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Originally Posted by ays
Why does science need to figure out what the heck is going on if everything is inherently meaningless and just is? Can you explain that infinite desire that's contained within our finite bodies?
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Meaning is not something to be assigned by a third party, but rather something everyone can develop for themselves. I find great meaning in knowledge, as do many other people. It helps to make clear the natures of the universe. While there is no inherent meaning, or rather there is no universal meaning, that hardly means one cannot have personal meaning.
You should read the works of Meister Eckhart. He was one of Christianity's great theologians, who lived about 700 years ago in Germany, that had some really interesting ideas about what god is. My brother in law, a monk, swears by him.
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Originally Posted by ays
An explosion produces chaos and not order.
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This just illustrates what you may not know.
Let's say, hypotheically, that I build a claymore mine. I use a kilo of C4 explosive, which has a simple detonator attached at two points on the bottom of the C4, which I have shaped into a semi-sphere. I use stainless ball bearings as the shrapnel, and evenly distribute them over the C4. Let's also say that I'm executing this experiment in a room with no wind and that can measure the trajectory of each ball bearing for as long as it goes and can feed that data into a computer. I get to a safe distance and detonate the explosive. Boom. The data comes back. It seems that each ball landed about the same distance from it's counterpart on the opposite side of the C4. If one ball was one inch from the top on the right side, it landed around the same place as the ball one inch from the top on the left. Fascinating, no? And those balls that were not uniformly distributed can be explained by purity of the C4, or by other variables. You see, it's not chaos at all. It's this wonderful symmetrical thing and each part that isn't symmetrical can be explained by a variable. That's the beauty of physics. It's like classical music. Every note is there for a reason and can be explained, and when it all happens it's like a symphony of science (forgive the cheese, but I really do see it that way).