We still haven't figure this out yet!

When I first read this prompt I was quite stunned by it because it is such a vague question. What I drew from it is just two things that I thought humans have not figured out yet. The two are, How was the World actually created? and What happens when you die.

These two questions are often asked because they are two things that drive the curiosity of humans. Ever since I was a child, I always wondered how the Earth was created, was it actually created by a God-like power or was it created based from everything randomly happening perfectly. The answer to this question may never be solved but do we actually want to know the true beginning of Earth? Everything in the world is already perfect how it is, there are different groups that are formed believing in their ways of how the world was created so why should we change it? The same goes for the second question people always wonder, What happens when you die? These questions are two that we still haven't figured out yet, but does figuring them out actually bring happiness to us? I think there is a reason why these haven't been figured out yet because if it was figured out, how could we express our imagination and thoughts as humans? Without these questions being solved, humanity keeps a curious mind, and with the questions being answered we lose the purpose of living and will just go through life as being born and dying.

How Do I Know What I Know?

How do I know what I know? That is a question I've never thought of asking myself. Sometimes the simplest things we take for granted and don't ever take a second to think about how we know how to do it. For example, walking, how do we know how to walk? We first learned how to walk at a young enough age where verbal instructions couldn't be fully comprehended, so therefore how do we know how to correctly walk? I think the answers to these questions are found within us.

Lets say walking for example, how did we learn how to walk if we didn't even know how to talk? I believe that we learned how to walk because we learn this task visually, as a child we just simply followed what our parents were doing, which was walking on two feet. The same goes for anything we learn, we know things based upon other's behaviors. Another example is learning, how do I know what I'm being taught is right? I truly don't know if what I'm learning is right but if everyone else agrees upon the same conclusion than it must be right.

As humans, I think how we know things is based on what we learn from others. The validity of knowledge is verified based on the more people that believe in the same thing. Humans are biologically created to follow what other humans do, and how we know things is simply by following what others think or do.

The Garden State

When I think of Garden State, I think of the nickname given to the state of New Jersey. However, in the story of Candide, the Garden State for them was the one community Candide and the rest of his pals finally decided to settle down in. As they wandered into yet another community in the story, the lifestyle of working hard on a farm and living a safe, distraction free life attracted Candide and his friends.

The Garden, unlike the many other communities Candide encountered was sort of a "getaway" from reality. Although one might argue that Eldurado was also a "getaway" from society and that it was safe from intruders, the idea of not being allowed to leave restricted them from their freedom. In the garden state, however, Candide and them would be free to do whatever they wished without a government enforcing upon them. Their livelihood would result in the hard work they conduct daily on their farm.