Opening The Sky

Conversation 1
10 yr old ME : Why are there clouds in the sky?

My Very Intelligent Uncle : They're there to block the outer space from view.

10 yr old ME : ... ... ... ... ... ... ...


Conversation 2
23 yr old ME: The universe is so vast... There's so much out there that we can't possibly visualise and explain... Mother Nature is amazing... Humans are so minute...

A helpful Friend: That's where religion comes in...

23 yr old ME: ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Conversation 3
16 yr old kid : Master Choco... What's beyond our atmosphere? You mean there's something outside Earth?

Master Choco: ... ... ... ... ... ... ...



When I was much younger, when I was in Pri 4 or so, I started to read about how small cells are in living bodies... that there are planets revolving around the sun, that Earth might be the only planet that has life forms... that there is boundless space beyond the solar system that we can't even see...

And I began to wonder if Earth is just a small cell in a massive living body... I began to wonder if this boundless space is like the blood stream of another bigger body... flowing and moving about... And maybe this bigger body is yet also part of another even larger body...

So I've already developed this concept of space and relativeness at a very young age...

I liked the movie Contact and the ending of MIB... after the credits of MIB, the scene was a shot with the camera zooming out from Earth and all the way accelerating in the zooming out speed till it came to a scene of some aliens playing marbles... Earth was somewhere inside this marble...

I liked the idea that humans are still way too small to even know the real 'truth'... When I was younger, nobody around me was thinking about such things, so I thought I was crazy. But as I grew older, and packed my brains with more stuff, I realised I'm not alone in such thoughts...

My life view (which is potentially highly debatable) is that we humans are still too minute to understand the universe we are part of... But being humans, we cannot live with too much uncertainties and vagueness... Hence, come philosophies and religions... They play a major role in the development of human civilsation, and the world we see today justifies this role...

But we must also realise that history was written by victors of wars and conflicts... What we are taught and told that are the absolute truth today, are what the victors want us to know... For whatever reasons histories were written the way they were written, it is not at all difficult to understand why too... Whoever was in charged needed the people to obey and be controlled... Truths had to be made to suit the needs of the ruler... In the hands of rulers who needed to change history to stay in power, history was then re-written... in other words, it's propaganda...

I know what I suggest may not go down well with many people, but I feel that many 'absolute truths' that people are propagating in the world today are open to interpretations... It's human interpretations of so called 'truths'...

I do not deny that there are lots of good things that we should value in many teachings in life, simply because that's the social norm and are widely accepted... What I detest is when I see people/ organisations propagating some 'truths' for the sake of keeping the whole package of 'truths'... in other words, they can't explain why some 'truths' were thought to be so... But because they've whole-heartedly accept the whole package, everything that comes within the packaging, good or questionable, is accepted...

I shot the above photo during the fireworks show... If we could just open up the sky with the beam of lights, what' would we see? We need a filter in our mind to make sense out of the many things that don't make sense of in life... But are we prepared to see what we have yet to see? What would we see, if skies could be opened?