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One River
    #5708691 - 06/03/06 07:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

This is something that I have been giving thought to lately. I was thinking about the predatory nature of life. All life lives by consuming other life. There is no way around it. For something else to live, something else must die. This is not good or bad...it is just the way it is. Life itself seems to be a single organism with many forms. Could it be that all life is but one river that flows through all organisms ...every organism but a tributary of one river with all of the tributaries flowing to the river itself? Maybe the idea that we are separate is but an illusion of ego...perhaps there is only one life force and we are but the mold that temporarily gives it shape.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5708832 - 06/03/06 08:33 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

We're a mutual eating society: everything eats everything else.

It's so strange that people are buried in wooden boxes. I would want my body to provide nourishment for as many organisms as possible.

Separateness is indeed illusory.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5708867 - 06/03/06 08:40 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Huehuecoyotl said:
Life itself seems to be a single organism with many forms.



I've thought about this quite often. We too are a collective of individual, interdependent organisms. We call them "cells." Then each organism is also part of a greater ecosystem, which is like an organism unto itself. Then all the ecosystems on earth function together to make the earth itself an organism. This could be extended to the interstellar level, and encompass the entire universe.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5708883 - 06/03/06 08:43 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Just the other day, looking out in my back yard I was thinking, The big birds eat the snakes, the snakes eat the frogs, the frogs eat the bugs and..........then I thought, DAMN, being an animal must suck never knowing when another is going to come along and have you for lunch.

You're visual on the one river of energy moving in and out of forms is a BEAUTIFUL one. It makes it all more acceptable to see it in that light. 

My next thoughts were about how, it does not make sense to me that "life in form" must consume the energy of , "life in form" for their to be "life in form".

That would imply a closed system or limit to the energy supply. I think the source well of energy, just keeps or can, pumping out more and more and keeps expanding itself in the process. We just havn't learned how to tap into it fully yet and thats why this who consuming it from out of other forms thing got started.

Just thoughts I think.

Something in my core tells me, it doesn't have to be the way of form consuming form to get energy to live on. If everything could develop the ability to live off prana, the river itself, that would be so ideal.

I accept it as it is for now and yet, I dream for the day of self sustenance to manifest and work to get this prana stuff figured out in the meantime.

These bodies and physical life would be so much more enjoyable if we didn't have to be such slaves to maintaining them. I think about how much mundane time, lives and money is spent, food shopping, cooking/keeping the family fed, stuffing our faces and cleaning up after it all just to do it again in a few hours, bahh.

When it comes to people needing food, we are literally bottomless pits. :lol:

I was just talking to my husband and daughter about this and they were like, "That would be no fun, food tastes so good."

I ji wa wa :foreheadslap:

Hue, what do you have to say on why the river just can't feed the forms that come from its own energy until its ready to just withdraw it and collapse the form?

Why do forms have to consume the energy from other forms to live?

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Re: One River [Re: dblaney]
    #5708895 - 06/03/06 08:44 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I want my body exposed to the air so that I can be food for something else. Being left on a scaffold like the native warriors of the great plains would suit me fine.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5708911 - 06/03/06 08:48 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I'd prefer to be set adrift on a fjord, in a burning, wooden ship...

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Re: One River [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
    #5708919 - 06/03/06 08:50 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

The universe IS a closed system. That is not my speculation, but scientific fact. We are in every way subject to the second law of thermodynamics...now while it is a closed system...it is a vast one.


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Re: One River [Re: fireworks_god]
    #5708929 - 06/03/06 08:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I have some symapthies there, but the fire would cause a serious waste of food...maybe the boat with no fire would work for me...as long as I was arrayed with my weapons and armor.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5708944 - 06/03/06 08:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Whether or not a system is closed is a matter of perspective, I would imagine. It simply depends on your definition of universe. If the word is all-encompassing, then I guess it could be considered to be a closed system, but the nature of an all-encompassing universe implies that one would not find boundaries... which would seem to suggest that such a system wouldn't exactly be "closed".

