Dr. Andrew Blade
In most theories on life, culture and worldview philosophers use a specific formula to explain everything that exists. In ancient Greek philosophy the theory was that everything is divided between the spiritual and the material world. Having dinner, making love and doing business were material while praying, singing and worshiping the gods was spiritual. This digotomie (two-sidedness) of the Greek worldview is very much alive in our day and age. People believe that sex, eating, drinking, smoking, dancing and playing cards are sinful, earthly or mere material and thinking about you soul, emotions, personality, purpose and future are spiritual and supreme and heavenly. Is it possible to understand life with all its complexities in one simple formula? Isn’t it true that the questions will always be more than the answers and that life is just to complicated and unique to be simplified by one silly formula?
How unique is life? How unique are we? How unique is my own situation and is it possible to understand my problems through your two-sided spectacles?
The human hand is a miracle. It has a total of 27 bones, 8 in the wrist, 5 across the palm and 14 in the fingers. There are only 206 bones in the human body and 54 of them are in the two human hands. That means that more than a quarter of the number of bones in our bodies are in our hands. The movements it can make are almost endless. So much so that a total language with all its nuances can be done by hand signs alone.
The human fingerprint is totally unique to such an extent that within all people in history, in our time and in the future there are not two alike. The combining tissue in our hands will cover a surface of four rugby fields if laid out. The Fibonacci ratio of 1.618, the so called golden ratio, follows through each section from the finger tips to the wrist. This proportion is not only in each human’s hand but throughout our whole body.
The hand movements are much faster than it takes the human brain to decide between two options. Since the hand can be formed in endless options the central nervous system predicts the best outcome of what would be necessary. The hand is too fast to work from the brain through the nervous system so the system guesses what would be necessary. A skilled typist’s brain would therefore have to predict and visualize 8 characters in advance before she strikes the keys. If you take this idea further to that of a gifted piano player you can just imagine what the human hand is capable of doing; striking the keys not only in the correct sequence but also with the exact time and measure of power between soft and louder strikes.
If you can imagine the uniqueness of each persons hand and if you could be able to understand the intricate differences between each hand in the history of mankind, you might be able to realize how unique each human being is. If this is the measure of uniqueness for something as small as the human hand; just try to imagine how unique our personalities are, how unique our souls are.
That brings me back to my earlier question. Is it possible to understand my problems through your two-sided spectacles? Can you possibly understand my unique genetics, upbringing, background, history and personality by applying your simplified theories of life and living to it? Whether you are using some kind of philosophical, medical, cultural, theological or psychological theory is not important; your theory, your simplified world view are to generelized and to shalow to understand me. No theory, academical or born in experience, is smart enough to understand me.
Therefore your one-sided idea of sexuality is inadequate; your two-sided idea of the sexes is over simplified; your three-sided idea of male + female gives children is stupid; your four-sided idea of children, parents, God and country is laughable and your five-sided idea of law, order, justice, politics and constitution is one big joke. You can not understand me, my personality, my sexuality or my relationship by counting on my five fucking fingers, because even they, my five fingers are more unique than you will ever be able to grasp.
Andrew Blade
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Taken from Andrew’s Column in
The Gayly Mail
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