History

What is true and what is believed to be true?

Education have given us much knowledge we need to live the life that we should. What have we learnt in school? Or rather what have been taught in conventional schools all this while?

The world is ever changing because of technology, new discoveries are made every second of the day. What are we holding on that we believe to be true? Your answer might most probably be everything that is written in books of all disciplines, journals and archives, and also probably the newsprint or the World Wide Web. Everything we see we always believe to be true.

What if, the truth is all along known but hidden?
What if, the truth is something that cannot be seen?

Has anyone ever had even the slightest urge to question what seems to be hard fixed?
Has anyone ever thought that some things have been deliberately hidden from us?
Has anyone ever been through circumstances that cannot be explained by any knowledge?

If you even have the slightest experience of something out of the norm, it is actually an enlightenment. It depends on whether or not you accept it with open arms. It is an eye opener. It is the important turning point that the universe is trying to show you and it is entirely up to you to feel the importance of it. Nobody can force you. Nobody has the right to.

We have been led to believe in many things that only limits our mind. Do you know that the best way to achieve all that you want is not to have all the knowledge in the world but to have all the experience life has to teach you? How have you been brought up to believe? Is it safe to say that our parents have been telling us to study hard so that we can get a high paying job in future, to not have to worry about money anymore?

I know at least I have been told this way and so does many of my friends. And so, we believe that the only route to success is through education. If you flunk in your grades, you are doomed to becoming a low paid worker. There is no way you are going to have a career path that leads to fortune. There is no way of getting out of poverty. You definitely need to find a job that puts food on the table.

Do you know that some of the most renowned people in history are actually school dropouts? There is no need to go very far and deep in search of the people. Albert Einstein is certainly one very good example. He did not finish school not because he was a failure but is very much due to the non-agreement with the syllabus being taught in school.

If you do not do well in your grades, that does not mean you are not great. The reason is simple. The syllabus cannot explain to you all the questions you have in your head. Whatever that your mind is thinking, it is way beyond the understanding of the current education system. This is actually great. It is because of people who have different thoughts that the world can improve. It is because of people who act differently that makes diversity in the world that we live in. It is because of people who become different that can actually make the difference in the entire world. Just imagine if everyone is the same. How boring can life be?

Think of it this way. Education is good to have only if education is updated whenever there are new discoveries. All the artifacts that the modern people find should be told in schools. All the new experiments that the laboratory are doing should be taught in schools. All that is known to a few should be made known to the children in schools. They are the future and they should be given the privilege of such information so that they can continue the legacy of discovery.

With technology, new information is discovered everyday. Utilize true history to make the better future.

 

History is not a burden on the memory but and illumination of the soul.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (John Dalberg-Acton), English Catholic historian, 1834-1902

Language

What is the voice within?

We are so into everything that we have been led to understand so much that we have forgotten the fundamentals of life itself. When we were first born, everything was clear. The slightest movement means a whole lot more than just a movement. Life was simple.

What happened to ourselves? What made things seemingly so simple become a whole different story as time goes by?

Changes happen. Changes happen in all directions. We have been taught that there are three dimensions in our world. Thus come the very common phrase when everything seems to be not working for us… we are pulled from left right center. If you decipher carefully this phrase, it is just linear. Everything that we have been taught, our minds see as one single line, even though we learn so much in school that we live in a three dimensional world.

How do we pull ourselves out from such misleading phrases in life? Perhaps you would be thinking to make the dimensions yourself through the words that you use to phrase things differently. But then, the phrase will sound awkward… we are pulled horizontally vertically diagonally. These are very huge words to use when thinking of a situation we are in.

What is being described in our text books may be the knowledge that has been passed down through generations of scientific research. Parts of them may be true but a bulk of them still remain open to discussion, if we may. Mainstream history and science may not buy into any new ideas that do not fit into the existing journals. Whatever that is written seems to be hard fixed in the common people’s lives.

Why are we limiting ourselves into the theories of others?

We are all individuals. We are capable of having our own mindset. We have the power to influence ourselves to become our better selves. It is all in the mind. But there seems to be something missing out there. How do we actually do that?

Have you ever been in a room with a hundred people? When a person walks in, you can straightaway identify if the person is of caliber or not. That feeling is almost instantaneous. There is no explanation needed.

