When my mom was in the hospital for pnumonia she had a roomate whose friends had the religious channel on constantly and they prayed every 5 seconds. What annoyed me was the irony of the prayer with the reality of the beep of the nurses hand held medical tracking device every time she walked in to give her medicine(the other lady)
All I could think was how useless that prayer was compaired to the real medicine that was keeping her alive. Of course I wished no ill will to that lady, but damn man, humans are so gullible and desperate to believe that life is magic no matter how much reality smacks them in the face.
The pictures of the telescopes are the reality. My mom having pnumonia unfortunately at the time, is the reality. There is no bearded magic man out to save us or a man with a pitchfork battling over the nuerons in or brains. Whatever good we do as a species or whatever bad happens to us is a result of nature.
It is sad in an age of explosion of technology and discovery that can potentially improve the lives of more people, that we still cling to comic books and myth.
All I could think was how useless that prayer was compaired to the real medicine that was keeping her alive. Of course I wished no ill will to that lady, but damn man, humans are so gullible and desperate to believe that life is magic no matter how much reality smacks them in the face.
The pictures of the telescopes are the reality. My mom having pnumonia unfortunately at the time, is the reality. There is no bearded magic man out to save us or a man with a pitchfork battling over the nuerons in or brains. Whatever good we do as a species or whatever bad happens to us is a result of nature.
It is sad in an age of explosion of technology and discovery that can potentially improve the lives of more people, that we still cling to comic books and myth.
