Why Questions are Greater than Answers
Lately it seems that every day I become a little more concerned that my civil liberties are in danger of being taken away. With corruption in the RCMP (stealing from their own pensions?), endless scandals in the Whitehouse (Gitmo, Gonzales, Abu Ghraib, ad infinitum) and the laisez-fair attitude of most people when it comes to government laws that do affect our liberty (ever heard of Bill C-36), I've begun to question what it is that I consider important. Then one day I was walking home, listening to my anti-establishment music and plotting to blow something up (ha-ha, just kidding CSIS), when I had an epiphany. This wasn't the every-day kind of epiphany, but one that really got me thinking about how people think.
Everybody knows that we ask questions in order to get answers. But have you ever noticed that the best answers in fact lead to more questions? This is particularly true in science, where the more we know, the more we know we don't know. This is also true in government: as an outsider, I know that there are more hidden dealing than I could possible understand. As of yet, the only instance I've found where this isn't true is in some fundamentalist religions where believers are told NOT to question. This isn't true of all or even most religions; I've heard preachers talk about how you should question your faith every day. In my opinion, the ability to question our reality is in essence what makes us human.
Since this epiphany, I've gotten into the practice of questioning many more things in my daily life. They don't have to be vitally important things; seeking the answer to any question leads to an expansion of knowledge in other areas. An example: I questioned if I was the only person who did not love the movie 300. In seeking an answer I discovered a message board that taught me: 1. I am NOT the only person that did not love it, 2. There are many other people out there that also question their reality and are willing to discuss it in an intelligent and rational manner. The more people who question the propaganda and who see through the distractions in their own quest for knowledge, then the less likely it will be that our civil liberties will be lost. In conclusion: This is not the X-files or the Matrix, but I still say question everything.
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No, I did not HATE 300, I just didn't love it. I prefer men with real bodies and a story with a little more substance. But the fight scenes were supper cool.
Everybody knows that we ask questions in order to get answers. But have you ever noticed that the best answers in fact lead to more questions? This is particularly true in science, where the more we know, the more we know we don't know. This is also true in government: as an outsider, I know that there are more hidden dealing than I could possible understand. As of yet, the only instance I've found where this isn't true is in some fundamentalist religions where believers are told NOT to question. This isn't true of all or even most religions; I've heard preachers talk about how you should question your faith every day. In my opinion, the ability to question our reality is in essence what makes us human.
Since this epiphany, I've gotten into the practice of questioning many more things in my daily life. They don't have to be vitally important things; seeking the answer to any question leads to an expansion of knowledge in other areas. An example: I questioned if I was the only person who did not love the movie 300. In seeking an answer I discovered a message board that taught me: 1. I am NOT the only person that did not love it, 2. There are many other people out there that also question their reality and are willing to discuss it in an intelligent and rational manner. The more people who question the propaganda and who see through the distractions in their own quest for knowledge, then the less likely it will be that our civil liberties will be lost. In conclusion: This is not the X-files or the Matrix, but I still say question everything.
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No, I did not HATE 300, I just didn't love it. I prefer men with real bodies and a story with a little more substance. But the fight scenes were supper cool.
posted by Artemis at 10:30 PM
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