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Jonathan McKinnell
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Jonathan McKinnell
Writing #1
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
Christina 12:55 pm on January 19, 2010 Permalink |
Very insightful-you make excellent points. It’s interesting how you mention “We’re able to think…” I agree, by being able to “think” we are one step closer to understanding- and it’s true, religion, or more so “faith” I feel is a major contributor. But mere thinking is not always enough and not all are able to expand upon this. I think it was Heller and to quote him roughly, (but that’s irrelevant): “It’s possible when man looks at things, looking may turn into observing; observing may lead to thinking, thinking to contemplating and contemplating to theorizing”. Unfortunately not all achieve the final stage. Perhaps an initial reason we cannot understand existence entirely. But why stop even if we cannot understand or even truly “know” it? Theorizing, exercising our mind, debating, crediting and discrediting gives us existence-helps us discover new realms of existence. I too, at times can’t but help ask “why?” but lately I find myself asking “how it fits together”. We’re all integrated, feeding off each other, learning from one another- essentially creating our own existence, to which one day, yes I hope we can accumulate what we have compiled together and expand further. *breath*. Not exactly sure where I’m going with this anymore, but without questions (which I see you completely understand) and without expanding (hopefully not through destructive means) and going further past simply observing what’s immediately in front of us- what else is there? We’ll never know. Our understanding of existence would become stagnate.
You can see your questions have had a strong effect in evoking thoughts.