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Re: One River [Re: fireworks_god]
    #5708955 - 06/03/06 08:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

There are boundaries to what we call our universe. It is finite.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5708983 - 06/03/06 09:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:shrug:

I've never seen any reason to be so certain about something as unknown as that, let alone much of anything, really. :grin:

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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5709036 - 06/03/06 09:13 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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The universe IS a closed system. That is not my speculation, but scientific fact. We are in every way subject to the second law of thermodynamics...now while it is a closed system...it is a vast one.




The third law of thermodynamics breaks the first and second at the quantum scale. If prana is a quantum energy and our physical bodies have a way to breath it in an convert it, we could be drawing from anti matter itself.

Though what energy came from out of the Big Bang making up the physical universe may be finite, I don;t think science has any facts confirmed on the amount of quantum energy available, let alone, if there are ways holes are punched to draw from where it ever it is the energy of the big bang came out from.

What if we could produce micro quantum big bangs to pull more in with our bodies somehow?

I know I am dreaming at this point and just like thinking about possibilities, of what may lay in waiting behind stones yet unturned. 

Maybe this isn't the thread for going there. :japsmile:

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Re: One River [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
    #5709085 - 06/03/06 09:22 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

fireworks_god:
"I've never seen any reason to be so certain about something as unknown as that, let alone much of anything, really."

Science confirms that space is curved and therefore finite. Now there could well be other universes, but since it cannot be measured it is pointless to consider this. Just as it is pointless for me to argue with you. You are welcome to your own interpretation of fact.


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Edited by Huehuecoyotl (06/03/06 09:23 PM)


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5709101 - 06/03/06 09:25 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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All life lives by consuming other life. There is no way around it. For something else to live, something else must die.




Plantlife.... Water, light, and a few salts.... Life without consuming life....

Right...?


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Re: One River [Re: PhanTomCat]
    #5709116 - 06/03/06 09:30 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Even plants grow from the death of other life.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5709186 - 06/03/06 09:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

They do in nature because death is abundant - for the most part....
But, a plant can live in a closed system without death - given water light and salts, and still live....
Using rock-wool as a soil matrix has no death/nutrients on it's own....


Even bees that live a somewhat symbiotic life with a flower's nectar lives off of the plant's secretions....
And the bees give back in the relationship by cross pollinating by the action of collecting the nectar....

No life dies from the feeding of the bees, and both plant and insect benefit, or are codependent of each other for their very survival....


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5709205 - 06/03/06 09:50 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I don't know if this has been said before...but your statement of [paraphrased]...something must die for something else to live... is not true. Autotrophs my friend.

I will now continue to read this thread. Thank you.

edit: the idea had been stated, but not just plants. There are many organisms that feed directly off sunlight and/or/but not necessarily a few other chemicals.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5709226 - 06/03/06 09:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I understand if it's pointless for you to think further on it. :smile: It is really Far Out, yet not so out of reach to me to make the idea interesting to explore. Just thought I would throw it out there and ask.

It is a fact that the third law breaks the first two though.

Now what Phantom is talking about, that's the sort of stuff I am seeing/feeling when I think about these things. Co-operation with energy even if its finite then, instead of this competition survival of the fittest stuff with life forms consuming each other for energy instead of just drawing from the river they came out of.

It's like a creative challenge for me.:lol:

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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5709391 - 06/03/06 10:29 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

The only reason I picked out that one point and argued it is because I think it is an important aspect to just toss aside and dismiss....

At some point, this planet had no "life" as we know it - as it was not habitable for life as we know it....
Then for some reason (God - or however you believe life magically sprung up on this planet), life just started....
If it started on it's own, it started with one life that divided into more life, and did not live off life/death yet because it itself was the only "living" thing....
Then life proceeded to make life over the whole planet, still not being able to feed of off death....

I don't mean to be the rock in your river, ( :tongue: ) but some life just doesn't need life or death to live off of.... 

