An AL Tribune forum response

Sneak over to the Tribune poll on handguns, if you dare. You can almost hear the hundreds of chambers clicking shut, loaded and ready to shoot. These people live for guns, whether toys or weapons....or both.
Peace will never come as long as people are yet enamored with weapons of destruction....and killing. The enjoyable killing of animals by sportsmen is a way for them to vent primal instincts. To the killer a rational reason always exists. An upsurge of fear and mistrust does not help. Some societies do better than others, which is worth study. Others, lacking proper laws, quickly devolve into butchery.
Without laws forbidding murder, etc where would our society go?? We pride ourselves on our virtuousness, but it is the threat of harsh consequences that keep many humans 'virtuous'.


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DO HUMANS MATTER ?

There was a wonderful line I read in a book critique. It goes ".......humans desperately want to matter." This statement can lead down many avenues. Question: are humans relevant only to themselves? Is any universal entity relevant only to itself?

Many religions have a bizzare idea that only humans matter to God. Why is it not enough that humans matter to themselves? Is religion a transformation of natural physical law into 'unnatural' behavior? Do quarks matter to themselves(or God)? Do simple particles transform their self-relevance upon becoming complex entities? Are all existing particles, each, the center of the universe? Are these questions I now ask simply reconstruction of physical laws through brain processes? And why would physical laws take this route?

Another avenue is that humans do not matter, either in short term, or long. This idea would bother most humans if contemplated. But very few do. Being at the top of the food chain(where no other life forms {or e/m} depend on our survival) is not all it's cracked up to be. Human extinction would not threaten the Earth(or other natural species). They would all be glad we left......unless.....unless we, at sometime in the far future, are able to transplant life from this planet far away in a safe place. If the seeding of life throughout the galaxy(ies) is up to us.....well, we better get our butts in gear. This preservation of life, whether our own or other species, is a way for humans to matter.

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Hmmmm........many blogs are simply online journals. Like mine.

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A Dream
……..we are discussing, we are in a very deep conversation. As we exchange ideas our bodies begin disintegrating and vanish altogether. Our words, ideas, bodies swirl and blend in a mist in some unknown space. Unfamiliar abstract forms take shape, then change as ideas and “we” link to one another. Forces take on bizarre non-forms. Yet it is all extremely clear and well defined, orderly and simple. No chaos. No absurdities or fear. Very intellectual equations and words….our bodies take on geometric shapes that change hues…..
…..now I find myself in bodily form once more gazing upon a row of heavy cast iron mechanisms. The metal machines look very heavy and measure several feet across, and they vary in shape and purpose. I gaze at the row of contraptions. My mind is calm. I feel a sense of sadness and melancholy for the world, my body, my life. But now there is something I know.
“The Evaporator”, I say to the vendor selling the machines. “I want the Evaporator”.
Now I expand and disintegrate. I become minute particles, millions upon millions, floating in the air, slowly drifting up and away like smoke in a sunlit room. I am leaving, going to some new place.
The others whom I had conversed earlier now came running with “nets” try to catch the tiny particles (me) so I couldn’t leave them……..

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Relaxation on the Temple steps