The Importance of Ego

I was thinking today about the importance of the ego. Without the ego, you would not exist. I do not think too highly of any religious of spiritual system that tries to eliminate this vital component of life in any kind of perminate way. Without ego, we would not be able to make choices that benifet us as individuals. We would keep going around thinking we are other people or that our decisions do not matter.
One day a few months ago, I saw some graffiti where I lived. It had these heads with open mouths, and underneath was written the word, ego. I still do not completely get it. I also saw a gray lightning shaped streak in the sky after I drew it out on paper.

Anyway, my husband gets to hear about his ego all the time. People try to put him down at work and school and be hard on him. That is bad for his ego. It is important to tell people how great they are all the time as well. Sometimes that is not an easy thing to be doing, because people want to tell each other what they don't like about the other person instead of what they do like about them.

C Programmers Reality or Fiction

Today I want to talk about a common urban legend that is widely believed. That is the existence of people who write code in C for fun. I don't believe in it myself since I have never met someone who knows C programing, beyond the hello world and memory leaks anyway. Sure there are a lot of C programs already out there, but simply having a program doesn't mean that a programmer exists or even ever existed. In fact, atheists have used this argument to prove the non-existence of god quite frequently, and since they say they are smart people and always right, I have to agree with them, because I don't want to be stupid.

Besides C programs, I can't really think of any other argument for the existence of C programmers. Most people these days tell newbies to learn a language like python, and not C, because, as newbies soon find out, C produces lots of memory leaks. The thing is, a lot of the good games, such as turn based strategy games such as Battle for Wesnoth (although that is written in C++) and Crossfire are written in C. Supposedly this was done several years ago when there were more C programmers, but I don't know anyone who writes C programs for fun, let alone for work.

Some people claim that C programmers must exist because of the programs, and think they hide in caves or in their basements and write code for fun. I don't believe it. I don't believe in supernatural nonsense like trolls either, because, if I did, I would be stupid, insane, or both. But that doesn't mater the point is a made up story about where C programmers are hiding out does not prove the existence of C programmers. Sure it doesn't refute it either, but that is meaningless without proof, a C programmer.