What ever happened to your short stories and book? Do you still have that girlfriend? Is the name "purplemagic" a meaningful name to you (or was it just chosen randomly?), and if so, what does it mean to you? It's interesting that you have the opinion you expressed in http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9gypk/i_am_a_highfunctioning_psychotic_person_ama/c0cu6y4. I've always thought the same thing. I have no doubt that true reality is stranger than is imaginable.
Wow I can't read, I missed another question. That girlfriend dumped me, and I've not had a relationship since. I haven't spoken to her in about 4 years, but I recently discovered she got married about a year ago. To be honest, I'm not hurt by that. We had a clean break, I got over her, and I hope she's happy. She honestly deserves that. I think Alfred Lord Tennyso was on the right track in regards to his statement about love, but I think it should actually go: "'Tis better to have been loved and lost, than to have never been loved at all." I owe her my life. I hope she realizes that.
Looks like you edited in that last statement. I personally don't think the human brain is at all capable of understanding the universe fully. We might come close and produce a way of understanding (science) that is massively generalized (think how Einstein showed Newton's laws were just slightly more complex than previously thought or the mere fact that entropy calculations are pretty much guesswork), but ultimately the equation of gravity for instance might actually take up 500,000 pieces of paper to properly calculate instead of the current simple equation that it is.
My book is in exactly the same state it was, but I do intend to finish it. I actually hit a wall where I realized that I need to do some more research after realizing the universe I created is massively exploitable to discuss a multitude of psychology, political, and security issues that I hadn't foreseen initially.