Where do you live?

miércoles, octubre 05, 2011
This question was one of the many that we were asked in our last TOK lesson. For one part, the question at first sight seemed really easy as it was quite straightforward.However, as the question was asked even more in depth each time, the harder it seemed to get an exact answer. First off:

Where do you live?
A house. -.-
Where's that?
In the streets *insert streetnames here* such and such
Where's that?
In 'El Valle de Los Chillos'
Where's that?
In the outskirts of Quito
Where's that?
In the Province of Pichincha
Where's that?
In Ecuador
Where's that?
In South America
Where's that?
In planet Earth
Where's that?
In the solar system, just between Mars and Venus
Where's that?
In some part of the Milky Way
Where's that?
In the UNIVERSE... -.-
Where's that?
How AM I supposed to know?! O.O

So after a few turns the question got quite... mind riddling as it just could keep on going on forever. Not only that, but there would be different ways of facing this question depending on the backgrounds in which people are born into and the knowledge they have of the world around them and their place in the... universe, I guess *that sounded way too deep and astrological, but its true*. Anyhow, it was a rather intresting question to be asked, not only because we racked our brains thinking of it, but also because it really got me thinking if it would make any difference if I grew up in a place. In my opinion, it would make some difference in your life. Well, not some - more like a really big difference because of the different languages and cultures that are involved in these parts of the world. They have different ways of seeing themselves in relation to the world based on the beliefs that might have passed to them through the different family generations. In fact, this reminds me of how back in the times in which religion dictated most sciences it was thought that the world was actually in the center of the solar system - with the sun and all the other planets and stars spinning around us. The different knowledges they had about the world back then and their culture affected the way in which the saw themselves in the universe.

So conclude, personally because of the many things I've learnt from my family and from school itself I have my personal ideas of where I belong to in the... universe xD Yes, I'm from Quito, Ecuador - a relatively small but beautifully cultural country in the middle of the Northern/Southern hemispheres, at the north ends of South America, in planet Earth, between Venus and Mars in the solar system, somewhere in the vast Milky Way galaxy (only a few many light years away from Proxima Centauri - nearest star), somewhere in the vast, vast universe nearer to the Andromeda galaxy, in some place that is yet unknown to science and religion and that can only be speculated (because nobody really knows whats outside and they probably never will unless they investigate far more) - so then, who really knows?

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