In the obscure and ethereal dimension of our inner consciousness,, it is not unusual to ruminate on metaphysical reality in the inner search for answers to ubiquitous phenomena. There are presenting questions that are acceptably answered, and other subject matter obscurely unattainable, Among the commonly identified dilemmas, is for example, the so-called conundrum as to “which came first, the chicken or the egg?’ This question, proffered as a dilemma, is nevertheless, logically answerable; we solved the so-called mystery as young high school students. The egg came first, laid by the creature immediately preceding the chicken’s appearance in the course of the developing dynamics of Natural Evolution; viz., the hatched egg was the first chicken.
The “Riddle of the Sphinx” appearing in the classic Greek literature, was solved, metaphorically, centuries ago. The challenging question “What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?’ was revealed to represent “Man,” who crawls on all fours in his infancy, walks with two legs as a man and requires a cane (the third leg) at old age.
By contrast, there are questions considered for which acceptable answers, disturbingly, elude us, despite continuous efforts, There, conceivably, are a full plethora of such disturbing subjects, agonizingly unanswerable for others; but for us, the singular and prevailing issue is the dynamics and practical definition of the directional designation, “Up.” We will elucidate our eternal difficulty.
We, affirmatively understand the systemics of the directional word (“up”) as designating the vertical direction or comparative venue as contrasted with another chosen position; we have little problem with the spatial conception intrinsic to the comparative or directional word per se; what we do find agonizingly elusive is the specific application of the directional observation as applied in the context of empirical gravity. May we explain.
It is universally understood that our planet is configured in the shape of a huge ball; i.e,, round. Looking at a modeled configuration of the Earth, one can obviously and irrefutably observe that, for example, the Northern Hemisphere is observed to be above the Southern. It is incontrovertible that when Man stands on the ground in his own hemisphere, say, the Northern portion of the round global apparition, his feet necessarily are planted downward, i,e,. on the ground surface. It would empirically follow, by necessary geometric observation that the bottoms of his feet are located at a venue, necessarily pointing downward towards the conjoining Southern half of the planet. He is, without question, “Standing Up.” Let us now envision an individual standing, fully erect at his respective venue in the Southern portion of the planet, his feet also simultaneously on the surface of his ambient ground. He too, is “Standing Up.”
If we return, for convenient comparison, to the identical, mechanical configuration of our global planet, it follows, as night follows day, that both members of the species, Homo Sapiens, are, definitionally and geometrically, standing “Up” but miraculously. the soles of their respective feet are mutually facing each other, footprint to footprint. How, conceivably and empirically, can they both be standing ” up” yet simultaneously facing in opposite directions? Among the variety of our disturbing ruminations, this paradoxical conundrum remains, agonizingly, inexplicable.
Another disturbingly unanswerable, but objectively conscious, question is how is it possible that freedom-loving voters chose to elect a pathological tyrant to the American Presidency. We are at least. comfortably assured in our understanding, however, that such an undesirable event, pragmatically and philosophically can easily be understood and directionally identified, as moving, “Downward.”
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