Re: How long...?
Submitted by Pew(01) on November 23 2000 01:03:13
In reply to How long...? submitted by Sprite on November 22 2000 16:46:27
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I like it. I like what you wrote. It has a definate mirror on what I have spent a lifetime trying to work out. In my opinion... Take the world before we humans had anything to do with it. Try to imagine, going into a time machine, and being taken back to the time of babylon. Before even the dinosours roamed the earth. What could you see? You would most probably see a red sky. A sky filled with a volcanic outbursts/dust. Not much to look at yes? Fascinating yes, but thats all. Then the earth cooled down, and forests started appear. When the volcanic activity died down enough for vegetation to start to grow properly. So, then, it was a world of forests, and it was then that (according to the THEORY of evolution - yes, a theory..still to be prooved) the animals started to crawl from the sea. Over a certain length of millenium, gradually, dinosuars started to appear. (Or so we are led to believe). Then the dinosours were wiped out, and the earth started a new evolution, with respect to the kind of life that it born. So, lets think about the time that, the first human being stood on that hill-top and looked out at the world around him. (This is obviosly an over simplistic view of how human life beagn, but bear with me..) What would he see? Forests, natural fields, and not much else unless he was by the sea. How could he know that, buried underneath what looked like tree's and not much else, there were cars...computers....space shuttles...CD Music systems...Pens...Houses...Nike Trainers....penicillin...TV's....Spectacles...Busses.... you get the drift. Forgive me, but life, to me, seems like one long clue that is there to be discovered. Lets take...I dunno...a car for example. Nothing that "we" have built, just exists. First, you have to discover the metals in the ground. That was done a long time ago. Then you have to learn how to "shape" these metals to your own advantage. The wheel came first..then we discovered (a long time later) that cogs were a lot more useful than just the humble wheel. Add a few centuries of fascinated scientists, and you will eventually come up with an internal combustion engine. It's easy to type in a few sentances, but takes years to discover what we take for granted these days. But, are these some kind of clues, that, lets face it, have been here all along? The capacity to build such a thing as a car, has always been here, it just took era's of human knowledge to suss out the clue? You can take this line of thought to explain why and how everything we have around us today exists. It has always been here. People that make sculptures out of stone will tell you.."The sculpture is always in there. All we do is chip away at the unneccasary bits" Is this the meaning of life? Imagine what we have constructed so far, with just a few bits of shabby forest, and finding a few metals that lie underneath? Is it man's own destiny to find the meaning of life for itself? Is it here, but just takes a while to find, and are we just not at a certain stage of mankind at the moment, but mankind will build/find something that will explain it all? Ok, so we have just about managed the moon. But, we all know that, sooner or later, we will travel to distant galaxies. But how did we get to the moon? No-one waved a magic wand. We had to utilise the materials we had at our disposal. Actually, we had to find them and shape them first, which is a massive task in itself. Do we have the materials here on Earth, to get to other star systems? Of course we do. That is the destiny of mankind. It seems like that is the only destiny that we have. So, is it our destiny to discover heaven for ourselves? Is it..? |
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