Bill and Joe, Zen is not clever schoolboy comments about serious subjects...
Edgar On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Bill! wrote: > Oh yeah! > > --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > > > Edgar, > > > > And Humans are just the tip of the iceberg, too. > > > > I don't know why plants and animals insist on interfering with the way > > Nature works. > > > > For example, on the early earth there was a nice atmosphere without oxygen. > > But blasted Cyanobacteria evolved which like to sip the methane and other > > gases there were back then, and started polluting the atmosphere with > > ...Oxygen! > > > > Then -- wouldn't you know -- other organisms formed which turned CO2 into > > even MORE Oxygen, with a help from light from the Sun. The nerve! They got > > away with it, though, because there were no Police. The rug was pulled out > > from under Nature yet again! > > > > Later, some animals evolved, which USE the oxygen. > > > > Much later, some of these animals of the Mammal variety called "Beavers" > > began to INSIST that they interfere with the stately FLOW of river > > tributaries and streams, by ...damming them up! Such nerve. You may be sure > > that this caused inundations upstream, and occasional floods downstream > > when the dams burst. Havoc. Bye, bye, Nature! > > > > The nerve of these organisms: Micro-organisms, Plants, and Animals. Always > > interfering with the way Nature works! > > > > At least on the Moon there is no such interference, there's just a > > continual, thin, rain of meteorites pummeling the surface, and no > > atmosphere to make things rust. > > > > Oops!, some exotic Mammals left some footprints on the Moon, and some > > machinery, during the last fifty years. WHY must there always be such > > interference? The Moon had been Nature's nice, quiet, haven for rock and > > dust for so long. Why must things always go downhill? > > > > --Joe > > > > > On 10/7/2012 9:26 PM, Edgar Owen wrote: > > > > > > Why do humans always insist on interfering with the way nature works? > > > >
