Haha; this actually made me smile a bit! Thanks.

I believe that I have progressed a bit. When I was twelve, all that I had discovered was that "time destroys everything through change." and that "all things are connected." Now I've taken two university-level philosophy classes and had time to think things over a bit more. I'll admit that I am partial to using deductive logic as a way to discover truth. I don't trust science (though I am majoring in biology). I also don't believe that we have free will (there are deductive proofs for that). Overall, my mind is just programmed to feel hopeless. My philosophy TA last semester told me that my world view was "depressing".

I suppose that I could try to change the way I think, but it is hard to stuff what feels like a bunch of lies down your own throat. Maybe in time this depression will lift for longer than a few days, and I'll be blissfully ignorant of the emptiness of everything for a while.

Thanks again for your support. It has helped.