Oversimplfying the universe

"Some things are better left in a box." Claims Pandora in a recent interview. A close up video shot reveals a box labeled "Mysteries of the Universe"

The university campus is a place that feels like a step up from the old fashioned library because the books talk and we call them professors. I loved collwge, but recall often thinking, "It is something that I could do on my own." Until, I had a teacher who taught one thing but assigned a text to read, I had supposed it supported her lecture, but to the contrary, it conflicted to the point my education was causing confusion and I had to ask which was the way we were to learn. The answer upset me, she said that we would be graded on what she had taught and her lecture would be tested, but that seemed a silly thing when we were obviously not all present for her lecture.

It was then, I picked up on a trait never before noticed of teachers to make their subjects seem so valuable and mysterious that one needed them to explain it or make sense of it.

In Algebra class, I rarely paid attention because what was being taught was what I considered commin sense, then I ended up with poor grades because I had jot shown how I reached the answers. I actually had, but they way I rwached the answers was not the way taught!

I could go on and on giving examples of how mysteries were actually being created out of plain things to make an understanding of them necessary through that oarticular teacher.

Sort of unrelated, another teacher I had claimed to not be able to read my handwriting. He claimed it was probably because I had a different penmenship teacher. I noticed that my children are taught a different way to form their letters than the way I make mine...Now, I often type things if I feel they need to communicate something.

Ok, I am drifting off topic. Time to course correct.

Too often, things are explained and diseminated from a source that likely had no right or authority to explain that mystery and according to me, it is wrong. I see conflict coming from the understanding of a mystery and so, too often, things are better left as a mystery. I recently read a comment where someone claimed the Bible to loose all reliability or credibility because the very same passage (meant to unravel and explain a mystery )was interpretted to mean such different things that they ended up oppsing one another. I have a first hand experience with this.

There is a scripture that warns to be aware of false prophets. At a Bible Study group the teacher started "Mormon bashing" making a veiled comment about how it was fortunate that they did not have any prophets, unlike another church whom the Bible CLEARLY warns us about. Then at a Mormon church the same passage was quoted as a source for the acceptance of the things as set forth by the LDS church because if we had been warned to watch out for false prophets then there needed to be true prophets or why mention them at all. So, a simple truth which is a tad mysterious to us is explained to fit whichever agenda suits the situation.

My conclusion is that it is Good to aquire wisdom but, the source must be standardized in interpretqtion or else truth cannot be common...ah, side track to a book I read as a teen called, "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles. I honestly do not know where it came from or why I read it, maybe fancy. It is a mystery!