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This world exists, and is constantly progressing, but why does it exist? Look around you. Don't you wonder how all this
got to be here? Why did everything begin instead of just going on as nothing? The answer lies in evolution. What if things
existed just to progress? That's what I think is happening. We live in a world that exists only for it's ends. Ever since
the beginning, the universe has been crawling out of the darkness and into it's purpose. Why else would this world have beings
that can comptenplate their own existance? If this was just an empty world that just progressed with no ends to it, a world
ruled only by science and logic, why would any of us be able to think or feel anything? We, as thinking beings, are driven
to seek where we came from, where everything began from. In that instinct is planted the seeds for the only true form of progression.
Over the millenia, and perhaps millions of years to come, a lot is going to happen. Our ways of thinking will change, expand,
and likely be proven wrong on a lot of things, our consiousness will expand, our technology and science will progress, and
our species will evolve. All for what? I for one believe that it's a farce not to believe that something exists outside of
our limited, physical world. Why would things need to progress if it wasn't working for something? I think that the only ends
progression can reach is when that which is spiritual is made physical and that which is physical is made spiritual. When
that happens, everything will exist on one plane. No one will die anymore, because we would already be where the dead end
up. Besides, we wouldn't need to die, anyway, because we would live in a world with infinite space where no room would need
to be made. Likewise, no one would be born, either, because there would be no more dead souls or physical bodies to match
up with eachother. At this point, our species would have transcended it's own violent and warlike tendancies. Why? Because
nothing matters anymore. I'm not saying that this would be a perfect world, because wherever there is consiousness there is
terrible pain, but there would be things that we would have outgrown by this point. In this. perhaps the beliefs about a Second
Coming and being granted eternal life at the end of the world have some truth to them, after all.
But let's stop talking
about the far future, and start talking about that which is imminent. And that's the fact that we're not going to stay like
this forever. We're the first species to be able to think as we do, so we're likely going to notice the seeds of our evolution.
At what point are we going to decide that we've changed to the point where we've outgrown the name "Homo Sapiens"? Will we
be afraid of the changes as we watch them become more extreme? Will the phase of us giving way to what we will become be gentle
and gradual, or will the more highly evolved destroy the "obsolete" as has happened before in human evolution? In millions
of years, will this new type of human ponder it's orgins as we have? Will we be a crude, unevolved species that could manage
create primitive technology, in their eyes? I myself am glad that I'm going to live to see the birth of a few more generations
before I shuffle off my mortal coil. I want to see the beginning of all that comes after this. How does it work, anyway? How
can a species adapt to what's around it? Can our memories and expiriences alter our genes so we can pass on something new
to the next generation? I think the particles that make up us and everything else in the universe can store memories in them.
And when memories of one type of enviroment repeatedly enter these particles, the genes, made from those particles, change
and the species adapts to suit the world that those memories come from. The world we live in now has a lot of man-made things
in it, thus those things make up our enviroment. Does this mean that we're creating our own future? Our own evolution? Will
the key to reaching our ends come to us through suffusion with our technology? Will we be able to move into those final stages
when we can move through streams of information even more freely than we do now? I'm happy that I'm still pretty young and
have a lot of time ahead of me to see how things progress next. The technology now is so much better than it was when I was
a child, and if progression keeps this speed, I'm going to live to see incredible things.
To close this, I'm going
to say a bit about us. About what makes human beings what they are. First of all, there's the most human trait of all:
The ablity to register and comptemplate our own existance, and the existance of our world. Not everyone uses it, but most
everyone has the ability to stop in their tracks and think "What am I? Why am I here?". The biggest part of being human is
that we're not only consious, but we're aware of our own consiousness, we can consider it, and wonder where it came from.
We can do the same for the world around us. Our most importaint drive isn't the drive to survive or reproduce or anything
like that, it's the drive to find out why we are as we are. Second, I'd like to point out our inherrent sadism and masochism.
I believe the reason that human beings are like that is because you need to have those traits to survive. Early humans lived
in a world where you had to give and take pain on a daily basis, so we as a species had to enjoy it a little or it would destory
us. Flash forward, and our world is still as it was, but less so. Thus, our inherrent love of torturing ourselves and others
is being seen as a "problem", when it used to be just survival. The reason we're still as savage as we were in a world that
is, in ways, more civalized, is likely because we're in an in-between phase right now. There will be less of a need to be
savage, so our souls will mature away from it a bit. Likewise, we might become more comfortable with our own messiness, and
accept it as part of the beauty of the human race. Last, I will say that we're desperate beings. We have a desperate wish
to survive, we can have a desperate wish to die, we have a desperate wish to figure things out. We need to be like this, or
we'd stagnate. We clammer for change and progression. We have in us the potential for both surviving at all costs and for
choosing to self-destruct. I will condemn neither, because they're both human urges, they're both importaint. It is of the
three components I mentioned in this paragraph that make a human being.
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