November 21, 2008
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Can’t be explained
Lots of people have said something along the lines of “some things can’t be explained.” I’ve heard this said many times in particular to me because of how tenacious I’ve always been in seeking explanations and finding answers. I like mysteries only if they can be solved and nothing irks me more than an unknown.
I disagree. I believe that all things can be explained and everything can be known. Just the fact that I don’t know it or that there is not yet any place that I know to go to discover the explanation does not mean the explanation does not exist. Just because an explanation is hard to see, mysterious, or subtle, does not mean it can’t be seen. If you look at the history of human understanding we can see a steady exponential growth. It stands to reason that the things left to be understood by human beings far exceeds the things as of yet understood.
That means when someone tells you about something mysterious or unusual it’s rather stupid imo to say that it’s just not true or delusional without evidence or proof that it is delusional. Much more likely to me seems to me that I simply do not udnerstand this mysterious thing and perhaps nobody understand this mysterious thing. Yet. It can be understood. One day somebody will understand it. Some day, *I* fully intend to understand it. I just don’t yet.
Now some will say, “but aren’t there some things that are beyond the capacity of humanity to understand?” To which my knee jerk response is always: “who cares what humanity can understand? I refuse to believe that there’s anything that is beyond the capacity for ME to understand.” Meaning quite simply that I will never doubt my capacity to know. There’d be no point. Once you start putting limits on yourself why should you bother to struggle or strive at all? Why give up like that? I’ll never understand the desire to put some things beyond yourself.
We should all believe we are capable of anything. That we can understand anything. And everything! If not in this life than in another.
