Everything Under the Sun

Doubt is like cancer. Once it infects your being, it spreads rapidly. It takes you over. And it's incredibly hard to beat. It acts in a cunning manner - hiding in plain sight, creating side effects, and furthering its scope of reign. But doubt is even more powerful than cancer, because it's contagious. I have a theory that we have a 6th sense: empathy. I believe we can sense the emotions of other humans, and by our mysterious mirror neurons, we can have a qualitative effect when this sense is activated. We think animals have something like this - something difficult to determine, but observale nonetheless. In some instances, entire herds of cattle have gone mad, when an earthquake or volcano eruption is imminent. It would appear that Dogs have it. Poll any dog owner and they'll agree, dogs respond to our mental state; they become sad when we're sad, and happy when we're happy. They experience depression when we're depressed. They "just know." And so,...