Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Nothing more to add, honey

 

Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? It seems these questions have finally been given their proper answers. It´s all in the diagram above. Somewhere. Somehow. Yeah, really.

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  1. Wtf. From Wiki:

    >>>Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans, which recent research has indicated insects are nested within.>>>

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  2. More scary shit...

    >>>In 1982, Terry Erwin published an estimate of global species richness of 30 million, by extrapolating from the numbers of beetles found in a species of tropical tree. In one species of tree, Erwin identified 1200 beetle species, of which he estimated 163 were found only in that type of tree. Given the 50,000 described tropical tree species, Erwin suggested that there are almost 10 million beetle species in the tropics. In 2011 a study published in PLoS Biology estimated there to be 8.7 million ± 1.3 million eukaryotic species on Earth. A 2016 study concludes that Earth is home to 1 trillion species.>>>

    The good news is that most of that trillion aren´t insects. The bad news is that they are...micro-organisms!

    Either way, we live on Bug Planet.

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  3. What makes us different from everything else? Presumably, that we can communicate with Brahman above and Atman within.

    Other than that?

    Nothing.

    Meditate on this...

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  4. I think we get all this "1 trillion species" stuff wrong. We don´t understand that the entire universe is a system or web of some kind. Species are irrelevant. So are individual organisms (mostly).

    We can evolve (somehow) out of this and presumably move into another system?

    Makes me feel...humbled.

    Un-ironic tweet.

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    1. Species irrelevant for what? If you want to have kids species seem very relevant when you pick your spouse, to mention än obvious example. But you perhaps meant from a purley theological perspective?

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    2. Yes, I was thinking that maybe its in some sense irrelevant from the viewpoint of a cosmic evolution (or just cosmic existence), where the entire universe is a kind of super-organism. Then it doesn´t matter if one species goes extinct, if individuals prey on each other, etc.

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  5. We can evolve from the bio-sphere into the theo-sphere.

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  6. So yes, God really does love beetles...

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  7. So there are 1 trillion species, well, it seems the Buddha was right when he said that being born a human is kinda special!

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  8. A Hare Krishna i talked with a long time ago said you have to go trough a lot of different species before you are reborn as a human. Several millions. But if you as a human kill a cow then you have to start all over again. Kind of cute. I like it as an animal rightist. But probably just a fairytale invented at some point by some indian ruler when vegetarianism for the masses made it easier to rule them. This of course in no way makes vegetarianism in itself bad.

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  9. In some sense, I consider it somehow "anthropocentric" to claim that humans are special *even* in the Hindu-Buddhist sense, but perhaps I´m just going through an anti-anthropocentric phase just now (used to be very anthropo-Euro-Suedo-centric myself until fairly recently). Still am, in some ways...

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  10. The Hare Krishna have an almost brilliantly bizarre theology, complete with erotic mysticism (Krishna and the gopis) and other stuff like that...

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  12. Weird, the comment you didn´t delete isn´t visible on the thread, but I can see it in my private comments section?!

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    1. Im to much of a boomer to know why. I know that computers and stuff often dont do as their suposed to do. When they persist in not doing what they should i let my computer-savant brother fix it for me. Cant belive there is a math and computer genious in our bloodlne. Where did he get those genes from? Did our mother really honour her marriage all the time or is my brother the result of a fling with some physics proffesor?

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    2. It continues. Another comment of yours didn´t go through. The one about "the stallion sacrifice"...

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  13. Yes, the Hare Krishna don´t have any erotic mysticism in this life, although its possible that other branches of the Gaudiya Vaishnavas in India do so. Not entirely sure. In the next life, on the other hand...!

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  14. Maybe you have som kind of AI-censor bot that ser "Stallion sacrafice" as something naughty? Actually it is very naughty in the context it was mentioned.

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  15. A bit like that old Caligula film, maybe? :D

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  16. Yes, but as it is described it seems to be a much more controlled process, not the impulsiv drunken acts of transgressions wich there was so plenty of in Caligula.

    Read about it here:
    https://martinetpress.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/asvamedha.pdf

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  17. Wow. I read it now. Hinduism is even more crazy than I expected...

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