miércoles, 30 de septiembre de 2009

The world and its outskirts.

What is the origin of the Universe? Savater tries to explain what the universe is in different ways; he uses quotes from philosophers, deductions, etc. I thought one explanation was really interesting; "But as Bertrand Russell remarked, although every human being has a mother, this does not allow us to suppose that humanity as a whole must also have a mother." That is an extremely radical answer to any person. Today I read in a book an alien telling to a person: "Oh you think like such a human". That is really true! We think in a human way; we saw in the last chapter that humanity had it hard to accept we are not the center of everything. So I would say that the(a?) Universe is a result of our need of belongingess. I'll explain: We have a mother, we have friends, we have family = We belong to our family, we belong to our friends, because they share things with us, so we belong to the universe instead of the universe belonging to us! that's human reasoning, but what about the soooo manyyyyyyyy other things that the universe "has", not all of them have a mother (though some of them do), and we try and try to find a mother for those who appear to lack of her. In conclusion, the Universe COULD not have an origin as the universe is not a human, and we could stop thinking humanly, stop being so selfish-thinking and begin to ACCEPT other kind of relations, which maybe are completely different from ours, and not because of that meaning to be wrong. (like a song: not because you're it does mean I'm wrong)

1 comentario:

  1. I have to agree with you in this entry because you are stating all the important points of questioning the universe. It is infinite and we cannot find an answer so that is why we will never be able to prove the questions. good entry.

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