The soul and the intellect empower, activate human behavior, along with the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system; these four, perhaps more, like the gustatory, sensory systems, induce activity in us, by us, for us, as our intercessors.
They cooperate interdependently, and integrally, with each other, in apparent response to always-dynamic genetic, and environmental cues, commands, without our conscious knowledge.
So often, in fact, do they coordinate our behavior, that we seem to be on autopilot; not so much determining as following, as executing, impulses that we falsely and presumptively attribute solely to our wills, to our selves alone.
What if we were just ephemeral dust particles flashing briefly on the nether region or edge of an obscure Super-Galaxy, in a cold, infinitesimal Galaxy named the Milky Way, on a planet of an even more remote solar system.
What if, notwithstanding such stated remoteness and such ephemeral essences, we were still subject in all systems to an order, to a paradigm, that prescribes and preordains all ways and the means, all what's and wherefore's, greater and lesser, of all that is, all that was, or ever shall be?
Would we still, then, be responsible for ourselves, for our behaviors, for our deeds? Would not we be fellow snowflakes adrift in cosmic space?
Sunday, January 4, 2015
SNOWFLAKES ADRIFT IN SPACE
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SNOWFLAKES ADRIFT IN SPACE
The soul and the intellect empower, activate human behavior, along with the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system; these four, perhaps more, like the gustatory, sensory systems, induce activity in us, by us, for us, as our intercessors.
They cooperate interdependently, and integrally, with each other, in apparent response to always-dynamic genetic, and environmental cues, commands, without our conscious knowledge.
So often, in fact, do they coordinate our behavior, that we seem to be on autopilot; not so much determining as following, as executing, impulses that we falsely and presumptively attribute solely to our wills, to our selves alone.
What if we were just ephemeral dust particles flashing briefly on the nether region or edge of an obscure Super-Galaxy, in a cold, infinitesimal Galaxy named the Milky Way, on a planet of an even more remote solar system.
What if, notwithstanding such stated remoteness and such ephemeral essences, we were still subject in all systems to an order, to a paradigm, that prescribes and preordains all ways and the means, all what's and wherefore's, greater and lesser, of all that is, all that was, or ever shall be?
Would we still, then, be responsible for ourselves, for our behaviors, for our deeds? Would not we be fellow snowflakes adrift in cosmic space?
The soul and the intellect empower, activate human behavior, along with the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system; these four, perhaps more, like the gustatory, sensory systems, induce activity in us, by us, for us, as our intercessors.
They cooperate interdependently, and integrally, with each other, in apparent response to always-dynamic genetic, and environmental cues, commands, without our conscious knowledge.
So often, in fact, do they coordinate our behavior, that we seem to be on autopilot; not so much determining as following, as executing, impulses that we falsely and presumptively attribute solely to our wills, to our selves alone.
What if we were just ephemeral dust particles flashing briefly on the nether region or edge of an obscure Super-Galaxy, in a cold, infinitesimal Galaxy named the Milky Way, on a planet of an even more remote solar system.
What if, notwithstanding such stated remoteness and such ephemeral essences, we were still subject in all systems to an order, to a paradigm, that prescribes and preordains all ways and the means, all what's and wherefore's, greater and lesser, of all that is, all that was, or ever shall be?
Would we still, then, be responsible for ourselves, for our behaviors, for our deeds? Would not we be fellow snowflakes adrift in cosmic space?