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Saturday, November 17
View Article  What does ecological niche reinforce about the significance of existence, life? Part II of II
by Daniel J. Shepard on Sat 17 Nov 2007 12:00 AM EST

What does ecological niche reinforce about the significance of existence, life?

 

Part II of II

There is far more to the human organism than described by the physical niche it fills.

 

There is the spiritual side of humanity, the idealistic side, the aspect of humanity wrapped in dreams, hopes, and sense of connection to something beyond the boundaries of the universe.

 

The physical aspect of the universe creates ecological niches that living organisms with ‘local’ awareness fill.

 

But humanity seems to have more than local awareness.

 

Humanity seems to have a sense of, a possible connection to, a form of universal awareness that goes far beyond the physical universe within which we function.

 

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We acknowledge the existence of our universe as an absolute in terms of perceiving its existence.

 

In addition, we acknowledge the existence of life existing within the niches created by the physical aspect of the universe.

 

Both define each other.

 

If there is more to existence than the physical universe and life, and if life and the universe exist within ‘something’ that lies beyond the boundaries of the universe, then both the universe and life would seem to have a function within and to this ‘thing’ within which they lie.

 

Studying the two, life and the physical aspect of the universe, should help us understand what lies beyond the universe.

 

But we need more information than what we observe about life and the universe.

 

We need to also study the strong sense of purpose of humanity.

 

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Friday, November 16
View Article  What does ecological niche reinforce about the significance of existence, life? Part I of II
by Daniel J. Shepard on Fri 16 Nov 2007 12:00 AM EST

What does ecological niche reinforce about the significance of existence, life?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Niches reinforce the concept of belonging.

 

Organisms are members of the universe. Organisms fill a place created within the universe.

 

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Does humanity belong and, if it does, to what does it belong?

 

Organisms fill ecological niches within a universe and, when studied, the niche they fill can be understood both generally and in great detail.

 

The same concept applies to life.

 

Even if a life form were removed to an environment totally alien to them, biologists could gain great insight into the nature of the surrounding within which that life existed just by studying the life form.

 

The same applies to humans.

 

When studying the human biological organism, both body and brain, one could learn much about the individual’s and the species’ environment.

 

But one would have little insight into the motivation, drives, conscious needs, and desires on an intellectual level unless one also examined the accomplishments, hope, dreams, and knowledge the human organism had established

 

To be continued: Part II of II: There is far more...
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Saturday, October 13
View Article  What does symmetry imply about our significance in eternity? Part II of II
by Daniel J. Shepard on Sat 13 Oct 2007 12:00 AM EDT

What does symmetry imply about our significance in eternity?

 

Part II of II

...Others would have had no awareness of your existence.

 

But to yourself, there would be no doubt of your existence. If you stubbed your toe, you would feel pain. If you basked in the warm sun, you would feel warmth.

 

As you gazed into the night sky and saw the twinkling stars, you would sense awe.

 

Your awareness would exist.

 

What you experience would exist as awareness.

 

Once your body stopped functioning, the awareness you experienced would still be awareness.

 

Does this awareness become a part of total awareness?

 

If the awareness does not become a part of total awareness – what we call all knowing – then total awareness is not truly total because your awareness is not a part of it.

 

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If we wish to retain the concept that the Causative Force is omniscient, then we appear to have no choice but to accept the idea that the Causative Force includes you.

 

You are a piece of the Causative Force.

 

The physics of symmetry leave us no understandable choice but to accept the concept of something existing beyond the universe, for the universe appears to be only a temporary state within something much bigger than itself.

 

The only apparent way out of this conclusion would be to reject the idea of symmetry, which science is not willing to do at this point.

 

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Friday, October 12
View Article  What does symmetry imply about our significance in eternity? Part I of II
by Daniel J. Shepard on Fri 12 Oct 2007 12:00 AM EDT

What does symmetry imply about our significance in eternity?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Symmetry implies the universe could well have been created from nothing but awareness.

 

As such, it is eternity that is the real essence of what exists – not the temporary state of your physical being.

 

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There is no doubt you feel pain – physical as well as emotional.

 

There is no doubt you feel love – physical as well as emotional.

 

The point is, however, that without your being capable of having awareness of these events, they would not exist for you.

 

Without awareness, you would not exist.

 

As an example, if your parents were stranded on a deserted island far away from everyone and you were born ten years later, no one would know of your existence but your parents.

 

If they died and you went on to live eighty years before you died, no one but you would be aware of your existence.

 

To be continued: Part II of II: Others would have had no...
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Friday, October 5
View Article  What does Homo- have to offer us as individuals? Part II of II
by Daniel J. Shepard on Fri 05 Oct 2007 12:00 AM EDT

What does Homo- have to offer us as individuals?

 

Part II of II

...This is ‘thinking out of the box.’ We appear to be the only life form on earth capable of performing such a task.

 

Leaving our abstractness floating still further away from the circle filled with dots, we see something surrounding the circle, surrounding the universe.

 

We see abstraction bathing the sphere of the universe.

 

Total awareness, omniscience, seems to be the substance within which the universe is floating.

 

Upon closer examination, it appears that bits and pieces of abstraction are confined within the container, the universe.

 

The ability of man, the genus Homo, provides us with the potential to literally ‘think out of the box’ and see the significance of the individual lying outside the universe and in eternity.

 

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This opens up the concept of the first of three forms of existence.

 

This opens up the concept of the individual.

 

We, the genus Homo, can see the individual as a separate entity, separate even from the Causative Force.

 

Separate not only because it is within the universe while the Causative Force is outside the universe, but separate also because it has its own identity, awareness, uniqueness, and individuality.

 

You exist.

 

You exist as an individual while at the same time being a part of something greater than yourself.

 

The whole is equal to the sum of its parts and you are a part of the whole.

 

While in the universe, you may be temporarily separated from what it is you are a part of, you are a part of it nonetheless and nobody has the power to take that away from you.

 

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