I remember a story told to me some years ago. An experiment done by a person of caliber to test if majority of the humans are depending on visual or seeing through their heart. The room is full. A man in suit walks in and the entire crowd cheered upon him thinking that he is the person of caliber that they are looking forward to listen to. And so the person did the entire presentation effectively. During the questions and answers session, a participant rose with a question that the person could not answer. Then, the person redirected to say that the answer is so simple, even my driver can answer it, pointing to another man that did not look like anyone important.

Our five senses love to play tricks on us, especially our eyes. Whatever we see we will think is the absolute truth. In actual fact, the man on stage was the driver while that uninteresting man sitting amongst the audience was the person everyone should look up to. Moral of the story is to always feel with your heart, not to let your five senses block the most important sixth sense in you.

Listen to yourself. Travel within to look deeper into what you are really looking for. What is the first question you ask yourself every single day? What is that question that you thought is not important and yet is shaping your life? What are you looking for?

Always ask questions. Even when the questions seem redundant. Even when the questions seem repeated. Even when the questions seem unimportant. What are we doing here? What is our purpose in this life? Are we really who we see everyday in the mirror? What is our destiny? Where do we come from? Which direction are we heading to? This world that we live in, is it really existent or it is all in our imagination?

No language can describe our life if we let go of all the barriers we have been setting up our entire lifetime.

 

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (Ludwig Wittgenstein), Austrian-British philosopher, 1889-1951

Knowledge

Knowledge means wisdom.

Is it really so?

A knowledgeable person is wise to a certain extent. Knowledge can be learnt, similarly to what we all are, knowledgeable. We went to school to study. We came out to society to work to gain experience. We surf the internet to get information. These are some of the ways we can increase our knowledge. With knowledge, we will know how to deal with certain things in life, certain situations that needs problem solving skills.

It is known to the world that everything can be learnt. How many do actually learn everything they need in order to get through this life we are in? What do we really need to learn?

We have been taught in schools all the subjects that are deemed important for the survival of the current world we are living in. What are they? Language? History? Geography? Mathematics? Science?

What does language got to do with life? Plenty. With language, we can communicate with each other properly without misinterpretation of the meaning. But how exactly will that fair if we are only learning one or two or even three languages when there are hundreds of different languages in the entire world? And that is excluding all the ancient languages that are no longer in use in the present day. Is there such a thing as universal language? Is there such a language whereby every single person in this world would understand no matter the native they are in? Is there such a language that allows us to communicate with other lives on earth; the plants and animals?

Why are we studying happenings of the past? This is in fact the most important subject we need to study but somehow whatever we have been taught may not be the truth at all. Evidence cannot lie but can always be hidden or excluded. When was the beginning of men? Where was the first civilization of humans? How did our ancestors manage to build megastructures that even modern technology cannot? How much are we learning from history? Is it just really just about the cold wars or the world wars? Or is it something bigger than that? How much do we really know about our past?

Geography probably the most interesting subject of all. It is studies of the earth and the earth is forever changing. Whether or not we can see it with our naked eyes, everything does change over time. There might be a stream here today but not anymore tomorrow. Our earth is a living planet and she makes subtle movements that effects our daily lives. Do you see cracks in your home? Some of these cracks are due to erosion. Some of these cracks are due to the earth’s crust movement. Slow movements create cracks. Large movements create earthquakes. It is as simple as that.

Mathematics can be complicated to many. It is not limited to only addition and subtraction. This is a subject we learn about numbers and numbers can bring many myths to light. We see numbers everywhere in our lives. Numbers are all written in our calendars. Numbers are what we see in our bank accounts. Numbers are the reason we have everything we have in our lives. Everything is one massive calculation. No matter how unwilling you are to see that everything is about numbers, we are living in a world filled with numbers because we are all using money to transact.

Science is one that permits us to see the future. What science is contributing to the world is inevitably the most important of all. This is the only subject that provides explanation to all there is and at the same time making every dream come true. Whatever we can dream of, science can make it happen. Have you ever had a vision of how your future looks like? There have been movies made upon dreams of the movie makers. This is made possible thanks to the invention of video equipment. Sometimes, we may even see real objects being created in real life for everyday use. This is science.

If you are great at all these subjects, does that make you a wise person?

All that we can learn is just knowledge, everything that seems important is broken down into digestible pieces. A wise person sees it as a whole.

 

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus, Renaissance-era scientist, 1473-1543