This Post Isn't About the New Year

So I was talking to my sister right before this space show at the museum of Natural History started, and I thought:

Wouldn't it be sort of cool if they had acid trip virtual reality goggles? You could see total craziness but not have to actually get high?

We concluded that probably wouldn't sell as well as the actual drugs, considering you wouldn't experience the same magical high, due to biochemical reactions in your brain. It would just be a superficial simulation.

Musings: How to define and/or compare and contrast belief vs. knowledge? It's quite difficult actually. You could say that knowledge is always rooted in empirical or factual evidence, and that belief isn't, but in some ways, they seem to overlap.

Isn't it odd how we can know things about people, but not know them? There is a friend of mine that I have reached this level with. She is quite affectionate and showy. It makes me uncomfortable, because although we've had deep and intellectual conversations, I only feel like I know a surface level of her. I know things about her, but I don't know her. Maybe her hugs and showiness is her attempt to open up, but it isn't the same as a real connection.

It's not good enough for me, and if she thinks she can buy me off with some splenda-sugar affection, she should rethink her approach.