What is life really about? Are we meant to endlessly pursue knowledge and understanding of the physical nature of the universe around us? It's such a logical deduction, it's what I fall back on more often then not. But there is such an intricate and amazing and yet completely illogical element within us that we call emotion. Love, hate, fear, compassion...how could our purpose in existence not encompass these integral attributes of our psyche? It seems so personal and small to love another person, but we know so little about the deepest reaches of space and the things that have happened and continue to happen all around our little planet. What if love is the source of energy that creates nebulae and bursts stars into the void? What if hate is the force that topples a super-nova over the edge and forces it into oblivion? What if a butterfly flapping it's wings on one side of our planet really does create a typhoon on the other side?
We are infants to the world of physical science. And I mean that which physicists study, I'm not sure how else to define it. An infant understands that they can grasp a ball and throw it, or drop it, but do they consider the consequence of that force on the objects or people upon which it acts? No. Likewise, we do not understand how the universe came about or under what pretense the elements that exist within it came about, or in many cases, interact to create the many anomaly we observe and theorize about. We can only speculate in more cases than not, and our speculations are becoming quite fantastical. Have you read anything about string theory? Wow. That's all I have to say about that stuff. I mean, what are those guys smoking?
I think that to better understand the universe around us, we have to consider all aspects of our existence and our experience in the world, to include the drastic effects of emotion upon our psyche, as well as the endless implications and evidence religion has presented us, combined with what evidence we observe throughout the universe. Until we find a way to tie everything together, we'll never understand it as well as we'd like to. And as long as we believe there can be a separation of knowledge into convenient categories, we'll never get to where we want to be as far as our understanding is concerned. The world is one, and we must observe it as such, or we may never understand it.
