BROADENING LIFE'S DEFINITION FROM AND INTO EVERLASTING
Life is magical mysterious unique.
Life can be passed on coitally in between humans; coitally and/or asexually in between some animals, insects, microbes and plants ; and by some other means in between bacteria and fungus. Life can be reproduced, by other life, with other life, but life cannot be produced outside of existing life, it seems.
Life is a conundrum, a paradox, an irony, unique. Life is magical, mysterious.
Life is magical, because we do not know its origin, as we know, or as we seem to think that we know, of, and/or, about other things. We impute. We attribute . We speculate. We ascribe . But we do not know. For, knowledge, itself, is as magical mysterious unique as life. Thus our quest for knowledge is a quest to know life and life's "origins."
Life is mysterious in the sense that we marvel at its magnificent manifestations in us, around us, about us, through us. But,is life unique to us.? Is life limited to Earth, by our definition of life? Accordingly, the sun is not "life" although it is the giver of life on earth; the regulator of our solar system and the tie that binds!
If we broaden our definition of life to include the sun, that enlarged life-definition must also include the billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions, of other stars in heaven that bind, that regulate, shine down upon other planets or "exoplanets."
Clouds form, flow, disperse, multiply and divide, as do we . Perhaps clouds are alive like us. Perhaps all around us is alive. Perhaps. That thought, exhilarating possibility, is as mentally mesmerizing, as it may be is cosmically confounding.
So we are back to the beginning, if there is a "beginning". Life without a beginning last from everlasting to everlasting, not merely philosophically, nor merely intellectually, theologically among men, but among no other life forms.
Amen !
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
BROADENING LIFE'S DEFINITION
BROADENING LIFE'S DEFINITION FROM AND INTO EVERLASTING
Life is magical mysterious unique.
Life can be passed on coitally in between humans; coitally and/or asexually in between some animals, insects, microbes and plants ; and by some other means in between bacteria and fungus. Life can be reproduced, by other life, with other life, but life cannot be produced outside of existing life, it seems.
Life is a conundrum, a paradox, an irony, unique. Life is magical, mysterious.
Life is magical, because we do not know its origin, as we know, or as we seem to think that we know, of, and/or, about other things. We impute. We attribute . We speculate. We ascribe . But we do not know. For, knowledge, itself, is as magical mysterious unique as life. Thus our quest for knowledge is a quest to know life and life's "origins."
Life is mysterious in the sense that we marvel at its magnificent manifestations in us, around us, about us, through us. But,is life unique to us.? Is life limited to Earth, by our definition of life? Accordingly, the sun is not "life" although it is the giver of life on earth; the regulator of our solar system and the tie that binds!
If we broaden our definition of life to include the sun, that enlarged life-definition must also include the billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions, of other stars in heaven that bind, that regulate, shine down upon other planets or "exoplanets."
Clouds form, flow, disperse, multiply and divide, as do we . Perhaps clouds are alive like us. Perhaps all around us is alive. Perhaps. That thought, exhilarating possibility, is as mentally mesmerizing, as it may be is cosmically confounding.
So we are back to the beginning, if there is a "beginning". Life without a beginning last from everlasting to everlasting, not merely philosophically, nor merely intellectually, theologically among men, but among no other life forms.
Amen !