24th March 2007, 2:46 PM
Indeed. Personally I've learned to enjoy the world for what it is rather than what I wish it would be. The world is amazing enough without us making stuff up about it. Big deal if I can't accidently add an extra ingrediant to the concoction and get ultra super powers. I can create entire artificial worlds in silicon. Isn't that enough? There's a big world out there beyond one's fantasies if only people would learn to enjoy what it does offer instead of bemoaning what it doesn't or "should". Find your own meaning in life and live it, or don't but being depressed sure seems a depressing way of going through life. Someone can bemoan the utter oblivion at the end of all things and the mostly empty space, or marvel at the interplay of chemicals in our bodies and the sheer fact that using little more than stray million year old beams of light can allow us to figure out how STARS ARE BORN.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)