Forum Post: The Personal Quest for Meaning

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The quest for meaning is largely personal since everyone may be different in what they deem as meaningful--people have been seeking meaning for millennia at least, often from religions.

After Mom had explained to me why I couldn't just gobble up the warm and tasty morsels we made for the worship of my spiritual godfather and our ancestors, it made much sense to me to wait for the candles and incense sticks to burn themselves out before starting to eat the banquet--waiting became meaningful to me because it sounded as a reasonable way to show respect ( of course, I knew that nearly all of those goodies would still be available for me to eat--it just took self control.)

It's understandable because we had also "evaporated" Dad's Johnny Walker Black Label whiskey/whisky to douse my salted chicken and satisfy Mom's curiosity about Dad's switching from drinking Red Label to Black Label--she knew how to make her own red wine from red grape raisins put into boiling water, sugar, and yeast--the key is to restrict oxygen supply during fermentation { which has two pathways of reaction, one leading to alcohol in the absence of oxygen and the other in the presence of ample oxygen to organic acids such as the acetic acid in vinegar; an iron can opener placed on top of the fermentation container and wrapped up to keep warm can suck up oxygen by rusting to steer fermentation towards alcohol instead of vinegar } to prevent forming vinegar instead of alcohol. I figured out how to make my own yogurt from milk, sugar, and yogurt's bacterial culture, the key being venting, i.e. the exposure of the warm mixture to oxygen in the air to produce the sour-tasting lactic acid which is an organic acid as acetic acid of vinegar is. Organic acids have the functional group -COOH in which the dangling H out there at the free end often breaks off easily in chemical reactions as H+, a proton, making them Brønsted-Lowry acids. For example, the actual building blocks of life: amino acids are organic acids so they have a functional [carboxyl] group -COOH at a free end and [amine] group NH2- at the other free end. These two groups can hook up together with each other dragging all of their linked buddies together to form more complex organic chemical compounds [called proteins] to build most lifeforms' myriads of materials, threads, blobs, and fabrics. Amino acids work somewhat analogously as a Lego(R) block with its male and female connective members hooking up together to build complex structures. Life is a bipolar amino-acid opera.

Oxygen = oxy (acid) + gen (maker), hydrogen = hydro (water) + gen (maker), deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) = de (remove) + oxy ( acid ) + ribo (of a 5-carbon-atom sugar) + nucleic (of the cellular nucleus) acid--it's a bit like a cured-meat less-degradable version of ribonucleic acid (RNA), something like how the Dead Sea Scrolls had preserved information for posterity--the most important information of which determines sex in humans.

Oh say, can't you see by the dawn's early light, the scar of God's handiwork resulting from the cleaving away snippets of an X chromosome in Adam { Adam initially started as an X female until God's handiwork to double and make XY, XX, and hardwire in the deeply ingrained urge to merge to fulfill God's mandate for the sexual reproduction of Life in humans } which mended this fragile broken X in order to leave him with the fortified-for-resiliency-via-[Sarah]-Palin-dromic-redundancy Y chromosome?

Human males are made to be purer expressions of what cured-meat information is in their X chromosomes. There may be no depending on the other X chromosome to patch up a deficient function. Y chromosomes have very powerful genes so human males tend to have wider spread of abilities than females. More performance and non-performance records tend to be garnered by males than females but just don't ask about whether having one or the other is good or bad. Large variance doesn't imply goodness.

Females can cut off the single "leg" ( of the dangling long ding-dong ) upon which the Y stands by refusing to reproduce with the bad-acting males. "God can't be everywhere so They made females with good noses so that they may become choosy mothers in Their ( i.e. Theia + Earth ) image."

Meaning is a product of belief, often personal.