just look and SEE
It's so common to go to a party and talk to someone about their astrological sign but not so common for someone to ask another how the viking lander is progressing in giving us images of mars. Or how humans have electron microscopes and can see even a snowflake up SOOO close. I wonder about the general public sometimes. what if a comet, soaring toward earth right now, came crashing through earth's atmosphere burning up all its components with loud thunders till the hot remains hit the ground creating a crater? I'm sure people at n.a.s.a would know something about it and anyone with a big enough telescope to see the comet far out before it hit the earth but there are so many people out there. What if some thought a nuclear war had broken out? A situation similar to that happened in 1908 when aburned up comet remains landed in tunguska and villagers reported only seeing a bright explosion and a loud thunder. No-one knew what caused the commotion. They thought war had broke out. With nuclear weaponry these days this could be a threatening situation. The point is, it was ignorance that caused this panic among anyone who saw or heard the explosion. Lets think about this for a minute. The world is functioning with life right this second. There are humans making perceptions of the world, ideas are being shared and, lives are being lived to extreme right now. Many people are interested in getting to know our surroundings and some are just fighting for survival everyday. We also have to consider that some cultural lifestyles do not enable some to ever go further in activities other than their every day routines of survival. Humans have developed a more sophisticated means of living an functioning together with new technology but not enough people are jumping on the bandwagon. I think it should be celebrated among humanity as a whole when we make great strides. Most people were astounded when we landed on the moon....but why not when we landed a machine on mars (some 36-250 million miles from earth) that gave us pictures of mars terrain and analyzed samples of the rock and dirt looking for possible microbes from mars!?!?? I'm using the mars example to illustrate big things going on with humanity that i feel are taken for granted by too many people. I believe information should be free but people have to demand to know. In my experience it is a task to try to have a conversation with someone at random about anything going on in science or math. In fact more scholoarships are being designed for people thinking about going into math and science just because of the apparent lack of people out there....they need more people!
branching off a bit (but not leaving the subject) I used to be a religious person in my adolescence. I didn't go to church often but I depended on my belief in a god as my assurance to understanding life. God was where my understanding of what everything is and where it came from stopped...god made it....and god was the happy warm feeling i had in my head and body. When I got a little older and hormones were changing and developing, my life style became less acceptable by my proclaimed religion and by most religions for that matter. I'm speaking of pre-martial sex, smoking cigs, swearing (not even degrogatory most the time) just living free and happy pretty much....suddenly all these rules came into focus....what I must believe and how I should be. I wasn't baptized either so to some that meant I will go to hell. Some thought that if i smoked cigarettes that would merit a trip to hell as well. All these threats of hell started to bother me...if i was a product of god and he loves all his creations why would so many be banished to this place -not of earth- called hell? I realllllyyyy started to question the mentality of my religious position. What makes others believe in god. Fear? the awareness of self death? Ignorance? What?! Before I accepted to play by the rules i knew I had to accept these religious beliefs in my heart and i just couldn't accept the rules. I needed something concrete to show me that this was right and I couldn't find it. The further i looked that more I got lost and frustrated. NONE of it was making any sense. I've had good intentions this whole time....i want to live and be happy and embrace the world for what it really is....along side people who i love and appreciate who are happy and free as well (of coarse we all have our days). SO why am i going to hell? Who even wrote the bible!?! I asked these questions and now I do not have a religion. Does a jellyfish have a religion? I can't say for sure but my guess is no....it just is. Does a earthworm have a religion? again my guess is no because it lacks a human brain....but it does have cerebral ganglion material that functions as it's little brain. ANYWAY i don't have a religion anymore and it has led me to the point paragraph one was all about. I guess you could call it my new spiritual journey although there is no god involved. I just am.....just like a jellyfish or earthworm and i have the capability of learning more about my surroundings. Thats why humans are on top of the food chain....because we're able to be aware of ourselves and things going on outside of ourselves. Science is my new way of answering questions. More people should give science a chance because we're just beings that came to be not that long ago (evolutionary speaking) and the universe has birthed us by forces that are still mysterious. We have a heart that pumps automatically making the blood carry oxygen we breath through our bodies in which our cells need to make us a whole person live on. By what means did this come to be? Our awareness is secondary to the events that made us become aware in the first place! this is amazing and i personally need to some-how figure out how the hell the universe works the best i can for the rest of my life. I think if more people took a neutral, open-minded position we'd make strides so big i can't even imagine it.
branching off a bit (but not leaving the subject) I used to be a religious person in my adolescence. I didn't go to church often but I depended on my belief in a god as my assurance to understanding life. God was where my understanding of what everything is and where it came from stopped...god made it....and god was the happy warm feeling i had in my head and body. When I got a little older and hormones were changing and developing, my life style became less acceptable by my proclaimed religion and by most religions for that matter. I'm speaking of pre-martial sex, smoking cigs, swearing (not even degrogatory most the time) just living free and happy pretty much....suddenly all these rules came into focus....what I must believe and how I should be. I wasn't baptized either so to some that meant I will go to hell. Some thought that if i smoked cigarettes that would merit a trip to hell as well. All these threats of hell started to bother me...if i was a product of god and he loves all his creations why would so many be banished to this place -not of earth- called hell? I realllllyyyy started to question the mentality of my religious position. What makes others believe in god. Fear? the awareness of self death? Ignorance? What?! Before I accepted to play by the rules i knew I had to accept these religious beliefs in my heart and i just couldn't accept the rules. I needed something concrete to show me that this was right and I couldn't find it. The further i looked that more I got lost and frustrated. NONE of it was making any sense. I've had good intentions this whole time....i want to live and be happy and embrace the world for what it really is....along side people who i love and appreciate who are happy and free as well (of coarse we all have our days). SO why am i going to hell? Who even wrote the bible!?! I asked these questions and now I do not have a religion. Does a jellyfish have a religion? I can't say for sure but my guess is no....it just is. Does a earthworm have a religion? again my guess is no because it lacks a human brain....but it does have cerebral ganglion material that functions as it's little brain. ANYWAY i don't have a religion anymore and it has led me to the point paragraph one was all about. I guess you could call it my new spiritual journey although there is no god involved. I just am.....just like a jellyfish or earthworm and i have the capability of learning more about my surroundings. Thats why humans are on top of the food chain....because we're able to be aware of ourselves and things going on outside of ourselves. Science is my new way of answering questions. More people should give science a chance because we're just beings that came to be not that long ago (evolutionary speaking) and the universe has birthed us by forces that are still mysterious. We have a heart that pumps automatically making the blood carry oxygen we breath through our bodies in which our cells need to make us a whole person live on. By what means did this come to be? Our awareness is secondary to the events that made us become aware in the first place! this is amazing and i personally need to some-how figure out how the hell the universe works the best i can for the rest of my life. I think if more people took a neutral, open-minded position we'd make strides so big i can't even imagine it.