[Deep Thoughts] Jesus Took the Wheel

[Kyle]

What is a miracle that happens every day?

[WillyGilligan]

That today is the tomorrow that some wide-eyed doomsayer said wasn't going to happen?

[bralbovsky]

There are the ancient, constant miracles:
We remain only gently poisoned by our environment.
As squishy as we are, it takes a long time to die.
That we haven't eaten our young.
That accidents like bread and bourbon and electricity are discovered and remembered.
That we survive the cold and the heat and the germs and wandering monsters, and wake up.
That someone wanted shells, and someone else wanted wood, and they didn't kill each other first.
That our family or our neighbors didn't abandon us when we broke our femur or fell ill.
That none of the objects that have collided with us in space have entirely erased us.
That we can conceive of things we cannot see.

and some modern ones:
That we stop at stop lights.
That we can talk to loved ones far away because of trillions of tiny Mike TV bits of information humming around the atmosphere that are miraculously distributed and reconstituted every millisecond.

[Eliahad]

I like Bill.

[Phoebe]

I liked him before, but he certainly ramped up considerably today alone!

[El Jefe]

Electricity. The level of technological change required to build this utterly massive network of absolutely lethal power gets boiled down to us flicking a light switch in our home. While I may not exactly care for what Con-Edison did to the market, the sheer amount of human ingenuity displayed by that simple light switch is one of the best examples I can offer when I talk about humanism as my religion.

[Zen]

[Stan]

[Kyle]

[mimekiller]

It is interesting how fast we not only get used to new technolgy but take it for granted in this era.

I was on a plane ohhh late 2008 or so and the flight attendant said they were going to turn on WIFI, a new deal for the plane and something the were tinkering with, it worked for 30 minutes before it went down and they announced it would stay down and some dude with a laptop was like "OH COME ON!" and it was like my brother you just found out this tech existed less than a hour ago haha

[WillyGilligan]

[Kyle]

I didn't, but when I saw the talk of electricity it made me think of this.

Honestly, even though I know how magnets work, I see how they look like magic-- how they really look like force fields. It's this crazy, actual manifestation of something that looks like real magic powers. And what do we do with that? Harness it to stick papers to our fridge.

[WillyGilligan]

Also store and retrieve pictures of cats.

[Iantha]

The miracle of attraction. Not lust, but genuine falling-in-love-and-staying-married-for-decades attraction.

[El Jefe]

Plastic. Any kind of plastic anywhere. Because seriously, the ingredients that go into it and the level of work required for it should turn this into a luxury item. Instead we just put on EVERYTHING.

[Phoebe]

Did you guys posting these pictures actually CAUSE the whole Insane Clown Posse thing to happen in DC/FBI, and that's the true reason this thread is about weird causes and such?