[tde-users] Re: Touch screen suddenly stopped working - OFF TOPIC

Myself, I feel that it is part of being a cultured and well-read person, to be acquainted with how people thought and believed about the world ... even if it doesn't fit in with our modern science. The question isn't whether you "believe in it" or not, but whether you can empathize with another person's experience of the Universe. This would have run on to a much longer rant (all my pet peeves rolled into one), but I'll try to keep in short. There is poetry and grace in that shadowy side of human culture. Take 95% of songs, stories, poems, the arts, and most of them play on what we might call superstition. There is a kind of magic and poetry about science, too, when we consider the mysteries of quantum physics or higher mathematics or DNA or what-not, but it doesn't usually make for interesting music or stories. Science fiction: now THAT's bor-ing. The same with ultra-religious art, the same with polticized art, the same with anything that is too much of the same thing. The element of magic, in a story, opens doors where there were none. It lifts our spirits, makes like bearable. One doesn't have to "believe in it" to appreciate it. And I will say no more. So there.