Oi.

Let me begin by saying one thing: Getting into this book and trying to understand it has been quite a chore for me. I have come to the conclusion that my career will NOT be in philosophy. I've never been one to question everything; I am perfectly content sitting back and letting the world just sit and spin. I have no desire to question EVERYTHING, including said question itself. With that in mind, I started casually wondering if the great philosophers of the world (past and present) are/were ever happy or "content" with anything. Are they ever satisfied with just accepting that things happen because they do? I suppose not; that would, in my opinion, pretty much defeat the whole purpose of philosophy. But still, philosophy seems like a bad habit or a communicable disease to me. That is, you literally get hooked on questioning everything. Does it seem that only the question matters, and NOT the answer itself?

*Pointing* See? See?? I told you it was contagious! Look at that, I'm already starting to question everything, even when I said I wasn't like that in the first place!!

Ok, seriously now, I was struck by the notion that science is nothing more than someone's mythological way of explaining the events of the world. Growing up, I always figured that science was based on fact, not on fiction, and that science would always have some way of explaining what's really going on "behind the scenes". Being a believer in the supernatural, I have little patience for the idea that simply a scientific fact or two can explain everything away. For a long time I was set up to believe that all science is fact, but what if it really isn't? Whoever said that science wasn't based on opinion? Although, I thought it was supposed to be. But someone predicting that bananas might disappear in 10 years doesn't have the fact right in front of them to prove it. You can prove the sky is blue just by looking at it. But can ANYONE prove that bananas will disappear in 10 years (I actually heard that on the news, by the way)? At this point in time, nobody can for sure.

On a side note- I guess when you're being philosophical, you can ponder if the sky is REALLY blue...or if the sky even exists in the first place...

-Allie-