Talent

>>No one ever said talent was geared toward progressive areas only, such as singing or dancing or anything really where something good is created rather than collapse. Frankly, people can be geared toward calamity. I know I have a lot of useless talents: losing my keys, losing my phone, clumsiness, and lately naivety.

>>Although there would be two things that I could say are positive talents. The first, GPA management, which is more or less useful. The second would be my ability to think. Often times it's useless (and a lot of times it's hard to explain things because it's hard to narrow down the big picture), but sometimes it actually leads me somewhere.

>>A recent epiphany I've reached through the help of several others is a debate over the existence of "good" and "bad", or "right" and "wrong". You see, we say that helping an old lady across the street is good. We have young boy scouts do it, or at least we used to. But who said that was a "good" thing to do? What if the old lady is offended that the boy thought she was unable to walk on her own, something she's been doing for longer than the boy has been alive? In India, cows are sacred. They aren't eaten and if one is in the road, you wait until it passes in its time before proceeding. Here in America, we've got slaughterhouses loaded with them.

>>My point? It is all a matter of perception. Also, these things that have been labeled as "right" and "wrong" were just that--labeled. People said it was so. I think a lot of people don't realize that ethics falls into questioning human morals, not morals concerning reality in general.

>>Can reality even have morals? It's just existence; the world is a mass of matter populated somehow by billions of organisms, some with more intelligence than others...anxiety plagues so many people (myself included), but is the fuss even worth it when there's so much more than the speck of dust we are in the galaxy?

>>If God created all of space and then took the time to put all these details into Earth, shouldn't we be grateful? That is, if you believe in some form of deity. If you don't then the world is incredibly brutal: here it is, have at this crazy for awhile, and then death.

>>Scariest question of all: does an omniscient being exist, or did we as people make one up in order to bring some sort of order to the chaos of early civilizations? Think about it. In the Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan lies to the inhabitants of Earth and chooses to be the bad guy in their eyes so as to form peace treaties all over the globe. Yes, it's fictional, but what if one wise guy in early civilization made up God so his tribe would have common goals and work as a unit?

>>Just some food for thought.