a rant

Please forgive me in this post for it is a rant and nothing but a rant. I hate Ockham’s razor with a hatred that cannot be described in English. Perhaps in Russian Mat but not in English. It’s like the catholic school teacher’s ruler against the dreamer’s knuckles. I suppose this is a strange thing for me to say considering that most physicists swear by it. But just think about it for a moment. Going with the simplest, least contrived answer kills one’s imagination and deadens the soul. Very much akin to Ockham’s razor is the set of philosophical ‘rules’ that debaters and intellects have used for centuries. We treat philosophical arguments like mathematical proofs. I like mathematical proofs; they are challenging and intriguing puzzles that one can solve in an afternoon’s time. But I hardly think the deepest mysteries of the universe should be treated so flippantly. We view the wonders of the universe and the questions which our mind raises in response to those, why, we treat the very existence of God as things to be tackles. We have no reverence or respect. We are out to conquer. And this disgusts me to no end. This is why I dislike philosophers so much! I cannot stand their arrogance and their brutal treatment of things like truth and self awareness. It’s as if they have been handed a new born child and after pondering it and examining it for a bit, declare that they have understood the miracle of life and promptly disregard the babe. And these people are regarded as intellectual giants. On the other hand those that do not hold to Ockham’s razor, those that do not abide by the rules of the philosophical world, those that would have the universe and the human mind be infinitely more complicated and beautiful than we could begin to grasp, those that ponder possibilities far outside of the ‘normal’ realm of possibility, those either keep their speculations to themselves or are labeled new age spiritualist or crackpots. How this makes my soul cringe. Why does everything have to be intellectually conquered? Why does everything have to straight forward? We assume we have the universe under out thumbs but in my opinion we understand a mere speck of the actual knowledge there is to behold and, also in my opinion, if this history has shown how the human race treats knowledge, we don’t deserve to get any more.