I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have
answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about... -- Richard Feynman (1918-1988)(Nobel Physicist) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:02 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; pete Subject: Re: [Futurework] 'Dark Knight Rises' shooting: Three heroesdied inAurora taking bullets for their girl friends - NY Daily News At 17:58 24/07/2012, Pete wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Ed Weick wrote: > We all need our gods because we exist in an insecure place, somewhere > between birth and death (what comes before, what comes after?), > between the infinitesimal and the infinite, and between humanity and > brutality. We don't know where we are and have always needed a god or > gods to guide and protect us. > > Ed [PV] I dont know, I rather think we would all be better off if we would stand up to the challenge of learnig to be comfortable with just saying "I don't know". I think it's the first step required on the journey to discovering what is actually going on. But will we ever know "what is actually going on"? It's only been comparatively recently that we've realized that 95% of the mass-energy of the universe is quite unlike anything else we know and is, at present, completely unknowable. Then, too, as the particle physicists peel away yet another layer (e.g. the Higgs boson) in particle accelerators, will we ever get to the end of it? To me, the biggest mystery of all is that, whether we believe in a God-created universe or, simply, in one as-is or, at creation and shortly thereafter, as-was (when we're talking of Higgs' and other particles) then how come that we, a by-product of it, are actually asking questions that are far more incisive and curious than anything that might have been selected for mere daily survival by the normal process of evolution. Keith Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>
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