- life itself is a mystery

Sometimes it happens that a person can name the exact moment when his or her life changed irrevocably. Nonetheless, he or she did not allows the enthusiasm to overwhelm his or her skepticism. The big question I think we need to ask is the one the Hindu and Buddhist people ask, "What took you so long?" When we see something, how do we know if it is real, or if we see it only because we wish so much to believe? If I bump myself, I explain to the body tissue in that very area what happened. I don't know how effective that philosophy is, but it can't hurt. Of course the Gaia hypothesis - the idea that the Earth is a great big working organism, with a lot of corrections built in, fits nicely with this. The planet is going to get the last word concerning the damage humans are inflicting upon it. It's only going to take so much of the abuse going on, and then it may well burp and snort a little, and a good bit of the population may not be around any more. I strongly suspect that nature has a way of handling abuse. I don't think it would be a stretch to attribute its defense strategy to a kind of planetary intelligence.The planet will handle it, perhaps a bit more severely than we would like. It would be nicer if we took care of the problems, but...

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