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Worry - Mother Earth Might Benefit

Discussion in 'Snippets of Life (Non-Fiction)' started by satchitananda, Apr 9, 2019.

  1. kkrish

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    I am enjoying this discussion.
     
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    We are just a bunch of whizzing and allied carbon atoms idling away on a rocky planet at the outer rim of a galaxy, which is no extraordinary than the 100 billion other galaxies in some undistinguished brane of the multi-universe. The universe is indifferent whether we (the noisy clump exist or not) in its eternal grind. However, as Carl Sagan said: “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” Would the universe care to hew together another such sentient ikebana elsewhere in another cosmic perturbation. Why not? On grasp of the intense truth, life and its attendant inquiry are mitigated that we are too petty and inconsequential to the universe to reward or punish or even salvage the pesky and dim-witted (quantum) gobs when the capricious universe could easily replace us with something more fanciful in its wild reckoning.
     
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    Cannot question that deep philosophy. But I cannot help feeling that the day the Universe decides to do that - reward, punish, replace or wipe us out - that will be the day the earth will start her journey towards a gradual recovery. Of course it would be an unimaginable time period given our understanding of 'time' but in universal terms it would be just a blink of an eye. I wonder whether Nature would rearrange the building blocks in such a way that the resulting product would do her more credit than we do.
     
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  4. Novalis

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    The Martians must have been too obsessed digging canals that they were wiped off without a trace. The dinosaurs were so rambunctious that they were vaporized. The humans are too petty that they, too, would be obliterated. With trial and error, the universe would figure out her allied creations to sustain and off with the heads for the rest.
     
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    Am sure she is waiting to get her act right! :smiley:
     
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    But the only truth is we all are in it together!
     
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    True Afresh. It is hard to say whether all the climate change is a result of our deeds and misdeeds or whether it is just a part of the natural cycle. I agree with Novalis. The dinosaurs can't be blamed for their extinction. The Martians never got extinct. They ruined the Mars and then moved to Earth to carry on with their good deeds!!! :tonguewink:
     
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