Life: Blink and you will miss it!

Human Society

 

Humans and the society we live in (if you are reading this you live in this society just like me) are seemingly bent on insisting and believing that we are the centre of the world.  I had a conversation with someone who insisted that humans are killing the world, even when I explained (although this person knew) that even if we destroy everything we think is the world, the physical planet will survive just like it has done for the billions of years before humans arrived on the scene like scientists have apparently proven. 

 

The planet might also continue to host life, although it might be different to what we understand it as now.  And interesting sayings like “if we don’t view it, it doesn’t exist” etc, are really saying we humans are so great and our purpose so determined that if we didn’t look at something it wouldn’t exist.  I don’t agree with that and take a very dim view that as a species we are damn lucky to be where we are and one day we/all living things/the entire earth will get knocked out of existence an there ain’t a damn thing anyone can do about it. 

 

We might think we are the centre, but the Earth is just a speck of almost nothing floating on a dust particle that’s stuck to the edge of a pimple on an elephants arse!  To get a good idea of this read A short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

 

Just because we are conscious (which is what??) and can communicate does not make us gods of our domains.  Even reading this is a waste of your time :P As is me writing it, yet you read and I write… why????

 

From Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, page 150-151

 

“Most people desperately desire to believe that they are part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result of random forces colliding.  Yet each time that they are given but one reason to doubt, a worm in the apple of the heart makes them turn away from the thousand proofs of the miraculous, whereupon they have a drunkard’s thirst for cynicism, and they feed upon despair as a starving man upon a loaf of bread”