01-06-2008, 03:03 PM
Thanks for the reply Silk.
That was very lucid. I'm with you.
The only part I didn't get was the symbiot association. I looked it up to see what it was about. There were two versions: in cartoons (like spider-man), a symbiot is a parasitic being that latches onto a host, giving it super powers and yet feeding off of it in some way. Then there's the symbiotic association between two living organisms in nature that seems a bit more harmonious, probably like Amanitas and Christmas trees.
I looked into myself about the "god's favoring man" and I have no present religious concept or belief about that. The way it is seen for me is that life (not god) probably wants to evolve or was set in motion to evolve and we just happen to be one of the organisms at the spearhead of that evolution on this planet (perhaps surpassed by dolphins and whales??). I caught some pieces of a nature show the other day and chimpanzees also go to war with eachother and get jealous and exhibit other human "faulty" characteristics. I'm not saying we're the most evolved as a species, but that we demonstrate the greatest potential for the most rapid evolution. So some could interpret that to mean something. I don't know what it would mean. I intend not to indulge in interpretations. But I do know that it doesn't mean that we're better than anything else. I don't think we're here to rule over anything. Maybe we're more able to appreciate the various manifestations of life. Maybe that appreciation serves an indispensable function in the universe. I'm not sure. Probably everything is indispensable if the universe is as efficient as it appears to be.
That was very lucid. I'm with you.
The only part I didn't get was the symbiot association. I looked it up to see what it was about. There were two versions: in cartoons (like spider-man), a symbiot is a parasitic being that latches onto a host, giving it super powers and yet feeding off of it in some way. Then there's the symbiotic association between two living organisms in nature that seems a bit more harmonious, probably like Amanitas and Christmas trees.
I looked into myself about the "god's favoring man" and I have no present religious concept or belief about that. The way it is seen for me is that life (not god) probably wants to evolve or was set in motion to evolve and we just happen to be one of the organisms at the spearhead of that evolution on this planet (perhaps surpassed by dolphins and whales??). I caught some pieces of a nature show the other day and chimpanzees also go to war with eachother and get jealous and exhibit other human "faulty" characteristics. I'm not saying we're the most evolved as a species, but that we demonstrate the greatest potential for the most rapid evolution. So some could interpret that to mean something. I don't know what it would mean. I intend not to indulge in interpretations. But I do know that it doesn't mean that we're better than anything else. I don't think we're here to rule over anything. Maybe we're more able to appreciate the various manifestations of life. Maybe that appreciation serves an indispensable function in the universe. I'm not sure. Probably everything is indispensable if the universe is as efficient as it appears to be.

