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Saint Louis, MO, United States
I play drums in a band called Via Dove

3/14/2009

Just Because We Can

If you can always learn more, and Aquarius means "to knowledge", while Pisces means "to need", being in the age of Pisces, is the true new age when we turn from people of need to people of knowledge?
At what point can we say we know enough, though? Truth is, we can never know everything. Even if we discover the god particle or master quantum physics there is no end. So, would that be suffice to say that knowledge eventually leads to faith? If we can never know everything, then we will always have to believe in what we can't prove, and there will still be something we can try to find out.
Faith was available all along. We have to have faith that our decisions are of the hear and now and we are doing the right thing for this moment in time. Makes one wonder if our inter-connectivity runs as deep as the molecules, as theorized in quantum physics. How do our decisions effect the greater good? Because the only way to determine whether one outcome would be greater than the other would be if both outcomes were allowed to occur and you made a comparison- but only one can, or one will take precedence- so only that one can really be looked at in terms of effects but even then, who is to say what the greater good is? That's like saying we all have the same basic moral or ethical compass, which we don't. Take the H-Bomb on H-Town in 1945. Just because we can, should we? Would you have dropped the bomb? What lead you to making that decision? Because again, you can only have one outcome. You can't drop the bomb and not drop the bomb and weigh the outcomes. You can never know everything, so every step of the way is a step of faith. Live your life, be not afraid to love, follow your heart.