Eruca's posts

oooh lookin good! like the new font color too!

I'm... still readin'. Same as earlier today. haha.

ooh. What's your favorite kind of cookie?

the bacon... look like fruitloops. xD

hi dragoness. c: how r u

@Shark: Do you often bake?

@Chaos: I heard that you like puns. Here's one from the internet.

What's the difference between a nicely dressed man on a tricycle and a poorly dressed man on a bicycle?
A tire.

Oooh, fresh cookies are da best

@Glume: I thought the double slit experiment illustrates the wave-like property of light. How does that experiment illustrate the idea that belief and willpower shape reality? Am I thinking of the wrong double slit experiment?

I like to think that everyone does what you do, but in a watered down way because the rest of us might not examine our evidence as thoroughly. The fact that Catholicism and Protestantism are separate despite both being versions of Christianity demonstrates that all people pick and choose things to believe in and the rest is convenience. Well, the religious authorities will disagree with me using so many other words, but invariably, when there are so many ways of practising christianity, they're not all going to be consistent and you have to throw away some stuff.

In the same vein, religion and science only seem not to play well together on the surface. Most of the time, the one has no bearing on the other. String theory (for example) has diddlysquat to say about divine intervention or the afterlife, and same vice versa. I don't see them as conflicting at all. People only argue about which set of evidence is legitimate, and they naturally come to different conclusions as a consequence. Sometimes I feel like certain religious beliefs require people to ignore evidence for certain "immutable" interpretations, but some scientists can be similarly obtuse about spiritual and psychological experiences. I think that's a consequence of being human and not necessarily the faults of religion or science. Plenty of scientists are religious (Einstein, for one), and plenty of religious people benefit from science. Reasonable people can exist with both in their lives because they're made to solve different kinds of human problems.

We gotta Try to explain the unexplained. otherwise how're we to hope to ever explain more than what we can already explain? I think it's only a problem when people are totally enamored with and convinced by the first explanation they find and stop looking for alternative interpretations forever. (The theory of evolution is kind of in this boat. It's the first secular theory that can explain so much and it's very difficult to disprove from within the system, but that doesn't mean it's useless or wrong. And I'll bet scientists would jump at the first hint of an alternative secular interpretation that works as well or better, except they can't find one).

tl;dr: That's cool. I think we might be kinda similar?

ack! You're killing me!
I can just imagine it.

@Tuijp: be odd if it wasn't.

@Tuijp: That needs to be a real thing.

wow my caramel sounds good in comparison!
You're epitome of that line from annie with a gun.
I can live on bread and cheese!
And only on that? So can a rat!

Bread and cheese is delicious though ngl

@nut: that statement makes me very curious about you.

Why do you think that?

@Dread Pirate: Oooh... True.
Hmm. Definite possibikity to explore.