WHAT WE CANNOT KNOW

 

This is unimaginable and unfathomable, to us anyway. Yes, the scientists and mathematicians and astronomers understand more detail. But no-- they do not, in a conceptual sense, know more than we do.  It follows (I will never believe that things happen without cause, even though I recognize this is dissonant, since a cause would need a cause, and so on....I get that) -- that something capable of much more than we, things more than is imaginable-- this cause or force, created the events or physics, leading to that which we cannot know. What this is remains a deep mystery. Truly, as deep a mystery as it has been since the beginning of the time as we know. As it has been for the billions of years, for the immeasurable spans of eternity. All of that is nothing, in the scheme of things. Science has made incredible inroads. We can now see into billions of galaxies, each with perhaps millions of solar systems like hours. But the mystery remains, and shall remain. As Pi said, at the end of THE LIFE OF PI, " which story do you like the best?" -- "and so it is with God"- I do not know about some individualized type of God, as we are often taught. But I know what I feel in my soul, whatever it is. I cannot know; may never know. It is just too much. It is so much it is indescribably beautiful. To my way of thinking.