My interpretation of Albert Knox's statement is that as people grow older, their capability to question the wonders of the world diminishes. I somewhat disagree with this statement.
Yes, in the early stages of life, we do question the world. We question who created it, who created us, how the world came to be. After this, we decide that we have question enough and fixate on an opinion - a religion or the Big Bang Theory. This is because we will never know for sure who created the world and how it came to be and instead of asking the question over again and going in circles, we settle with a view based on what we know.
Even though this is true, this does not mean we have lost the ability to question the world, but instead means we are comfortable with the fact that with the knowledge we are able to acquire about how we came to be, we are able to take a stance and no longer feel the need to question it anymore. This is because we have realized that with these questions come hours of pointless arguments with no facts and exact answers. We do not know who is right or wrong and therefore choose not to waste our breath arguing about it.
Proof that some people are still questioning how the world came to be is a society formed back in
I myself have wondered about the world too.
In conclusion, people do not lose the ability to wonder about the world, but they lose the energy to wonder and argue about the world as no one can be 100 percent true that their viewpoint is true and therefore settle with their own opinion based on what we know.
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"This is because we have realized that with these questions come hours of pointless arguments with no facts and exact answers. We do not know who is right or wrong and therefore choose not to waste our breath arguing about it"
Really? We give up so easily? I don't think it's so much a question of argument but as you say the "energy" to wonder. I still don't agree with you though... As human beings we will always be looking for the answer. How can we give so easily on an issue that is relevant to every human that has ever lived and every human that ever will? How many issues can you say are common to that amount of people? Besides from the basic necessities of life, this is it. Maybe we do wonder or question less with age, but I don't think that this is because we are tired. I mean not everyone has really exhausted their energy in this area of thought.
I feel that yes, in the back of our minds, the question will remain, but to talk about it constantly is not worth our energy, at least in my case. I would not waste my energy arguing about this anymore as there is no real proof as to how the world came to be as it is and therefore there is no right or wrong answer and people can argue about it for hours and hours.
Really? Its not worth our energy to contemplate perhaps the biggest question in your life? My life? Everybody elses? Nothing else can compare to the maginitude of these questions... So if we can't "waste" our energy on THE question... why use it on anything else?
So let us argue :) Let us agree to disagree. So what if we do not come to any sort of 'agreement' if in the process we learn so much about ourselves. Isn't that worth an argument?
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hahaha true true.
but I feel that I would not waste my energy on THESE questions unless someone out there has made a new discovery about the world.
In addition to this, stated before the quote you picked out i was suggesting the fact that we have argued about these questions before and now as we grow older, we dont lose the ABILITY to wonder about the world, but we instead do not feel the need to as we have argued about it before already and do not see the point in arguing about it OVER and OVER again because then it just gets boring and over done because people come up with the same facts and opinions. I mean, like i said before, if someone came up with something new, THEN i would discuss it.
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