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parable · 08-19-2007, 07:35 AM

Abaya,

Not much time now (before heading to church, actually, then to the lab to pull a sample), but I just wanted to thank you for sharing your thoughts. I hope to respond in more detail to some of the things you said, because I can relate. Your experience is shared by many.

Funny how a topic like masturbation brings out so many things to think about. Its the same in science, topics that fall between those compartments you mentioned seem to test us in ways that the little boxes don't. They're so comfortable because we think we've determined them fully and no longer have to question what to do with them. The ones that fall between the cracks challenge our basic ideas the most. Like viruses, for example. They're not living organisms, yet they have very complex life-like structures and can co-opt living cells to reproduce. And it is a virus, HIV, that is killing us like never before because it has somehow become able to co-opt the very mechanisms we need to fight viral infection. Some ideas are like that, as well as some provisions of the tax code!

Parable

"I found the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dew drop." - Gibran

p.s. Gibran is one of my favorite poets.

08-19-2007, 07:35 AM	#96 (permalink)
parable Upright	Gibran rocks! Abaya, Not much time now (before heading to church, actually, then to the lab to pull a sample), but I just wanted to thank you for sharing your thoughts. I hope to respond in more detail to some of the things you said, because I can relate. Your experience is shared by many. Funny how a topic like masturbation brings out so many things to think about. Its the same in science, topics that fall between those compartments you mentioned seem to test us in ways that the little boxes don't. They're so comfortable because we think we've determined them fully and no longer have to question what to do with them. The ones that fall between the cracks challenge our basic ideas the most. Like viruses, for example. They're not living organisms, yet they have very complex life-like structures and can co-opt living cells to reproduce. And it is a virus, HIV, that is killing us like never before because it has somehow become able to co-opt the very mechanisms we need to fight viral infection. Some ideas are like that, as well as some provisions of the tax code! Parable "I found the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dew drop." - Gibran p.s. Gibran is one of my favorite poets.