Talk:Pataphysics Manipulation/@comment-24729606-20180120024808/@comment-24729606-20180122201129

Okay lets say you're right about that last point. But people across virtually all cultures, time periods, hemispheres, and so on all agknowledged that there were things in beyond their ability to understand, control, or influence (which they attributed to beings greater than themselves: gods or spirits). The only difference between those past cultures, peoples, and so on is that they were willing (however implicitly) to live with fact that there are things beyond the capacity of humans to understand we today have become so used to the certainty of science and scientists as well as easy access to virtually every bit of knowledge that ever existed or been unearthed that we have become unwilling and/or unable to admit that our knowledge has its limits. After all there is only so much the brain of any one human can hold. Even if every human were to dedicate themselves to the same problem there would still be some things that we would still be wontly unable to understand. I for one find it this heartening for a very simple reason. If humans achieved a state of total understanding of every aspect of reality than what meaning would life hold for any one of us. A totality of anything at any time is little more than a recipe for total stagnation (one need only think of the Guardians of the Universe from the DC comics or The Q from Star Trek to know the truth of that)