Campus Rape Culture

Dear Readers,

I have been troubled by this subject for quite some time. I have heard various views, and many anecdotal accounts. After weighing the evidence presented, it seems as though I must confess that there is a "rape culture" on many university campuses throughout the U.S. Living in Arizona, I have heard a few about some universities here. These cases presented to me are anecdotal at best, because the victims were able to fend off the aggressors part to midway through the act, thus leaving no DNA evidence. Therefore any accusations would become a "he said, she said" conversation.

Though these atrocities sicken me, it wasn't until I watched this video by Steven Crowder that I began putting more of the pieces together. Though it was supposed to be a conversation about "Male Privilege" it became a testimony about this rape culture.

Now, I do not think that rape culture is systemic, for I have not had to try to prove to the system any guilt or innocence for such a crime, it does appear that there are holes in the system. Putting that aside for now, I would like to address the culture. The culture on campus is made up by the people who attend it.

With the growing trends of relativism, true morals are not being taught in homes. Broken homes and broken lives are becoming the new normal, and it is proving to be a plague on society. Without parents who teach their children morality, usually through Christian based religion, standards for right and wrong, good and evil, are either convoluted, uncertain, dismissed or actively ignored. This is literally what the Prophets and Apostles warned about in The Family: A Proclamation to the World, "WE WARN that individuals who violate covenants of chastity, who abuse spouse or offspring, or who fail to fulfill family responsibilities will one day stand accountable before God. Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets."

As Steven said in the video, "Wouldn't it be great if men didn't rape." Rape, like all actions, starts with a thought. A thought that is either indulged or dismissed before it becomes the action. The great deciding factor is the morality of the individual. Especially when alcohol at parties is involved, which lowers inhibitions and therefore the morality of the individual, it fuels the setting for weak willed men to perform abominable acts. Saying the excuse, "they only did it because they were drunk" is beyond ridiculous, for they still chose to get drunk. Intoxication does not justify their actions.

Thus, with the alcoholic parties and general lack of morality among those attending most colleges, there does seem to be a rape culture. As Paul Joseph Watson often says, "Some cultures are better than others." (Some Cultures are Better than Others) and I think that everyone agrees that a rape culture is not a good culture to have. However, shouldn't the system help to stop these rampant crimes? As ironic as this may be to say, it seems as though the Social Justice Warrior movement has helped enable this culture. Most women, who are decent individuals, do not want to be labeled as victims. They do not want to have to hide in safe spaces. They want to be strong, and keep moving forward with their lives. This leads to many rapes, especially those interrupted, to go unreported. For those reported, the system requires evidence, usually in the form of DNA and an exceptionally invasive investigation to determine guilt.

This has lead to many feminists demanding that all women who claim rape should be believed automatically. However, there are many times that some women use the term "rape" merely to slander a man's name. Thus, in order to maintain justice between both sexes, there must be some protection for men from having their names slandered.

Ever more making matters worse, is the increasing fogginess of what rape actually is. For most of us, we know that it is when a man forcefully penetrates his penis into a woman's vagina or another person's orifice (to include sodomic rape against men) without consent. However, often times sexual assaults like grabbing a woman's breast or genitals have been treated synonymous with rape. Even with the "me too" movement, it has been demonstrated that minor things as unwanted flirtation and "cat calling" can be escalated to sexual assault and rape equivalency.

All of this belittles actual crimes of rape and makes it harder for rapists to be properly tried and brought to justice. Unless the very country itself, primarily within the home, doesn't improve moral standards; no laws, no rules, no regulations could ever fix this trend and rampant plague in our society. The only antidote would be a return to values, a return to morals, and a return to God.

I realize there may be those who disagree with what I have said, and others who share their support. I hope that we can at least be united on the common ground that rape is evil and horrible. Please comment, because I want to continue to hear both sides and see if we can come up with more ideas on how to potentially remedy this problem.

Love,
Jacobugoth

Christ's Infinite Atonement

Dear Readers,

I watched another video on youtube that got me thinking. This one is called Infinity: The Science of Endlessness and though it is quite long, I found it very intriguing. It involves a panel of leaders in their respective fields having a discussion about how their fields interact with "infinity".

Firstly, they have a theologian talk about how infinity works with God. I did notice that it was based a bit off of the Nicene creed with God being every where, rather than eternal. Though, I admit, with the Holy Ghost or the Spirit of God, or even pre-mortal Christ who is Jehovah, there is a way in which that is true within our 3-Dimensional world. Alas, that will be addressed in a later post. The theologian mentioned a Jewish thinker who was ostracized because he mathematically claimed that God has a body, for example: if God is everywhere He is every thing, which includes all matter, thus all matter is His body. Again, this is with the Jehovah train of thought, so I will leave this be for now.

