the ornaments look pretty but they're weighing down the branches of the tree
Today Anna and I watched this really interesting movie called What the Bleep Do We Know?. They said a lot of amazing thing and a lot of weird things and a lot of things that were downright new age(!, make a run for it) but it was fascinating. I was talking to my Dad about it later, and he's generally revolted at anything that smacks of new age/eastern religion/we're all one and we're all god, but I decided what I liked so much about it. Most of the time, when confronted with the sciences they were talking about, quantum physics and neurobiology, Christians will escape by imploring you to have more faith and saying "there are some things you just can't know" and Scientists will escape by saying, "See, everything has a material explanation, God is dead." But these people weren't afraid of it, even if someone came up to them and said, "Don't you know it's just a chemcial in your head?" they would face it, they would say "Yes it is, yes it is, but what can you tell me about the chemical." They were all wondering at subatomic mystery and how most of the world doesn't actually exist. They told this story about how the first Indians to see the Nina! the Pinta! the Santa! Maria! couldn't even see them because those objects were so foreign to them, until a shaman saw ripples in the water, and after observing for many days, alerted the rest of the tribe to their presence. They said positive thinking could make you walk on water. But real positive thinking. They also misquoted the Bible. They were saying that quantum physics means the world depends on an Observer. One of them even prayed to the Observer at the end of the movie. It made me think the only we I'll ever find God is by switching my major to Cognitive Science. hahaha? Good night.