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Then write it with proper spacing and punctuation and submit it to me by any means necessary. Hint: how you respond will reveal the secrets of your personality. You may not be comfortable with me having that kind of psychological power over you, but you’ll just have to deal with it, because I’m the one who came up with the little riddle.
It’s 10 of 6 in the morning; I’m back from a party, and I just had a thought.
I’ve heard before the Continuity of Life theory used in response to arguments about abortion. There’s a lot of discussion over whether life begins at conception or birth, but the theory of the Continuity of Life takes a different perspective. This theory notes that the egg is a living cell of the mother in all sexual reproduction, and even when it absorbs the genetic material of the sperm, it never stops its normal functioning. From a certain perspective, the new human’s life never begins, but is just a continuation of the mother’s. Taking this idea further, all human’s lives, or even all organisms’, are really extensions of one another in a continuous matrilineal line backwards.
Now, this of course is just a way of looking at things, and granted it raises more questions than it answers (particularly about abortion) but it got me thinking about life in general. In the same way that a fetus originates from one cell, but becomes increasingly complex, with specialized tissues filling complementary roles, evolution spawns an increasingly varied collection of organisms which regulate one another perfectly. If all organisms on Earth are outgrowths of their mothers, then we are all still surviving elements of the first living thing on the planet to successfully self-replicate. From a certain point of view, that progenitor simply divided into multiple, independent components, which then began specializing themselves through the incredibly slow, but perfectly reliable, force of evolution.
Following this through, it seems there is still only one organism on Earth, maintaining homeostasis through the interactions of its component organisms in their overlapping ecosystems, and continually evolving to become more complex. In fact, one could say it’s still gestating, which begs the question: what would this superorganism be like at maturity?
It’s ideas like this which make me think that a religion grounded on an awareness and embracement of science and philosophy, in contrast to all of the current ones, would be sitting on a goldmine.
By the way, let me know if you think this sort of content is inappropriate for my website. I’m not going to pretend it doesn’t contrast with the rest, but it’s something I felt like sharing.
…that the original flavors of Life Savers were loganberry, tomato, chalk, fructose, and millet.
…that the beach was invented in 1729.
…that cashews and hazelnuts are not actually nuts. A cashew is a melon, whereas hazelnuts are just an urban legend.
…that the Eiffel Tower is the world’s tallest natural formation.
…that the sound barrier was actually broken in 74 BCE, by a chariot drawn by more than 100 horses.
…that if man were meant to fly, God would’ve given him wings.
…that cattle lead the world in beef production.
…that if the population of the United States stood on one another’s shoulders, they would stretch to …the moon, and this is how the first moon landing was accomplished.
…that the median income of the richest 1% of the world’s population is higher than that of any other demographic.
…that clowns originated in the Indus River Valley of what is today Pakistan, where they were a savage, warlike people.
…that Canadians share over 99% of their DNA with humans.
…that bats are the only mammals which are also birds.
