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TRUTH OR BELIEF
Monday Aug. 8, 2016
Knowing is good, if we know – you know.
Ubiquitous data, interconnected repositories, search engine capacity, do we really need to guess at anything?
What we don’t know should be shrinking toward zero, eventually, nothing left to know because it will be all known, right?
Just as IBM executives once boast the world might only need one or two computers, just as Wal-Mart say they are reducing prices every day, zero is an approximation that will never be reached.
don’t know v. do know.
Which statement sounds better, smarter – which represents who we are, who we want to be, who we trust, who people want to follow [perhaps explains Trump]?
Certainty, approximating truth, or approximating belief?
Do we really know, or do we just believe we know?
As knowledge grows, ignorance should be shrinking – should it not?
P.S.: many thanks to everyone who wrote or called wishing me happy-birthday yesterday – your kind words and encouraging thoughts are appreciated
written / published from Calgary, AB
morning walk with Gusta: 14C/57F, overcast, light breeze – a fresh longer route found through familiar territory, morning traffic humming in August-mode …
Reader feedback:
PREPARED FOR THIS DAY
Happy birthday!!!!, DG, Edmonton, AB
Mark, I want to wish you a Happy Birthday! and enjoy your day, TA, Calgary, AB
Mused and amused … Happy Birthday, Mark. I hope I never catch up to you. Well, at least not this century., RH, Calgary, AB
Happy Birthday, Mark! I like your plan of left side/right side! Especially the part about leaving out all the big pains and failures... I may even take an action to create my own page!, MM, Phoenix, AZ
Mark, wishing you a fabulous 65th birthday! Enjoy your special day!, WS, Calgary, AB
Happy birthday Mark. Many Blessings are wish for you in the coming year, MC, Bottrel, AB
Hi Mark. Still following your writings with interest and this one struck a chord as I approach the same milestone. Living on Vancouver Island now and the pace here is slower even as the flight of times arrow seems to accelerate. Fitting more life in to less time bespeaks a sense of urgency that I can identify with. Perceived time speeds up in direct proportion to the number of minutes left on the meter before the last hurrah. Well, I had best get to it then, I suppose. Cheers!, DM, Ladysmith, BC
Happy Birthday Mark! Enjoy your day in the mountains and best wishes for the best year ever!, SM, Calgary, AB
I did not, but I should have! Happy Birthday!, DW, Chain Lakes, AB
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