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Re: One River [Re: PhanTomCat]
    #5709460 - 06/03/06 10:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"I don't mean to be the rock in your river, ( ) but some life just doesn't need life or death to live off of...."

In nature it does...but that is beside the point. My point is to ask if life is a unified force moving through various forms...if we are all one.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5709550 - 06/03/06 11:14 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

In the nature as we know it, MOST life does feed off of life/death....
I am just bringing up the point that if life ONLY lived off of life/death, there never would have been life at all - from an evolutionary POV....


""My point is to ask if life is a unified force moving through various forms...if we are all one.""

I would say, there are different forms of life living on different life force frequencies, all within one united song....
Different chordal notes harmonizing together in an effortless epic chorus....
It just keeps building and building in a dynamic complexity of arrangement and shades of e-Motion....    :sun:
It all makes one song, but there are many unique instrumental voices making the full collaborative driving force/spirit to that song....


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Re: One River [Re: PhanTomCat]
    #5709975 - 06/04/06 01:22 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

We are all a part of the bigger system. However, we are still individuals.

You can consider yourself as many different things. Reality is what you make it. =)


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Re: One River [Re: The_Hobbit]
    #5710326 - 06/04/06 05:25 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

i want to be cured then smoked

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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5710343 - 06/04/06 06:26 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

as demius said, we all principally are fed by the sun, as even the molecular structures mostly are stored sun-energy in the one or other form.
Perhaps, one day, we were able to feed us directly by energy-waves (again).
Even if we consider eating fruits, it is no life yet, same as eggs. Milk is not alive either. These three mainly are concentrated nutrients for 'coming life'.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5710412 - 06/04/06 07:48 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Science confirms that space is curved and therefore finite. Now there could well be other universes, but since it cannot be measured it is pointless to consider this.




Then it is, in effect, entirely pointless and without purpose to consider the possibillity of their being boundaries that seperate "this" universe from whatever else. My entire point is that, if such a boundary is drawn, then there is something on each side of the boundary that is being used to seperate. My point is that, if such is so, then, from a higher perspective that encompasses both sides of the boundary, it isn't a real boundary at all.

My point makes sense and will apply in theory, whereas your point that the universe is finite and that implies a boundary simply cannot be evidenced. Now that such has been clarified, your assertion that it is pointless to "argue" with me isn't entirely valid. My point can be demonstrated whereas yours cannot. :shrug:

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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5710623 - 06/04/06 10:06 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

My point is to ask if life is a unified force moving through various forms...if we are all one.

Yes, reality is nondual. We are all one, on every level, not just when examining the life force/prana/qi/whatever name you would like to give this phenomenon.


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Re: One River [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #5710699 - 06/04/06 10:52 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Perhaps it would be clearer to say that construction requires destruction, than to say that life requires death.

Even autotrophs rely on the radiation created by the gradual destruction of the sun and the mineral deposits left on our planet by the destruction of meteors and other space debris.  Destruction releases energy, construction claims it and uses it to maintain a form.

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Autotrophs are a vital part of the food chains of all ecosystems. They take energy from the sun (or from inorganic sources) and convert it into a form (carbon-based or organic molecules) that is used to carry out various biological functions such as cell growth.




Whether we claim energy through the internal destruction of other forms (also known as digestion :grin:), or benefit from previous destruction, the basic principle still applies.


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Re: One River [Re: Veritas]
    #5710718 - 06/04/06 11:00 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

my contribution here is that smoking is the river too


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Re: One River [Re: redgreenvines]
    #5710736 - 06/04/06 11:09 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yes, your morning destruction ritual allows for elaborate constructions. :grin:



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Re: One River [Re: fireworks_god]
    #5711046 - 06/04/06 12:44 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

What you say may be true, BUT our particular fishbowl does have walls...there might be other fishbowls (universes) out there of course. Now we could disuss other dimensions which could make our universe infinite...but I aint going there right now because it is irrelevant to the idea I was presenting.


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    #5711061 - 06/04/06 12:48 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"Perhaps it would be clearer to say that construction requires destruction, than to say that life requires death."

