Thursday, June 24

is faith a chemical reaction?

just like anger, emotions, feelings, love, though processes are discovered to be chemical and electrical reactions within the human body, is faith also as such?
If it is then discovered that faith is a complex process of hormones and chemical/electrical reactions of synapses. In that case, if scientists were able to recreate this chemical process through artificial means, wouldn't you be able to physically inject 'faith' into a human body? Just like how there are now pills to increase your endorphin levels to counter depression, hormonal injects to turn a man girly, would you soon be able to increase a person's faith in something?

Tuesday, June 22

"Expecting life to treat you fairly because you're a good person is like expecting a bull not to charge because you're a vegetarian" Dennis Wholey
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is life fair?



i wonder...


what if I try to be philosophical and say "it's not what life gives you, it's what you make of it" and thus life is fair?


but don't you need materials to create something? do we all have the same amount and same quality of material? If you give one person a pack of blue-tac and the other modeling clay with all tool provided and a kiln, and both are of equal talent, who would be able to reproduce a more accurate model of Beethoven's bust?


or maybe i'm too shallow to understand

Friday, June 4

how did it change?

do you remember when you're young and you were accidentally given a few extra coins in the change while buying a little snack or toy from the corner shop? And being the virtuous little child, you return the extra amount and the shopkeeper and everyone around beams with pride at the honest little kid while you're secretly chaffed at your amazing mathematical skills.

then you grew up and the few extra coins turn into hundreds of dollars and suddenly the beaming faces change into twisted swirls of agony and little beady eyes with weary wrinkles around the corners. You're no longer the bright honest angel but simply a foolish foolish naïve thing giving away cash that could be yours. The shopkeeper no longer smiles warmly at you but narrows his eyes in suspicion. You little cheater. The story changes.

was it just a superficial moral?