In the following picture, guess how many generations were productive of the differences between the two pigs. Three? Six? Nine?
In fact there are none. The pigs are littermates, but were raised in different temperatures. Epigenetics is just beginning to be noted as the way we use our DNA in response to environmental conditions. The genes we inherit are just the stones of which our temples are built. It is how we arrange them that determines the form our temples take.
The influences of the wind, the sun, the forest, and the sea are no less formative than our parents, teachers, or peers on who we become and what we know. We are so much more than we can grasp in our little minds that I have become ever more aware of my nescience of me, the world, and my place in it as I get older and learn more about those things. What I have learned is that the more I know, the more I know I don't know.
Even so, all we can use to decide what we will do is what we know. I reckon it is far better to know I don't know and to be naive than to know what isn't so and be wrong. I might always be able to learn what I don't know, as long as I don't know what is untrue and preclude learning.
When I approach your posts with an open mind, I always learn something.
Thanks!
Hey my friend .. I hope you've been keeping well?
Thank you for that, fascinating and I couldn't agree more.
And yet to this day .. modern medicine portrays us as victims of circumstance (the luck of the draw) slaves to the choices of our ancestors, whose inherent weaknesses and ill health proclivities are handed down from generation to generation. When you begin to really research the foundations of many of our societal pillars, medicine, education, psychiatry etc etc (and indeed who funded/directed them) you begin to realise that many aspects of that we have taken for granted, are built upon foundations of sand. Certainly, I consider that the scale of this deception exists at a layer beyond our comprehension.
Equally, as you say .. the more you know, the more you know you don't know .. and that many aspects of what you thought you did know have become irrelevant. At the same time, I feel a sense of freedom in knowing that (in the great scheme of things) I know nothing .. in being able to admit that to myself, to say it aloud.
Veritas .. an open mind and a sense of humility is key .. thank you for the thought-provoking comment @valued-customer