A dream within reality

Hi. I'm Andy. I am pursuing a PhD in physics at NC State University. Some of my favorite things in life are cats, disc golf, reading books, playing Mario Kart, and typing competitions.

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A: Yes! Now, the question is this: does a Twitter bot find this post and share it to Twitter, completing a circle?

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Let’s play a game called “why is my stomach upset today?” Possible answers include:

- Too much dairy yesterday

- Drank a Bang energy drink and it had been 10+ days since I last had more than half that amount of caffeine

- The Chinese takeout I ate that was sitting on the fridge, closed and sealed but still now more than 10 days old

- Drinking a cup of grapefruit juice while also being on Sertraline and Atorvastatin (whoops, forgot that’s not a good combo)

- Too much alcohol (definitely had like 5-7 servings’ worth)

- The shit I smoked may have had traces of mold on it

- All of the above

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Why the hell am I crying so much tonight

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I was sad so I wrote this

I do not think there is anything in existence crueler than the heart-wrenching despair of loss. It is mind-baffling to me, still, how swiftly we flutter through existence, each day tacked and draped together on the calendar of our lives. When do we ever slow down and face the facts that we will perish one day? I wish my words were able to encapsulate the utter sorrow of this reality. The loss of a loved one is nothing but pain stripped raw and bare and exposed to a tender heart. In that loss, we recognize the complete annihilation of a fellow conscious soul whom we held close, whom we kept warm, whom we cherished in this trek through existence. We desperately seek to gather memories together like grains of sand in our palms, but when we die, we must throw them to the wind; they may remain for a moment, but in the incessant breeze they must and will scatter.

Do not take this as me complaining about existence. It is my very recognition of how rare, how fragile, and how precious it is that wounds me so deeply when it is irreversibly lost. I am grateful for the time I have spent and the opportunities the very fabric of the cosmos has offered to all of us. We should take this time to embrace together and reflect on our tenuous status, even if we are to be carried away by the tides of the eons anyway. This is the only existence we know. So yes, loss hurts worse than any physical wound I have ever experienced. But unbearably cruel as it is, we must not give in to apathy and numbness, because even pain serves as a reminder of our continued chance to experience the world around us. Let us accept the pain, take the time to heal, and shed our tears. This is natural; all one needs is the meagerest shred of empathy to require this recovery period. But let us finally remember: loss is cruel and loss is like an icy wind that threatens the limits of our warm hearts; however, like everything else, loss is finite. Never forget your soul partners, but make sure you do what they would want you to do: live.

[agreeing]

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when you fight a boss in a game but it’s a scripted loss

[theweirdwideweb]

[a-rich-friendship]

[viostormcaller]

Whatever is going on in Minnesota I am LIVING for it

[guccihall]

Sometimes it’s you and your iced coffee against the world

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So I looked up a mini golf place nearby and I guess they’re only open for 30 minutes in the dead of night on Thursdays only.

[everybodylovejessica]

[thedragoninmygarage]

This is at least the 5th time around. Forever reblog.

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I’ll pitch in again to help this along to the million note mark. lol

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As far as the presidential election goes, here are what my relative happiness levels would be if X gets elected (1 = lowest, 10 = highest):

Trump - 1

Cruz - 2

Clinton - 5

Sanders - 8.5

Cruz gets 1 point for being not-Trump, and Clinton would be a 4 but gets a bonus point for being not-Trump as well. Sanders isn’t a 10 for me because some of his policies he’s proposed are a bit too liberal for my taste.

[skepticskull]

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No, it doesn’t. Absence of evidence is not equivalent to evidence of absence; they only approach equality in the limit that all possible ways of finding evidence have been explored.

However, if all the evidence someone gives of a god is subjective, I would consider their belief to not be rational and that I’m well-justified in not accepting their arguments.

The fact that someone must tell you about the existence of their god lends credence to one’s lack of belief in it, but it doesn’t prove that their god doesn’t exist. The only way I would consider one’s god to be “proven” nonexistent is if one claims their god is two mutually exclusive things at the same time.

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HOW TO NOT GO HIGH AFTER EATING PIZZA:

1) sell ur soul 2 the devil lol

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This must look pretty strange to people who don’t know it’s talking about T1D struggles. lol

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I also recently bought Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals by Feynman and Hibbs - hoping to find some time to look it over spring break!