Sometimes people, including myself, get hung up on speculative questions that don't really help much in the here and now. This reminds me of one of the Buddha's parables. According to the story (full text here), the Buddha is approached by someone interested in abstract questions about the cosmos, life after death and everything.
The Buddha responded that such questions aren't really much help in the goal of liberation from suffering. To paraphrase, he said it was as if someone who was shot with a poisoned arrow refused all medical treatment until he found out who shot the arrow, what they looked like, what his day job was, what kind of wood the arrow was made of, what kinds of feathers it had, and what the bow looked like. If that were to happen, "The man would die and those things would still remain unknown to him."
IS THAT ALL? The Economic Policy Institute calculates that the US economy is short 11.5 million jobs.
SOMETHING ELSE TO DENY ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE: major parts of the world are drying up.
SPECIAL TREAT FOR LINGUISTICS DORKS here.
MEAN GIRL BLUES. Here's an interesting article on girl bullying.
GOAT ROPE ADVISORY LEVEL: ELEVATED
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