I’m very glad that you read my posts, Jim. My subject matter varies according to events in my personal arena. But I do spend a lot of time keeping up with the chaos afoot. I just have to remember to keep the focus on myself and what I can control—one day at a time.
Quite a ride, Catherine. I am agnostic as to what our observable universe is, consisting of 2 trillion galaxies similar to our Milky Way Galaxy, which has about 100 billion suns and about 17 billion earth-size planets. I think back to Carl Sagan and Cosmos, where Sagan made the point that "earth is a miniscule spec of cosmic dust in a vast universe." All life on earth (plants, insects, animals) share the same DNA, meaning that there is but one ancestor (LUCA, about 3.5 billion years ago.) Why should humans be the only ones with a soul when we share 98% of our DNA with pigs?
I’m very glad that you read my posts, Jim. My subject matter varies according to events in my personal arena. But I do spend a lot of time keeping up with the chaos afoot. I just have to remember to keep the focus on myself and what I can control—one day at a time.
Quite a ride, Catherine. I am agnostic as to what our observable universe is, consisting of 2 trillion galaxies similar to our Milky Way Galaxy, which has about 100 billion suns and about 17 billion earth-size planets. I think back to Carl Sagan and Cosmos, where Sagan made the point that "earth is a miniscule spec of cosmic dust in a vast universe." All life on earth (plants, insects, animals) share the same DNA, meaning that there is but one ancestor (LUCA, about 3.5 billion years ago.) Why should humans be the only ones with a soul when we share 98% of our DNA with pigs?
Thank you for reading, Richard. Some brilliant minds have been thinking about things for centuries—one hopes with good intentions.
I have studied and practiced—in my own way—Buddhism and Stoicism, each of which have a similar message as:
We can’t control the direction of the wind but we can adjust our sails
However, this is the most poetic way I have heard this message.
Thank you, I like it.