Moderation

Apologies for the lack of update. I was busy enjoying my break, and before that busy trying to hand in the assignments in time.

Anyway, recently stuff has been...... interesting. I read an article about the brain drain issue, where people take extreme stands (such as saying people are ingrates, the country is shit etc). I have also read an article recently that says the Americans are removing the contents in their education textbooks that 'Intelligent Design' is wrong. In case you're not aware of this, the debate between 'Intelligent Design' (i.e. God created you as you are) vs the evolution theory has been raging on for ages. And they have ruled that Darwin is right, God did not create you.

Now I realize there are a lot of details left out from these two issues from that paragraph, and I'm assuming you know them.

But look, both articles I read point at the same thing. Why are we taking extreme stands everytime? In the first article about brain drain, the author wrote that why focus on people who are out of the country and no effort is made to keep people in? In our globalized world, knowledge passes around without any visible boundaries. Much less your customs boundaries. In the second article, the author (my head of department no less) argues that it is perverse to think that we are omitting God from the credits for our existence.

The main point here being, we like to think in straight lines. Our logic works like a one way street (most of the time). 1+1=2, but 2 is not necessarily from 1+1 alone.

In the first article, I fully agree with the author. Why harp about people who have decided to move, and ignore people who are still with you? In the second, why can't we believe that God created the Universe and let it progress, which subsequently led to us? In the argument for existential purpose why must be stick with 'God created us for' and 'Genes have no other purpose other than to reproduce and maintain existence'?

I'm sure we're all extremists in some fields. We just won't admit it, because we believe our logic is flawless. Well surprise, the world doesn't make sense most of the time.

And I can go on about laws of thermodynamics and stuff, but those are exciting only to me. (If it tickles you, the laws of thermodynamics are about heat and work mostly. It can be summarized as 'You can't win, you can only break even at best, and you can't get out of the game').

Why does the world not make sense? My thoughts are that its not the world. Its our perception. We are unable to make sense of the world, hence it does not appear to make sense. If it felt weird, think about it this way. Whoever created the Universe knows exactly what laws govern what and why. We don't. Why can't we ever achieve the speed of light. Why time moves in a linear fashion (or does it?).

It is exactly this stand of mine that I find people who believe they understand God to be fallacious. Particularly some bunch of terrorists who say their God demands your life.

We are primitive at best. I think most of our ways of thinking require improvement, including mine (which ironically renders what I just wrote moot)