onder the amount of effort it took in order for the orange to be there. For instance, they had to pay the farmer who planted the seed, the workers who picked them, pay for water to clean them, pay the trucker to ship them, etc, etc. How much did all of that cost? Now lets look at the world this way. I get up out of bed everyday, go to class, do homework, and study. These are my obligations. Why do I do it? At face value, I do it because my parents want me too, because they are paying, because this degree will pay off, because it will help me get a good job, the job will get me money, the money will help get my children to school, so that they can get a degree. This is an ongoing cycle. If we step out of ourselves for a moment and look at the human situation form a distance, through a telescope, how does it look? Are we slaves to a greater purpose? Or are we the masters of our own destiny? If there a greater force that controls us, who we work for? Perhaps we are part of an experiment called “What will all these people do once they have exhausted every resource they need to survive?” These are all philosophic questions I wonder everyday. The study of philosophy is not only questions, but it is what many people think but do not say. They do not say it because they feel that philosophy is a sin, that if they study it, or voice their opinions, they will be renouncing another set of beliefs. I believe in Catholicism, but that does not keep me from asking questions. I do not presume to know, for example, how the universe was created, nor do I believe it was created in 7 days. Philosophy is a set of ideas, of other possibilities, and anything can be possible. This, to me, is progress. Progress is letting our minds expand to new and unimaginable possibilities. One possibility I have always considered about the universe is that we are part of an atom of a larger world. When we look at an atom, we see that it has a center, or nucleus,...
