Chicken or the Egg?

Eggs.. What an odd subject. One might ask “How exactly do Egg’s play any role in our life? They’re only a small portion of the whole world. And why even make a big deal of them?” To be honest, it could be looked at in either way. Eggs could be looked at as a huge portion of our life. I mean, we all came from eggs right? There’s no way for humans to reproduce without an egg. So really, even though eggs might be portrayed as a really weird and uncanny topic to debate on. However if you look at it even further there really is a huge portion of it within our daily lives. There had to have been a reason for God to have put eggs on the earth, I don’t think that God the “Almighty” would’ve put something on the Earth for no particular reason. There had to have been some reason for it.

What came first, the Chicken? or the Egg? This question has been asked for what must be thousands of years. Ever since human learned to philosophize. Why was it the chicken? Some say that through evolution some how the chicken came to be through maybe some weird dinosaur that we have yet to discover. Why was it the Egg? Maybe because the dinosaurs have always layed eggs, so maybe somewhere a long the line it just so happened that a baby chick popped it’s head out of the egg shell. In my mind, if you philosophize more on the subject. I think that it must’ve been neither, I think that it must’ve been the idea of the “Chicken and Egg” question that came to be at first. God or Buddha or Muhammad must’ve planned it at some time many many years ago. Or maybe all of them did. I have debated on this subject numerous times, and especially after reading Sophie’s World. Jostein Gaarder mentioned that not only did he mention that he believed maybe the idea came first, but he explained it graciously so that I now have a greater understanding of it.

To be or not to be? That is not the question, we must not conclude the task before we have found for sure evidence. It is a lot harder to go about solving a mystery, or solving a personal problem without specifying exactly what when and where the mishap occured. I have always not been very fond of people who assume, before they think twice. To examine all that has been, and all that will be is the greatest talent that any human being can portray. Everyone has looked at a topic, and either decided not to bother and to move on because maybe it was “too challenging” but we must take the facts and ideas seriously, and percieve them in greater ways then we have ever imagined. I’ve always been known to philosophize a little bit, to some people it might be considered a lot. However, like Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”. Yet, so many individuals that I know have decided to completely ignore the topic all together, and consider it to be way to hard to even acknowledge.

Which is exactly how most people look at the “Chicken vs. Egg” factor. Either we philosophize, and look at it in every way imagineable or we give up completely because we feel it is a topic our minds cannot ratify. Without these questions however, I think life would be a lot less interesting. We never would’ve discovered most of our inventions that we have today. If human never philosophized, life would really not be worth living. We wouldn’t even have our basic needs, we would percieve those basic needs as something we don’t even need to survive. It’s an interesting way to percieve it, but it is very much the truth. Nothing would be the same as it is today, we would all believe we know exactly what we do whenever we do it. I really am glad that I can consider myself a bit of an idealist myself, Everybody in someway is an idealist. Further and further, we look into the depths of the human mind every day. Nothing would be in existence if we didn’t look further into what has, and what will be.