rufus: i agree! you're a wise man.
steven:
<<"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.">>
a good quote. allie and i go way back. i tend to agree more with the first half tho, rather than the second.
science, more precious than love? faith? friends? laughter? ... not in my book.
<<But at least consider the following, from ANATOMY OF LOVE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MONOGAMY, ADULTERY, AND DIVORCE, by Helen E. Fisher, Ph.D., published by W.W. Norton and Company (1992). This should command your attention: it's about sex!>>
im all uva sudden so hungry and tired... strange...
<<This violent emotional disturbance that we call infatuation (or attraction) may begin .... SNIP SNIP SNIP... their brains; they are high on natural "speed.">>
sadly... i've read this before... i dont even remember where or why... mebbe that sex thing. anywho... sure, its all well n'good. we are, if anything, animals, and, share those basic urges and instincts. and, like i said before, it is possible, even for todays scientists and doctors, to somewhat explain the mechanics of emotions as an influx of blood and/or chemicals, electrical pulses, etc...
but that doest really say anything. these are the reactions caused by love and/or the direct result of love, not love itself.
one cant truly explain why one person could love another so deeply, and not, say, a third party. one cant truly explain how a love could be so deep that it alters an individuals entire personality. one cant truly explain how, if your love one is threatened, some could be driven to defend and/or kill. they cant understand the unique love of a father and son, or a pair of war veterans, or a man and a woman... there are explanations for what happens afterward, but no real explanations like, say, how my mother met and stayed with my father. why him and not someone else? or someone else now? or the immense torture endured by the individuals within sofie's choice (deciding life and death for her own children).
again, it seems to be the difference between cold and warm, science and life, calculable and incalculable. were we machines, you'd be able to process when i was going to fall in love, whom i was going to fall for, and when, and if, i was going to fail in that relationship. but, again, as humans, as unique individuals, there IS no recipie. you could read 8 books by 8 different specialists all on the same subject and get 8 differing opinions.
the truth is (well, my truth, anyway) that as good as science and math can ever get, they'll always, at best, strive for 99.9% accuracy. we're too screwy, man! and, as a part of nature, perhaps the best part, we're just one example of something completely un-understandible.
i stand firm in the belief that science is great for proving and/or disproving. but, its not the only thing, not the final word. there's too much relating to humans, alone, for which science is poorly suited. there's too much in our very world that science just can't comprehend.
again, the example of previous scientists, who mocked the idea of a "new world." who mocked the idea of vaccinations. who mocked the idea of cells. their theories were "proven" by their current science, and disproven by (relative) future science. any constant we know today could, later, be broken by newer findings and technologies.
everyday, on our very own planet, we're discovering new species in rain forests, or rediscovering "extinct" ones. we just recently, within the past few months, discovered bacteria and other single- (or small mutli-) celled organisms living in the arctic, at temperatures previously (as in 1 year ago) thought hundreds of degrees below the realm of "live preserving"
with these basic concepts and discoveries, right under our own noses, that exist in a science-proofable world and catagory, unable to be contemplated until shown... how can we be so arrogant as to assume knowledge over everything in human nature? in life? in death? in space?
that is my beef with science.
.... that, and cuz my chemistry teacher was a hideous whore beasted sea monster.
