Fatherroot said:

I was out in the fields today.  Hit the lake, caught some fish, picked some reishi, scanned some cow turds, & found my first gyms.  As I'm standing there dancing my crimson plastic worm ever-so-slowly back to the bank I realized something.

Everything in nature is pretty balanced within itself.  If mankind wasn't around it would be total natural & unadulterated nature.  Then it hit me.  The flow at which nature ebbs and flows like the breathing in and out of an at rest lion is an absolute constant of the essence of life.  Human-beings are a step out of the ordinary for the business as usual of sex, birth, & death.  We add in this new layer of creating & perception of being to the point of being able to put it into a language that's understandable by our peers.

The point is this.  Maybe mankind was created by the almighty spiritual collaborative being in order to take a break from the monotony of a simplistic nature.  The almighty, mother nature, or whatever you believe in was like, "alight, I'm really getting tired of just putting my spirit into a predictable repeating cycle like a dog chasing it's tail, it's time for a vacation.  Enter stage left, people.

Hasn't been the same since.

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Fatherroot said:

Didn't say we're not part of nature.  We are as far from the rest of  nature as you can get is what I was saying.  Sort of like life on vacation is as far away from life the rest of the year that you're at work as you can get, but it's still you life.

Mankind = Vacation Life
Rest of Natural Living World = Working Life

Point = The 2 are very different but still both part of life.  Damnit man, I'm going back to watchin Men Who Stare at Goats, shit. lol.

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Fatherroot said:

Om, I see.  That makes sense.  Sort of always seen nature as something crawling, swimming, or breathing.  Nature existed before all of that.  When molecules of hydrogen was rising from the sulfur pits of primordial ooze, that was nature.  Hmmm....  Still tho, mankind/human-beings fell pretty far from the family tree of the rest of nature. There is no other living life form on this planet that can build a plane that carries hundreds of it's own kind, or make bacon! eheh!  We are the most unique living things on the planet, that's a sound fact.  Not that nature doesn't have some other groovy things going on that flips my lid every once in awhile.

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Nature existed since the beginning of the universe. It's that push towards complexity.

At one time there wasn't even stars in the universe, would you not say the universe has come a long way since then? If you were able to observe the universe during that time of its existence, wouldn't it be hard to imagine planets and life forms and everything that has come since?

A long way into the future there might be no living organic lifeforms, just machine lifeforms. Would you consider that far removed from nature? No, it's just another stage of nature.

Stages.

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Fatherroot said:We are the most unique living things on the planet, that's a sound fact.

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