As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
— Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
To riff off Rummy, I've never subscribed to any religious notions too heavily because there is no possible way we could know what is out there. I actually believe more genuinely in a theory we discussed once over a science fiction book than any given theological philosophy.
We can’t know whats out there, and I don’t think we should propose end results here, having never been there. The idea that we’re still in human form on the other side is childish and short sighted.
If we can’t know through science how the universe came to be, and what birthed it, then how do we expect to know where we’re going?
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