Relativity Chat READ ME!!!

So I had this very interesting discussion with a friend and i thought i'd share it with everyone... feel free to add comments or something.... just share your thoughts!!


FRIEND: whats more important, astronomy or environment??

ME: environment

FRIEND: haah i thought so
i want to be an astronomer though

ME: no sense in studying outerspace if we cant take care of our own planet

FRIEND: heh yeah.
BUT
if aliens come we should be able to deal with them

ME: lol
haaha
that would be a very good point

FRIEND: im sure id be more heroic if i saved the world from aliens rather than acid rain

ME: haha
i think heroic is something very relative

FRIEND: everything is relative
but i am not hero material

ME: mmhmm

FRIEND: either way

ME: i'll give you an example
ook
so
to be honest when the world is dishonest around you
is to be brave

FRIEND: lulzzzz

ME: or just different
because to even to tell a simple truth would be heroic in a world that only lies be cause you dare to be different in that world

FRIEND: that was so prose it was poetic

ME: being brave is simply acknowledging you fears yet doing what your fears would have you not do

FRIEND: so how will you be brave and heroic?

ME: how will i be brave and heroic
?
hmm
by sharing my theory of relativity
haha

FRIEND: LOLOLOL

ME: not many people think that way
i always get scoffs or whatever simon
in fact i bet you are thinking the same thing right now

FRIEND: NO
i just said it was POETIC

ME: haha

FRIEND: and not sarcastically
not very

ME: im bad at telling sarcasm out from AIM chats
lol
srry
thanks though

FRIEND : its not often that people think about bravery

ME: i wasnt trying to be mean
mm
being brave would be doing the right thing... no matter how small in a world that demands the wrong to succeed
i think
everyone has it in it themselves to be brave

FRIEND:well
the 'right thing' is relative

ME: now i dont know about the right thing being relative... but i do believe somethings are...
this is a very deep conversation... lol
nah

FRIEND: everything is relative!
what do you think is universally right?

ME: hmm...
well see i think that is a loaded question

FRIEND: hehe

ME: how do we judge what is universally right? are our standards universal?

FRIEND: its not!
.'. relative!

ME: true... so then it comes down to finding something that we know to be universal or at least above our preconceptions

FRIEND: that we believe
since there is no real truth
its all subjective

ME: hold on... what we believe to be truth is subjective

FRIEND: yes!

ME: by virtue of our own beliefs i suppose

FRIEND: truth is just what we believe
yah

ME: truth is what others tell us to believe
i think there will come a point in everyone's live where we will be confronted and be forced to come to our own conclusion of what truth is

FRIEND: is that like a midlife crisis?

ME: maybe
i just think we will all come to this point in life (some sooner the later) where we will be forced to define what we believe to be true

FRIEND: yes
i think i did
when i realized santa was not real
D":
or
decided that he was not
lol
haha

ME: i suppose we all face that point in different ways... lol i guess its a part of growing up...
heh

FRIEND: thanks for chatting with me