Questions

Questions are all we really have in life. They are the only reason we keep on wanting the next minute, day, year. We have so many questions. My questions have brought me full circle. Right back to where I started. I was in search of a path for the "meat" of my life and now I think I have found some of the right questions to be asking. Most of these are rhetorical in nature, however, there are probably answers to them as well. I believe when we ask a rhetorical question, we are simply predetermining the outcome. We cannot explain the answer in a manner that satisfies the complexity of the question and therefore banish it the land of rhetoric. Guess who else lives in that land? God.

The following questions are asked with the intent of beginning a dialogue. I do not expect that most will understand the purpose in asking these questions but I have a need to pursue the answers.

• Are humans the only living creatures that have an aptitude for higher reasoning?
• Is Language really only a Human ability?
• Why are we allowing our "egos" to blind us in our attempts to conquer science?
• Why are we always looking for the complex path to answers?

Humans teach other living organisms our language in some form or another, daily. We are looking at things through our "Ego Goggles" and do not look at the question from the other side. It is a survival benefit to learn this new language. At the same time, it indicates a cognitive learning ability and a predisposition for language in the organism being taught. That lead me to wonder if all living organisms have developed language that enhances their survivability. We act as though languages we do not understand must not exist at all. How could Humans be "Special" if this were true? Are we really that special?

CLICK the Title Bar for a very interesting essay on this topic. My musings on the essay will follow in a few days.

http://www.peterussell.com/index2.html Use this link to check out this guys home page. A thinker who has left the cave to find the source of the shadows...good read!