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This is why I find people that suppress their [immoral?] urges to be hilarious: because in my view they're not any better off as that cokehead that cannot resist doing another line or whatever one's poison of choice ultimately is.

I don't understand. What would you have them do, give in to their immoral urges?

Uh, No.

Perhaps I could have done a better job of phrasing my statement.

What I meant is that I find it hilarious when people look down upon others for doing stuff one might consider immoral (coke, cute little freshmen, whatever floats your boat) when they often experience the very same urges.

It's like we sit around today and judge Nazi Germany, without stopping to wonder how we have behaved had we lived back in that day and in that state.

It's like saying that Sam is better than Frodo, for doing, or not doing, what he did.

There are too many variables floating around to ever be fully sure of how you or someone else would have behaved given the same set of circumstances to deal with.

Ultimately, I am very thankful that we are able to make a few of the right choices every once in a while, as in: don't do that line, or don't grab at that Ring, but I don't think it's up to humans to define morality as a complete concept.

I'm saying that nobody is really moral and nobody really knows what morality is, we can only gather hints of the true nature of it all, for the rest of our lives.

Of course, that don't bother me none, because of my religious beliefs. I don't pretend that it's easy for other people to accept such a notion.

And as for physics: I've got a few friends over at the Duke Physics Dept., and we'll get together some nights and talk, and they will say to me that there are moments when they have no idea what on earth it is that they are studying and ultimately it does seem as if physics and its purpose will never be fully explained either.

Something about that makes me think that spirituality and science should go hand in hand, but the relationships are too high falutin' for me to even begin to define.