Why question the way the world has been created?/ Different lifespans
Why do we live for 50 to 80 years? Why do human beings live for 70 years on an average when the lifespan of a mayfly is less than a day? A butterfly can live for a couple of weeks or a few months; dogs can live between 8 to 15 years - why is it that different animals have different lifespans?
I wonder about this sometimes and then realize that there is no point in thinking about this for that is how the creator has created it: it is a design of the lord, of the creator, the master, the artist who has designed this beautiful world. Now instead of questioning and wondering why this world has been created the way it is, is it not better to appreciate the beauty around us? Look at the flowers for instance - the artist must be truly amazing to have thought of so many colors and shapes, and created so many diverse flowers. Look at the birds - the way they fly, the sounds they make, the music they create. It really needs a very creative mind to have created all these birds. If you are still not convinced, then go under water and look at the colorful fish that swim in the corals. You will be amazed to find all that the creator of this universe has so beautifully created. Such art and artist should put our mind to rest, shouldn’t it? Should we wonder and question why all this is the way it is? Should we try to prove and scientifically understand everything or should we simply surrender, accept and enjoy this wonderful creation for the limited lifespan that we have?
The word should implies that I could do something or think in a certain way if I just wanted to. Such implication does not take into consideration my experiential condition to which the claim is made. The word seems to smack of some parental authority that claims it knows better than I about how I should respond to anything. Should is also an atavistic response to a given situation., e.g., I should have thought or have done something other than I did or thought. It’s a problematic word, suggesting advice not asked for.
Why question the questioning? In my experience and what I have seen of history written, those that are in power that refuse to accept being questioned and tell people just to trust them often are not to be trusted. They pretend to be beyond reproach, that the very questioning is an insult against them. Why not question the way the world is? It wasn’t created that way, certainly. It was a blank slate once, if I’m not mistaken.
But then, nor are those who don’t. Trust is not so easily found.
You ARE mistaken.
Nothing throughout the entire infinite universe throughout infinite time has ever been a “blank slate”. Questioning serves three purposes: 1) to tell of what currently is [present] 2) to tell of how it got that way [past] 3) to reveal a means to avoid the undesired and/or progress to the desired. [future]
Questioning, appropriately, reveals God and all creation.
Because someone questioned it and I wanted an answer as to why they were questioning it.
Your faulty correction based on your understanding of English aside (both are correct), You would be correct and I wouldn’t say any differently. Anybody could be making a ploy for any reason and even if no ploy is involved, might think themselves to be more able than they actually are or more knowledgeable. You might wind up trusting them and having it all fall apart; but then again, even if they are knowledgeable and able doesn’t mean that things won’t still fall apart. Trust is very easily found if you actually look for it. And no, I won’t explain how to look for it. That would be stupid.
Really? Explain.
How do you know that nothing has ever been a blank slate? Similarly, you could ask me how I do know and I could tell you because I’ve seen it, I’ve known of its existence.
How do you know that through questioning, what you question will tell the truth? What makes you think that if you were told of the past that it would be true and not just what you would accept to be true?
Same with how it got that way, how would you know for sure that what you learned was true?
And, no matter what you do in life, you can not avoid the undesired and even if you do things perfectly right does not mean you will progress to the desired.
Really? Just questioning? Like, you don’t have to do anything else other than that? And, there’s an appropriate way of questioning as opposed to an inappropriate way? You must teach me this appropriate way.
Apparently, no organism other than humans questions anything. This is evidence that questioning comes from memes, which are all too human. For any other animal to question its existence would amount to a delay in life situations where immediate actions are required or in necessary rest or inactivity. For humans, questioning implies that there are alternative ways of seeing or being. It is the option other animals do not have as to how to conduct our lives and thoughts.
Memes are products of minds, not of the natural world. To assume otherwise, one must conclude that both reality and the sense of reality are objective entities. All that we claim to be objective amounts to consensus of subjective agreements.
Ah, but what nature causes us to think, thinking is done in the mind, which produces memes, which affect the world around us, both natural and what we created, thus causing nature to change and adapt to include the memes that we bring forth from the mind and from thoughts that are generated by the natural world around us, whether firmly tied to what nature originally was or far distanced from it.
I am not saying that the subjective mind has no influence over the natural world. I’m simply saying that my take on the natural world is subjective/memetic or on takes of others whom I may agree with, who sense the natural world. I agree that there is something beyond the senses to which we react. That we can manipulate matter shows some accuracy in what the senses reveal to us about the natural world. Yet my knowing this is still subjective/memetic. To question the way the world has been created, or came to be as it is, one must assume to have superior scientific knowledge, philosophical or religious certainty.
There is no such animal as metaphysical certainty; therefore, we learn by questioning or by settling for the opinions of supposed authorities.
genetics/environment ↔ neurons ↔ consciousness/mind ↔ memes. Note that this progression works forward and backward. Memes affect minds; minds affect bodies, etc.
