"So what" is the best reply I could possibly think of. So, indeed, what?
Ta, much. 2009/9/11 archytas <[email protected]>: > > More or less SJ - but so what? I mean this respectfully, in the sense > that so what from here seems to be to be what we are short of. > > On 11 Sep, 22:13, sjewins <[email protected]> wrote: >> There are an amazing series of flaws that constitute the universe, >> from its appalling celestial waste to its meagre and slipshod powers >> of sustaining life. The uselessness of satellites, their sole function >> being to whirl incessantly around their parent bodies in aimless >> revolutions, does not speak of intelligent design. Neither does the >> incalculable stellar wastage caused by undirected forces -- damaged >> moons, smashed planets, burst stars due to overly-rapid rotation -- >> point to the possibility that there is a "Celestial Engineer" in >> charge. >> >> Earth's cosmic clock is ticking as our sun radiates away its energy >> into desert space (thereby losing its weight also), squandering >> 360,000 million tons of energy every day of which only 160 tons reach >> our planet, or less than one two-thousand-millionth part of the total >> radiation. The energy not wasted is greatly misdirected, with not >> enough to sustain life in our polar regions, and too much in the >> burning deserts of Mongolia and Africa. As the sun loses its weight at >> the rate of 4 million tons a second, so it correspondingly loses its >> gravitational hold on the earth. Slowly but steadily, our planet is >> drifting away from the sun and there is no escaping the inevitability >> of earth's destiny -- to become just another of the billions of >> lifeless globes carrying nothing but the frozen remains of what were >> once living beings. >> >> But oh how beautiful the universe is! Hubble's photographs show >> incredible random abstract beauty. In a universe that contains so much >> that is the same as that from which we arose it is absurd to think >> that we are alone. I think the universe is teeming with life. >> Intelligent like us, less so, and moreso. There are civilizations that >> have been around for 100 times as long as we and have undoubtedly >> discovered the secrets that we dream of. Have grown away from the >> monsters in childhood closets that are the gods. There are also surely >> those younger than us who are still inventing their gods to explain >> what they experience around them. >> >> We have one thing in common. We are all stardust. From stars we came >> and to stars we will return. Our molecules drifting towards and beyond >> this beautiful universe that we call home. Stare at the stars and see >> your past and your future. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
