“Romance is based on the same universal law that creates magnetism and electricity.”
- Xenocrates
o you have a lover? What is it about them that you love so much? Do you even know? Most people who are in love cannot tell why they fell for the person they are in love with in the first place (for better or worse). Most of the other people who are not in love, desperately want to find love, but keep running into dead end personalities. However, did you know that there is a very scientific principle that governs (quite succinctly) every single human attraction? If more people understood the science of attraction, then women would date fewer jerks and men would have better luck finding those women who could really appreciate them. This particular post seeks to explore how romantic attraction works at the scientific level using a popular new discovery in human psychology which is based on the ubiquitous principle that opposites attract. Once you understand that love is inextricably selfish, it becomes exponentially easier to understand how attraction actually works. If you’ve already found love, this entry will better enable you to appreciate the flaws in your chosen lover. If you’re still in search of love, this one is going to be a real mind opener and will help you to make very informed decisions about your next mate.
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This one is dedicated to Aporia, and the naive little person I used to be 5 years ago. It’s about Love; the single most powerful emotional expression humans are capable of. People just love to talk about love. That’s why they keep inventing these inane stories about it. Relationships between human beings have gotten so much attention from pop culture. In fact, even though every single “chick flick” from the 1940’s right back to the 21st century shares exactly the same plot, studios keep churning them out and updating them as though there’s some kind of cookie cutter production line designed explicitly for such. Love is the subject of gossip columns, television, interactive entertainment, magazines, toys – you name it. We’re all obsessed with it. But why are people so fascinated by love? The answer is pretty simple. What most people fail to realise is that they’re not so much enraptured about love as much as they are about themselves. Love is the single most subtle form of self interest, and the only reason why people love is because people are intrinsically selfish. Love is selfish, and if you read on, I will clearly demonstrate how.
I got a lot of offline commentary on the first two volumes of my abridged epiphanies. To all of those people who insist on giving me feedback in person, I encourage you to do it here. It’ll make things a lot more interesting. Additionally, I want to dedicate this particular entry to those of you responded with commentary that would suggest that I have no faith in humanity. Well congratulations: I don’t. If you take away our cellphones, our 911, our internet, our cars, our televisions, our networks, our skyscrapers, highways, transit sytems and our electricity, we would plunge right back into the brutality of the dark ages (both literally and figuratively). Humanity would be returned to the wild animals that we really are as 6.1 billion people turn on themselves. Lawlessness and anarchy would rule the world. The strong would prey on the weak, and mankind would return to the madness from which it took over 10,000 years to evolve in just 72 hours. We haven’t really changed as a people. We’ve just found better ways to control our animalistic urges through a system of sustained behaviour modification we call “civilisation“. The following epiphanies, which as far as I know are all my own, are proof of this harsh reality:
What is knowledge? How do we define what it is that we’ve come to know? How do we express what we think we believe? What makes it valid? On what grounds do we make the separation between what is faith and what is proof? The theory of knowledge underscores all of these questions. However, the unfortunate reality is that knowledge as most people understand it, is nothing more than a cultural approximation of information determined by individual perceptions. Most of what you know has very little useful purpose outside of the environment where you learned it. It is a tragic waste of brain cells, and in worst case scenarios, a potential waste of human life where that information is interpreted differently. Humanity’s hunger for knowledge both creates and decimates human existence – although I’m led to believe it’s more of the latter than the former. The following epiphanies examine the flimsy basis on which we define knowledge. As far as I know, these are all my own original thoughts:
Most of the world’s religions, including Christianity, can be traced back to the same sources, causes and primary elements that were passed down from generation to generation – each adding their own twist to a growing mythology. This, the final chapter of Christianity on Trial will attempt to critically examine almost everything you’ve come to believe in with merciless, academic precision. I will clinically reduce it’s core concepts to elementary causation and systematically expose it for what it really is. When I’m done, I dare you to continue believing what you believe. This post will succinctly reaffirm every ounce of doubt you ever had and cause you here on after, to think like I do – never taking anything you hear for granted ever again. Can you handle the truth? Are you ready to see what I want to show you? 
If you’ve been following me so far, you may either be of the opinion that I have a chip on my shoulder or that I’m an atheist. Rest assured, I’m neither. If you had any such opinion, then you’re probably one of those Christians who is of the opinion that dogma is unquestionable and that perhaps it is blasphemous to do so. In that case, I urge you to turn your Bible to 
One of the key dangers of religion is the fact that it operates based on lack of proof. This means that anyone can reinvent religious dogma and people will still buy it, because it doesn’t need proof for credibility. So imagine a church congregation packed with believers who’ve just sung a heart warming hymn. It is now that time in the service for the sermon to be ministered. The preacher steps up to the podium and proceeds to elucidate the congregation about things in the Bible they probably already know about. However, today, he decides to take a few liberties with the text, spinning his own version of the “truth” to the audience. Nobody in the congregation knows any better, since they assume that the pastor must know what he’s talking about. Everybody just nods “amen” until the altar call and the service wraps. They close their Bibles, go home, and forget at least half of what was said earlier that day. It is those who don’t forget and dare to question the pastor’s logic who are often considered outcasts and heretics. How dare you think differently? They are told: “Don’t question it! Just have faith! God moves in mysterious ways…blah, blah, blah“… Stop me if this is sounding all too familiar.
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