The principle of mystery is a simple emotion to define. It's that feeling you get between two gaps of knowledge on a progressing line. An example of this is the leap you make when you have the information of seeing and knowing that thing in the sky is flying object but cant identify what it is. Thats your mystery.

However, the inclusion of mystery into our emotive system is slowly being eradicated by the two core solutions that we currently base our entire existence on. These systems are fact and belief.

This is not another case in point to choose one side or another as to how we should live our lives or how our lives should be incorporated into a universe. The fact is that we have both these systems present in our universal existence and like it or not, you can have a balance if you choose.

There is more often than not a massive bias toward the wrong system in many areas of the social and personal structure of our everyday lives, yet we are still too often missing the underlying method to adopting one or both of these systems.

We usually adopt a system of fact when we drive a car. We know that we need to change gears to affect our direction and speed, we know that we have to react a specific way during signal changes, road conditions, the behaviour of other drivers.

Yet when we approach a situation using the system of belief we allow the facts to become secondary to what makes us feel more like ourselves. Lets take vanity, while the fact is that my muscular system has increased in size due to lifting weights, I have adopted the belief system that I will become more appealing to a certain type of woman. What I neglected to mention here was that I might now have a ripped set of calf muscles that a woman wont see because I wont be wearing shorts, but I believe she might just sense it.

I dont need to explain further for you to understand the dilemmas of both systems, either through fact or belief.

As each of these systems interact with each other on a daily basis we come up against the social conflict of fact, or in the socially accepted definition, science, and belief, again the socially accepted definition being religion.

Thus the never ending debate continues, science vs religion, belief vs fact.

The flaw in both these systems is that they are not coming from a "universal" textbook, they are only coming from the "planet earth" edition.

To even begin to find a balance we must be able to fairly approach both systems in a way to place their inherent purposes on a level playing field. This leads me to a question that can hopefully, at least, start to accurately categorise both systems in a way that understands and respects each others already present existence.

Do we need the system of belief in order for us to find the nature of our existence?

My first example is to approach us needing to remove belief from something. In this case removing the emotional, intellectual and sensory response to the number 666. It is now just the number 6, repeated three times. In mathematics it represents the number six hundred and sixty six. Thats it. Thats all it is.

As a more popular example. The meaning of life according Deep Thought is 42. Maybe the question is the problem.

Are we automatically tainting our line of questioning as soon as we use any form personal belief in asking the question?

Trying to use a system of fact to formulate a question that needs to be asked with a system of belief is part of the quandry.

So this finally gives rise to us somehow having to combine the two to ask the right questions. In other words, we have to aknowledge that the two might just need to co-exist in a subnet system.

Science and Belief together at last for a real purpose?

42.

By Cameron Solnordal

Cameron Solnordal is a Melbourne based Writer, Director and Artist.

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