In a paradigm where clocks and the concept of time do not exist, I would live a different life, perhaps. A life of a dreamer, not wary of anything as lives around her speed frantically like cars on main roads.
I would drown myself in the passion for languages. Words, how breathtakingly beautiful they are. Syntax, the formation of sentences. Linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Among all components and subfields, I love words most.
However as I look deeper into words, the basic component of a language, I see another world. A world of usage, history, meanings, sounds, sentimental value, strength, combination, ability, flow and order. It comes down to words, principles, exceptions and systems. A lovely abstract thing.
I could treat words like humans as if they have a personality of their own. They talk, interact, function, work, feel and react. Some are opposites of each other and some are birds of the same feather.
If they are unable to live in that way and if they cease to exist, there would be a hollow vacuum within the language, or cease to function nor live at all. Then their personalities fade as if washed by the rain, and everything soon falls like old paint on a wall.
Time, perhaps is something placed into the world we live in to reduce entropy in our lives, to bounce us back to reality.
Then, in this reality we live in, where does my passion lie?
Science, where theoretically chemistry exists prior to the existence of biology and physics, is a world I subconsciously chose to be in. I took a biological take to science. Biology, the study of living organisms. In what way I view this field of science is similar to how I view the world of words.
Cells, the basic component of physical life or as we call the building blocks of an organism. But the building blocks of cells are elements. Chemical reactions on a cellular level.
Hence the passion for the collaboration between biology and chemistry.
To me, linguistics and biochemistry are science, both down to the building blocks, system and order. But biochemistry is alive and has processes.
I guess this is how my brain has been wired to be.
Sunday 24 March 2013
Saturday 2 March 2013
Perfection and imperfections
Nothing is perfect. An advice so commonly given to people that it has lost its meaning. When asked, everyone agrees. Question is, do their actions coincide with their agreement to this seemingly simple statement?
It happens to all philosophical theories. Well understood but never fully applied.
Again nothing is perfect, we are never exceptions to the rule. Why is it that whilst having clearly understood, the application of these theories in the way we perceive and think is virtually zero? Yes we can be rational and more rational but the soil from where our rationality buds out from has been tarnished by what we call sin.
Regardless of all the rationality you are equipped with, the eyes you see from has been tarnished. The clarity of our vision was never crystal to begin with. Plagued with sin, restlessness and the peripheral effects of the invention of time, we already stray away from God's teachings as we think and live.
We sin everyday but do we realize it?
Countries, systems, the law, they're never perfect. Our country is vexed with racial issues but which country isn't? Laws have loopholes. Our judiciary system is heavily flawed. The grass may be greener on the other side but the grass here is greener than most places. Something to be thankful for.
But can we determine the root of a problem based merely on the imperfections an institution, a school, a country, a system has but not other potential contributing factors? Not wise. Perhaps I'm too heavily 'scienced'. A hypothesis never immediately equates to a conclusion as with no adequate relevant information no analysis can be done and thus no conclusion can be made. Prejudice? Maybe. Another sin.
The seek for perfection deals a great magnitude of damage in ways we can't foresee, too. Defying and disrupting nature has its price. Often exorbitant.
I pray that the world doesn't get any uglier from this point. The world needs healing and people need to be mended.
It happens to all philosophical theories. Well understood but never fully applied.
Again nothing is perfect, we are never exceptions to the rule. Why is it that whilst having clearly understood, the application of these theories in the way we perceive and think is virtually zero? Yes we can be rational and more rational but the soil from where our rationality buds out from has been tarnished by what we call sin.
Regardless of all the rationality you are equipped with, the eyes you see from has been tarnished. The clarity of our vision was never crystal to begin with. Plagued with sin, restlessness and the peripheral effects of the invention of time, we already stray away from God's teachings as we think and live.
We sin everyday but do we realize it?
Countries, systems, the law, they're never perfect. Our country is vexed with racial issues but which country isn't? Laws have loopholes. Our judiciary system is heavily flawed. The grass may be greener on the other side but the grass here is greener than most places. Something to be thankful for.
But can we determine the root of a problem based merely on the imperfections an institution, a school, a country, a system has but not other potential contributing factors? Not wise. Perhaps I'm too heavily 'scienced'. A hypothesis never immediately equates to a conclusion as with no adequate relevant information no analysis can be done and thus no conclusion can be made. Prejudice? Maybe. Another sin.
The seek for perfection deals a great magnitude of damage in ways we can't foresee, too. Defying and disrupting nature has its price. Often exorbitant.
I pray that the world doesn't get any uglier from this point. The world needs healing and people need to be mended.
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