Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Are there laws for Everything?


Ishmael said to his student that there are laws for everything, even a way of living, it's just we don't know it's out there. From that chapter of the book, I'm thinking that does everything really have a law applied to it? Is it really like gravity, no matter where you are on Earth, you will somehow be affected by it? I think humans would say that there aren't laws for everything, for example, the way of living. Humans might think that there's no certain way of living, it's just different cultures have different ways to live. If there are laws out there, then why don't we even have a single clue about it? But then, Ishmael said that before we knew anything about flying, we all have different ways of flying, well we thought we did. But then, after we knew the laws of areodynamics, all our ways of flying became the same, we all say now that this is how it's suppose to be done! I still think it's unlikely to have a way of living, because we are already living, it's not like flying, not all of them made it in the air. They didn't get the aircraft in the air with all the different ways, so that doesn't count as a way. But we have been living for quite some time now, so I think there are no certain way of living. I have a feeling that I'm going to be surprised.

I think it's genius that Ishmael said that the road to extinction is like falling down at 9.8 meters per second, accelerating faster and faster, it will be when we least expect it, it will come to us so suddenly, we will be so shocked as to why we have never thought of it before. Maybe it's Mother Culture speaking to us, she's telling us that everything will be all right or she just doesn't want us to face the fact that we are dying faster and faster by each second. I totally agree with Ishmael on the part. We don't know when to give up, we are blinded by something we never bother with.

2 comments:

Kassy said...

I think we are all going to be surprised. And I agree, I think it will hit us when we least expect it! Interesting point about how we are blinded by what we aren't bothered with. Do you think we choose not to be bothered with it on purpose?

Cindy said...

Yeah, using the example of the acceleration due to gravity was really powerful. ^.^ I agreee on that~