So I have just finished reading my latest novel, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. It is the prequel to The Da Vinci Code. I would reccomend it
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Science has proven to us that we really are just insignificant specks in an unimaginably large universe. It also suggests that a higher power doesn't exist and that our lives don't have a guided purpose. Whether or not this is depressing remains just a matter of opinion. I've always felt that god is just an imaginary friend for adults. You can either pretend he's there for the rest of your life, or you can grow up and deal with it. I believe the appropriate biblical analogy is the fruit of the tree of knowledge in the garden of Eden.(I won't rehash the story as I assume you are aware of it.) You can retain your blissful faith at the cost of ignorance, striving to do as god commands. Or you can ignore his warning and choose to eat the fruit of knowledge, to blatantly disobey god and in doing so realize that you are naked and alone. It simply comes down to which you desire more: happy but stupid, or wise but miserable. This is, of course, just a broad generalization. Many among the faithful seek knowledge, many are dissappointed and
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You just put that in better words than I ever could. The fact that the universe did form from a one in a billionth chance, that everything had to be in line for life to happen is the wonder, the beauty. The complexities of it all is astonishing. That is what is awe-inspiring.
Ohh and the eye of sauron is cool although the is another nebula that looks a lot like it, the cat's eye nebula. Check out this site of hubble pics. http://www.seds.org/hst/hst.html. Check out the Gaseous Pillars in The Eagle Nebula M16 and the star birth clouds in M16.
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Check out the Gaseous Pillars in The Eagle Nebula M16 and the star birth clouds in M16.
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