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Evolution..
Anyone know where we messed up?
I realize what I am today is the result of, little single celled organisms, who decide to become multiple celled organisms.....then screwing up and deciding they want to survive...wtf? how you just go from matter, to matter that matters.......lol or- matter that wants to survive?
where did that 'will' come from..now we are up shits creek because, we are these HUGE organisms that have like 1 billion survival functions...
including the virtual 'self' program which is ridiculously hard to get off the operating system...... it's ridiculous...:eek:
we got the whole delusions of separation problem, useful for survival but wtfs the point in the first place....
we look at our selves in the mirror and don't GET IT cause it's so normal, that we are these RIDICULOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE creatures...CREATURES..:rolleyesc:rolleyesc
like i don't get it, how you go from a bit of subatomic matter, to evolving eye balls, wtf are eyeballs anyway?! how the feck do you just evolve EYES, we decided maybe oh lets get another sense organ WTF what other senses are we missing if you can just add senses like that...
... I don't think it's been long enough to develop these things...maybe christians are right and GOD the super LORD and JESUS the ultra CHRIST just created us with magic... a few thousand years ago...i'll drink to that AMEN
I realize what I am today is the result of, little single celled organisms, who decide to become multiple celled organisms.....then screwing up and deciding they want to survive...wtf? how you just go from matter, to matter that matters.......lol or- matter that wants to survive?
where did that 'will' come from..now we are up shits creek because, we are these HUGE organisms that have like 1 billion survival functions...
including the virtual 'self' program which is ridiculously hard to get off the operating system...... it's ridiculous...:eek:
we got the whole delusions of separation problem, useful for survival but wtfs the point in the first place....
we look at our selves in the mirror and don't GET IT cause it's so normal, that we are these RIDICULOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE creatures...CREATURES..:rolleyesc:rolleyesc
like i don't get it, how you go from a bit of subatomic matter, to evolving eye balls, wtf are eyeballs anyway?! how the feck do you just evolve EYES, we decided maybe oh lets get another sense organ WTF what other senses are we missing if you can just add senses like that...
... I don't think it's been long enough to develop these things...maybe christians are right and GOD the super LORD and JESUS the ultra CHRIST just created us with magic... a few thousand years ago...i'll drink to that AMEN
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I don't think Buddhism is concerned so much where we came from; after all, that is in the past and we are living now. To focus so much on the past is a great injustice to the moment we live in, lets spare this moment the injustice of an unmindful mind.
Furthermore about our "virtual self"
We are still just pieces of; the earth, the solar system, the universe. We are made of the same atoms and subsequently the same sub-atomic particles of all things in the universe (we're all-stars.) Does the Earth have "self' any more or less than you and I have "self"?
Really?
My advice would be to have another think. Just sit for 5 and try and contemplate how long 3 billion years is.
Three BILLION!
Take a year, mulitply it by a thousand.
Multiply that by a thousand.
Then by another thousand.
Times by three!
As for the eyes - there is a lot of very well presented evidence out there. In simplest terms it began with cells that were just able to percieve changes in light and shadow. Later clusters of these cells that were able to distinguish more clearly. Then the cells developed a slight convex shape so they could also percieve the direction that light was coming from etc etc and so on and so on.
There a number of creatures today with very rudimentary light-sensing organs that are not sophisticated eyes - there just hasn't been the evolutionary pressure on those species to develop sight.
Secondly, don't worry about such matters.
Why precisely do they matter?
How does knowing such things really affect your practice?
Does it enhance it?
Do you think your practice would in any way be improved by knowing any of this?
If the answer is, "I dunno".... then the answer is 'No'.
If it were to improve your practice, you'd know it.
Palzang
As for evolution, I think Darwin was dead wrong. Obviously we are still apes.:banghead:
I'm not sure I understand your meaning here, Found.
Actually our conservation status is listed at "least concern", so we're quite far from the brink of extinction.
I believe differently I guess.
I meant that we have the best resources to learn Dharma nowadays,
But also the world is the most messed up EVER. It's a miracle we haven't been nuclear attacked yet. IMO. or Pandemics will get us, if not, the economy... which north america really
messed up (lies, printing fake money, debt, etc)
and if not the terrorists that will get us with a critical hit somewhere, the anti-terrorists will get us..
you know like 3/4 of the world SUCKS and probably wants to commit suicide but aids or malaria or frigging the black plague will get them so they don't bother...lol
you got african death squads going around butchering towns ..real life boogie men..they will rape you
you got like north korea that doesn't even know how they feel, middle east is fucked too...the states has more guns then every action movie combined...
and the list goes on and on....i forgot global destruction of the ecosystem too...
time for buddhism!!!! , the world needs a path to be revealed, to escape out of this dangerous jungle, it will eventually fall on us to be the shepherd of this generations earth populace..
hmm that feels right , right?!
The wisdom and compassion of countless Buddhas & Bodhisattvas in the ten directions is limitless. But if we do not seek out their wisdom, if we do not harness compassion...then it is as if they didn't exist.
Palzang