The Astonishing Fact!

OP - August 28, 2011, 04:45 PM

The Astonishing Fact is that we are related to all Lifeforms on this planet! From simplest bacteria to the giant Redwood Tree.

We are related to all the lifeforms that ever existed on this Earth. And will be related to all future lifeforms that will ever exist on this planet.

Isn't that not an astonishing Fact?

Does that not inspire awe and wonder?

Does that not connect you and I and all that there is to an under lying unity?
A cousinship of all lifeforms?

What does religion has to offer that can give this kind of amazing unification to all that exists?

There are no djinns or angels or prophets and messengers that separates us. No hell or heaven that divides us. And there is no dominion of one over the other. Only a different branche in the Tree of Life that joins us.

Tell me is this not a astonishing Fact?
As Astonishing as a divine revelation?

Little Fly, Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

I too dance and drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

Therefore I am a happy fly,
If I live or if I die.

Re: The Astonishing Fact!

Reply #2 - August 28, 2011, 04:58 PM

It is

I've always been deeply in love and in awe of Nature, and ever since I lost my belief in god and learned more about science and the natural world, the awe and love has grown. We are connected to everything and everything to us. No religion or ideology can rival such a kinship.

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Reply #4 - August 28, 2011, 05:11 PM

I don't know, but... the idea of some kind of God would probably be more romantic to me, personally.

قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد

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Reply #6 - August 28, 2011, 05:20 PM

Quote from: harakaat on August 28, 2011, 05:11 PM

I don't know, but... the idea of some kind of God would probably be more romantic to me, personally.

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Re: The Astonishing Fact!

Reply #8 - August 28, 2011, 05:21 PM

Quote from: Gladfly on August 28, 2011, 04:45 PM

The Astonishing Fact is that we are related to all Lifeforms on this planet! From simplest bacteria to the giant Redwood Tree.

A bit like the Borg's Collective ... I met a few people who believe in that!

Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other
You are the music while the music lasts.
T.S.Eliot

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Reply #10 - August 28, 2011, 05:25 PM

collectie is a lot more thatn assimilation

Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other
You are the music while the music lasts.
T.S.Eliot

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Reply #12 - August 28, 2011, 05:44 PM

Quote from: zooby on August 28, 2011, 05:03 PM

I love this when I hear it, probably the most romantic sounding scientific fact I ever heard.

and every time i think of it, it reminds me of this song! Cheesy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sH0uR2u7Hs

(Lyrics)
Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, Tell where are you going?
This he told me

Said, I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm,
Gonna join in a rock and roll band.
Got to get back to the land and set my soul free.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Well, then can I walk beside you?
I have come to lose the smog,
And I feel myself a cog in somethin' turning.
But then maybe it's the time of man.
And I don't know who I am,
But life is for learning.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

By the time we got to Woodstock,
We were half a million strong
And everywhere was a song and a celebration.
And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes
Riding shotgun in the sky,
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are caught in the devils bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

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Reply #14 - August 28, 2011, 06:15 PM

Quote from: Prince Spinoza on August 28, 2011, 05:20 PM

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Quote from: harakaat on August 28, 2011, 05:11 PM

I don't know, but... the idea of some kind of God would probably be more romantic to me, personally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0LSO-dtsxo&fmt=18

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Reply #16 - August 28, 2011, 08:17 PM

LOL

Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other
You are the music while the music lasts.
T.S.Eliot

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Reply #18 - August 30, 2011, 02:17 PM

It does amaze me.

We are made up of star stuff. Thats astonishing too Tongue

Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. [carl sagan]

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Reply #20 - August 30, 2011, 08:29 PM

Its not easy doing the spreading these days. All they want is bonking.

Little Fly, Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

I too dance and drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

Therefore I am a happy fly,
If I live or if I die.

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Reply #22 - August 31, 2011, 10:09 PM

awe and wonder ? it makes me sick

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour."
Aldous Huxley

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