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This just cracks me up. Forget about all the pair bonding, social behaviors, understand psychiatric disorders stuff. You know they were just sitting around one day thought, "I wonder what if rodents would glow if you injected them with glow-in-the-dark jellyfish..." Low and behold! Of course, that's what science is really all about, right? You get bored otherwise.

I have a little time to write here, and a little something on my mind. I just started reading a book called EZ-GO, of course to help with my skills in Go (I'm this close to becoming a single digit Kyu / basically not a beginner anymore). So far, the book is great (I recommend it to any new Go player!), and has a few important points of eastern ways of living and how they can be beneficial over western in Go and in life. For example, two seemingly opposing qualities of something actually being cooperative sides of one whole, the switching of one of these qualities to the other in a cyclical pattern, and surrender in addition to action as a method of living. I have been interested in eastern philosophies for quite some time and I have a feeling this will just intensify that.

Previously I have been reading articles and books stemming from a book called Think in Grow Rich, which seems like a radical way of thinking that your surroundings somehow mold themselves to your desires. It seems crazy, but after you think about how so much in life is self-fulfilling, there might be something to it (I'm not talking about The Secret garbage; this author studied for 25 years to write this, and it is too complicated for me to have learned everything about it at this point). Of course, I don't know how well this works with Christian philosophy, of giving your life over to the Lord's will and becoming a servant rather than making your own plans and demanding everything to be about you. These three philosophies seem so different from where I am at, but I can't help but feel there is some underlying connection. These things always need more research and thought.

So... How do you combine your philosophies? Something you and I should both be thinking about.

First off, I do love science, but whoa; out of the 0, -1s and 1s form to make a universe? Listen to all of this and how complicated it is, and you have to wonder where the human race will get with this information, and how accurate it really is (he says right there how we might not even see other galaxies in the far future and the universe in appearance could be totally different).

A review? Eh... Of course the guy's got to appeal to his liberal base in order to get paid handsomely and offered to make more public lectures by his institution, but if I thought all ideologies, religious or otherwise (what is the definition of religion to him, anyways?) were a bunch of bunk, I would concentrate on the science alone. In other words, he's taking it a bit far. If religion is for the idiot, just run with the science and try to persuade its usefulness! Making snide remarks at opposing points of view will just remove your aim to seriousness. Lots of big words here, but I don't see this lecture as a truly serious persuasion of scientific principles.

On another note, I wonder when the western mindset with trying to find the logical answer for everything will subside from its most important place in society (I know it could take at least another few centuries). There will always be more questions than answers no matter how far you go with science and math. And the farther you go, the farther away you are from what truly matters, what you can change, what is applicable in life and possibly after life. My ideology of a superior intelligence and the need to follow principles that bless me and all around me does a lot more in these regards then science ever will. Science is very interesting and useful in most cases (until you start getting into stuff like whether the universe is curved or not), but it is created by men and fleeting. Not something to be placing your sole purpose into, in my opinion.

Nice mushroom. This reminds me that I should probably try to finish Super Mario Galaxy 100% sometime soon, along with the other few Wii games I have. Even if you give up on a company, you should at least get the most out of the things that you purchased... maybe as a remembrance of old day's greatness.

Indeed, all of those things are socialist (with a period, not an exclamation point), which is probably why they aren't working out so well. Since we're stealing wealth, borrowing, and printing money like there is no tomorrow, you think it would at least go somewhat well if the system had anything to it. Please don't use such classic oil paintings to make null points.

Center for American Progress? They want to restore America's global leadership... Let's build the empire!

I can't wait for this. The show was always exciting to watch (about 4 nations each with members that have abilities to manipulate elements), and maybe they'll tie off some lose ends with these movies. Yeah, they always say movies based on any show will bomb, but somehow I doubt that will be the case here. It is more likely the fact that movies based on shows suck just as much as movies based on books, but the movies based on books are so much more numerous you can't even count.

I'd want to play Go on that island in the middle of the pond under the couple of trees there (that's what I call a demonstration of prepositional phrases). Do you think that would be enough to become enlightened? Actually had seen this picture a while ago, since I subscribe to the stuckincustoms feed, but thought I'd give it a thumb up for being nice to gaze at all these weeks later.

Speaking of Go last week. Here is the server I was talking about. Don't even need to download it. Just to name a few things, you can review games with infinite variations, make comments and marks, play with several scoring formats and game types, look at charts for ranks, open up others games from the past, and on and on it goes. Prepare for the kibitzing when watching high ranking public games.