In the great scheme of things, where do we as humans rank?
Religion would tell us we are divine, or that because of divinity we exist.
Is this true?
I will suppose it to be a possibility, but in that supposition I have to think that a divinity would not rest the fate of the universe on one species or one single fate. I have to think divinity is more complex. Look at math for instance, or snowflakes for that matter; complexity, ever-changing never the same.
Ok so math tends to organize and explain those complexities, but it seems to be ever changing as well. I think if I were to consult an elite mathematician, I would be told that the quest of numbers and explaining the numbers never ends.
Yes there is finite. Our bodies give out and we cross the rainbow bridge to what’s next. (Definitely my simple explanation for what theologians, agnostics and atheists can argue for days.) But during our tenure, we are a complex species. But are we the most complex? Are we even the most important? Oh yes we give high weight to the importance of each life in our societies, but how does that factor in the solar system? The galaxy? The universe?
I don’t know. I do know the importance of the people I love. They are important to me. But getting back to the grand scheme of things. Humans as a species. Humans as a denizen of the universe. Are we more critical than the dinosaurs? Seriously. Are we?
I wonder. What does the earth, the sun, the other planets in the solar system, the other stars and planets of the galaxy and the universe, care about the human race? What does the universe care about earth? Does it matter to anyone but us, the inhabitants of the earth?
Don’t even attempt to answer that. You can’t. No one alive on earth can because all we know is our own little bubble here. So lets stick with what we know and try to answer the questions of how we survive.
We have a short history on this planet. But we have done a lot. We know this because we have a way to record our history that we can mostly understand. (I say it this way because the earth records her history as well and geologists speak that language. Astronomers speak the language of the cosmos, and mathematicians speak yet another language…) So we know our history and even though we know better, we like to repeat aspects of it.
We can’t help but get ourselves tangled into conflicts, that end up as, us versus them. However, we also have our better nature where we can be rather altruistic and caring. Again we are a complex species. We have so much potential with our ability to create, and I don’t just mean art and music type creating, but our ability to come together and create whole societies, nations and notions. The staggering amount of culture spread across the globe. Indeed, the way we worship deities, currency, nature … that list is long. Is it right or wrong? Ah moral compass. Its what we believe sets us apart from the rest of the known species, or does it? We think because we know the difference between right and wrong we are some how morally superior. But where does moral compass come from. Perhaps it is a survival mechanism? An intrinsic barometer which prevents us from completely destroying ourselves to ensure specie survival.
Look at the extinction of other species. I would say their inability to survive had everything to do with an inability to adapt to changing environmental circumstances. Some of those circumstances include human infestation, global warming or ice age, etc.
What is my point?
Well consider this. Perhaps the earth also has a mechanism to preserve?
We are in global warming. Caused by humans as near as we can tell. (I refuse to cite findings here because this is a total opinion piece so just following a rabbit hole in my head…) Anyhow, Could the earth not be in self protection mode? Getting out the pest control spray and going to town on the humans causing environmental disruption? Cull a percentage of the species causing trouble … reset the environment … move on? Now following that crazy ass logic, it fits that the earth can not protect itself from extinction, if the sun it orbits, elects to go supernova, but perhaps the earth watched Mars get destroyed by the species inhabiting it, took a lesson and said, “Not me, watch this…” Now mother earth is knocking back a few coronas … and will deal with the hangover in the morning, but for now she’ll lose a few humans …
I know this completely ridiculous, but then I think our response to this pandemic is bizarre and I needed some sort of outlet to wrap my head around it.
Humans are nuts. We freak out at the weirdest things. And we complicate freaking everything.
So while I am holed up in my apartment, rationing toilet paper and wondering why I didn’t get on the hoarding band wagon, I’ll escape to the stories in my head and emerge in fourteen days to see what’s left of the year 2020.
Religion would tell us we are divine, or that because of divinity we exist.
Is this true?
I will suppose it to be a possibility, but in that supposition I have to think that a divinity would not rest the fate of the universe on one species or one single fate. I have to think divinity is more complex. Look at math for instance, or snowflakes for that matter; complexity, ever-changing never the same.
Ok so math tends to organize and explain those complexities, but it seems to be ever changing as well. I think if I were to consult an elite mathematician, I would be told that the quest of numbers and explaining the numbers never ends.
Yes there is finite. Our bodies give out and we cross the rainbow bridge to what’s next. (Definitely my simple explanation for what theologians, agnostics and atheists can argue for days.) But during our tenure, we are a complex species. But are we the most complex? Are we even the most important? Oh yes we give high weight to the importance of each life in our societies, but how does that factor in the solar system? The galaxy? The universe?
I don’t know. I do know the importance of the people I love. They are important to me. But getting back to the grand scheme of things. Humans as a species. Humans as a denizen of the universe. Are we more critical than the dinosaurs? Seriously. Are we?
I wonder. What does the earth, the sun, the other planets in the solar system, the other stars and planets of the galaxy and the universe, care about the human race? What does the universe care about earth? Does it matter to anyone but us, the inhabitants of the earth?
Don’t even attempt to answer that. You can’t. No one alive on earth can because all we know is our own little bubble here. So lets stick with what we know and try to answer the questions of how we survive.
We have a short history on this planet. But we have done a lot. We know this because we have a way to record our history that we can mostly understand. (I say it this way because the earth records her history as well and geologists speak that language. Astronomers speak the language of the cosmos, and mathematicians speak yet another language…) So we know our history and even though we know better, we like to repeat aspects of it.
We can’t help but get ourselves tangled into conflicts, that end up as, us versus them. However, we also have our better nature where we can be rather altruistic and caring. Again we are a complex species. We have so much potential with our ability to create, and I don’t just mean art and music type creating, but our ability to come together and create whole societies, nations and notions. The staggering amount of culture spread across the globe. Indeed, the way we worship deities, currency, nature … that list is long. Is it right or wrong? Ah moral compass. Its what we believe sets us apart from the rest of the known species, or does it? We think because we know the difference between right and wrong we are some how morally superior. But where does moral compass come from. Perhaps it is a survival mechanism? An intrinsic barometer which prevents us from completely destroying ourselves to ensure specie survival.
Look at the extinction of other species. I would say their inability to survive had everything to do with an inability to adapt to changing environmental circumstances. Some of those circumstances include human infestation, global warming or ice age, etc.
What is my point?
Well consider this. Perhaps the earth also has a mechanism to preserve?
We are in global warming. Caused by humans as near as we can tell. (I refuse to cite findings here because this is a total opinion piece so just following a rabbit hole in my head…) Anyhow, Could the earth not be in self protection mode? Getting out the pest control spray and going to town on the humans causing environmental disruption? Cull a percentage of the species causing trouble … reset the environment … move on? Now following that crazy ass logic, it fits that the earth can not protect itself from extinction, if the sun it orbits, elects to go supernova, but perhaps the earth watched Mars get destroyed by the species inhabiting it, took a lesson and said, “Not me, watch this…” Now mother earth is knocking back a few coronas … and will deal with the hangover in the morning, but for now she’ll lose a few humans …
I know this completely ridiculous, but then I think our response to this pandemic is bizarre and I needed some sort of outlet to wrap my head around it.
Humans are nuts. We freak out at the weirdest things. And we complicate freaking everything.
So while I am holed up in my apartment, rationing toilet paper and wondering why I didn’t get on the hoarding band wagon, I’ll escape to the stories in my head and emerge in fourteen days to see what’s left of the year 2020.
