Sunday, January 31, 2010

Life is complicated for many, and in a bid to simplify and break down life mysteries into bite sized portions, man has created this mysterious thing called logic. Steve terms logic as one of the things that he simply cannot fathom, hence the adjective "mysterious". Try formulating a formula or a theory that can fully explain anything in life, and chances are you are not thinking enough of possibilities or you have applied "logic" in an ideal world.

Allow Steve to explain using a simple analogy. One of the most basic mathematical equations would be 1 + 1. Most of us learnt this before we even fully mastered our mother tongue. We have always been told that 1 + 1 = 2. Correct? Wrong. In different contexts, this simple equation can yield different answers.

From a mathematical point of view, 1 + 1 is 2. Give a guy a beer and then you give him another beer, you get two beers. From a binary point of view, you put two 1s together, you get 11. Yet again, from a romantic point of view, when a man and a woman get together, they become one, i.e. 1 + 1 = 1. Taking this simple equation alone in different contexts, one gets different answers. Life is full of surprises and miracles, yet man has always tried to simplify everything using logic.

With a closed mind, how then can anyone fully understand anything in life? We cannot put life in a laboratory and sterile environment and then spin off some logical equation in a bid to understand it.

Life is simply much bigger than logic.

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