Sometimes I get frustrated with people that don’t have the “big picture” intelligence like I do, but then sometimes I see that they are happier than I am, and I wonder if I would maybe like to give away my intelligence so I could be happier? (however disillusioned that happiness appears to be from here)
Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.
“Do you believe God is omnipotent and that people
have free will?” he asked.
“That’s standard stuff for God. So, yeah.”
“If God is omnipotent, wouldn’t he know the future?”
“Sure.”
“If God knows what the future holds, then all our choices
are already made, aren’t they? Free will must be an illusion.”
He was clever, but I wasn’t going to fall for that trap.
“God lets us determine the future ourselves, using our free
will,” I explained.
“Then you believe God doesn’t know the future?”
Your preliminary test has been marked and I am pleased to tell you that according to your result, it would be worth your while to take the official supervised Mensa test.
The main premise of the book is that the connections in our brain are constantly changing, and can be strengthened and can be modified to compensate for deficiencies caused by strokes or injuries. One part that particularly jumped out at me is the suggestion that we can create new connections to help us deal with trauma.
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet) by Ayn Rand
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