one of the constant in life is the laws/rules of life…
we have rules/laws for just about everything…….
E=MC2 is just another rule/law…as is the law against
jaywalking as is the rules of basketball and rules
of chess…
Kant believed in rules/laws…
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing
admiration and are oftener and more steadily we reflect on them,
the starry heavens above me and the moral law withing me”
we have personal rules/laws… I don’t pursue women…
but I have been married for almost 22 years, so I don’t engage with that…
and we have other personal rules like we might have like, to never
wear white after labor day…or other rules like this…
we have personal rules, society rules and rules like
the rules/laws of how planets revolved around the sun…
scientific rules/laws…
now the question becomes, given our current situation,
what rules must we follow and what rules can we
break at our leisure…
for example, the rules/laws of gravity… we have no choice
but to subject to the rules of gravity… we have no choice…
and we must adjust our actions, our behavior to the rules/laws
of gravity…
and other rules/laws we can follow or ignore at our leisure…
for example, my own personal rule of not attempting to
lure women into bed…I can, if I were so bold, try to
seduce women… but I would pay the consequences for such
a rule breaking with possible divorce and losing my family…
so where does this leave us?
we exists in a universe/reality where we have rules/laws
and we spend a great deal of time, trouble, money and effort
trying to understand the rules/laws of the universe………
and this might be what life really is… life is simply an attempt
to understand and adapt to the rules/laws we are subjected to…
laws/rules which can be personal, legal or natural…
and at each stage of our existence, the rules/laws can and might
change for us……. rules/laws change with our growth as human beings…
personal laws anyway, legal laws like the law against jaywalking might
or might not change as time passes, but natural laws like E=MC2
might not change in our lifetimes or might never change………
so the problem of existence might simply be a question of
learning and understanding the rules…the rules/ laws of a personal
nature, or the rules/laws of a legal nature or the rules/laws of a scientific nature…
what are the rules?
that might be the question of our existence…….
Kropotkin