Why The Universe Is What It Is : A Conjecture

The interwebs is full of krayzeee...  

This post was inspired by yet another crazy website/book I found : Galileo was Wrong, Church was Right. I am not really in the mood to discuss this website. It claims that Earth is the center of the universe, even relativity is false propaganda... etc etc. Read it till you are bored, or don't... whatever... I am not going to. Rather, I will talk about the science of what we know about the universe and our place in it and go on to make some pseudo-philosophical conjectures.

The Geocentric model or the Ptolemaic principle advocates that the earth is the center of the universe. It was the dominant world-view since probably the dawn of man at least up until the 15th century. Even though it was completely wrong, it is hard to be too harsh on this model even from a scientific standpoint. The best observations people could make pre-15th century were naked eye observations of the sun, moon and the stars, and yeah... it does kind of look like the earth is static and the sky resembles a back-lit canopy with holes punched in it that is revolving around the earth. But the philosophical/social/moral/cultural implications of this idea are profound and conversation-worthy. In particular, it is easy to extend this empirical observation to imply a general idea, that humanity, or life, or mankind is the central premise of the universe, its purpose even. That leads to the obvious question... why? If we are indeed special, we must have been created for a reason, for some purpose. But whose purpose, whose reason... a line of reasoning the undoubtedly led our ancestors to create the oldest Gods. 

This methodology of philosophy (love of wisdom) where thinkers and ponderers would sit in great halls and muse over the great questions is, after all is said and done, not much more than fantastic imagination. To understand or even contemplate the nature of the universe we must first study it. Thus began science, initially to supplement, but eventually entirely replacing philosophy. Philosophy as is understood by most people today, as it is taught now in schools and universities is actually just the history of classical philosophy. Ideas of a time before knowledge was rigorous, before the invention of logic. 

Philosophy of the modern world is through science, for there can be no wisdom without knowledge, no comprehension without information. Science is the ultimate quest of understanding who we are and our place in the universe, and it took many millennia before humans could develop a consistent method of elevating ideas and observation to undeniable truths that could then be used as the basis for further understanding . 

Proper Scientific discourse in the time of Copernicus and Galileo

And 19th century science could not find any evidence about the universe that suggests that humanity or life has any special place in it. 

Finding Neverland!!!!

On top of the world.....I was.....not too long ago.....not much too long ago......

I've been through a lot of ups and down in my short sample of a life,just bout 20 years of it,more so than a lot of people i know....BUT....never,Never has fate taken me so high up and then thrown me back down with such vehemence....

In my own self contained realm i thought i had everything....all the power i could handle,all the love i could bathe in,all the respect i needed to be happy....
"Human beings define their reality through misery and suffering.
The perfect world was a dream that their primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from."

I woke up.
To failure.
In every sense of the word.
Total collapse.
Reduced to rubble all the efforts.Efforts dating back 7 years ago.Seeds of a resplendent future sowed way back....since 9th grade.In a life of 20 years, 7 of the approx 15 years i have a memory of is a lot of time....
Every thing that I counted on.

In many ways I believe,total collapse is better for you in the long run than strings of smaller failures.It lets you start from ground zero instead of trying to salvage a faulty foundation with an ailing scaffold of determination.

I'm like this huge Matrix buff....like i know every dialogue ever spoken in all 3 movies types.And the philosophy of these movies made a huge impact on me.

I've always believed in purpose,that I'm here for a purpose i must fulfil to realise my destiny.And somewhere in the whole rigmarole of being so young and high,I actually thought I had found my purpose.I actually thought I knew how my life was gonna work out.At 20 years I really honestly believed I had my whole life thought up in my head,and give and take minor details.....I had it all worked out.There was this person in my life who gave me that feeling.Made me feel on top of the world.Made me feel I had it all.
Now that person is gone.Along with a lot of other things that used to make me wake up every morning feeling it was good to be me.I seem to have lost my purpose.5 years down the line.....I don't see myself.And I don't know where to look either.

Then I turned to my philosophical mentor again.The Matrix.
Kinda frivolous I know but hey,I'm young and hopeless.What did you expect?
And I'm kinda OK now.
I really am.
I still have no idea what I'm gonna do with my life.
I'm still not over my past.Heartaches of a ruthless kind.
If my life walked right back up to me and gave me a choice,I would still undoubtedly wanna go back.Its not like I'm better off now or some other self-delusional crap.

It's just that,I think its OK to be lost.
As long as I know and admit to myself and everyone that I'm lost,I think I'll be fine.

I'll find my way someday.....but right now I have a life to live.
And I cant spend it thinking of my lost sense of purpose.

It will find me!!