A_Wanderer
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Now that I have your attention/
As children we have infinite potential, which diminishes rapidly, I want to know how one reconciles aspiration with reality.
Was there ever a time when your aspirations conflicted with your situation, the point which you realised that you can't get what you want.
As a 20 something I think I am fortunate enough to be engaged in stimulating work, coupled with the realisation that I need intellectual stimulation to make my experience of this mortal coil worthwhile to me. I feel that I have found a cause to be, which rewards me, which in and of itself is important to me.
We're all clued in individuals, I would like to know what makes you go on, what drives you, what abstract ideal you strive towards.
I suspect that some free exchange of ideals may elucidate truth and help make some sense of the world.
So to begin,
I myself have a desire for the understanding of fact, when a question engages me I need to know to know the answer, an extension of childish inquisition perhaps but a dominant factor in my adult self nontheless, I find the numinous in comprehension, in the recognition of truth in the absence of anthropomorphic preconceptions.
I think I can find meaning in the natural sciences, I have an aptitude towards evolutionary biology and in my materialistic and atheistic manner I can comprehend some metaphysical implications of evolutionary biology. I feel meaning in fact, in palaeontology, an experience of the numinous through the accidental preservation of past forms, in placing humanity as one briefly lived species in 35,000,000,000 years. From microbialites to man we alone have the capacity to trancend our related organisms and expand beyond our narrow existence, at core that idea turns me on more than any politics or economics, I am a terrible libertarian, I am not nearly as commited to a lazzes faire as I am to the best fit model of truth.
That attitude demands an environment of free inquisition to exist, I rely upon some degree of state support for inquiry, which subverts any pretensions of libertarian ideology, state support for free inquiry is in my rational self-interest. But that is a question on economics apart from those of truth.
I need to understand, the answer isn't in abstract belief, it is grounded in fact, it s more verified by fact than anything theological. God is a simple escape, I can't accept that as it isn't probable, a sweet illusion to alay the consequences of evolved conciousness.
Science begins to comprehend reality more than theology, dogma or intuition; it is my cause to be, to use up my brief mortal coil on understanding is more important than lies, or procreation (the Darwinian objective); that renders me a freak).
So theres my cause to be, be reciprocal, show me yours.
As children we have infinite potential, which diminishes rapidly, I want to know how one reconciles aspiration with reality.
Was there ever a time when your aspirations conflicted with your situation, the point which you realised that you can't get what you want.
As a 20 something I think I am fortunate enough to be engaged in stimulating work, coupled with the realisation that I need intellectual stimulation to make my experience of this mortal coil worthwhile to me. I feel that I have found a cause to be, which rewards me, which in and of itself is important to me.
We're all clued in individuals, I would like to know what makes you go on, what drives you, what abstract ideal you strive towards.
I suspect that some free exchange of ideals may elucidate truth and help make some sense of the world.
So to begin,
I myself have a desire for the understanding of fact, when a question engages me I need to know to know the answer, an extension of childish inquisition perhaps but a dominant factor in my adult self nontheless, I find the numinous in comprehension, in the recognition of truth in the absence of anthropomorphic preconceptions.
I think I can find meaning in the natural sciences, I have an aptitude towards evolutionary biology and in my materialistic and atheistic manner I can comprehend some metaphysical implications of evolutionary biology. I feel meaning in fact, in palaeontology, an experience of the numinous through the accidental preservation of past forms, in placing humanity as one briefly lived species in 35,000,000,000 years. From microbialites to man we alone have the capacity to trancend our related organisms and expand beyond our narrow existence, at core that idea turns me on more than any politics or economics, I am a terrible libertarian, I am not nearly as commited to a lazzes faire as I am to the best fit model of truth.
That attitude demands an environment of free inquisition to exist, I rely upon some degree of state support for inquiry, which subverts any pretensions of libertarian ideology, state support for free inquiry is in my rational self-interest. But that is a question on economics apart from those of truth.
I need to understand, the answer isn't in abstract belief, it is grounded in fact, it s more verified by fact than anything theological. God is a simple escape, I can't accept that as it isn't probable, a sweet illusion to alay the consequences of evolved conciousness.
Science begins to comprehend reality more than theology, dogma or intuition; it is my cause to be, to use up my brief mortal coil on understanding is more important than lies, or procreation (the Darwinian objective); that renders me a freak).
So theres my cause to be, be reciprocal, show me yours.