First off before I begin the post, I'm sorry, but my account for blogger is being really weird, so I can't comment on my own or anybody else's blog. It's REALLY annoying, and I hope you can forgive me. Sorry people. I'm going to respond to questions in the next post. In response to Alex's: Yes, I believe both. As I said, it's truth. I just wrote it keeping in mind that some of the audience isn't going to be religious.
I find it sort of funny. I mean, when you think about it, what are we really? Bags of bones and organs and flesh and blood, with a wispy spirit attached. Yet look at all the drama and and wonder around us? We're just little bits of carbon and nitrogen, dwarfed by a planet it would take countless of us to fill. Yet everything around us in our small patch of earth we traverse is so vivid, and means so much to our minds.
We're little bits of star stuff, yet we seem to dream and worship about the same stars we came from. Small things like food and water, things of such small mass, of such small meaning to the universe means the universe to us. We're so small, yet so big at the same time. Our minds are incredible things, concentrated on the here and now. They are so flawed, though. So vulnerable to weapons and even our own body. Yet each mind is so strong at the same time, a thing that lets us move mountains, level forests, grow millions of acres of food, give so much, and take so much away. A thing that is more of a danger to the world than the millions of years of risk and danger from both forces on Earth and from the night sky.
I think that it is a blessing, being so priviledged to be able to have a mind. It comes with great responsibility, though. Each mind can create, can free, can do so much good. Yet each mind can do so much evil, so much killing, so much enslaving, and so much destruction. I pray we can keep that in mind as we go about in the world. It may be the undoing, or the preserving of the race, the planet, and maybe someday the Universe.
