dheddle
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Joined: Sep. 2007
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Just got to the lab from the gym. (When I left the gym, I noticed the sun had risen.) Usually I'm just about the only one on our wing of the lab's main office building at 7:00 am. I met a good friend, an extremely talented Moroccan physicist, a woman. She was sooo happy and told me she'd been crying. She asked me how I felt--knowing who I voted for (though we never discussed it.) I told her it was hard not to be happy at the history that had been made.
She startled me with almost the exact comment I made on here or Brayton's blog--that this could happen only in America. She used two of the same examples--she could not imagine a Moroccan leading France or a Turk in Germany.
Congratulations America.
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Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reason for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. --Sam Harris
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