For some inexplicable reason, we, the human species, imagine that we, and
we alone will survive, presumably in our present form, forever. And
this in spite of the fact that the scientists at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity concluded that: “Every day, up to 150 species are lost.” By lost they mean die. Disappear from the ranks of the living.
But we would survive? Continue regardless of what we do?
Not
even the dinosaurs who reputedly survived for some 165 million years
made it to this day, and they had more experience of how to survive than
any other known species. Thus, our chances are slim. In fact, today, we
seem to be on an ever-accelerating slide towards oblivion.
Yes, all of us.
Admittedly
a Few will survive but not in their present, human, bodies. Those are
already inferior to a number of species. We are weaker, slower, we can't
fly, swim under water, nor survive in anaerobic environment.
According
to the Judeo-Christian tradition, Eden was where it all began. Other
species already existed. Adam was given the task of naming them.
Compared to the dinosaurs, it happened not so long ago. Assuming our
brains had something to do with it, they, our brains, have become
essentially modern at least 100,000 years ago. Not much compared to
dinosaurs.
Yet, I suggest, that was when our problems started.
From
that moment on we have forsaken the dictates of nature, and began to
imagine that we know better. (Adam's apple?) The introduction of labour
saving devices accelerated our devolution which has reached our present
stage wherein our technology is progressively eliminating our need for
thinking. A Few think; the masses, and that's well over 99%, use the
products of the Few.
If
we echo the characteristics of "nature", wherein everything appears to
move in cycles (diurnal, seasonal, ice ages, resulting floods, zodiacal,
etc) we, too, as the dominant species, need a rudimentary renewal. Our
thought streams appear to have veered in the wrong direction. Instead of
enhancing the Phenomenal Universe, we appear to concentrate on
enhancing our personal comforts. Hence, the Universe no longer needs us.
Isn't it time to start again?
Perhaps the time has come to recycle the human species?
Unless...
Unless there is more to our species than our exulted egos. If
you want to find out what our forefathers thought, before we became
immersed in our materiality, read my dictionary. It might surprise you. They may have had a method for survival.
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My Dictionary does NOT interpret. It merely translates the 3300
Hebrew and ancient Greek words, which for thousands of years remained
not translated. Obviously, it must have been forbidden knowledge, not to
be cast before swine (Matthew 7:6). Evidently, the true meaning was
inconvenient for those who were building a kingdom in this transient,
illusory reality.
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(previously published some months ago)
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