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Originally Posted by stormie
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Originally Posted by Mr. Plumbean
. . . the same way I'm traumatized to hear, say, some asshole threw a toddler off a balcony at the Mall of America or some girl saw her parents get murdered and was kept in a guy's remote cabin for four months. That's the kind of shit that sits in my stomach for a long time.
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I think, I hope, all sane people feel this way.
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Originally Posted by picunurse
Science is honest, maybe the ultimate honesty, as are numbers. In fact, there is no way to separate science and numbers, is there?
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That is exactly how I feel! We can be a little odd together <3
I HATE bad science and roll around good science like a puppy. People who use science and numbers to blind others with their opinions are . . . only slightly above pedophiles. Sly and bad, they know a bullshit pie chart will make people listen to them, even unto political policy.
I love the numbers that make science, and allow people to stretch the world beyond the visible - like that black hole, and the way it was theorized to exist, generating a massive search. Visual art does the same for me on a visceral level. Art is at it's essence not about any objective truth; it is about extending my world in a way that hauls me in.
Until I was maybe 3 I had untreated vision problems that made the world very interesting. If I take off my glasses that world is still there. I think it made me sensitive to line, light and color, rather than objects, in a fairly odd way that opened art to me. Sadly, the same vision problems help me to suck at making art.
I think some people are something they would not be thought as. A writer is someone who cannot help but write, published or no. I no longer do science professionally but I am and will continue to be a scientist. |
I'm the opposite. I have and have always had very acute eyesight. I see things that others miss. That, combined with my ADHD/OCD, makes me AWARE, sometimes painfully so.
I've worked in scientific pursuits my entire adult life. When I retired I became an artist. I painted and did stained glass. Now, I have arthritis in my hands, so I can no longer do either. It makes me sad, but the loss of beauty in the greater world is heart wrenching.
Those people who use science to confuse and frighten others are NOT scientists. They are charlatans.