Liebnez

Today as I read a book on famous philosophers, I came upon some piece of information that made me giggle.

"A world containing free will, and in consequence wrongdoing and evil, is better than a world in which free will does not exist; and that is the explanation of why a perfect God has crated a world in which there so so much evil."

Now, this made me happy because:
1) I believe this myself (in addition to further reasonings).
2) I came to this conclusion independently without any readings outside of the Bible.
3) The philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz came to this conclusion in the late 17th century.

Foundations 2

Knowledge

Can we take a part "knowledge" as a noun, a verb, as an orange, as a book (or more)?

Knowledge is information--and information we can definitely be split up and categorize. Indeed our entirety is based upon the differences and similarities between pieces of information, which leaves us with "definitions". Definitions describe things, they explain to us, and therefore give meaning (and thereby open up more unknowns) to us.

With each piece of information, with each definition, with each explanation and meaning, leaves us with another question and makes us aware of (yet another) gaps in our overall understanding of reality, of everything.

This is only temporarily true, assuming that the universe is (though massive) finite and therefore has finite amounts of definitions, meanings and connections.
One could say that in theory the human race could continue on into time, growing in means of understanding while gathering and comprehending each unit of information until all is "understood".
Except this is false, unless man is able to 1) become immortal and 2) stop reproducing. For with each human comes new unknowns, a mind that gives further complexity to the already unimaginably vast universe.
So to understand all, one would have to understand not only the physical universe but the universe of mind and knowledge.

Which brings us back to the idea and concept of knowledge.

Foundations 1

Still growing I have slowly become more aware of certain things.

Man can not be trusted.
Yet, man must be trusted and many must trust.

Man does not know how to love, to be loved, or even how to define it.
Yet, man must be loved and man must love.

Man has two inherent natures: to destroy and to create.
Often one nature takes the guise of the other.
This leads one to wonder whether different definitions and views of creation and destruction must be considered and changed.

What are definitions? Are they windows, captions and summaries of greater thing?
Their words evoke images that translated to certain fundemental meanings in our minds, but do we not miss, within the lines of the translation, the greater truth of the actual weight of the reality?

We live our lives, understanding snapshots of what we think is happening around us.
I'd like to take several panorama shots and compare notes to other photo albums.