{"id":4264,"date":"2014-12-05T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2014-12-05T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:00:46","slug":"i-know-what-but-not-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/i-know-what-but-not-why\/","title":{"rendered":"I know What, but not Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are incredibly arrogant. They think that all they need do is shake their head in scorn at anything they don&#8217;t understand, or for which no scientific explanation exists, make some derisive comment, ignore their intuition, and their vision of a world in which they are in absolute control of their own destiny remains safe.<\/p>\n<p>Which is precisely what many do when it comes to questions about the moon. That something so far away can have such a dramatic impact on the behavior of so many\u00a0 simply boggles their minds. It casts a veil of doubt on their safe little view of reality. Sadly such close minded people are often able to impose their narrow minded thinking on their children.<\/p>\n<p>The moon&#8230; it hovers overhead, held in place by a force scientists explained through the use of created mathematical formulae.\u00a0 Gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Yet no one truly understands what gravity actually is.<\/p>\n<p>Forget about the apparent fact that gravity exists, and tell me why gravity exists.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t need to tell me what gravity is, I know.\u00a0 What I don&#8217;t know, is why gravity is.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve accomplished that, which you&#8217;ll never manage, I\u2019d like you to reconsider this imprecise sentence. You\u2019ll notice an assertion about another non-specific, namely time itself.\u00a0 Which will then become your next topic of research.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really appreciate you explaining why Time is.\u00a0 But in the matter of time, let me be the first to admit I don&#8217;t even know what it is, even though it still controls every aspect of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Why did I write this post?\u00a0 Because for the last few days I&#8217;ve been angry and miserable.\u00a0 But I didn&#8217;t know why until someone called me on it.\u00a0 On impulse, I looked up <a href=\"http:\/\/lunaf.com\/english\/live-data\/moon-phase\/\">the current phase of the moon<\/a>.\u00a0 I know what I did, and what I found, but I still don&#8217;t know why.<\/p>\n<p>I fear modern humanity has already lost more knowledge than it will ever gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are incredibly arrogant. They think that all they need do is shake their head in scorn at anything they don&#8217;t understand, or for which no scientific explanation exists, make some derisive comment, ignore their intuition, and their vision of a world in which they are in absolute control of their own destiny remains safe. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}