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

It had to be asked: What was it I was so attached to? Is it just something in the imagination? When you have done time in a mental hospital, that is never a trivial question. If he wasn’t just imaginary, then where did he go? Do real things just disappear like that? If they do, then the conservation laws of physics are in trouble. But if we stay with the laws of physics, then the Chris that disappeared was unreal. Round and round and round. He used to run off like that just to make me mad. Sooner or later he would always appear, but where would he appear now? After all, really, where did he go?

For anyone who saw the movie ” What the bleep do we know ” you probably will remember the scene where the girl is waiting to catch a train and she ends up listening to someone talk about Messages from Water research by Dr Emoto. You may recall the images that were formed when either [...]

To begin with, many studies of depression have shown that it is most often caused by an important and complex problem that can only be solved with intense thinking. The more important the problem, the more focused the person needs to be on solving it, which causes the person to minimize other distractions and become “withdrawn from life”.

Shouldn’t the universe have created a balance between pleasure and pain, both physically and mentally? Maybe there is a balance…

I suppose what I find most interesting about this book is how it makes me think about the causes of good and evil. In the book, there are 2 half brothers who are very different – one is on death row because he is a mass murderer, the other has declined to accept honours from various groups that he has helped over the years including risking his life to save Jews during WWII, even though he had no personal connection with any Jews. So the main character is trying to determine if there are any reasons behind why one person is “evil” and another is “good”. Is there a genetic reason? Is it due to environment? Is it due to parental upbringing? Is it a disease that you catch?