Your religious views and positions on matters such as God and the meaning of life?

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Back to jaded cynicism and sarcasm, I see. It never fails. A very nihilistic worldview, with no room for mystey or the unexplained to expand said view. A pity. Life IS mystery- it is beyond the simple mechanics of atom and cell and sinew, it is also pure energy contained and harnessed to create thought and emotion- something science ALONE still cannot explain nor understand fully- and likely never will. What makes one mind different from any other? It's not the physical neurons. They are simply conduits. They direct the impulses along paths through the brain, nothing more. So what IS thought and memory, then? I'll tell you; it is the essence of Spirit. Spirit is what truly makes us who we are as individuals, not just our genes. Those genes are the building blocks, to be sure, but without our minds, we are still just a collection of parts cobbled together.

You seem to dismiss anything you can't explain or understand as childish, but the truth is you have only just scratched the surface of what IS. You are right about one thing- everything IS connected, and all of the power of creation exists within a seed, or an egg, or an unborn child. Each has within it all that it will ever need to become what it is meant to be, whether that be bird, human, or rosebush. Each grows and changes in so many ways, yet still is exactly what it was intended to be by its genes. And you don't see the wonder inherent in the system? I just can't even imagine what it must be like to live in your head. Rather dull and depressing, I'm sure. You've lost all the joy and mystery in life, and replaced it with hollow and empty mechanical processes. How sad. You seem about as close to an emotionless shell as a person can get, dependant entirely on the empty box of logic and cold reason without dreams or hope. Pandora wants her box back, friend.

Here's a thought for you to chew on- those without something to give their lives meaning and purpose are more likely to become suicidal and chronically depressed. Seems that when life is pointless, people tend not to feel inclined to continue it. But that's just an observation.

You say you have accepted a meaningless existance? Well, I hope you have something worth living for. I certainly do, and it has nothing to do with whether or not my mind will continue as part of the universe as a conscious being. When I die, my body will return to its components, and will thus continue the cycle of all matter and energy. Nothing lost or destroyed, only the form changes. Natural and simple. What the form(s) will be, I neither know, nor care. That part is unimportant. Could be in a cat, or a stormcloud, or a tree. Or even the person who becomes President after I am gone. I'd like to think some part of DaVinci or Socrates is in ALL of us, which is actually kind of comforting to think that they are still with us in some way. Atomic immortality!

For the record, you throw words like "magic" around without any idea what they truly mean. Magic(k- this not the same thing as David Copperfield's stage tricks) is just another word for what we do not yet understand about nature and physics. It is both real and tangible, and opperates under the same rules as the rest of the universe. It is causality by design. One thing begets another, through chain of effect. Like a stone creating ripples in water. The exact end result might be unknown, but the path is clear if one knows what to look for. The pattern changes, but the rules of it remain constant. You of all people should be able to appreciate that.