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		<title>Writing #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McKinnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulse, waves, beat, pound, flow, pattern, repeat&#8230; What is human nature? If birds fly south what&#8217;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&#8217;t help it. So much is unknowable. Unarguable. Is that why religion was created? simply [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pulse, waves, beat, pound, flow, pattern, repeat&#8230;</p>
<p>What is human nature? If birds fly south what&#8217;s our predisposition?</p>
<p>Is it to love or hate? To feel disdain for those so different from ourselves?</p>
<p>This will not be a string of questions. But I can&#8217;t help it.</p>
<p>So much is unknowable. Unarguable.</p>
<p>Is that why religion was created? simply so we could actually pretend that we knew everything?</p>
<p>We still don&#8217;t. What is existence? Waves? Atoms? Particles?</p>
<p>There are so many levels from Macro to Micro and they all follow the same pattern.</p>
<p>The same exact structure.</p>
<p>I guess it makes sense, maybe&#8230;</p>
<p>What really gets me, and what should get anyone.</p>
<p>This is my key thought in life so pay attention.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re able to think about this shit.</p>
<p>And maybe, just maybe, understand some of it.</p>
<p>Even to know a tiny fraction of what makes existence is like knowing god.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s funny to make these comparisons to religion, it really is unavoidable I guess.</p>
<p>So are scientists the equivalent to priests?</p>
<p>Are Scientific theories the equivalent to passages 1 through 4?</p>
<p>If existence is unknowable are we just kidding ourselves every time we publish a paper?</p>
<p>Every time we give someone a Nobel Prize.</p>
<p>Is it worth it?</p>
<p>Questions again, I know. Stick with me.</p>
<p>At some point in time is all the knowledge that we hope to gather going to accumulate into something.</p>
<p>Something that is going to help us be something better</p>
<p>Or are we going to travel through the galaxy</p>
<p>Ruining every single thing that we touch</p>
<p>Corrupting and raping the resources that are out there.</p>
<p>Why do we have to constantly expand? Is what we have enough?</p>
<p>This essay went downhill fast didn&#8217;t it.</p>
<p>It was so poetic but then the thought process just took hold.</p>
<p>Ah well, maybe next time.</p>
<p>J</p>]]></content:encoded>
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