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Why

As a highly cognitive creature we have the ability to ask why, and this is dangerous. We have the ability to ask why, to analyze, to investigate mentally. For the first time, a species, humans, are not content merely to live, but to know why they live, what meaning it contains. But the problem is that the more times we compute “why”, the more anomalies we find with our previous answers, so we must ask again, “why”, and after countless computations, we are destined to reach the answer, null. It’s not that atheists don’t want to believe the world has meaning and order, they do; but unfortunately they have asked why too many times to believe in the previous responses anymore.  So now, in order to pretend our life is not null or void, we have to come up with a more shallow ways to distract ourselves, distraction itself. Some of us are content with meaninglessness, some of us humor ourselves with the beauty of humanitarism, and others simply try not to think about it. ------ Or, m

Environmental Issues and Wisconsin Legislatures

Just sent 134 emails to legislatures about global climate change and what they are doing about it. I'm going to keep this post updated on their responses. The emails include all of the Wisconsin State Senate, all of the Wisconsin House of Representatives, the Mayor, The President, and The Governor.