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I'd like to think that life's big answers to universal questions, we inherently know even if it is not immediately presented to us in a neat, concise mathematical package. After all we generally have the capacity of observation, recall and prediction - key abilities to formulate patterns in our analytical existence. To me ideas that seem totally unrelated have a way of defining each other, within parallels, to the point where everything and anything just becomes one incomprehensible giant concept.

I love to think and analyse and even though I’m far removed from the distinct field of science I have an overwhelming need to accumulate knowledge and utilise it to better fulfill my daily existence.

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• A reply on Conversation: Is religion in the U.S. corrosive to our scientific advancement?

  Apr 28 2011: S.R. I am having trouble understanding anything you are saying…None of your posts or replies have had any inkling of relevance (let alone cohesiveness) to any 'given' topic for any 'given' conversation (even to your own topic of conversations, I might add). If your aim is to somehow make valid arguments (and it seems like you seem fixated on the 'absolute' concept of the one God) to err people on these forums towards your point of view you are NOT achieving this - and it is not due to a language barrier, it is because you use the same transparent viewpoints, arguments and rebuttals in ALL of your threads over and over and over and over and over again!
  
  Does this make sense to you? Or am I wasting my breath?
  
  TO THE POINT:
  
  This is not a reply concerning your belief in Allah but a reply concerning your consistent lack of progressive, valid comments (I shy from calling them arguments because to be honest the'yre not) so please refrain from telling me for the 'nth time how good God is if you do reply to this.

• A reply on Conversation: why our universe has laws of physics?

  Apr 28 2011: I think you're confusing human-made law with scientific law?
  
  Human laws reflect each society or group with each one having a set of different laws. These laws change constantly each generation. We don't have the same set of laws that society had 100 years ago and our current laws will not be intact 100 years from now. Because 'human' laws are in constant flux there need to be an enforcer or some sort of policing structure (ie a governing body) to mandate and regulate these laws otherwise they wouldn't exist.
  
  Scientific laws for the most part are best common practices that have been arrived through rigorous experimentation and in accordance to the current majority of interested and relevant scientific parties (sometimes even several conglomerate scientific bodies) serve as the current definition or methodology for defining or at the very least to aid in understanding a particular behaviour of nature. These laws also change and evolve but usually based on which competing schools of methodology measure the test of time in terms of large scale accuracy or in simpler terms which seems to provide better proof for a certain scientific observation.
  
  The use of the word 'law' is homonymic in nature.
  
  I thought you studied 'atomic physics', you should know this right?

• A reply on Conversation: Isn't everything meaningless without faith in anything beyond this life?

  Apr 28 2011: "each human can know God by his special way"
  
  They say that the Bible is the only cure for a 'sick' heart…
  
  I've never heard anyone say the Koran is the cure for a 'sick' heart…until you wrote it?
  
  Which one is the truth?
  
  I'm curious…teach me…does the Koran mention the atom?
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  A reply on Conversation: what is Wisdom and can Wisdom be found in DNA?

  Apr 27 2011: I always thought wisdom was relative - in that it was defined by the receiver rather than the source...
  
  i.e. the source could be a witch doctor saying that the sun is angry and therefore the reason for your boils; you must then perform a walk across a hot desert under the searing sun for five hours, naked with only the herbs on your hands. After the five hours the then dried herbs wil be made into a poultice for your boils and presto you have appeased the sun god and you will be healed in a week...I would then think that that tribesman thought "what a wise witchdoctor"…
  
  ...or how my gemini horoscope says today: "If you're allowing money to come between you and a friend, tread carefully today. Things could get more upsetting than you mean them to and even some very strong bonds could be tested to breaking point. And if money is the issue but it's nothing to do with a friend, you do still need to tread carefully today. It's as though there's a bit of a volcanic eruption going on in your Finances Zone. This too shall pass, as the wise people say..."
  
