When I tell people that the world is beautiful (usually after seeing an attractive woman, I guess), I mostly encounter some kind of a pessimism from the other side. They start telling me how bad was their day and how evil are everybody around them. I guess I truly am an optimist, most of the time anyway, but they are missing the point. Or maybe I fail to clarify my point.

I mean, the world is literally beautiful and in some occasions even perfect. There are so many amazing things in this universe. Look at the petals of flowers, arranged in a mathematical pattern called Fibonacci numbers, The Virtually Infinite knowledge on the internet, the colors of the rainbow, Fractal images, The Billions of Galaxies and Stars, the ocean, the sight of Earth from Space, Music, Sex, Life and so much more.

Ideas

An idea I had for a story of a living Earth as an intelligent organism. It's not about living in peace and respecting the land, it's not a religion or about spreading love and all that. We are humans, so small and irrelevant for such an organism. We may live in peace or die in war but the planet lives on. But we can never understand such an organism as much as such an organism can never care for us (can a man fall in love with an ant?). It's just a story, a science fiction story, about existence.

We all dream and wish for a better life but Life is a force of nature! And nature is the consequences of physics (and chemistry) and This is not science fiction! Our universe is described by mathematical formulas so complex. There are some sub-atomic particles that behave so weird that you might think that there really are some mystical forces. But as we learn more and more about our gigantic home, our universe, we find its secrets, we understand and grow.

Faith

Sometimes, I can understand why "god" was invented. The inner working of such a universe is so complicated that it's hard not to wish for something that will relieve us from the responsibility and burden of knowing and thinking and... caring. It's probably easier to live on a flat world, managed by something that knows what it is doing. But thinking in such a way, aren't we underestimating ourselves? And so, in a way, aren"t we underestimating our creator "god"? [Sarcasm Alert!]

For me, god is a dog spelled backward. And I like dogs very much; they don't punish me for forgetting taking them out. Seriously, I don't need a god. Nevertheless, I do have faith. I have faith in the sun to keep me warm, that powerful "dwarf" star. I have faith in gravity to keep me on the ground. I have faith in electricity to power my MP3 player so I can listen to Slice of SciFi and The Geologic Podcast. I have faith in the universe to reveal its laws of physics everyday and in my skeptic mind to question and understand it. And also, I have faith in people!