interstellar laundrette

Most people have heard in one form or another the idea of the ill-fated and potentially furious cat from Shrödinger's famous thought experiment. Now I'm not a great scientific mind and it isn't my intention today to explain how that concept works or doesn't, so apologies to anyone who understands it better than me if I over-simplify it here. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, in the mid 1930's a fellow named Shrödinger was involved in the scientific discussion about how to understand quantum mechanics, and came up with an analogy that highlighted some of the issues he saw as potentially problematic in dealing with quantum entanglement by bringing the microscopic up to macro scale. (if you didn't understand all of that, it's okay – it's pretty complicated, and not necessary to follow the rest of the text here) In his thought experiment (meaning he didn't actually do this, just thought about it) a cat would be placed into a s...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RXmkftK0Sw*     Why does your heaven resemble earth with the same basic materials? It doesn't, we only have human words for those who have seen it to describe what they saw. I recently was in the position of having to find the words to describe a polished single surface floor rendered to look like plastic in the words of a fictional character who grew up in a shoemaker's house in a late medieval village in a house where the floor was probably straw covered dirt, or maybe wood, and stone floors with visible seams or natural surfaces were likely to be the only other options in his vocabulary. I really didn't want to say a floor like a single polished stone, but the only way i could find that he could describe it. Why does your god govern in a way that reflects the period in which he was written about? He doesn't, his system of governance was entirely unlike anything that existed in the time, until he established it, and then it was the on...

MINISTER: Ben, will you take Jess as your wife, to share your faith, and make a life? BEN: Yes, I take her as my wife we'll share our faith and make a life. MINISTER: Even if you're filthy rich, or sad and broke and in a ditch? BEN: Even if we're filthy rich, or sad and broke and in a ditch. I will take her as my wife and i will love her all my life. MINISTER: good or better, bad or worst, to choose to build this union first. BEN: for good or better, bad or worst, I'll choose to build this union first. even if we're filthy rich, or sad and broke and in a ditch. I do not like green eggs and.. oh.. Er, I will take Jess as my wife and i will love her all my life. MINISTER: forsaking all, you'll choose to stay, in health or sickness, come what may, BEN: forsaking all, I choose to stay, in health or sickness, come what may, for good or better, bad or worst, I'll choose to build this union first. even if we're filthy rich, or sad and...