Welcome. And congratulations. Iam delighted you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little more complicated than you realize. But you will eventually, for Iam going to talk about essence of our existence. And you might just end up with knowing a paradox so great than anything you must have come across, which will help you appreciate for the first time what it means to keep you you.
I will start with you being here. For you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you. It's an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tried before and will only exist this once. For the next many years these tiny particles will uncomplainingly engage in all the billions of deft, co-operative efforts necessary to keep you intact and let you experience the supremely agreeable but generally appreciated state known as existence.
Roger this: Atoms are mindless particles and not even themselves alive! Atoms don't even know that you are there - they don't even know THEY are there! For all their devoted attention, they don't even care about you. Yet somehow for the period of your existence they will answer to a single rigid impulse: to keep you you. Imagine the atoms which are nothing but lifeless objects getting together by some inexplicable and miraculous biology and chemistry to create life! For, at the level of chemistry, life is fantastically mundane: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, a little calcium,a dash of sulphur which is all you need.
Yet another thing that baffles me is the arguable decision of these atoms (or whose decision shall we call it...the universal scapegoat god?!? ) to form living things on Earth and decline to do so elsewhere.
The atoms create the wonder called life, in particular, the humans. If the whole body is nothing but atoms, how can few atoms (read the brain) control the other atoms...how can atoms(mindless atoms) form something which can think and communicate the same to other atoms...
So, thank god we don't need to blame the monkeys for evolution ever again! :D
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well, stumbled upon your blog somehow.
midway through the essay, it occurred to me that you were gonna get to sthg more interesting/engaging than what you have ended it..
anyways, i was thinking on these lines :
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For the world/universe/superset to be here now trillions of drifting planets/people/elements of the set had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create it. It's an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tried before and will only exist this once. For the next many years these tiny particles will uncomplainingly engage in all the billions of deft, co-operative efforts necessary to keep the superset intact and let you experience the supremely agreeable but generally appreciated state known as existence.
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well, thats just my imagination. nice piece of writing though.
well sry.. my brain's atoms couldn't assemble in the right place to do the right thing before the hit-listed time :D
whatever, this post brings back to me the forgotten confusions (put up in a much better way) and makes me stop in the midst of the comment and think
"Are these atoms brainless and workless?".. yeah! they are.. just like you and me.. no wonder we are made of them :D
I guess all this raises the age old question of whether you believe in a higher power, or to be more specific which higher power. science or god (or both). and does it matter whether you believe at all.
a short story of nearly everything
clubbed in some more things??
this seems like a piece from bill bryson's "A short history of nearly everything".
i hope u take the comment in the positive way and dnt get offended! :)
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