Science, Religion, Politics and in the pursuit of truth – HappyPsychotic

“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.

The best I have come up with so far is to distract myself from actually thinking about life – which is a temporary solution at best. I’ve become much more of a social creature, meeting new people, hanging out with groups of people. I think I enjoy the unpredictability of meeting people and the surprises that occasionally happen with them.

I have now decided to allow myself to get really excited about anything that sounds fun. I let myself dream about how great it’s going to be. It’s like waiting for Christmas presents as a kid – it sometimes ends up being more fun than the actual presents you get.