Things I wonder when i am bored

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I wonder lots of things. sometimes i am afraid to ask about them, because i worry that it has a simple, obvious scientific solution and then i'll feel stupid for asking lol. for example,</p>

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<p>when I look into a mirror that is 5 feet in front of me, and am looking at the reflection of my extremely good-looking self, are my eyes focusing on an object 5 feet away (the mirror) or 10 feet away (my reflection, 5 feet into the mirror..)? someone has to know the answer! </p>

<p>if the answer is 5 feet away (meaning that your eyes are focusing on the actual glass), then does that mean that every reflection in the mirror that i see at any one point, be it of my face, or the flowerpot behind me, or the ceiling light,..is at the same distance from my eyes? so my eyes dont have adjust focus to see them? because you know how, when you hold up your hand in front of a picture or whatever, you have to change the focus of your eyes if you want to see your hand and then if you want to see the picture because of the differing distance, well i want to know if that applies when you are looking at things in a mirror.</p>

<p>i've tried, using my eyes, to see what the answer is, and since i somewhat notice a change in focus when i look at myself in the mirror and when i look at something behind me in the mirror, i think the answer to my original question is that i am focusing 10 feet away. but i dont know (im dumb lol)</p>

<p>i was wondering what you guys thought...
i hope u understood everything i wrote. looking back, its so confusing. lol sorry</p>

<p>another question i Have</p>

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<p>i am hesitant to ask this, because i do not know how people will react, but...
Do christians REALLY believe that God exists? i know they say the do, but i always thought they meant that they believed in the concept of god, yet knowing it couldnt be possible. im not saying its not possible or anything. i was just wondering... do christians really strongly believe that God created the world and that he is real? PS i am Lutheran, well at leat my parents make me be Lutheran (i am hesitant to believe in god-it just doesnt make sense to me). however sometimes i am worried about not believing in god, because there are so many intelligent people that i respect who believe in God, which makes me worry that i will be sent to "Hell" for not praying and stuff. I often think that the religion is just a club full of people who decide to believe in something. similar to a club that a group of children might start, in which they insist that the world of Harry Potter is real. to me the only difference is that the former happens to have a LOT of followers , who feel very strongly that they are right. you know what i mean? anyway back to my original question- Is God real? please please nobody get mad at me, because i Know religion is a touchy subject (Mods you can delete the question if you want)</p>

<p>feel free to post other things you wonder.. hopefully not as dumb as mine lol</p>

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<p>I've questioned God many times myself although my family is REALLY religious and so I can't really admit it to anyone I know. I pray and all but don't really feel it..idk its hard to explain. But at times, it is kind of hard not to believe in God because of certain incidents. Like the other day when my whole family was praying..I was really stressed out by the beginning of junior year with like a lot of work and I was esp. doing really bad in Physics and couldn't decide if I should drop it . So, I prayed and asked If I can really make it through Physics. Guess what happened? I open my eyes and the first thing I see is a newspaper on which it says "You can make it!" in large, bold letters. I was like wow! It was actually an ad for nextel but the paper was folded in a certain way that you could only see "you can make it" on top of it. I was so happy and I decided I would not drop physics and ever since I've been doing pretty good and getting decent grades in physics. It could be coincidence but its just unbelieveable. Stuff like this has happened to me sometimes but again its the question if its actually coincidental or not..some things are too good to be coincidental but I still doubt sometimes..its wierd.
The mirror question is really interesting..I think its five feet..like physically 'cuz see even in the paintings the background of the painting is just as far away from you as the main focus..so its kind of like the same thing..idk. Yea, that was a looong post.</p>

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<p>I think for the first question, you would be focusing on something 10 feet away. Since a mirror is a reflection, it has to reflect the distance as well. Take for example, that someone is standing 100 feet away from you while you stand in front of the mirror, and another person stands right next to you. The other person will look like a small speck, so those two can't both be 5 feet from you.</p>

<p>Or wait...now I'm confused. :p</p>

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<p>I sometimes wonder if what I do is what I should be doing......</p>

<p>Are my actions the best that they can be?</p>

<p>Where will I be in 5 years or so? 1 year? next week?</p>

<p>Will I ever fulfill my potential?</p>

<p>Truth has a way of concealing itself, I have to say. You search and search, but when you least expect it, it is right in front of you, shining, beckoning for you to grab it.</p>

<p>I guess I always grap at the wrong place.</p>

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<p>what is my weight in nutons? (welli could easily calculate that but i chose to wonder)</p>

<p>why am i bored? i'm just procrastinating. i should do my homework, fill out scholarships apps or write college essays</p>

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<p>What I've come to understand recently is the consequences of my actions, not necessarily bad or good, just things that happen. Like when I get in my car will going this certain speed happen to bring me into proximity with a car that loses control after its tire pops and slams into me only because I hadn't spent a second longer warming my car up or I got a green light earlier in my drive. I mean everything is just so completely random. Its just unfathomable to think about. Every little thing you do effects everything. </p>

<p>Also this sorta ties into something I like to refer to as the "wall effect". Basically it's like when an event happens that makes things different afterwards. Like there's your life before - event - life after (hence the "wall"). You can only look back on your life before. I know that's not exactly revolutionary but it's just weird for me. Like now... when I get in the car I think to myself "this is your life before". Like you're in the "before". You're in the past. It's so weird. You acknowledge the fact that things could be different from this moment forward.</p>

