Life-The Large and Small of It.

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Hi!

 

There are four parts. Since I didn't want to overload you, I broke it up

into sections.

Perhaps you will find it interesting.

 

Larry Epston

www.epston.com

 

 

Part 1/4

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> The Large and the Small of IT

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> Human Life, what is it, why is it, where does it come from?

> Think of a blue ball with a bit of mold growing here and there on its

> surface. The mold is like all organic life on land. If you magnify it you can

see

> it is mostly green stuff that is plant life, and brown stuff that is desert,

> and some white stuff that is frozen water called snow. Now if you super

> magnify it, you can see living things, worms, ants, cockroaches, and in the

> blue part, the ocean, you can see multitudes of sea life, fish, snail, mussels

> and whales. All this living stuff is really really tiny, compared to the size

> of the ball, really really tiny.

> Among the living forms is us, humans, tiny living spores,

> micro-organisms, and out of all of these, if you super, super magnify it,

there you are.

> Now, think of this blue ball floating in a huge athletic stadium. This

> is like the earth, floating in a huge apparently empty space. That’s it

> folks, a small speck floating in an infinitely large space. Now as you hold

that

> image, think about your human life. Can you hold both images Simultaneously?

> Or do you have to switch back and forth from one to the other. Now ask,

> why is the mold growing on the blue ball. What is nurturing it, what does it

> feed on? Obviously the mold on the blue ball is feeding and growing on the

> surface of the blue ball itself.

> In our case, there’s also the sun and the earth together, and out of

> their relationship, life arises. Exactly how that happened, we do not know.

> There’s the ocean and the land, the atmosphere, the mountains, the forests,

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> plains and deserts, and then, a small part is life, living things. This life

> also includes insects, worms, bugs, flies, ants and many others and us. Life

> in the sea, life on the land. Out of all this life on the land, is us,

> playing a very small part.

> We are only recently developed. 100,000 years out of 2.5 billion. If

> evolution theory is correct, before that we were less than human, more like

> the other animals, indistinguishable from a rat, a lemur or a squirrel, when

> the dinosaurs ran around eating the plants and each other.

> Our ancestry goes all the way back to the beginning of life, without a

> break, a total continuum, a pulse, a current of living forms that goes all the

> way back, even into the chemicals and atoms of the primordial and beyond.

 

 

to be continued. 2/4 is next.

 

Suggestion: If it interests you, print it out and add the other parts.

 

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