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Display name: leetmeat
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Location: USA
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Date joined: June 11th, 2007
Last seen: December 27th, 2010
About me: BA in History and BS in Geology.
Studies in History focus mainly on Late antiquity, Early Christian, and the Middle Ages. I have more recently began intense study on the Cold War and modern history. I have also done research on the gender perception of society.
My focus in Geology lies within Geophysics, Geodesy, and large scale tectonic movements. I have supplemented this with study in evolutionary biology, paleoclimatology, helioseismology atmospheric chemistry, and astrogeology.



This is a response to someone on these boards that had a devoutly religious friend who even refused modern medicine.

Remind her that for billions of years, stars have been birthed and waned, the Earth has spun and orbited the sun, and many creatures have inhabited this world we walk upon. Who are we, at the tail end of all these amazing happenings, to discount and ignore them? Forfeiting any chance of understanding our existence in a meaningful way we drown our childhood curiosity and innocence in the dark pits of dogma and ritual. The most sacred of sacred and holy of holy superstition fills our lives with joy and purpose and gives us meaning when there is none to be found.
Are we really to be so arrogant, so convinced of our own importance on our grain of sand in an endless desert, that it is excusable to surrender the use of the very thing which enabled our triumph over natural selection? Many creatures before who met the stoic test of nature could have only hoped, if they had even been capable of such an emotion, their descendants, descendants, descendants might enjoy what we take for granted at their disposal. Is it not our duty on some level, coming this far, to look to the world and simply ask the questions we might find the answers for? Is it not possible to find beauty in the world as it is and be content that we existed long enough to appreciate it? Must everything be cheapened or qualified by the theology of man?
Life has clawed forth for billions of years to create forms that negate the very process that led them there it seems.
Or, should we truly just not think about it and blind ourselves to reality. Have faith that we are pleasing the always absent man in the sky with our actions throughout the blink of the eye that is our lifetime on our swirling blue dot, spiraling around our little yellow sun, drifting in ellipse among the hundreds of billions of its siblings in the Milky Way.

It’s simply our vessel for worship to our man in the sky.

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