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I dont know about you but it certainly makes things more magical and more fun when you're really not sure if something is real/true or not. When there's something to believe in. Facts arent interesting. Who the heck likes facts!

Whether it be werewolves, aliens, magic or faeries, wouldnt you just rather let everyone ponder? Isnt the speculating better then knowing and having it become mundane? The possibility of something is always so much better then the actual existence of something, dont you think? Myth is always so much better then science!

Dont you agree?

By the way, how many of you consider yourselves Young At Heart? *raises hand*

Hmmm some how...I balance Science and Magic quiet well. I AGREE!

And uh...can you be young at heart and be young?

Interesting Statment......i think i can agree with that....
And to answer you question...i think that i am young and young at heart too

wow....never really thought about it, but I agree with you.


and I know for a fact that I'm young, and young at heart!!!

so do i

Nope. I like science. Facts can be pretty damn interesting, as nature is damn crazy.

It's all about perspective. The world has some real crazy stuff going on that I'd be hesitant to view as "mundane".

I would like to know the answer to everything if I could, every fact and bit of information that could be know. I would prefer having the answers to everything.

Um...no. Knowledge is not dull, not in the slightest. Granted some people can make it dull...that's how I can like science and still be bored out of my mind in a class about it...

There is a need for Wonder in the human psyche. Take it away, and something indefinable is lost from the person; they are lessened and somehow made smaller.
Your reach should always exceed your grasp. If you cannot still ponder, puzzle, and wonder, your humanity is reduced; Man is more than the machine.
Science is the art of description, the deft weaving of facts into plausable and demonstrable things, for everyone to feel and touch-yet Wonder is the parent of Science, and the child of discovery. We grow through Wonder, and learn through Science.
From the first to the last seconds of life, we live with Wonder; leading us on to discover and learn...and grow.
But Wonder, that most seductive of dancers in the mind, is also the easiest lost. We lose Wonder, and with her; a part of our soul. Neither is easily regained, but the quest to do so is the single most worthy of questings, since it unites us with ourselves again, and makes us whole.

And I am neither young nor old, but rather both-as the situation requires of me.

Set wrote:Um...no. Knowledge is not dull, not in the slightest. Granted some people can make it dull...that's how I can like science and still be bored out of my mind in a class about it...

I didnt mean to say that we shouldnt have science. Because science is awesome and I dont wanna be wandering around thinking that chickens are demons or anything stupid like that. We do need science. I think I meant. Dont just let science dictate what you believe it. Just because it hasnt been proven doesnt mean it doesnt exist. I think that's more of what I meant.

And RedEye, I agree...I always say Im old man and little girl in one.

Well why didn't you just say that? I know you were trying to be...poetic, or something, but sometimes the point is much better delivered if you just state it plain.

Set wrote:Well why didn't you just say that? I know you were trying to be...poetic, or something, but sometimes the point is much better delivered if you just state it plain.

I guess it was just the mood I was in.

So then you would go along with manipulating matter with your mind? Set says people use 100% of their brain and I should have asked where that information came from.
Even if this is true, what one person can do with 100 Percent of their mind is not the same as what someone else could do with it.

MoonKit wrote: I dont know about you but it certainly makes things more magical and more fun when you're really not sure if something is real/true or not. When there's something to believe in. Facts arent interesting. Who the heck likes facts!

MoonKit wrote: Dont just let science dictate what you believe it. Just because it hasnt been proven doesnt mean it doesnt exist. I think that's more of what I meant.

It sounds like it. Manipulating matter with your mind would fall into the magic category if you ask me.
Besides if someone could do this there would be no way to prove or disprove it =P

cumulusprotagonist wrote:Set says people use 100% of their brain and I should have asked where that information came from.

That came from every scientist and medical expert I've ever heard speak about the brain.

Is there anywhere online I could go to review the information?

That I know of? No. You'll have to do the search yourself.

It used to be said that we only used a small portion of our brain, based on what were simple and not very enlightening tests.
With the advent of PET (Positron Emission Tomography), advanced ElectroEncephalography, and really detailed MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans, it became obvious we were using all of our brain, just like every other creature. We just didn't have a way to test for it. Now, we do.
What's the amazing part is that all the "Intelligence" happens in a layer of braincells as thick as a business card. The rest is "wiring" to connect parts of the brain together. There is a huge amount of surface there though; it's just wrinkled to fit in our skull.
SO, the more wrinkles in your brain, the more you think? Seems li ke that's what's happening. Wrinkles are our friends...

I think it's wonderful being a newbie! that way, everything is magical for you, even if there's a real scientific reason behind it; tough, sooner or later you'll grow up and see the truth, and start loosing your "inner child".

I want answers.

I'm not surprised that the whole of the brain gets used... It's not just knowledge, storage and processing ability... there's analytical processes going on in the human brain that I doubt any computer would be able to duplicate, let alone one as small as a human brain.

Yeah. I've heard that too about the brain. They used to think we didnt use it all but then they found out that we do.

But that doesnt mean we're living up to our full potential.

mmm... ok

Guess we all had different childhood moments. New things are always great, of course, but not so much the science ones for me, not now, and less when I was younger, I didn't even understand them.

not knowing i guess makes things magical....but not knowing things...makes me think of what it could be and then beyond.

not knowing stuff is basically like the funest thing in the world....cause if you dont know it...you can make it whatever you want it to be...to yourself anyway

There is no such thing as magic. There is energy everwhere, and where there is energy you can control it. That understandment is one of the basics of spiritual growth.