Why are We Here? Who Rules Us?



All of us, that is people of all religions and races, think of ourselves as the most important beings on our planet earth. The Bible tells us everything else on the planet is ours to enjoy.

As our knowledge of all things scientific increases some sobering information comes along. Satellite images have measured what covers and constitutes the earth. It's not necessarily a surprise but plant life dominates Mother Earth.

I think it is helpful to add another dimension to plant life: We would all be dead without plant life. Our ability to live on this planet is not due to a god, capitalism, democracy or our Constitution.

For people who like gods, maybe we could consider plants to be a god of some kind that we are dependent upon. Then we would treat the earth, water and air the plants need with more respect.
Cave drawings from 40,000 years ago hint that people at that time saw animals as their gods.

The latest Atlantic Monthly has a long article about a dispute over what happened to the dinosaurs. The prevailing view has been that there was a catastrophic collision between earth and a meteor. This is being challenged by other evidence there was a systematic loss of habitat over several years caused by volcanoes.

This latter view is even more sobering because it involves the loss of most plants and the food they provide. On top of that the material that brought an end to so much plant life is increasing today, not from volcanoes but from man-made pollution.

Comments

  1. AnonymousAugust 13, 2018 at 6:21 PM

    Ahhhh yes pantheism - thanks for showing your true colors -- let us worship the earth

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  2. UnknownAugust 13, 2018 at 6:31 PM

    Opinions are just that, opinions. Mine differs substantially.

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  3. Bob BroadwaterAugust 14, 2018 at 1:14 AM

    My question is. Why do we need any thing or mythical spirit to worship ??

    Everything we are is from this earth ! Not giving respect to that fact rates higher

    on the worship scale than fairy tales .

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  4. Matt NoahAugust 14, 2018 at 7:35 AM

    Congratulations to Ervin Miller and his letter to the editor! Religious bigotry has got to go.

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    1. Jon LindgrenAugust 14, 2018 at 7:46 AM

      I join you in congratulating Ervin, a regular contributor to the comment page here on my blog, for having his letter published.

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  5. Matt NoahAugust 14, 2018 at 10:21 AM

    Just like a newspaper, Jon now chooses which voices are heard on this website. I know a good number of my posts end up never being published. Most any self-respecting blogs, even Rob Port's www.sayanythingblog.com publishes everything posted there immediately. The Forum's letter to the editors have to be pruned as no one is entitled to spend the Forum's ink and paper. However, a post on a blog only disturbs some electrons and costs nothing. I know why Jon is afraid of me and others. Our opinions and beliefs disturb his core beliefs about the world and how it should run. Mike McFeeley is so afraid of differing opinion he won't even open up his blog for anyone's comments! Same for Ahlin, Stark, and the rest of the Forum liberals. Port's blog contains comments he does not filter and which are published instantly. Liberals do this - kill speech and kill opposing thought. I guess the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s and 1970s didn't teach them anything.

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  6. Jon LindgrenAugust 14, 2018 at 3:54 PM

    I publish more of your comments than of anyone else. The reason I don't put some of them up is they have nothing but your opinion in them which I have published many times before. And then you bring up Rob Port all the time. He is from somewhere in the western part of the state, don't know where. I counted up yesterday, we have readers from 10 countries visiting this site. Do you think they are interested in your comparisons of me to "Rob Port"?

    I try to post as many of your comments as are relevant and helpful to readers. They will not all appear here.

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