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 Chronic777
 
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 Universal Species
#8662931 - 07/21/08 12:07 PM (4 months, 9 days ago) |
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Imagine in the vastness of the universe how many species of animals there are...even now on planet earth theres some pretty weird looking animals.
Like if you imagine the beings that walked the earth before the dinosaurs, preprehistoric!
Its been scientifically shown that the earth has been wearing away bit by bit & the bottom of our deepest ocean will one day be a mountain top.
So animals that were here millions of years ago cant be traced because theyre bones & fossils are cosmic dust now. Inevitably so will we be one day...
If you think about this infinite ceaseless creation of the universe then there are probably infinite species of animals out there. Beings that have immensely high consciousness amoung beings who are almost totally unconscious of the nature of life.
Its really a humbling thought when you realize all these beings, no matter how conscious or creative, ALL have one thing in common.
This one thing we all have in common must be very basic, infact it must be the MOST basic thing for every being to share it with one another.
The rest then comes after, being the temporary play of individual expression which comes & passes with each beings lifetime.
All the time the one thing we have in common remains unchanging.
(It must be unchanging otherwise all beings wouldnt have it in common)
Wouldnt it be amazing to "tune into" this one thing we all have in common and see what that feels like?
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"Noble son, all dharmas are not veridical. Wherever they are extinguished is termed the True/Real, the true ideation, the all-encompassing realm of Ultimate Reality, the Culmination of Knowing, Ultimate Truth, Ultimate Emptiness, complete Openness and Non-Obstruction by any limitations or limits" Buddha
Edited by Chronic777 (07/21/08 12:33 PM)
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PhanTomCat
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 Re: Universal Species [Re: Chronic777]
#8663800 - 07/21/08 04:11 PM (4 months, 9 days ago) |
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I think it is something like 98% of all the species of life that have lived on this planet have become extinct....
Oil anyone....?
The "one thing" we have in common is DNA, and it is faaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr from basic....
But, I have had my own musing ideas about DNA....
>^;;^<
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DieCommie
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 Re: Universal Species [Re: Chronic777]
#8663815 - 07/21/08 04:15 PM (4 months, 9 days ago) |
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I think the commonality of life is not basic at all, but it is complexity. Life is a phenomenon that emerges out of complexity. It is the quintessential emergent property.
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Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality; for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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Chronic777
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Re: Universal Species [Re: DieCommie]
#8666575 - 07/22/08 04:41 AM (4 months, 9 days ago) |
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Hold on, so you think that the one thing all beings have in common is complex?
If ALL beings have it in common how could it possibly be complex in any way?
Complexity comes afterwards, an unfathomable mind matrix of interwoven life, but the thing we all share in common, being, is the most simple thing, so simple its not even a "thing".
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"Noble son, all dharmas are not veridical. Wherever they are extinguished is termed the True/Real, the true ideation, the all-encompassing realm of Ultimate Reality, the Culmination of Knowing, Ultimate Truth, Ultimate Emptiness, complete Openness and Non-Obstruction by any limitations or limits" Buddha
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Yrat
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Re: Universal Species [Re: Chronic777]
#8667577 - 07/22/08 12:32 PM (4 months, 8 days ago) |
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i like to think about the different shapes of life here on this planet and how perfect they are for their purposes, that the same body-shapes just have to be present in other life forms out there.
like the snake. the most simple shape you can get, also taken by worms, is a form that has to be out there somewhere else.
or the functions and shapes of various bug limbs, legs, pinchers, etc. bug-like crawlies have been around almost since life first showed up on this planet. they haven't changed much in such a vast amount of time because they are so perfectly adapted to their needs. other life-forms out there on their courses of evolution would undoubtedly arrive at identical forms and functions.
i'd be willing to bet that any life living in liquids would look strikingly similar to Earth's fish. the elements needed for movement in such a medium, aka fins, have been honed for so many hundreds of millions of years that they are virtually perfect for their job. other life would have to eventually arrive at a very similar structure.
i'm sure there is life out there that is so weird that no one could even comprehend it, but i'm also willing to bet that there is an immense amount out there that is scarily similar to what we already know.
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Oweyervishice
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Re: Universal Species [Re: Yrat]
#8667862 - 07/22/08 01:51 PM (4 months, 8 days ago) |
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True, certain body parts would probably appear similarly to on earth, but what if aliens are nothing like we can imagine? Maybe they aren't even anchored to the physical world in the same way we are, maybe they follow entirely different laws. 
We know nothing.
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 mofo
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I remember reading somewhere that paleontologists believe they have found fossil evidence of like less than one percent of species that have ever lived on earth. So even on this planet, I think we would be astounded if we could see every species that has ever lived.
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