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Perhaps it may not be prudent to elaborate on such an illusive subject “Existential crisis” in contemporary society, at a time like the present, where almost all fellow human beings face a much more urgent and practical economic crisis. The situation worsens even when we realize that science has failed us. Exactly where is science when one is ponders the eternal riddles? Such as, how did the universe originate? How long has it been around? Did matter begin with an explosion or by the word of God? What do we mean when we say that man is mortal? Obviously it’s not a Compliment!

Put in its simplest form, the problem is How is it possible to find meaning in an infinite world?

When individuals in contemporary society are confronted by such “big” questions, the majority are left exposed to religious predators while a tiny minority that have gone through the machinery of higher education and personal metamorphosis through the torment of experience are trapped in their own definition of reality, a personal philosophy or that of their intellectual guardians (personal hero’s and heroines) a philosophy seemingly scientific, but highly likely to be infested by logical fallacies, which mostly stem from stereotypes, cultural biases and what have you?

Even the ones that exceptionally get it right have to finally give up their courageous purist, for reality by its sheer complexity and boundlessness surpasses any model a finite being can bear. It seems paralysis of analysis is almost always inescapable in the pursuit for the truth. However, our salvation depends on it! And lurking behind those down-to-earth economic questions lay the “big” questions demanding to be answered more than ever before!