Next up was a mathematician. He addressed the concept of infinite numbers by ascribing it to a hotel with infinite number of rooms. If the hotel is "full" and someone else comes in, that individual can find a room by having everyone in the hotel move one room over. Because there are infinite rooms, there will always be room. Thus we have infinity plus one.

Now, he endeavored to explain adding infinity to infinity, but he did so in a very strange way, using the hotel he would have every person moved to a room twice their current room number: one moves to two, two to four, et cetera. However, I found an easier way of explaining adding two infinities. Like a zipper, you take the first of both infinities, then the seconds, and so forth going back and forth. You would be adding the infinities together for ever, but they can be added.

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What came to my mind with this concept was eternal marriage. Two infinite and eternal being being united for all time and all eternity.

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Not to mention the beautify symbolism of two rings neither of which have an end or a beginning linked together making an infinity symbol.

Screen capture from video edited with arrows demonstrating infinity.

Alas, keeping with this train of thoughts, the mathematician asked if there was a limit to how many people can enter the hotel? What if an infinite number of buses each carrying an infinite number of people arrived at the hotel? How would that problem be solved?

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He found that by taking a kind of zig-zag pattern an infinite number of infinities can be added together into one infinity. Confirming or demonstrating this by having any number, or individual, from any of the buses have a "room number" in the hotel.

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I thought about how this is a prime example of how families can be together for eternity. All of us infinite resurrected beings living together for ever. I also found it interesting that there is "always room" at the hotel. God's plan of happiness was created with the understanding that there is room for all of us to return to our Father's presence. He wants to save as many of His children as will come unto Him.

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As the second speaker continued, he continued to wonder if there is an infinity that cannot be added or enter the hotel. They have found such an infinity, or rather, a number. By taking an infinity, decimal numbers (portions of a whole) there is an algorithm that can change the numbers.

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For example, N + 1. ( I realize that realistically the algorithm would look something like this [N / 10^N] + 1 or something like that, but for this explanatory purposes N + 1 is satisfactory) For the first number of the infinity, the first decimal place is increased by 1, Second number the second decimal place increases by 1, and so on. As in the picture example, the new first number would be .5271287.... if you took this new number and tried to add it to this "corrupted" infinity, then the decimal place at whatever "N" place in the infinity you place it gets changed. Thus, it will always have one decimal place off, and cannot exist within the infinity. However, this is true for every number in the infinity, creating a possible paradox, an infinity that cannot exist within the infinity. It is not a negative infinity, for that is an infinite lack of something.

This is a paradoxical infinity changed by an algorithm. As I call it, a corrupt infinity. I have decided to use the radioactive symbol to represent the corruption. For me, this new symbol of a corrupt infinity represents our lives in sin. The algorithm, or sin, has changes us making it so that we can no longer be added to God's eternal or perfect infinity. It is also important to note that no matter how large or small the sin (N + 9 or N + 1), the result is the same.

With this terrible notion in my mind, I began wondering how would we have to correct the corrupt infinity? First, we have to remove the corruption from the infinity, aka, no longer implement the algorithm or no longer commit the sin. This is a big part of the repentance process.

However, the damage has already been done, and it has spread throughout all infinity. This is where Christ's infinite atonement comes in. By reuniting our lives with Christ's will, and partaking of His infinite atonement, it is like adding a complete, whole infinity back into us. Like with the zipper analogy, though less of the marriage sense I related it to earlier, His atonement completes and purifies us once again.

The beauty of it all is right there for us. If we can add His atonement or payment for our sins into our lives, then we can become one with Him. No wonder He has compared Himself in parable to the "bridegroom". (Matthew 25:1-13 parable of the ten virgins)

Alas, as we go through our mortal lives, we are imperfect, and we corrupt our infinite selves over and over, in diverse and strange ways. The video goes on to show how even if the universe is infinite, because of the limitations of the speed of light, we will always have an event horizon past which we cannot see. We can only perceive infinity through progression, counting numbers upward forever. Yet, as we sin, the remedy is always the same. Repent of our sins and come unto Christ. We have no choice in this state, but to look and move forward step by step, day by day, in our infinite and eternal progression. I pray that we all may use His Infinite Atonement in our lives that we may come closer to Him, because His arms are always extend out in love for us.

Love,
Jacobugoth