How can anything make sense?

Question

We live on a lump of rock travelling through space at 60,000 miles an hour, tied to a giant ball of fire with an invisble string. How can we expect anything to be logical?

Answer 1

Awesome! Ever heard Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"

"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side,
It bulges in the middle, 16 000 light-years thick,
but out by us it's just 3 000 light-years wide.
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point,
we go round every 200 million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whizz,
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth."

Answer 2

Its just the proof that this earth isn't all their is. When you take into consideration how big the universe is, then you take into account the way energy somehow created it self from "nothing", dont believe it. Yes human beings are very smart at understanding their world. BUT that doesn't mean everything they say is true. I dont personally think that the speed of light is the fastest, and its only a matter of time before it is proven wrong. But if what the scientists are saying is right, then we won the biggest lottery in the world, and not only that, but we evolved from fish that all of a sudden wanted to leave the sea and left with gills. I mean I just belive that us humans have always been like the universe, and it was created for us to learn on. Learn what you msut and make your way into highest power.


Open your mind. The answers are there for the taking

Answer 3

We probably can't really rely on logic, although I'd like to think we could. The problem here, as I see it, is the absence of absolute proof of anything except our own individual existence (cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I am).

Ok, so each of us can prove our own existence to ourselves. But absolute proof of anything else is not genuinely possible, since there is only convention (rather than actual proof) that one plus one equals two.

To illustrate the point, just you try proving me wrong......

Answer 4

*lmaorotf* Awesome question. I also read somewhere about how it's amazing we can rationalize dreaming. We fall into a comatose state every night, hallucinate vividly, and then suffer amnesia related to most of, or the entire, thing. I can't remember if that was Stanislaw Lem or someone else who said it, though.

Answer 5

We also live as giants among grains of sand.
We are what we believe we are. We are here in this life (I believe) to learn something, and to teach something.

Richard Bach wrote: There is an easy way to tell if your mission in life is complete. If you're still here, it isn't.

Answer 6

And you haven't even -started- to dig into the deeper mysteries of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics ☺

Doug

Answer 7

Two words. General relativity.

Answer 8

If youre logic were true, then how do you even know any of that? how do you know we are indeed on a rock travelling at that speed?

Answer 9

We can't.
We're working with the limited world view of our 5 senses and what our tiny brains can comprehend.
Be Zen: Enjoy the moment. ;-)

Thor

Answer 10

The only thing that exists is ideas