Cultures And Group Users?

Is the reality we know a reality imposed to us by nature? Is the reality and the meaning of life a creation of men, such as music, or love or colors (science tells us that there isn't such things as music, harmony or colors in the physic world. Just traveling molecules: «There is not, external to us, hot or cold, but only different velocities of molecules; there aren’t sounds, callings, harmonies, but just variations in the pressure of the air; there aren’t colours, or light, just electro-magnetic waves», said H. Von Foerster.).

Are we - and all living beings - just «survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes», as Richard Dawkins states? Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature?

Is there any significance for life in a Universe of billions of stars that ignore us? Is there any significance for life in an Universe whose dimensions and nature overcome our understanding?

Listen to the words of Pascal, in the seventeenth century:

«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity that lies before and after it, when I consider the little space I fill and I see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I rest frightened, and astonished, for there is no reason why I should be here rather than there. Why now rather than then? Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time have been ascribed to me?»
 
Not under 18. Never had that happen. Oh, one time in '97 I noticed a blonde male walking towards me, thought he might be cute but turned away VERY quickly because he looked about 14 yrs. old. The 14 year old turned out to be Leonardo DiCaprio, who was actually 23. Good thing I turned back. True story and I'll leave it at that.

MASSA JONES, will you change the wig on your avatar? Thanks.
 
yaaaaaa, but that don't mean that I wanna SMACK IT with MILEY CYRUS....

I've known too many "older" guys who have got in trouble and I know one that is still in PRISON cuz he was putting his 7 year-old niece on his lap (and bouncing her around...a bit)...

YOU'VE JUST GOTTA KNOW the TRUE MEANING of RIGHT...and WRONG!
 
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