Man of science

PurpleGlasses

A man of science

He calculates

He can't diverge

He doesn't have what it takes

 

The books they don't help him

For every anwser comes a question 

A never-ending road 

A never-ending venture

 

The uncertainties scare him 

He has to make sure

He tries to gather knowledge 

But it's all just a blur 

 

Easy answers, for complex topics

Hastly inject a sloppy anwser

How can they not worry? 

Their inprecision ? He hates it so purely 

 

He hates it so purely 

This has to stop

Learn to learn

These mindless bots

 

To miss a detail

Is to get it all wrong

Don't they understand ?

Don't they long ?

 

Long for knowledge

Long for the whole truth

To uncover the nature of nature

To have inexorable proof

 

The uncertainties devour him

He must make sure

He graspes knowledge 

 

-But it's still just a blur-

 

 

He knows to know nothing

That he can't dispute 

So many variables 

He cannot compute

 

He'll learn, in time

He'll get to it slow

The truth that truthfully matters

The truth no one knows

 

To err is to be human

It's a fate unkind

We'll never know the truth

The curtain we'll never unwind

 

So to be only slightly confused 

Is considered good 

You have done well

Just as we thought you would

 

In this grand comos undiscovered 

It's great to have a small peak 

Behind the truth that is a curtain 

Leave to us the rest of the burden

  • Author: PurpleGlasses (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 26th, 2023 18:53
  • Comment from author about the poem: "Pretty self explanatory right?" "Well, perhaps not in its entirety ?" "The hoped for anwser, was another question in disguise" "What do I do ? How do I summize ? "Wait for me I'll have it soon. The holy grail, conclusive proof" "One day I will, reach into the realm of the gods" "I will be All-knowing, no matter the cost" -The man of science
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  • L. B. Mek

    (devoid of humility
    all progression or dogmatic zeal
    regresses
    to a cyclical nullification, science
    is just the latest, victim)
    such a well crafted write, dear Poet
    impassioned yet taking breath
    to reason and argue with eloquence
    thanks for sharing, a great read

    • PurpleGlasses

      I see you too have read much about the Münchhausen Trilemma and it's implications on epistemology 🙂 What's your opinion on it ? I personally love Karl poppers take on this

      • L. B. Mek

        (please forgive my rambling below
        I rarely get a chance to converse with people
        who managed to keep an open mind
        while curating their path to wisdom
        if you find any of my feeble thoughts
        as contradictory or upsetting in any way
        I apologise in advance
        thank you for gifting me this opportunity to ramble
        and introducing me to the trilemma theory;
        the beauty of epistemology
        is in its capacity to inform, yet unravel
        all the wisdom we inherit, lol
        but what do i know)
        I'm sorry to disappoint dear poet
        my comments were made, ignorant
        of the Trilemma theory
        however after looking it up
        I agree with your siding of Karl's take, as it is line
        with my original thought on the necessity of humility
        for example, as much as I love Carl Jung
        I refute his archetype, generalisation's
        and their resultant assumptions of absolutism
        'pigeonholing' formula's or groupings
        'to fit' and simplify, equations and problems
        only insures our results, are even more skewed
        since our foundation preface is unsure, from the outset
        this is why, I have so much respect for what Bertrand Russell
        tried to achieve with his set theory and trying
        to lockdown the very basis for our understanding
        of maths, trying to anchor the foundations of numbers
        themselves
        such, zeal for verifying the minutia of our assumed
        knowledge, will only help strengthen
        future calculation and assumption based on that knowledge
        since every generation, questions
        yet only to argue against and disprove or improve
        on their previous generation's, knowledge
        rarely will they try to question the foundations
        of that knowledge
        ergo, the importance of humility
        we need to accept 1+1=2
        while questioning, what is 1 to begin with?
        then work our way back up
        ever ready and open minded, enough
        to accept knowledge, as something existing
        in its 'current' form, like Karl suggests
        never assuming, that knowledge
        is in it's 'absolute' form...


      • Paro

        bravo!



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