Jumping the Hurdle

A thanks to my friend Snaildarter for slapping some sense back into me. He said all we have to do is rise above our animalism. Here is his quote:

I agree mostly, but we have become technologically advanced enough to step out of the animal mode and move toward achieving our mis-named name homo sapien "wise man" or "thinking man."

I'm really feeling like an ATHEIST tonight because I'm realizing that life is not such a miracle after all. As the Earth was forming there were trillions of little experiments going on at once. And these trillions of experiments took place for a couple of billion years, so it's no surprise that eventually mass would form into complex formations and make that leap into "life." And once that one little spark was finally created there was no turning back - life began to explode, develop, and become more complex. Humans are the inevitable result of evolution. It was only a matter of time before one creature would evolve to the point where it could begin controlling the world around it.

I mean, it's really amazing to think that things like eyes and memory could evolve from a pool of primordial stew. Evolution inevitably creates more and more complex life formations. This process continues until a formation is so complex that it has the ability to destroy its surrounding life support systems. No, not intentionally, but the destruction is simply the result of the increased complexity.

Out of the trillions of planets that are likely in the Universe, I'm guessing there are only a handful of worlds that could support life, for carbon-based life is a fragile and sensitive. Life is a force that can only exist within narrow parameters -- you need water, warmth, light, stability, protection from radiation, etc...

Of the few worlds that can support life, life may never happen because of absent minerals, unfavorable climate, or other factors. So, I'm betting that life is very, very rare in the Universe. But, somewhere out there I'm guessing that some life form has been able to get pass its self-destruction stage and flourish. And yes, I don't doubt for a moment that space travel is possible -- but right now it seems extremely difficult.

The odds of the human creatures on Earth being the lucky ones to surpass the Age of Self Destruct is highly unlikely, but it is possible. I keep hoping that both humans and the Earth will survive, and even if humans fail there is a good chance that Earth will recover from the relatively brief era of humanity.

God bless all of you, my children.

Goosey

Life is Death

When I was at the Tellus Science Museum today, I had some sort of epiphany, which I'm sharing below:

I think our genetic programming goes back to when the very first cell reproduced, 2.5 billion years ago. After the Earth cooled and began to stabilize, it took a billion years to somehow achieve life. But the day that life reproduced was the beginning of the end.

Sure, life gave us an atmosphere with oxygen, but it also gave us a predisposition to horde. Even the one-celled animals try to get all the resources they can, so that they can reproduce. One-celled animals become larger and more complex because there is an evolutionary advantage for doing so. Dinosaurs grew from lizards because it made them more competitive -- they could now reach higher leaves or become more efficient hunters.

Life is amazing, but also self-destructive. Five million years ago a life form evolved that used tools to suppress its competitors. This same animal is still around today, extracting minerals, raising crops, and creating a highly complex society that simply expands, and can never go back. Even if humans fail to consume the Planet, some other creature will. We flatter ourselves and think we are are special, but we are simply a host for evolving viruses. So, really, it's a race to the bottom between ravenous humans and ever-evolving influenza strains.

And let's put political correctness aside for a moment and talk about soft environmentalism -- you know, the kind that Gore and Kennedy push. The fact is that if we convert to clean energy, that will only pave the way for more human population growth. In reality, Peak Oil is the best thing that could ever happen to Earth, as it will remove one blight, but surely another blight will rise.

So, as for Daniel Quinn, myself, and the many others who would like to "Save the World," well, we are up against the very process of life itself. For life lives, grows, multiplies, and compounds, until there is no life. And if one life form fails in this goal, another steps in to complete the job.

This bare truth may live in the back of our heads, but we bury it with our cultural lies, and our lies become so ingrained that they eventually become our truth. Furthermore, by our early 20s, our lies are hardwired into our brains. It's like my Christian fundamentalist siblings, who try to force science into their archaic religious beliefs, and though they always can, they sound like idiots. For example, my bother tells me that dinosaurs and humans lived together 6,000 years ago. And no amount of logic or evidence will change him, because in his mind, to doubt or question would piss off God, and no one wants to do that.

I believe that the bipedal primates, the ones who invented agriculture and industry, and then used these tools to destroy the Planet in just a few millenniums, are about to play out. I had deeply hoped that our destiny would be to colonize the Universe, but we seem to have our priorities really wrong, and we can't seem to break away from the role that life itself has created for us.

Life is death, for life consumes all resources and brings an end. Evolution is only a temporary anomaly in the Universe that occasionally flares up on planets with stable orbits and plentiful water.

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The narcissistic maniacs are guarding the hen house as the mass majority of Americans go through life in their imaginary stupor. The U.S. mega banks are closing in for the kill, having milked the economy for all its worth. They do not care about the collapse of America, they only care about the golden parachute of today.

The jobs are gone, the economy is in shambles, and crazy people keep saying the government must spend more money to stimulate the economy, even as the economy falls to the ground, buried under tons of debt.

And WE, those of us who can feel, we let our ambers die out as we look into starlit skies and wonder about loves that were lost. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve manipulates the market, all to the glory of huge banks, which have consolidated to become even bigger, and have their powerful lobbyists in Washington, ensuring that the country they bought remains theirs.

And all the while those Third World families keep having six kids, and then those kids have six kids, and the space and resources run out, but the banking cartels only see the opportunity to exploit cheap labor. And even as human population goes into major overshoot, the big fat bankers carry on, manipulating markets, developing clever schemes, bundling mortgages, engaging in subprime lending, and bringing what's left of our nation to the floor.

Meanwhile the Teabaggers march in the streets and the Christian zealots scream "THIS IS THE END," yet no one really knows what the HELL is going on. But the rich get richer, and the poor become shackled tighter in their chains, and all the while, strolling prayer teams from the local Church of God walk through neighborhoods, praying for homes at random, but yet they forget to pray for me.

Oh hail, oh Goose, confused, wondering, and alive -- but only temporarily passing through a mad and crazy humanity that is too dysfunctional to save itself.

And it's because of our love for the "way it's always been" that we shall soon have to deal with the worst of changes. Mother Earth is angry, and she shall get her revenge.

Amen

This Is Why I Don't Take You Seriously

Judges 19:15-30

Okay, this Bible story is really messed up. I'm really tired this evening, but I'll try to paraphrase. If any good religious person out there can explain this story to me, I'd be really grateful.

See, this man was traveling and had a concubine with him to keep him warm. As he was entering a town a citizen invites him to stay the night. The men of the city came to the house and said we want to pong him all night. And the home owner said, sorry, you can't have him because he's my guest. So, shit, the homeowner says, take my daughter and the concubine instead. And they raped the girls all night, and the poor concubine had to come back crawling the next morning. And he ordered the girl to get up on his donkey, and she couldn't. So he got a knife and chopped her into 12 pieces.

Okay, apologists, give me your cutsy interpretation of this story, and why it is so moral. And why the Bible is perfect, so, thus, God had a reason for putting this story in here. Honestly, I want to puke.


Judges 19:15-30
15 And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
18 And he said unto him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
20 And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.