"The Meaning of Life"..?

So, heya!

As I said earlier, I will now tell you all about what I did last night (other than falling asleep on my textbook. xP).

So. I'm pretty sure I've told you about the morning, so, (its soooo much fun to eavesdrop. Especially when the people are enthusiastic and are talking about a topic that is interesting to me and when they know less about Japanese than I do. xPPPP but I digress) I will start with after lunch.

So, I went to MATH class with KC. KL was not there as usual. xP We got our tests back. I don't usually study very much for calculus, so I end up having to logically find the answer, which ends up working because it is straightforward if you get it.

We then had a MATH class about integrals, which we (or at least I) had just learned in the tutorial because our TA doesn't go to our classes, so she just goes over what she thinks we have learned so far, which is not at all how far we've gone because my teacher was sick last week and we are kinda getting behind... xP

Anyways, after that I would normally run off to my CHEM lab. As you know, I did. Just not to do a lab, but to hand one in. After that I went to the Minto Center because I usually just hang out in the area of my next class when I have spare time even if the next class is hours away (except for Wednesday. I do not hang out at St. Pats the whole day.... no thanks... xP).

So, I was in the Minto center waiting 3 hours for my FILM class when AL appears as if out of nowhere. I had been studying, kinda, but not really when she appeared. She had a Philosophy class at 4:00 until 5:30. So I went with her after having a very quick breifing on what the class has been like. Apparently the teacher is quite a character "DM is in love with Susan Wolf. But not erotically" is one example of how some things he says can end up describing him in a humerous way.

So, when we entered the room we ended up sitting in the second row. I feel that if you are going to audit a class you should 1. go to a BIG class so you can just blend in 2. you should sit a good distance away from the prof, just in case and 3. the class should not be at the same time as another one of your actual classes. Only the second number was not followed, but I accounted for this by pretending to take notes the whole class. XP. I was actually just studying for Bio, but eventually I did take a few notes because the topic was quite interesting and I could relate to it.

The lecture was mainly about this book that some guy named Klemke had written about his view of the meaning of life. There was a general overview of the points made by the author and a general discussion to understand what he was talking about and the other views associated with the topic, to avoid bias. Klemke had three main topics that point to a God: religious experience, classical arguments and something else (I don't remember what... xP)[AL says it is Religious Scripture]. Yesterday's lecture was mainly focused around a classical argument: The teleological argument.

Teleology (a summary):
Point 1- A high degree of order and complexity manifests design/purpose
Point 2- The natural world has a high degree of order and complexity.
Conclusion 1- The natural world manifests design/purpose
Point 3- If something manifests design/purpose, it must have a designer/purposer.
Conclusion 2- The natural world had a designer ie God.

Honestly, being in science and liking nature, I end up in awe of it all. Like, the central nervous system makes absolutely NO SENSE! How in the world can a few electric signals store memories or thoughts..? How can feelings, emotions, thinking come from electricity..?

Where did the stars come from..? And don't say the big bang, because then I will ask, where that came from. "Energy cannot be created or destroyed." First law of thermodynamics basically says that creation is impossible. It had to start somewhere right..?

Modern 'theories' of evolution start with some elements that just happen to make something a bit more complicated. A few of them then just happen to end up in the same place within the time that the slightly more complicated thing has to exist before it breaks down. The idea of entropy does not like random things happening.

What originally made RNA copy itself..? Ribozymes..? Why did the ribozyme 'want to'..? It can't want something. Its a few elements put together.

It doesn't make sense.

All that to say, the deeper you go in science, sure you 'solve' some things, but only to find more difficult problems. People were satisfied with elements. Then they found atoms. Then they found protons, electrons, neutrons. Now they keep looking even deeper. It's not going to solve anything... Just make things more complicated and at the same time, more ordered.

I don't see an answer. Except for one.

Klemke however did not see the way I do. He found all of the 'evidence' too subjective saying that they were really not good arguments, basically. If he were to fall into a pit and just happen to be caught by a rosebush hanging above a dragon and the bush is starting to fall, but he saw the rose he would find contentment in that. The meaning of life is based on your attitude is what I wrote down.

I may audit philosophy a few more times. It seemed interesting.

Ya. I'll talk to you guys later I guess.

おやすみ。

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