Hope for 2009

If you can, go check out the edited "Pandora's Box 2" because it's filled with all the blunt eloquence that can be salvaged after taking a long car ride home with insane non-English-speaking people.

So here's your hope for 2009.  Remember that the Bible states that God created man in His own image.

Really?

Yes.  I'll prove it with a pop culture selection.

From Heroes (yes, I watch TV):

It starts with light, and ends with light.  And in between there is darkness.  Nothing there is beyond hope, nothing that can be sworn impossible, nothing left unimagined since Zeus, father of the Olympians, made night from midday.  Hiding the light of the shining sun, and raining dark fear down upon men.

There is some Neonominalism in this monologue, since the speaker considers nonexistence to be the potential of existence.  But more importantly, there's two parts to this.  One part in the beginning states that the [unnamed subject] begins with light and ends with light and darkness is all there is between.  The second part says that from the brightest light of noon, darkness can be created.  Therefore, nonexistence is all the potential for existence and existence is all the potential for nonexistence.  The only thing that separates the two is that existence takes a tangible form in the known universe.

Something can be made of nothing.  It's not an object or energy that's really made of nothing.  It's hope.  The monologue says, "nothing beyond hope".  Hope can be created out of nothing.  Hope, as described by the Architect (The Matrix Trilogy), is humankind's greatest weakness as well as its greatest strength.

Conclusion: Humans can create their own strengths and weaknesses.