<p>Oh and something that just occurred to me... when I am like in a floaty state between sleeping and being awake (whatever thats called) I think of myself as more than one person. Like it won't be dreams, it will be thoughts. Like sometimes it's "we" sometimes it's "they". Just now I was about to pass out at my desk, and as I sat there with my eyes closed, drifting off, I thought to myself, "We shouldn't fall asleep here, we could hit our head" And it seems as though when I do return to consciousness, I'm confused as to why I am the only one involved with these things. </p>

<p>I just realized I typed that whole last paragraph without thought. My hands were typing... I wasn't thinking. Then my brother walked in my room and I almost fell out of my chair.</p>

<p>I'm... so... tired...</p>

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<p>i like this thread. :)</p>

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<p>haha masha.. lol i wonder things like that too. but iam too lazy to acually do work to figure out</p>

<p>another thing
lastnight my familyand i were bored so we watched this documentary on Discovery Channelabout a Haunted House. i personally thought it was so pathetic, and that people were making it up. but then my mom was telling me it was true. i was so shocked because after all these years, i have never known that my mom even slightly believed in the supernatural.. so now i am afraid of her lol.but i also respect her and i am very confused as to why she believes that spirits and demons exist. the documentary itself did notsway me to believe thatat all, since it was so patheic... but my mom is making me have doubts</p>

<p>this is tied in with my recently growing fear that i am going to be punished for not believing in god. i always thought god didnt exist (or, that he only exsists for people who believe in him... if that makes sense) just because of my logic and reasoning. but now i dont know</p>

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<p>another thing i think about (i know, i wonder a lot lol) which really creeps me out, is the fact that when i die,its going to be ALL OVER. like EVERYTHING...as in no more anything. when i think of this, i have to keep repeating to my self "its gonna be all over" because my head keeps trying to think its a dream. but no.everything is going to be over. as in i wont exist anymore... and the world will go on for so many more years. its such a weird thing to think about. sometimes i cant imagine it... i have to think really hard for my brain to grasp the concept and then i can sort of feel, like, the idea being pushed away which is why i have to keep repeating to myself "its gonna be over", and then i get a scary feeling. lol i dont know, its confusing right... but scary. i dont think i explained it right... but i think you can kind of grasp it. because its not just the fact that i dont want to die. its sort of more the fact that i am not going to exist anymore... lol i know confusing</p>

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<p>I do exactly the same thing. That is one of my main worries. I always wonder whether its really over when we die. How can we just die and be gone? It's so crazy to think about. Yet I find myself coming back to it. A pretty scary thought sometimes.</p>

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<p>yeah nothingness is really hard to comprehend. And really scary to think about. It's not that there's blackness, and you're just there, it's over there, and there's nothing. You no longer exist. Personally this fear justifies the belief in something. I mean I know logic sometimes makes us stray away from religion, but it truly is a comforting belief, especially if you grasp the concept of death. Thinking about this too much makes me sick to my stomach, literally. On one hand, it makes you want to do everything you can while you're alive, but on the other, it makes you feel that everything is futile, since in the end there's nothingness anyway.</p>

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<p>Exactly. Sometimes I wish I were religious- it would be so much more comforting to believe in heaven and that something happens after death. But then logically its hard to accept that belief.</p>

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<p>ilovemath-My story is pretty much the same except I'm "muslim"
Have you ever looked at the world from the view od an outsider(like an alien)? Whenever i do, the whole idea of religion seems foolish. I look at the millions of people who go to mecca and circle that rock that supposedly fell from heaven(come on!-its a freaking meteor, are we going to say that everything that falls out of the sky comes from god?),and the people who still perform exorcisms; and everything about religion seems silly.</p>

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<p>Hmmm...I'm Muslim too, but I'm not going to lash out on you wesam...</p>

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<p>I'm not trying to insult anyone. I'm just writing my opinion
Sorry if i offended you</p>

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<p>i think ive crossed the line</p>

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<p>once again, im really sorry
it just that ive never been able to express my views before(for obvious reasons), so now that ive found a way to ive sort of gone overboard
i should have controlled myself
sorry</p>

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<p>i feel really bad now</p>

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<p>wesam it is okay... i am glad you did. i have so many opinions about religion and stuff.. but i am always so afraid to voice them. for what it matters i agree with what you said. i do think religion seems silly. religion may be a cool concept, but i dont see how people can actually believe it is true, rather than pretend it is true (like, say, if i wanted to pretend to believe in Harry Potter and Wizarding stuff) because to me, some of the things set forth by some religions are very farfetched. however, unfortunately, it is not right to say what we think on this particular issue. because religion and strong moral belief makes people very emotional IMO
i know, i just said its not right to say things about religion, yet i just did.. lol. but i needed to get it out, really. i hope i did not offend anyone</p>

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<p>i hate that everyone who opposes religion avoids discussing it because they are afraid of offending people, but religious people have no problem with ridiculing the beliefs of people who accept evolution(or other scientific theories that provide evidence against religions)</p>