses energy, and so its frequency goes down. To someone high up, it would appear that everything down below was taking longer to happen. This prediction was tested in 1962, using a pair of very accurate clocks mounted at the top and bottom of a water tower. The clock at the bottom, which was nearer the earth, was found to run slower, in exact agreement with general relativity.”7

  Further to the aforementioned, I propose that although Einstein was correct in his prediction, there is another explanation that would result in the exact same experimental results. My proposition is that Einstein achieved the proper results, with improper working. The alternate explanation contradicts one of the theory of Relativity’s two postulates, that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same in all inertial reference frames and is independent of the motion of the source. Following from this I propose that although the speed of light in a vacuum appears constant for all observers in all inertial reference frames, it may not actually be constant.

  Part 1a: The Hypothesis

  I outline below the effects of gravitational red shift as mentioned above and draw a diagram of these two confirmed proposals from the theory of General Relativity. [Figure 1]

  An alternate explanation for these two experimental results becomes apparent from visualising the situation. One should consider the possibility that instead of mov
ing at a constant velocity, light accelerates as it leaves a stronger gravitational field and enters a weaker gravitational field, proportional with an increase in the rate at which time advances.

  Thus I have developed a new definition of time, I will introduce a concept “the speed of time” (sot), where the sot is the ratio of the time at a certain location and/or velocity to the time as measured by someone in a fixed location and/or velocity. The easiest method is if the sot is measured in the S.I. units of seconds/earth seconds (s/sE), where an earth second could be a second as measured at a particular location on the earth, like sea level at the equator or the Greenwich observatory. The sot on earth would therefore be equal to 1, while in regions where time is faster the sot is greater than 1 and where time is slower the sot is less than 1.