December 23, 2006

Building (with Water) - an odd rant

when it comes down to what we as individuals do with our time and energy, most of us end up constructing a scenario where we are the major player in our lives. the common means to get more is to save what we have until something comes along that we can acquire to make more of what we traded away. as we replace things that have lost their luster with things that we currently value more, we are building toward a future where our immediate needs are fullfilled and our desires are being met. coming up with the cost of living depends on the image of what it is that we are building toward.

problem lies in the fact that we are playing with a stacked deck. what we want appears to be governed by the images of propaganda that we have been sold by relentless deceit. though originally the system might have accommodated the simple tastes of far fewer persons, today there are too many people each feeling that they not only can make a profit on every transactions, but also that every transaction requires profit. in a zero sum game that cannot be possible, but in a never ending growth model, building more on top of more is embedded philosophy.

as i have developed thought patterns howdtside the norm, observation of how nature accommodates errors into novel fabrications has fascinated me. what the result of the biologic process is, is what you get - and it goes on from there to fulfill some niche that grows or diminishes due to natural control. the role of each individual is important at some level in the total cyclic process that primes the life pump, no matter which scale of observation we take in the continuum. the level of sentience, of self-awareness is still undefined - my dog realises she exists, even though i think therefore i am never crosses her mind (or so we think). what about the large oak in the yard? the blade of grass? a water molecule? the up quark? at what level is an entity that functions in chemical biology as a cog in the process able to change that process to be something different?

the water molecule - hmmm. funny concept. water as a solvent is a continuum in itself - where the properties of the molecule combined in bulk are vastly different than the individuals that make up that bulk. we find water as water in so many places, that we forget that water is the single entity that makes up the majority of living beings. while we change our internal water supply daily, my guess is that we still contain much of the original water that we used to form our embryo - embedded in the organic structure of bone, tissue and organ matter. bound water has no means of exchange once it is used in a process that tethers biologic structure into function. i would hypothesize that if we could detect the age of an intact water molecule that has been bound in the labor of a biological function, that we would find a history of function that that molecule carries onto it's next bound destination. upon release from the current function, the water molecule gets a choice of where and when to tether next. The induction to make the choice may not be what we call free will, but it makes sense that water memory of past lives can contribute to its worldly experience - since water is really never created or destroyed, just used and unused from time to time.

if we look at the collection of people in the world today in similar terms to the collection of water molecules, perhaps we can develop a group handle that starts a way of thinking different from the pattern of thinking that has caused our worldly problems. Uncle Albert said that you can never solve a problem in the same frame of mind as it was generated - so let's just imagine.

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