Isn't life wondrous?
02 December 2006, 12:39 AM
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Isn't life wondrous?
Does anyone else ever stop and think how truly magnificent our life is? Goodness! The odds of our exsistence occuring are barely comprehensible. All the way back to the big bang, when a primeval explosive atom some 10 to 20 billion years ago lead to a series of chance reactions. The Earth then had to be placed at a perfect distance from the Sun in order for life to be given a chance to exist. Miraculously, evolution took a course which gave birth to the human race.
So, the chances of us being here thus far are pretty slim. It then gets really interesting. Of the billions of humans that have populated the Earth over thousands of years, it just so happens that your parents met and that one of the millions of spermatozoa per millilitre produced by your Father penetrated one of the thousands of ovum harboured by your Mother.
You then survived long enough and learnt enough to read what I'm able to type.
We're incredilble!
So, the chances of us being here thus far are pretty slim. It then gets really interesting. Of the billions of humans that have populated the Earth over thousands of years, it just so happens that your parents met and that one of the millions of spermatozoa per millilitre produced by your Father penetrated one of the thousands of ovum harboured by your Mother.
You then survived long enough and learnt enough to read what I'm able to type.
We're incredilble!
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02 December 2006, 12:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
"Thousands" is the operator. 
The fact that you are here, now, being so extroadinarily pedantic, is also incredible!
02 December 2006, 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
I hate copied and pasted bull****, I do.
02 December 2006, 01:03 AM
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And anyway, you missed out the bit where billions of suns had to be born and die in order to manufacture the more complex atoms upon which the whole fragile edifice is built.
02 December 2006, 01:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
And anyway, you missed out the bit where billions of suns had to be born and die in order to manufacture the more complex atoms upon which the whole fragile edifice is built.
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Originally Posted by JTaylor
Does anyone else ever stop and think how truly magnificent our life is? Goodness! The odds of our exsistence occuring are barely comprehensible. All the way back to the big bang, when a primeval explosive atom some 10 to 20 billion years ago lead to a series of chance reactions. The Earth then had to be placed at a perfect distance from the Sun in order for life to be given a chance to exist. Miraculously, evolution took a course which gave birth to the human race.
So, the chances of us being here thus far are pretty slim. It then gets really interesting. Of the billions of humans that have populated the Earth over thousands of years, it just so happens that your parents met and that one of the millions of spermatozoa per millilitre produced by your Father penetrated one of the thousands of ovum harboured by your Mother.
You then survived long enough and learnt enough to read what I'm able to type.
We're incredilble!
So, the chances of us being here thus far are pretty slim. It then gets really interesting. Of the billions of humans that have populated the Earth over thousands of years, it just so happens that your parents met and that one of the millions of spermatozoa per millilitre produced by your Father penetrated one of the thousands of ovum harboured by your Mother.
You then survived long enough and learnt enough to read what I'm able to type.
We're incredilble!
You were smoking skunk just befre this wasn't you?
02 December 2006, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by cookstar
You were smoking skunk just befre this wasn't you?
A fair few pints of SA were to blame
. Having said that, I still think life is awesome.
02 December 2006, 09:41 PM
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I wish I had been!
A fair few pints of SA were to blame. Having said that, I still think life is awesome.
A fair few pints of SA were to blame
. Having said that, I still think life is awesome. Having read all of your wonderfully philosophical post it is with some irony I have to say that in the context of the Universe, we (humans) and indeed the Earth are extremely insignificant.
02 December 2006, 09:46 PM
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I think it's quite important to think about where on earth we were actually born 
There, but for the grace of someone/thing, I could now be in a mud hut in the backwaters of an Indian swamp
and have no idea what SN was all about 
Would I be a better person
There, but for the grace of someone/thing, I could now be in a mud hut in the backwaters of an Indian swamp
and have no idea what SN was all about Would I be a better person
02 December 2006, 09:51 PM
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I think it's quite important to think about where on earth we were actually born
There, but for the grace of someone/thing, I could now be in a mud hut in the backwaters of an Indian swamp and have no idea what SN was all about
Would I be a better person
There, but for the grace of someone/thing, I could now be in a mud hut in the backwaters of an Indian swamp
and have no idea what SN was all about Would I be a better person
Ah my dear Jaydee your worth is not quantified by your location and status but by your actions and mark you leave on people whose lives you touch.
02 December 2006, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Einstein RA
Having read all of your wonderfully philosophical post it is with some irony I have to say that in the context of the Universe, we (humans) and indeed the Earth are extremely insignificant.
I'd strongly consider being placed in stasis. When we (the human race) atain collective second tier memes Spiral dynamics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
we'll begin to step out, united, into the 'final frontier'. Won't that be something?
The petty bickering and in-fighting that takes place upon our planet right now will be viewed with derision within the next millenium. What I'd give to be there!
02 December 2006, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by JTaylor
Quite. Whilst we are, without doubt, wondrous, we remain (relatively) insignificant. To be part of something so great defies my powers of description.
I'd strongly consider being placed in stasis. When we (the human race) atain collective second tier memes Spiral dynamics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
we'll begin to step out, united, into the 'final frontier'. Won't that be something?
The petty bickering and in-fighting that takes place upon our planet right now will be viewed with derision within the next millenium. What I'd give to be there!
I'd strongly consider being placed in stasis. When we (the human race) atain collective second tier memes Spiral dynamics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
we'll begin to step out, united, into the 'final frontier'. Won't that be something?
The petty bickering and in-fighting that takes place upon our planet right now will be viewed with derision within the next millenium. What I'd give to be there!
Mate you've taken ME there already with such a wonderfully hopeful notion.
