What is it about baths, showers, etc that provide forums for thought? I mean Socrates had it, I have it...
Thinking some rather heavy thoughts; thoughts about the existance of God, mercy, evolution, existance...
Considering the egocentric perspective inherent in denying the existance of a God because a baby dies. When this occurs all the time in nature by the thousands all the time. As sea turtle young are consumed in the egg, after they hatch, before they even reach the sea... what makes us different? Our capacity to think? Hardly unique I'm afraid. Our capacity for compassion? Again, hardly something someone would consider unique in Man for anyone who has seen the animal mother of a her dead or sick infant...
So why should we assume because some God doesn't reach out a benevolent hand to save each and every one of us that there is no God?
It isn't as if we are the end all of the universe and creation. Without us, the universe may have lost something unique; there is no other race of humanity sprung from this earth. But the universe will go on.
We will be the only ones to lose out on what we might become, what we might evolve into. That is unless we stunt our own evolution, by twisting our environment to suit ourselves. By making it so we never have to change and adapt, because we compel the universe to change to suit us. And in doing so, we kill our own growth, our own future, our own potential. For what kind of evolution takes place in an environment without the need to change? None. Only stagnation exists in such an environment. And death.
In the absence of gravity, our muscles weaken, our bones become more brittle; things we do not need as much diminish.
In the absence of evolution, our race will diminish.
I'm not talking about evolution as in the survival of the fittest, but as in the overcoming of challenges. And overcoming a challenge does not mean taming, twisting, conquering something and bending it to our own will. A person who climbs a mountain, does not `defeat' the mountain.
As it is now, humanity is seeking to demolish the mountain, to put roads on the mountain, to control the mountain. But not to accept the inherent existance of the mountain and live with it.
Humanity needs to climb in order to grow.
Posted by hugin at September 7, 2002 07:02 PM