Dr.GH
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My wife and I love reading, and regularly go to bed early and read. I often read case notes in bed at night. It turns out that when I am reading/viewing something particularly terrible, I say, "Oh my." I don't say "holy fucking shit!" or anything like that. I just say, "Ohmy."
My wife has picked this up, and when I say "ohmy" she always demands to see what I am looking at. I always tell her that it is a really bad one, and she replies, "I know- let me see it" I think she does this so that I won't be alone. Many people who work in forensic studies start thinking that they are alone- that only colleagues can understand. My wife checks that tendency merely by looking at the really bad stuff.
We attend meetings for science teachers. Between dinner and desert there was a business meeting, and a lecture. One particular lecture was by a forensic scientist, and he had a fairly mild slide show of murder scenes, rape examinations, autopsies and so on. A considerable number of people left the auditorium, a few went out and vomited. My wife leaned over to me and whispered, "I feel bad that I don't feel bad." "Sweetheart, you have seen worse at home in bed," I replied. :O There were lots of extra desert that night. :D
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"Science is the horse that pulls the cart of philosophy."
L. Susskind, 2004 "SMOLIN VS. SUSSKIND: THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE"
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