knowledge

knowledge is what makes us interested in everything. sure, we cant know everything. but that puts the excitement into life. we would be so bored and purposeless if we knew everything that there is to know. good points are brought up in the essay saying that we do not even encompass the capacity to know everything or understand it. our lives are just journeys that we take on your way to try to achieve Hindu moksha or Buddhist nirvana. that is why, in my opinion, we had religion created or developed in the first place. we wanted the answers to the questions that we so desperately think and worry about it only makes sense that we would create this alternate universe. but if these questions were to be answered then the purpose that we have given ourselves is null and void. all of life is just learning. and i think that is the main point of the essay. learning is what makes everything worthwhile. without that we would have nothing to do. we would all be in on the secrets so the anticipation of the game is over with. i had a teacher that told me one time that the anticipation is the best part of anything. that it is even better than the thing you are anticipating itself. i would have to agree with him. its the unknown thats exciting. the universe is so complex. we cant even understand a grain of salt. something that seems so simple is, in reality, something more than you could ever understand.