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I was all set to do lasik but the more I read up the less confidence I had. It just isn't worth my eye sight to take the risk:

A published review of data from twelve FDA clinical trials for LASIK, including newer 'custom' 'wavefront' technology, reveals that six months after LASIK, 17.5% of patients report halos, 19.7% report glare (starbursts), 19.3% have night-driving problems and 21% complain of eye dryness

http://www.lasikcomplications.com/risks.htm

Edit: a lot of people saying they had these side effects but they went away within 1-3 years. Useful data, thanks.

A published review of data from twelve FDA clinical trials for LASIK, including newer 'custom' 'wavefront' technology, reveals that six months after LASIK, 17.5% of patients report halos, 19.7% report glare (starbursts), 19.3% have night-driving problems and 21% complain of eye dryness

http://www.lasikcomplications.com/risks.htm

Damn this really made me think about myself. I definitely am looking for happiness/fulfillment in extreme experiences, and a) it's really hard for me to actually make these experiences happen so I end up feeling desperate and pressured, and b) what extreme experiences I have aren't really sooo transformative or long-lasting. They are highlights and can give me inspiration, guidance, etc, but it's not a steady state solution to contentment.

This is EXACTLY how I feel. Like, you take some immense, mystical source of reality/universe and ascribe all these human associations with it, like a human son and a concern with homo sapiens as a species. The concept of god is so obviously a human fabrication, I don't understand how anyone could conceive of it being some truth of the universe we have figured out. And on top of all that, this god has really strict rules about how we should behave (oh and they change drastically over the blip of human history...)

If god is the fundamental essence of everything, it makes no sense that he is so human-centric and has such specific rules about our day to day lives. Had a human son, really into bread and wine, all sorts of rules by which we need to behave (and they change drastically according to our level of progressiveness....). Your view is a much more abstract, spiritual one that doesn't seem to necessitate the organization of a religious state.