I'm really not at all. I was thinking though. . .
Doesn't science kind of miss the point. . .literally? I mean. . .ok, certainly science is really useful. I have nothing (much) against science. Knowing how things work is great when it comes to, say, helping our loved ones stay alive and maybe in some cases, how to get things done more efficiently and getting massive amounts of people from one location to another location or. . .lighting rooms. . .or. . .you know, lots of things.
But then when it comes down to it, science sure does spend a lot of time trying to answer unanswerable questions. . .and worst of all, it makes us stop wondering.
There's a certain age that children start asking lots of questions. Everything that comes out of their mouth is a question. Sometimes we can satisfy their questions, sometimes we can't. Before they have words everything that they see is a mystery. Imagine. . .before you knew a language. . .how would you have seen the world that was in front of you? How much majesty and mystery inside every moment. Nothing has yet been labeled good or bad, right or wrong, yes or no. . .everything just is exactly as it is. There's this expansive blue thing with white things in it (of course none of that has language either) and a similarly expansive green thing with other brown and green things sticky vertically out of it or maybe giant triangular type shapes sticking out of the ground. . .cool! There's no questioning because there's no language to divide it. Perhaps the divisions aren't even there because nothing has yet been labeled as separate from one another. . .perhaps everything that you see, hear, smell, feel, before language, is one.
Then we learn language and are encouraged to separate EVERYTHING. We divide and divide and label and label and try our best to understand everything so we can effectively communicate. This expansive blue thing is called "the sky". It is blue because of some complex process of light from the sun being scattered by gas in the atmosphere and reflected as blue. It is expansive because the place we live, earth, is really big and circular so it seems to expand in all directions all around us. We can ask as many questions as we want and we can try to find as many answers as we want. We are taught to do so. We are rewarded when we have knowledge and answers for the questions and go to school and get degrees. . .but, we will never have all the answers.
Ultimately. . .there is no explanation for why? Why a "sky", why an "earth", why a "universe", why "blue" and not, say. . .red. . .or ultraviolet? Why this set of circumstances and not any other infinite number of possibilities?
There is no why. It just is.
And when it "just is", and when "just as it is" is fully recognized and truly appreciated. . .even without all of the knowledge that goes behind it, just as it is, is marvelously awesome.
Who needs TV when you can just watch the expansive blue thing with white things in it. . .just as it is? And just wait til the sun goes down!!!
Doesn't science kind of miss the point. . .literally? I mean. . .ok, certainly science is really useful. I have nothing (much) against science. Knowing how things work is great when it comes to, say, helping our loved ones stay alive and maybe in some cases, how to get things done more efficiently and getting massive amounts of people from one location to another location or. . .lighting rooms. . .or. . .you know, lots of things.
But then when it comes down to it, science sure does spend a lot of time trying to answer unanswerable questions. . .and worst of all, it makes us stop wondering.
There's a certain age that children start asking lots of questions. Everything that comes out of their mouth is a question. Sometimes we can satisfy their questions, sometimes we can't. Before they have words everything that they see is a mystery. Imagine. . .before you knew a language. . .how would you have seen the world that was in front of you? How much majesty and mystery inside every moment. Nothing has yet been labeled good or bad, right or wrong, yes or no. . .everything just is exactly as it is. There's this expansive blue thing with white things in it (of course none of that has language either) and a similarly expansive green thing with other brown and green things sticky vertically out of it or maybe giant triangular type shapes sticking out of the ground. . .cool! There's no questioning because there's no language to divide it. Perhaps the divisions aren't even there because nothing has yet been labeled as separate from one another. . .perhaps everything that you see, hear, smell, feel, before language, is one.
Then we learn language and are encouraged to separate EVERYTHING. We divide and divide and label and label and try our best to understand everything so we can effectively communicate. This expansive blue thing is called "the sky". It is blue because of some complex process of light from the sun being scattered by gas in the atmosphere and reflected as blue. It is expansive because the place we live, earth, is really big and circular so it seems to expand in all directions all around us. We can ask as many questions as we want and we can try to find as many answers as we want. We are taught to do so. We are rewarded when we have knowledge and answers for the questions and go to school and get degrees. . .but, we will never have all the answers.
Ultimately. . .there is no explanation for why? Why a "sky", why an "earth", why a "universe", why "blue" and not, say. . .red. . .or ultraviolet? Why this set of circumstances and not any other infinite number of possibilities?
There is no why. It just is.
And when it "just is", and when "just as it is" is fully recognized and truly appreciated. . .even without all of the knowledge that goes behind it, just as it is, is marvelously awesome.
Who needs TV when you can just watch the expansive blue thing with white things in it. . .just as it is? And just wait til the sun goes down!!!
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