 Originally Posted by SolSkye
There was a magazine I found at a bookstore in Japan called, Cosmos. (Not to be mistaken with Cosmo, the lame woman's magazine)
I find all these ideas and theories funny, because ultimately they all end up using INFINITY to explain FINITE existence. Remember that nifty little idea of pi? 3.1416...... We use something we can't begin to grasp to write off and explain the unexplainable. That requires us to go on faith that this paradox of a reality is real, and assume we are even here. I think it's no different from what religious zealots do except with finite results of harnessing results from understanding that certain limit within infinity.
Everything always ends up in contradiction in the end. People constantly searching for meaning where there is none to be had. Half of infinity is still infinity.
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But if you put an 8 on it side, you have captured something of infinity. Also, the difference between religion and science is that they indeed both try to explain the infinite, but science also tried to find out the truth. Actually I think science pur sang (theoretical science) is about truth, and explainment of the infinity is a result (an entwined result) of it.
Also, woman magazines like Cosmo are lame, mainly just because there are Thousand different ones of them.
Back on topic: I am pretty darn glad that people found out about pi. We use it to understand the world better, and we use it so we can broaden our abilities. I know that on a truly objective scale it matters shit or we have something we can calculate what the diameter of that bridge-wire is, but I am human, subjectively I care a lot.
Also, we mostly indeed do assume we are here. 'We' don't say were are here per definition, but since it looks like it, we are all just going with the flow. It doesn't really matter or we are in the matrix or not (for instance): As long as the matrix last, what we do does matter completely, and it is completely real... inside the matrix. Even if I would Know for SURE I was just plugged into a machine, I wouldn't know why I would change my life. Lets say we can't 'escape', why would I change my way of living? Happiness is still happiness. Having fun with something is still as fun.
You seem to have this opinion: 'We can never understand everything (we can't even know what everything is), so lets stop trying'. At least that is how you sound to me I highly disagree.
Am I right?
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