I'd like to share my view on the world that we are a part of, without wanting to impose my way of thinking onto you (well, maybe You!) I am doing this for pretty much no particular reason whatsoever*... Also, this text won't be as much "this is like that because of those", rather some monologue of mine with more questions and hypothesis than actual answers, facts and solutions...

I consider myslef to be clever and wise. Or at least in some areas of life, which means I am very dumb in many others. Why do I think that? I don't know really. I don't talk much. I'm silent most of the time, even with people that are dearest to me. I haven't read that much books, I'm shit scared when I think of all the classics that I'm still not acquainted with. It is possible that I'm afraid to speak, because I am very unsure of myself. But one thing that being silent allows you to do is to observe the world / life / people / self. And in doing so, you can make many conclusions... I like to superimpose one area of knowledge to totally another subject (as an example, teotians might remember this).

I believe what I'm told. I remember back in primary school learning some story about kids always wanting to grow up, while all the grown ups wanted to go back to being children, and the moral of the story was that childhood is the best age in life. While many kids in class (pretty much all of them) didn't believe teacher, I did, and still do. But, being rebelious, I must also say that every age has it's ups and downs. The reason why people think that childhood is the best, is that the greatest anguish people have is the one tormenting them in that particular point of time. I don't care that much about my problems from the past, just because of that - they are in the past! That's the reason why all people can relate to melanchollic songs, movies, books... The similar applies to the future.

I also believe in God (well, sort of...) Not quite the Serbain Othodox dogmas that should be within me, but I do believe in some entity which is (intelectually) so much higher than all of us combined. I also believe that I have a soul, which is immortal, probably "made" waaaay before I was born, which kinda needs a question whether this soul really is "mine"...?

But I also believe in quantum mechanics and science, which if I understood it correctly says (the string theory) that there are many universes existing in parallel to what we call "reality". Now, one of my hypothesis is that people can get a glipmse of these other worlds when we dream (or when we are under the influence of drugs, which I never tried - no experience). That is, when our consciousness is overtaken by subconsciousness. Another thing I find interesting is that our brains must reject a shitload of information that tries to get through our senses to the mind, so it doesn't become overwhelmed. I think it's called "filtering" in psychology or whatever's the name of science that explores our senses. Now, these "filters" are not so good with people who have schitzophrenia for example, which poses a rather disturbing question: if a person walks into psych ward and says he / she talked to God, is this person crazy, should he/she be locked up, or maybe put on TV and the internet, so people can get a glimpse of a higher truth? My answer? There should be a consensus on what reality is, but people should be open to other interpretations as well.

The best instrument we have to explore the Universe (Nature) is human brain. The main problem with human brain is that it hasn't really changed in the last 100,000 years. Up until then, the evolutive processes required the brain to grow from generation to generation, separating what would become Homo Sapiens from other life forms. Language is a great thing, it enabled us to draw up wisdom from the generations before us. However, it also came with catch22 - I think it stopped the evolution of the human race. Once the early humans realised that they can change (generation after generation) their habitat to suit their needs, they lost the ability to change themsleves and adopt to the habitat. Which is what evolution is!

One of the consequence of this is that there is no progress whatsoever in the human race. Need proof? Let's go back some 2,500 years, to ancient Greece, OK? The cradle of modern world, phylosophy, politics, theatre and famous Greek tragedies... whatnot! But, they were a slavery. Which is what we still are, in this way or another. That's why pretty much every theatre in the world that has some status can still (after 2,500 years!) put on a play about some people that died before Jesus walked the Earth.

Anyhows, back to the brains. IMHO, in order for human race to evolve some more, it's necessary for the brain of an average person to become, say, 10% bigger in volume. Maybe one of the consequences could (would) be that instead of dreaming in metaphores (I'm reffering to Freud now), we would truly dream our wishes and fears, and probably be more open for the world behind our eyes. Another could be that we could say: "What, Shakespeare? Are you kidding me, it's child's play since 2354!

There's a most famous scene in 2001: A Space Oddyssey, when the apes varily gather around the Monolith to touch it. One of the most common explanation of the Monolith in the movie / book is that it's a source of intelligence that was set out to the Universe to spread the wisdom. When I was discussing the film with a childhood friend of mine (we were about 10yo), he told me this.... But, what if the target for the "intelligence" wasn't Watchmoon (that's the name of the ape, for those who don't know), rather the weapon, the bone he used to kill a pig or a competing tribe's apha-male? It kinda fits what I said earlier about human race not going very far in this Universe, we only found out ways to kill each other more efficiently... I'm not happy things are as they are, I'm just stating (my) truth!

* Actually, this thread of mine represents the year I was born, if you believe in Jesus and all that jazz. Also, if you measure up time using Julian calender, today's saint and yours truly share the same name...