A better understanding of the UNIVERSE results in a better understanding of our place in it. You know, the things people have been trying to understand since the beginning of people. What is the sky and the stars and the sun and the planets and the space around them and where did they come from and now what and then what? Beyond the physics of the motherfuckers. Beyond the speculation of the motherfuckers. It is a futile gaze into the neverending. A fruitless search for something that is unfindable. It is too much for us. So, does a partial understanding result in a  partial understanding of our place in it. Sure. Is there a difference between all chaos with Erebus appearing from the void and  the Big Bang? No. The result is the same. A partial understanding of the unknown. You understand that something is there and if something is there then it came from somewhere so there must be an explanation of its origins. What that explanation is does not matter because its unverifiable. The result is the same: the sky and the stars and sun and the planets and the space around them exist. You and I will never see the big picture. Deal with it.

     A better understanding of the PLANET results in a better understanding of our place in it. You know, the things people have been trying to understand since the beginning of people. What is the earth and the plants and the animals and the elements and the space around them and where did they come from and now what and then what? This is much easier for us to understand. we can see it, we can feel it, we can taste it, we can hear it, we can smell it. Our little minds can wrap their grubby little fingers around it. Sort of. Do we fully understand it? No. We understand a tiny part of the big picture. Isolate an infinitesimal part of the whole and disect it. Tear it apart, classify it, and stick it in a book so that others can understand an infinitesimal part of the whole. The splintered parts are comforting, but never come together to complete the picture.  I can deal with that.

     A better understanding of the PEOPLE results in a better understanding of our place in it. You know, the things people have been trying to understand since the beginning of people. What is life and the mind and the body and the thoughts and the feelings and the space around them and where did they come from and now what and then what? This is the hardest thing for me to understand. It is the most accesible and fully unattainable. It is mine but I belong to it. The first piece of the puzzle. How do you understand anything else if you do not understand yourself? A futile gaze into the neverending.