Bluebinky
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Cookie, you probably have a much better grasp of reality than I do. I doubt there is anything I could say better than you already have, but I'll add my gibberish anyway...
We live in a society with an official government-mandated religion called science (I have 8 years of college-level classes in it and one of its sub-topic electrical engineering). Keep in mind that science is just a model of reality that works really well for building "toys" like airplanes and 1/2" copper tees. None of the so called laws or theories has ever been "proven", and every single one has at least some evidence against it.
I currently work with a bunch of other clueless individuals who spend most of their waking hours writing software -- the process of making someone else's idea of reality appear as yet something different using several different ill-fitting symbolic notations based roughly on English. If ever there was a miracle, it is that any of our computers even power on. Once you realize that we can't even understand our own little islands of pure design created with only two constraints (time and size), it kinda resets your goals. Right now, I'm looking forward to retirement, but we'll see...
Sometimes things happen that don't fit somehow -- like seeing someone walk through a wall, photographs with missing people, the hand of god saving you in a car crash, hearing a bottle smash on the floor in a supermarket only to turn around and watch it fall, and that brief special connection that randomly happens between people (hopefully a shadow of a reality we will all know someday)...
Cookie, although it's easier said than done, don't let others get you down.
We live in a society with an official government-mandated religion called science (I have 8 years of college-level classes in it and one of its sub-topic electrical engineering). Keep in mind that science is just a model of reality that works really well for building "toys" like airplanes and 1/2" copper tees. None of the so called laws or theories has ever been "proven", and every single one has at least some evidence against it.
I currently work with a bunch of other clueless individuals who spend most of their waking hours writing software -- the process of making someone else's idea of reality appear as yet something different using several different ill-fitting symbolic notations based roughly on English. If ever there was a miracle, it is that any of our computers even power on. Once you realize that we can't even understand our own little islands of pure design created with only two constraints (time and size), it kinda resets your goals. Right now, I'm looking forward to retirement, but we'll see...
Sometimes things happen that don't fit somehow -- like seeing someone walk through a wall, photographs with missing people, the hand of god saving you in a car crash, hearing a bottle smash on the floor in a supermarket only to turn around and watch it fall, and that brief special connection that randomly happens between people (hopefully a shadow of a reality we will all know someday)...
Cookie, although it's easier said than done, don't let others get you down.