I agree that it is quite eerie that “The Barcode Tattoo” mirrors our world now. Also sometimes other market places can get a hold of your interests and they can send you information as well. Scanners and computers are quite prevalent in many places such as in medical areas, stores and the like. I agree that the transfer of energy makes a great analogy to the transfer of negative energy from person to person. i think andrew wants to become biotech engineer. he is really great with machines such as computers, radios and graphing calculators and also knows about pulleys and simple machines. he also is great at biology as well and is also taking ap biology and physics honors next year (i took it this year and i’m done with it). i’m more of a molecular biologist and i enjoy biology and chemistry and enjoy working on learning about the human body and how to help it heal using vaccines and stem cells (genetic engineering- studying cells and maybe figuring out ways to replicate dna and make people age more gracefully) which. I want to combine a bit of science with natural remedies as well. i think while i am researching on new ways to enhance the genes of people, andrew would be the one studying the electrical impulses of the nerve cells (i love neuroscience as well) and helping build simple machines to help assist people. his knowledge about computers can help with imaging and graphing calculators (i’ve learned a lot from him) can help a lot. andrew says that if we end up in the same english honors class, he will be competing with me on my grades, but the pressure on science seems to have eased a little and i think i’m starting to understand the things he knows and he is diligently studying the things i know. i realize that even though i am still a little jealous of andrew, i am also just as smart as he is and we share a lot of the same interests in science. i find electricity, magnetism and thermodynamics fascinating and more so than home and car improvement much like andrew. there is just so much out there in the world of science that keeps changing and being discovered. dave says that it would be great if andrew and i started working together and sharing our knowledge and i think we have been doing that a little. i now know more about electricity and also field biology than i thought i knew and i realize i understand the world of science more now, science is so vast that andrew and i have so many interest and new things keep coming up. i know i’m going to be a medical scientist and maybe combine some electronic knowledge as well and also natural ways of healing. dave wants me to submit some of my poetry and he is also proofreading some pieces. andrew is pulling me toward the science field, while dave is pulling toward the arts and i think i want to combine both. my head is filled with so many thoughts of science and art these days and i think i understand how the natural world works more and dave has taught me more about economics. i feel more confident about myself since dave and andrew help me develop my talents, however i am still wondering how i can find a career with science, electronics and natural remedies. I think andrew is still trying to figure out which branch of science he will go into either biology or physics, maybe both and i am also working on it as well. all i know is that i am definitely going into the sciences and still keeping my spirituality (dave likes my spiritual nature) while andrew says it distracts me from being truly scientific. andrew likes the idea of possibly trying to invent new machines to help others, also without much drugs. But we both agree that sometimes to alleviate the pain, there must be treatment before other methods of permanent treatment are administered. there are too many things of cancer remissions and i don’t appreciate the idea of doctors telling the patient’s about their death such as avoiding them or just telling them straight out, i think there needs to be more compassion to ease those into a new life. dave believes in angels and an afterlife and agrees with this idea. conventional medicine isn’t the greatest. Modern medicine lacks the concern for spirit as well, they just treat the symptoms and not the cause, the treat the physical body without looking and accessing if the patient has something within such as environmental or mental factors that contributed to this problem. They fight with treatments instead of healing for a cure and teaching the patient to be calm and work on reducing their stress and working on their healing. They till the patient to hang in their and fight the pain when it just makes the suffering worse, when the patient should just accept the pain and work on letting it go. Here are some quotes from Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil (not the andrew who is great at science) about what some people say about modern medicine and i think i agree that they are harsh:
“Doctors don’t take time to listen to you or answer your questions.”
“All they do is give you drugs, I don’t want to take any more drugs.”
“They said there was nothing more they could do for me.” (How about comforting the patient, helping them live their lives better instead of this medical pessimism?)
“They told me it would only get worse.” (Why do doctors try to scare the patient more?)
“They told me I would just have to live with it.”
“They said I’d be dead in six months.”
Andrew Weil is a graduate from Harvard University and after seeing the negative aspects of modern medicine, he wrote his book and began to find other doctors who had compassion and also helped cure and not just treat.
i also have an urge to read every science book that i have in my home b/c i have been quite interested in science.