Just...Saying....It

I WANT TO KEEP MAKING the same point, again and again, but I don't, because it accomplishes nothing, other than to make me dislike homo sapien sapiens even more. So, I keep my shut shut, and my fingers moving. My point is this: Humankind can be justifiably criticized for seriously damaging its own nest, the ecosystem, for destroying it. We can be sharply criticized, justifiably condemned for, no less stupidly, needlessly slaughtering ourselves in endless wars, millions of ourselves, like some primitive, low life, barbaric animal, or something. You may have other reasons for despising humankind that I can't even think of, but those are my two big pet peeves. Also, our attitudes I find irksome, which underlie our insane behavior. We are so very very terrified, arrogant, and blind. Our fear and arrogant blindness consists in, for example, our refusal to just accept the fact that, as Einstein said "we don't know one millionth of one percent of anything." Take religion, for example. We have thousands of different religions in the world, and nobody, but nobody knows which one, if any of them, has the truth, or any truth, or whether they are all merely inventions of the human mind, intended to comfort us amid our fearful ignorance. (The answer seems obvious, however.) To all you devoutly religious people, Muslims, Pentecostals, whomever....just face it...you have no real idea whether your beliefs are correct. And then too, many of you turn right around, and in the same breath as you firmly embrace fantasy, you deny the truths that are obvious, such as, evolution by natural selection, and, for instance, climate change by human activity. These two things, among a few other scientific facts, such as the shape of the Earth and the periodic table of the chemical elements, are beyond dispute. They are, in fact, fact. We are all much too fearful, arrogant, and blind to simply tell the truth, to take the easy, simple step of being honest, to embrace what little we do know, and to simply say, generally, simply, humbly, honestly: "I...don't...know"...We convince ourselves that fantasy is truth, we deny what is obviously real, we refuse to accept our ignorance. So, let's all join hands, stop the planet killing and the people killing, and the needless arguing, and agree on a few basics: Let's all agree that we paltry limited little humans have no idea whether there is one God, two, or none, we cannot even remotely conceive of the ultimate nature of god and the universe, not yet, not with our current level of understanding. however, we do know some things what we can see, all around us, in front of our eyes. We can see the evolution of life and we can see the warming of the planet due to our adding tons of green house gasses to the atmosphere, among a few other things. And if we manage to survive long enough, maybe we will someday see and know more. Adrift in a world of our own ignorance and uncertainty, there are nonetheless a few precious known quantities we can rely on. The known and the unknown. We must be careful to stop confusing the two.