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eggplantia5 (2920 words)
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Samme's Words, by Samme
murAM's Words, by murAM
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The beauty of Life's sleight-of-hand vis-a-vis man: humans can pronounce every possible distinction, then believe (espouse) or not-believe (decry) them, all the while blissfully unmindful that this tempest-in-a-teacup was not of his making, but Life's...and not for his edification, but, again, for Life's. Yet man can claim otherwise; THAT is the Great Trick.
Are human beings part of nature? I find it odd that we draw a distinction between natural and artificial, as if the things created by mankind do not, for some reason, qualify as items of nature. Yet the creations of animals certainly do qualify. Are we not animals ourselves? Isn't every thing created by us, who are natural, in turn also natural by virtue of its source? Why do we not afford the privilege of artificiality to the cultures of animalia, yet claim it for ourselves? And are we so wholly other that the things of the earth bear no semblance to us or our creations? To what, or whom, do we then belong?