Well from a physical sciences standpoint that is true. The destruction will eventually overwhelm the construction, however...entropy. I should state that I was actually making a semi poetic metaphor about the interconnectedness of all life. I wasn't going for a scientific statement....all of you guys think way too much :smile:


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    #5711065 - 06/04/06 12:50 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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all of you guys think way too much




Define "too much."  :grin:


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    #5711077 - 06/04/06 12:51 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

More than enough?


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    #5711088 - 06/04/06 12:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Isn't "enough" subjective? Your version of enough might not be sufficient for me. I prefer to take on ideas the way I would work a Rubik's Cube: twist, turn, rearrange, sort, re-sort, arrive at a solution, then dissolve the solution with a few quick twists.


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    #5711140 - 06/04/06 01:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Normally I think too much also....but I been trying to cut back. I am already a serious nerd....


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    #5711164 - 06/04/06 01:14 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Nerd: an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits.

Geek: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of.

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Geek has always had negative connotations within society at large, where being described as a geek tends to be an insult. The term has recently become less condescending, or even a badge of honor, within particular fields and subcultures; this is particularly evident in the technical disciplines, where the term is now more of a compliment denoting extraordinary skill.




I think you're more of a geek than a nerd.  :grin:


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    #5711201 - 06/04/06 01:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I am both. I am unstylish because I don't care about style, I am socially inept...totally (but this is improving...stalking practice), I am slavishly devoted to intellectual pursuits. I am also of an intellectual bent and often disaproved of but I have been stalking this also. So I guess I am both. These definitions are badges of honor in my view. I think that the original meaning of geek was someone who ate live animals....I have not gone there yet.


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    #5711216 - 06/04/06 01:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

However....I should not be defining myself thus.....as I really defy explanation...


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    #5711227 - 06/04/06 01:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

If M-Theory is correct, then the universe is not a closed system, as gravity regularly escapes its bounds.


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    #5711336 - 06/04/06 01:53 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Exactly, a geek show, biting off the heads of chickens. :grin:

I think that would be interesting enertainment, with strobe lights, lasers, and to the theme of Bach's Little Fugue. :lol:

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    #5711363 - 06/04/06 02:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Maybe I should take up the practice...I don't know any other geeks who have tried "getting back to their roots".


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    #5711369 - 06/04/06 02:02 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I thought you lived down South?  Just toss a pebble in the crowd at the Piggly Wiggly, you're likely to hit a Carnival Geek. :lol:


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    #5711386 - 06/04/06 02:08 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I ain't Piggly Wiggly south...you need to go about 150 miles south from here for that.


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    #5711393 - 06/04/06 02:09 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Sorry, I'm woefully uneducated about the South.  It's all Piggly Wiggly to me.  :tongue:


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    #5711406 - 06/04/06 02:13 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I am central...not south at all. The people here not southern. The people in Louisville consider themselves "northerners".


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    #5711773 - 06/04/06 04:21 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:lol: You're still wayyy South of here, pardner.  It goes beyond geography.  It's difficult to imagine some of the laws on the books in the South even getting a mention on the West Coast.  But that's off-topic. :grin:


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    #5711993 - 06/04/06 05:23 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

aye, so if you're harvesting energy from the life stream (mako energy) as the power source for you power supply company, in spite of the fact it's killing the planet and monsters are springing up out of nowhere, you can bet that some "terrorist" heros are destined to come kick your ass. well, that's the way it happens in the videogame Final Fantasy 7 at any rate.


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    #5712264 - 06/04/06 06:35 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"if you're harvesting energy from the life stream (mako energy) as the power source for you power supply company, in spite of the fact it's killing the planet and monsters are springing up out of nowhere"

That sounds like a viable business model...


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    #5712406 - 06/04/06 07:12 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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That sounds like a viable business model...




Or so it would seem, but you fail to take into consideration that Cloud will kick your fucking ass. :lol:

Now, if you will excuse me, I am off to the Golden Saucer!

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