Uncertainty and Thinking - 1

As I think about thinking I sometimes wish for certainty.  "Couldn't there be a few things we could be absolutely certain about?" I ponder.  The answer always comes back, "No."

I have come to believe that if we had some things that were certain, we would not need to think.  Many people approach religion this way.  They are certain of their god, their doctrine, their convictions and, for reasons of certainty, they stop thinking.  No more questions.  No more wondering (and no more wonder).  No more looking at things from a different angle. 

I recently purchased a new app for my iPad -- a game of physics.  We can, and must, spin our view of things around in order to shoot the blocks that crush the zombies effectively.  Different angles, different perspectives.  Even then, we are uncertain as to how it will play out.  And that is just a man-made computer game.

How much more thinking MUST be done about real life, real experiences of the transcendent, real quandaries?

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