What have we figured out? The circumference of the Earth (24,901 miles), how many molecules are in a cubic meter (depends on the molecular make up), how to send robots to Mars. While these are all well and good, what difference do they make in our lives? Have we really figured out anything that is important to who we are as human being and what we are supposed to do.
We still haven't figured out how to be happy. How to love and accept one another. To not kill one another mindlessly. We've been on this planet for quite some time and we still haven't figured it out. Haven't learned that we are all just one race. And as we progress, we figure out how to make fast cars or super computers or 3D televisions, but those aren't fundamental.
We have put off learning the fundamentals so we can focus on other things. Material things, and maybe there isn't anything wrong with that. Besides the fact that no one really knows anything anymore, because all the information you could need is at your fingertips, and we are ever lusting for more as we are force fed the idea that more is good. There might not be anything wrong with that. But I digress. We have strayed to far from trying to learn what is to be a global community, a global family, that it is no longer in out minds and we have yet to figure out what it means.
Maybe a few of us have though. They have looked past the insolent knowledge for that which has true meaning. To those I say, please enlighten us, don't leave us in the dark.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
How do I Know What I Know?
Dear reader,
How is it that anyone know truly knows anything? Is it because we are told so?Is it one of the great facts of life like how the sky is blue? Is it because everyone else believes it so it must be true? Is is subject to our own experiences? If knowledge derives from any of those examples, the only one that could be qualified would be through experience. How can we justify that because someone told us it was right? That we just know the sky is blue to a blind person, one who has never seen the sky? That because everyone else agrees with it that it is right? There is no way. Knowledge derives from experiences and experiences are personal. But wait! This would make knowledge subjective, and how can something that is known be subjective. The only person it is known to is the one who has experienced it. Experience is the only way to prove how I know what I know. It's not about showing it off afterwards and forcing it on other people. Knowledge is different from person to person as no two people experience things the exact same way.
Goodbye for now
Nathan
How is it that anyone know truly knows anything? Is it because we are told so?Is it one of the great facts of life like how the sky is blue? Is it because everyone else believes it so it must be true? Is is subject to our own experiences? If knowledge derives from any of those examples, the only one that could be qualified would be through experience. How can we justify that because someone told us it was right? That we just know the sky is blue to a blind person, one who has never seen the sky? That because everyone else agrees with it that it is right? There is no way. Knowledge derives from experiences and experiences are personal. But wait! This would make knowledge subjective, and how can something that is known be subjective. The only person it is known to is the one who has experienced it. Experience is the only way to prove how I know what I know. It's not about showing it off afterwards and forcing it on other people. Knowledge is different from person to person as no two people experience things the exact same way.
Goodbye for now
Nathan
Monday, October 6, 2014
The Garden State
Dear reader,
Is your garden well tended? Do you spend time to care for this, to watch it grow, to reap the rewards when the time come? Or are we to busy with other things? To caught up with the material world and your garden has withered?
Our garden state is the place where we are fullest. No food full, but sort of emotion full. Just like everything seems right. When we are in our garden we are content. Everyone's garden is different, because it is doing the things that we love regardless of the outcome. We are just doing it, because why not.
But is that not enough. We have been trained, raised, that we always look at others and we want what they have. Things that we dont have, so we automatically want it. But why? Why is that when we have enough, it is never enough? Our gardens have be been ignored as we look at someone else's weeds and see roses.
We need to begin to cultivate our gardens again. Ignore what other people have, because it's not truly what we want. I don't know, I don't know if I am making any sense anymore. I just feel like we should do more of what we want. Find new and excited hobbies and let them grow.
I'm done,
Nathan
Is your garden well tended? Do you spend time to care for this, to watch it grow, to reap the rewards when the time come? Or are we to busy with other things? To caught up with the material world and your garden has withered?
Our garden state is the place where we are fullest. No food full, but sort of emotion full. Just like everything seems right. When we are in our garden we are content. Everyone's garden is different, because it is doing the things that we love regardless of the outcome. We are just doing it, because why not.
But is that not enough. We have been trained, raised, that we always look at others and we want what they have. Things that we dont have, so we automatically want it. But why? Why is that when we have enough, it is never enough? Our gardens have be been ignored as we look at someone else's weeds and see roses.
We need to begin to cultivate our gardens again. Ignore what other people have, because it's not truly what we want. I don't know, I don't know if I am making any sense anymore. I just feel like we should do more of what we want. Find new and excited hobbies and let them grow.
I'm done,
Nathan
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