Scientific Research: The Source of Our Worries

Ignorance is bliss. Sometimes, I can't help but think that life would be so much nicer if we weren't bombarded with so much information.

True, it's good to be updated and knowledgeable, then you can go around like a walking textbook and show other people what a smartarse you are, but other than that, I see no point of knowing so much.

Knowing what's bad for us is bad. It makes people constantly fear things, it encloses people's minds, and it makes life a whole lot less enjoyable.

Would Jenny still fear hair-dye like the plague, if it wasn't for that A Current Affair feature she watched? Would I be worrying about terrorists and rapists every time I step on public transport if it wasn't for the statistics I see on TV? Hell, would I be a vegetarian if I hadn't researched the toxicity of meat?

No, if it wasn't for scientific research, I would still be blissfully poisoning myself with meat and Jenny would be blissfully dying her hair every other month, like I do (thank God I didn't watch that ACA segment, otherwise my hair-dying days would've been over long ago).

Scientific research makes our lives devoid of many things that we would've been able to enjoy otherwise. Sure, we'd be slowly killing ourselves slowly, but maybe that's better than living each day in constant fear.

Moving on now.

It seems like only a few days ago when I made the decision to stop eating meat, but believe it or not, it's been almost 2 weeks. I'm rather surprised of myself. I expected myself to have fallen in for cravings ages ago, but nope, no desires to be a carnivore again. Yet.

However, I am missing the freedom I had when I still ate meat. Being a vegetarian has probably wiped out 90% of the food choices I had before, and now I'm starting to appreciate the fact that I had the freedom of choice before. I can feel what people who are diabetic, or who are allergic to large groups of food, have to go through on a daily basis.

But I believe that the choice I have made is the right choice, and nothing will sway me.

Oh, and as you may have notice, we've decided to allow comments again. This place feels so dead without the comments, plus we've received a few requests to allow comments again. Do excuse our lack of responses to your comments, though.

One last thing: 3 days til D-Day. For those of you who still haven't guessed it, here's a couple of clues on what it's about:
1) our layout was made yesterday, especially for this occasion, and
2) go through our FAQ's, it's mentioned briefly in there

Until next time~