I wonder why there are STDs? No one’s born with it, right?
So it’s like a parcel that’s being passed around once people pass puberty, and it just carries on through the ages?
Who’s the first person who ever got STD?
Why isnt’ STD extinct by now; one would think with all the advanced medical science, we would have eradicated the simpler STDs by now, just as we have eradicated some of the other ancient diseases.
And how did AIDS come to be? Was it really due to a monkey experiment gone wrong?
Maybe STDs are just diseases that are very easily transmitted through sex. That’s why they’ve prevailed for so long. And there’s a whole lot of sex going on.
Time and again, I’m shocked by my own ignorance about simple facts and truths.
Things that obscure the truth:
- political correctness
- falsehoods preached as truth, “for our own good”
- truths too difficult for us to understand, so dumbed down
- my own foolish expectation for truths to be simple
- my own foolish expectations that someone in authority ‘knows it all’
- lack of sufficient curiosity to do my own research
- complacency
- assumption that one is sufficiently educated
We seem to be especially susceptible to people in white coats. I’ve noticed that reputable pharmacies get their pharmacists to wear long white coats. We think that doctors know it all. Same probably goes for lawyers, politicians, reputable bloggers, newspapers, you name it.
For religion
1. Religion helps to cement society. Especially for a nation like Singapore, with hardly any history and not much cultural roots, it provides a reason for people to be united.
Against religion
1. We’re stressed enough having to listen to the State without the need for an additional voice to have to listen to. And what happens when the 2 clash? Who should we ultimately obey?
2. It encourages wishful thinking.
Can some religions survive the onslaught of science?
Especially religions that hold on to creation myths.
With the advance of medical science, evolution has become an incontrovertible part of science. DNA is everywhere, and DNA evidence points to the fact that we’re all the sons and daughters of a long process of evolution, that we’re primates, though a highly advanced form.
It’s no longer tenable to hold on to creation tales which say we were made from dust, that the whole world was created in 6 days.
There’s a good question that I used to ponder over but gave up on. Why are there universal laws that all matter obey? Law of gravity, etc. Why is there order in the universe instead of chaos? Why don’t things just fall apart? Instead we see them coming together in an ordered fashion, and are able to work together for a, supposedly, specific function. Such as the cells in our body.
2 questions plaque the human mind, resulting in ‘faith’:
1.Why is there something rather than nothing?
2. Why do things seem to work together in an ordered fashion, resulting in intelligent objects such as ourselves? How can intelligence arise from non-intelligence?
Since there are intelligent objects such as ourselves, perhaps there is an intelligent designer somewhere out there?
