Why Not All Around?

Why Not All Around?

            There once was a woman who, when posed with the question “What holds our world up? In other words, what does Earth sit upon?”, answered “What a silly question. A turtle of course.” In hopes of gaining some sense of enlightenment, the man then asks, “What do you suppose supports this turtle?” to which the woman replies “Don’t you know? It’s turtles all the way down.” The woman is completely satisfied with the answer she has given. The man is more or less content with this new philosophy he has received. They both get on with their lives.

            Now, being that we are all philosophers, it is not enough for us to simply ‘get on with our lives’. A philosophy has been produced. There must be another to experience a collision or an integration of some sort. In that case, let us cultivate this tract of thought and bask in what our labor begets.

            If there are turtles ‘all the way down’, why not ‘all around’? To expand upon this point, we must first fully comprehend this tower of turtles. At the top of this tower you have the upper-most turtle. The Earth, in this sense, is flat and sits upon the shell of this top turtle. Below this turtle is a bigger turtle with a shell big enough to support this top turtle. Below that turtle is one bigger still. The tower continues thus forever downward. Above this tower of turtles is a source of light from witch the Earth gets its solar energy- a sun. With that being said, one begins to wonder how the top turtle came to be the top turtle. For that matter, why is the fifty-third turtle the fifty-third and not the fifty-fifth? It gets a little hard to explain, this tower theory. There must be a better way for these turtles to be. There is.

            (Better Way to Be coming soon)