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I don't know what it is (well, yeah, I do...it's God) but I have been in such a state of grace all day today. All of those little things that get under your skin in day to day life just haven't been bothering me. I've seen God in everything I look at and it's amazing. Normally, I actively look for God around me; I mean, who* doesn't want to see God everywhere? Today, it's been different. I didn't have to look for it because it was so blatantly obvious.
I pass the cars and the people who dreamed up the idea of the cars spring to mind. The people who are involved in the physical process of making the cars enter my head. The raw materials, the rubber tree in South America, the petroleum that makes the plastic, the mines that give forth metal, all roll about my brain without actively seeking it. It makes me think of a saying Rick has about looking at a piece of paper and seeing a cloud (cloud->rain->tree->paper).
The whole day has been like that and I'm not sure what I've done to deserve it. I feel so connected to the world around me, part of one body.
Adding to that, we're getting into the stuff I really enjoy in my Calc labs. We're using integration to find volumes, which is neat because you can derive general formulas for shapes with it. I'm one of those people that has always asked, why is the volume of a cone
1/3 * pi * r^2 * h,
where the cone has a radius of r and a height of h? Integration is one way to derive that formula and I think it's pretty cool.
*this is assuming a belief in some sort of benevolent diety
I pass the cars and the people who dreamed up the idea of the cars spring to mind. The people who are involved in the physical process of making the cars enter my head. The raw materials, the rubber tree in South America, the petroleum that makes the plastic, the mines that give forth metal, all roll about my brain without actively seeking it. It makes me think of a saying Rick has about looking at a piece of paper and seeing a cloud (cloud->rain->tree->paper).
The whole day has been like that and I'm not sure what I've done to deserve it. I feel so connected to the world around me, part of one body.
Adding to that, we're getting into the stuff I really enjoy in my Calc labs. We're using integration to find volumes, which is neat because you can derive general formulas for shapes with it. I'm one of those people that has always asked, why is the volume of a cone
1/3 * pi * r^2 * h,
where the cone has a radius of r and a height of h? Integration is one way to derive that formula and I think it's pretty cool.
*this is assuming a belief in some sort of benevolent diety