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So I spent the New Year's up in
Seattle with my buddy Chris Lewis. It was a good
time, and a change of pace for something to start
2007 off new and fresh. We had gorgeous weather to
throw some discs around the park. The night ended up
in party mode with a good cheer for the midnight
countdown. We played the funniest game ever, Apples
to Apples. Hilarious! I am glad I drove up to meet
some cool friends of Chris's and to just have a
mellow relaxing time. I guess you can party anywhere
as long as you have friends right? Well, starting
off the year I feel good. I have my priorities to
lock down like finding a place in Portland and
settling in with this new job. If I had a New Year's
resolution it would be to ride my bike more than
drive this year. I am itching to roll around and
explore Portland a bit. I am itching to start up
with classes and find some thing meaningful to latch
on to. I found it with work, so I am going to roll with a good
thing. Now I need to fill in a few grey areas. So that might be my New Year's resolution.
The vague resolution that only comes once a year to
be forgotten the day after it was made. Why don't
people make throughout the year resolutions?
Wouldn't they be more effective? Oh, well, might as
well wait till next year before I lose all this
weight, stop smoking and panhandling all the time.
So I started thinking again
about people and time. It's it amazing how the human
race is interconnected as one big whole? The whole
is comprised of individual links all bonded together
by personal contacts. Family, friends and
interpersonal connections of love, friendship,
happiness and joy create these bonds of linked
relationships. What makes the race where it is now?
Would that be the core desire for survival? Then
these bonds expand out like a huge web, they grow.
These are the motivations to keep the human race
growing and moving on. These are the connections
that fathers and mothers want to pass on to their
children. Charles Darwin might of overlooked the human's
emotional evolution of compassion and love to be used as an
evolutionary tactic. Time changes, the race shifts,
grows, or is altered. It passes it's ability to
create these bonds and the need for them. Then life
continues and generations are born.
Imagine if nobody had the
capacity to establish these interpersonal
connections. Would people then feel the need to
continue? Would they be so lonely that they never
felt it worth it to pass on life in this world to
their children? A different perception about the human race
is if it mirrored bacteria.
Each adjacent cell, working with and progressing the
neighbor in it's life. Then eventually the bacteria
grows compared to how much food is available.
However the bacteria is interconnected and all
shares the same common goal. Each cells helps to
create an interconnected blob of one whole
community. Take Seattle for instance, all the
districts interconnected as one big city. No matter
what anybody chooses to do in their life, they will
help out people is some way or another. No matter
what!!!
What has changed with human
needs? Obviously the world and lifestyle have
changed dramatically. A time ago when Lewis and
Clark set a trekking up the Missouri River, health
care and survival was a thing only to be done on
your own accord. No such thing as an ambulance. The horse buggy that traveled seven
mile an hour was a technological marvel. Now it's
dangerous to creep into the wrong blocks of a city
or run out of gas in the wilderness. Zip it! It's a
world out there once you open your car door. What is
so scary now compared to then? Isn't it strange to see old
historic houses, per say built in 1895 and think
"This house is older than everybody alive today"
What a strange thing? Things built now are
incomparable to any other generation. However, may
our basic desires not have changed from generation
to generation. People just live in the environment
they have. They may seek all the same things people
of the past opened their eyes for.
I often wonder how Darwin wasn't
born before the nineteenth century. How did religion
occupy the status quo of consciousness for so long?
Was is from ultimate fear? Today, the collective thought of the
masses believing in science is an infancy perception.
Just arising from the nineteenth century. Imagine if
everybody around you still believed in the 'Chain of
Being'. The 'Chain of Being' was a European
religious belief about how the world existed
throughout the Birth of Christ till the 19th century.
The 'Chain of Being' was a spiritual link between
the heavens, earth then hell. At the top of
the chain was heaven, then the fixed stars, the
planets in our solar system then earth. Hell was at
the bottom and at the center of Earth. Every link
closer to heaven received less disturbance in the
chain. Every link above affected the link below. So
if Jupiter was off in it's calculated trajectory,
then Earth experienced mayhem. Since Earth was so
low on the chain, plagues, earthquakes, famines,
evil villains, blizzards, and all malicious acts
were caused by disturbances in the chain. Imagine
trying to argue this concept out of some bodies
head! At least in Europe at the time you would of
had too. But, guaranteed there would of had to be
radicals at the time who thought of evolution,
biology and science and all that jazz. They just had
no platform to stand on with their beliefs. Well,
maybe in the next few hundred years radicals of our
time will change the mass's perception of how the
world works and evolution and science will become
historical concept. Didn't Darwin break the chain?
So are hundred year old buildings
proof enough to a dynamic and changing race?
Did Darwin misunderstand the complexities of an
evolving human emotion to act as an evolutionary
tactic? Are the intertwined feelings of compassion a
strategy to proliferate the lineage? Yet, with
evolution there is never to be any perfection. As a New Year
rolls along, the times slowly change and forward is
the only direction to go. With positive and
accepting arms we may see an evolving 2007, and can
only embrace the change for a dynamic world. As we
have seen in the last hundred years, times will
change quick.
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