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What for?

What for do humans understand? This is a central matter in my thought. And what is it meant for, that humans have the ability to understand? That is a logical next question. Those who want to understand have a logical reason to get their attention directed towards these questions. In this perspective it is logical that humans can understand about what they are, and not decide over what they are.

To put these thoughts in a context that focus on what it is that decides in our world, I next will focus on some simple examples to compare with. The plants have their roots to grow up from the ground. The fishes have their fins to swim in the water. The animals have their legs to walk on the earth. The birds have their wings to fly in the air. And the humans have their ability to understand to understand in the world. These things are so simple or so advanced for the humans, as the humans have developed their abilities to understand.

The motive for this text is to call attention to that humans can understand much more than they can decide over, and that the humans' greatest power and most important opportunity is to understand.

Those who do not understand enough before they do something, do not understand what they are doing, and do not understand anything of what they have done. And such a behavior occupies no human power. It is human power which is the humans' constructive power.

And again, what for do humans understand? It must be because we shall do constructive good things with abilities we have got to do more with than to low, baa, and cackle, which also are three other language forms that humans can understand something about.

November 3, 2004, David H. Hegg