Don't be fooled by what you see, hear and pass by

Krystal 2022-12-04 06:14:58

In the age of inference and conjecture, a scientist or just a scholar seems to be great. Especially those who dare to admit and stand by their beliefs. Since there is no conclusion, there are infinite possibilities. The entire universe is up to you to observe, hypothesize and experiment. The correct conclusion is waiting for those with the most perseverance to discover.

Religion seems to be constantly propagating, distorting, reinterpreting, correcting, and propagating again along the way. I don't know if it's to "synchronize" with science. Maybe we feel that the believers were so superstitious, ignorant and cruel two thousand years ago because we have more answers than them, or at least we think that is the answer. I wonder if people two thousand years later will laugh at us for being blind and arrogant.

I generally don't express my views on religion, religion and science, religion and war. Those thousands of threads of relationships, going around and around will only make it more confusing. The universe should be simple. I hope so. In fact, everything is very simple in the first place. All things arise and die on their own. Until there are human beings, with human "advanced" thoughts, which separate us from animals and plants and the environment in which we live, and we define as "higher creatures", everything becomes complicated. Suddenly, there are good and bad, true and false, noble and cheap, right and wrong, pure and filthy, loyal and betrayal...

We have been forgiven, should we also forgive others? With a tolerant heart, you can see farther, think more comprehensively, and feel more real. Circles are not necessarily all perfect circles. There can be at least four kinds of curves and two kinds of circles on an axis.

People are sleepy, start talking nonsense, and go to sleep.

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  • Hypatia: Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?

    Davus: Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.

    Hypatia: I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?

  • Davus: I was forgiven but now I can't forgive.

    Ammonius: Forgive? Who the Jews?

    Davus: Well Jesus pardoned them on the cross.