  I mean spot on!!! I am having money issues with a friend who hasn't paid me back what he owes me…wow - this horoscope stuff is sooooo full of wisdom goodness!!!
  
  …I think this is how I define wisdom… :)
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  A reply on Conversation: Isn't everything meaningless without faith in anything beyond this life?

  Apr 26 2011: Hi Colleen,
  
  I totally agree with you and in reading my reply above I thought to myself how judgemental I would have come across. I guess there is no way of concreting a definition to what 'living life to its fullest' actually entail...My interpretation to the idiom (which is pretty similar to your interpretation) isn't any more 'right' than the next average Joe. I think I was coming from a place of annoyance when I see individuals (especially younger people - which I admittedly once was and admittedly was once a willing participant in this youthful rampant behaviour) seemingly wasting away in what they believe - or rather have been made to believe - is 'living the good life'…
  
  I dont know…I think I'm being judgemental again...ha! :)

• A reply on Conversation: Isn't everything meaningless without faith in anything beyond this life?

  Apr 26 2011: You believe in God in many ways? There are different ways to believe in God??? I thought there was only ONE way to believe in God. God has no compromise, you either follow his STRICT WORD or you don't follow at all. There is no grey area.
  
  Again my question is 'how' (--not why--) do you prove to yourself that you believe in God? How have you confirmed this to yourself???

• A reply on Conversation: Isn't everything meaningless without faith in anything beyond this life?

  Apr 26 2011: I actually began to think that the saying 'live life to the fullest' was a bit silly in that when individuals start this quest it would then 'usually' involve partaking in activities that would expedite the end of life - ie binge drinking, smoking, drugs, rampant sexual encounters, excessive alcohol intake, excessive food intake (bad, ver unhealthy food at that).
  
  I thought that the saying would actually imply to live 'life' to its fullest, as in live it to its utmost capacity…not live its 'meaning' to it's fullest…but I guess we are programmed to generate meaning for everything…we just can't help ourselves…

• A reply on Conversation: Isn't everything meaningless without faith in anything beyond this life?

  Apr 26 2011: I am finding this thread so interesting...
  
  I was raised by devout born again Christian parents so my take on this whole thing always seem to change as I get older. I enjoy reading these back and forth arguments. I think it's thoroughly entertaining!
  
  S.R. how do I know that you believe in God? Is it proof enough that because you say (or in this case write) that you do indeed believe, that any other person on this thread can totally and undoubtedly ascertain to your faith?
  
  If I can put it another way, how do you prove to yourself that you believe in 'God'? I'm curious…
  
  Ask me any questions, as well if you like, since I seemed to have fired a considerable amount your way...
  
  :)
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  A comment on Talk: Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 2)

  Apr 26 2011: So this is what I started thinking about after viewing this talk…
  
  Low entropy starts off with small number of linear probabilities for arrangement and that through the processes of time, these linear probabilities have a way of multiplying until they would enter a definable stage of high entropy. It seems like due to the multiplicative nature of these probabilities, the concept of entropy cannot revert back to the past state of low probabilities as more probabilities only ever beget even more probabilities. Make sense to me. As the egg once broken cannot become the same egg because its state of entropy have dramatically increased.
  
  This allows our disseminated egg, however, possibilities to become part of another closed low entropy system like bread - which will eventually develop to a stage of high entropy like bread crumbs which can then become a part of another closed system like a chicken through chicken feed. Crazy!
  
  I then started envisaging that the big random, disordered, high entropic systems is actually made up of smaller, contained, manageable, lower entropic systems which are all in itself blooming into yet other wild, disorganise, chaotic high entropic systems. This led me to imagine a universal entropic weather map looking like a familiar earth weather map displaying high entropy and low entropy pressure zones with no clear separation but parts of it moving in and out in a cause and effect pattern.
  
  I do believe that it is not such a crazy idea that our universe came about because of another similar high entropic system nor is it a far-fetched notion that our universe at this very second have materialised several other universes and will continue do so in the next billion years.
  
  Great talk!