Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers. – Anne Burrell, American chef and TV personality
There are some questions that never really get answered because no one really has a proper answer. However, not having an answer is not a reason to not have questions.
The older we get, the wiser we become and we think with far much more clarity. One of the things I see very clearly is that there seems to be an indoctrinated regimented way of thinking that has been universally taught in our education systems, that imprisons the minds of young people.
It does not allow them to think freely, in fact on the contrary, it shames those who think outside the box. We are so conditioned – the history we memorise, the science we are told which we presume is settled, the way we think our bodies function and environment evolves – that we cannot dare comprehend an alternative for reality outside of this.
How can we be so arrogant as to believe we know everything there is to know about the universe? We are mere specks in this magic of life and our understanding is limited to inferences, speculations and experiments of other humans.
Even our scriptures are written by humans who have had the opportunity to amend it according to whatever the ruler of the era wanted transcribed to suit his rule, law and decree. A whole generation grows up believing this is the absolute truth, never knowing how things were practiced before that.
I sometimes think we live in an illusion of what we perceive as reality and the only way to see life with clarity is to question everything, and be suspicious when people laugh at you for asking that, refuse to answer you, or worse punish you for asking those questions.
I have some baffling questions of my own.
If gravity is what holds trillions of tons of water to be wrapped around the surface of a globe, even when it is upside down, say in Australia, how does a butterfly in Australia overcome the ginormous amount of gravity that keep the oceans wrapped around the globe upside down and fly upwards against it?
Force of Gravity is defined as F=GMm/r2, G being the gravitational constant, M the mass of the ocean, m the mass of the earth at that point, r the distance between earth and ocean. Just imagine how huge the Force of gravity should be then.
How does a butterfly whose mass is so insignificant find enough force to overcome this? How do any of us find enough force to even walk, run, jump against such huge gravitational force?
Why do airplanes only fly sideways around the globe even if it takes way much longer and not over the Artic and Antarctica which will give significantly shorter routes of travel and save a lot more fuel?
Why is it that all the nations of the world came together and signed an Antarctica treaty that no one should go beyond the barriers that barricade Antarctica from the rest of the world ? What is the ‘research’ being done in Antarctica that the world does not know about?
Why is it that the further you go higher up, you lose your Wi-Fi and telecommunications whereas we are told that satellites are up in the outer atmosphere and thereby your signals should actually be stronger?
Why are almost 1.5 million kilometres of submarine fiber optic cables that underpin the entire global internet and our modern information age built under the sea if GPS is from satellites above the sky?
How was it possible to send men to the moon in 1969, which is an incredible feat that took trillions of dollars to achieve, but then equally incredibly, we have ‘lost the technology to go back to the moon” and need to start all over again?
Why is it that almost all ancient drawings of earth be it Muslim, Christian, Persian, Egyptian, Mayan show a flat earth with Artic in the middle and the Antarctica as a ring of ice around it, including maps as recent as early 1900s?
How come we can come up with The Big Bang Theory and carbon dating with such accuracy when we were not even formed as a species back then but we cannot find missing airplanes and Osama bin Laden?
Why is it that a whole comprehensive understanding of the human body and how it should be treated with herbs that existed for 1000s of years in both India, China and some parts of Africa and Middle East have now been all totally relegated to just ‘alternative’ medicines and not to be trusted but allopathic medicine that started in 1900s that treats symptoms with drugs and surgeries has become the only trusted source of medicine?
Why are there carvings in ancient Indian temples that date back thousands of years show humans living with state-of-the-art technology like nuclear fission, ultrasound machines, lasers etc when we are told we evolved from monkeys and have only emerged from dark ages recently?
It is only in the asking that we can answer.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed here are those of the columnist and do not necessarily represent the views of New Sarawak Tribune. Feedback can reach the writer at beatrice@ibrasiagroup.com
