Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like
every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.
You just can't accept the fact that you are NOTHING special, no more important than
any other living thing on this planet.
Instead they are working with big industry to ensure that those with the wealth and power, particularly the fossil fuel companies, can continue to cling on at the top at the expense of
all other living things on our planet.
We are already losing the very necessary Bees, do we need to kill off
every other living thing on the planet?
Yes but so are termites, pine beetles, codfish, cows, pigs and
every other living thing on this planet.
Not exact matches
«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer
living things that can do
things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us
live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.
He believes
life on other planets could exist and even has supported the most evil
thing ever: BIRTH CONTROL!!!!! OMG What's next?
Simply because I exist
on a
Planet about a billion light years from any
other currently
living form of
life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random
thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.
It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent
on other planets and vital to our
life - is present here, that there is a balance of
living things to keep each
other in check.
On the other hand, it is not the Christian idea that in the temporal end alone — on this planet where our little mortal lives are lived out — there will come the grand culmination of all thing
On the
other hand, it is not the Christian idea that in the temporal end alone —
on this planet where our little mortal lives are lived out — there will come the grand culmination of all thing
on this
planet where our little mortal
lives are
lived out — there will come the grand culmination of all
things.
A killer plague or
other form of biological warfare is more promising, as long as it kills every
living thing on the
planet in short order.
Everyone knows that the best friendships start by sharing
things in common and communicating openly so imagine having a best friend who
lives on the
other side of the
planet, who is always listening to what you have to say?
Trivia Question: What
living thing is more dangerous than any
other on the
planet?
I've been busy with
other things, and besides, like Microsoft's Steve Clayton told me a while back, «It already has a
life of its own, so there's no need to...» That being said, every now and then I'll come across someone in the Microsoft ecosystem, either via email, Twitter or in person, who'll tell me a funny story about it e.g. like how they were in somebody's office
on the
other side of the
planet, and there they saw it, hanging
on the wall.
Things like this are occurring all over this continent in which I
live and across every
other continent
on this
planet and for AGW / CC and it's IMPACTS are happening now everywhere and will only become more unpredictable and unprecedented and more damaging as time goes
on.
If there were 2,225 peer reviewed papers published by 9,136 contributing scientists from 2012 to 2013, and only one of them rejected the position that there is no such
thing as intelligent
life on other planets (ILOOP), therefore, 99.999 % of these scientific papers «reject ILOOP».
Giordano Bruno, the wandering monk who influenced Spinoza and Liebniz, was burned in 1600 as a heretic, for (among
other things) speculating about
life on other planets, much like scientists do today.
The great
thing about sustainability related projects is that no matter what role you play - intern, volunteer, concerned citizen, paid employee — what you do makes a difference and can have a positive impact
on the
lives of
others and our
planet.