Canadian Geek

Pulse, waves, beat, pound, flow, pattern, repeat…

What is human nature? If birds fly south what’s our predisposition?

Is it to love or hate? To feel disdain for those so different from ourselves?

This will not be a string of questions. But I can’t help it.

So much is unknowable. Unarguable.

Is that why religion was created? simply so we could actually pretend that we knew everything?

We still don’t. What is existence? Waves? Atoms? Particles?

There are so many levels from Macro to Micro and they all follow the same pattern.

The same exact structure.

I guess it makes sense, maybe…

What really gets me, and what should get anyone.

This is my key thought in life so pay attention.

We’re able to think about this shit.

And maybe, just maybe, understand some of it.

Even to know a tiny fraction of what makes existence is like knowing god.

It’s funny to make these comparisons to religion, it really is unavoidable I guess.

So are scientists the equivalent to priests?

Are Scientific theories the equivalent to passages 1 through 4?

If existence is unknowable are we just kidding ourselves every time we publish a paper?

Every time we give someone a Nobel Prize.

Is it worth it?

Questions again, I know. Stick with me.

At some point in time is all the knowledge that we hope to gather going to accumulate into something.

Something that is going to help us be something better

Or are we going to travel through the galaxy

Ruining every single thing that we touch

Corrupting and raping the resources that are out there.

Why do we have to constantly expand? Is what we have enough?

This essay went downhill fast didn’t it.

It was so poetic but then the thought process just took hold.

Ah well, maybe next time.

J

Maclean’s Video – Legal Wall from Macleans Magazine on Vimeo.

Really neat lighting on the inside of the train as the trees and other pieces of landscape went by.