Great info, CanMan...

I tell ya, we as humans definitely have OUR perspective... but when it comes right down to it- the earth isn't here for US... we are here for IT. Dirt everywhere is just silently WAITING for our crusty bones to be lowered down into it so we can fortify it, make it rich, so that more corn can be produced to sustain more animals so that they too can die and feed the dirt! Ahhhh... the circle of life!

Hell on Earth I think it is said, but fortunately the end result will be worth the suffering we have been put through. If true, we will move on to one lifetime taking up 2,125 years (+/-). If not, well who knows. All roller coaster rides come to an end. Yes, rather awesome and people ARE encourage to visit it now, not so much for the beauty, but to notice what is happening there and the changes. Mother Earth at her best.

Made even nicer perhaps knowing that it is not my perspective or opinion for most of it, but facts gleaned from a couple years of research. Still a lot more to do. Entirely correct and we have ignored and abused her terribly this time around, but she will be around and happy long after we have left and made room for another species to evolve on/in this water planet. Our future apparently is more far reaching, but there is some prophecies that some will be here as Guardians of the next species to develop, just as the Guardians have done for us (oops, forget I mentioned that). Yes, our mortal bodies do make great fertilizer. Would hardly seem to be a purpose unless you understand that we are a "spiritual" being and that's not just a silly quote from the religious publication.

If one remembers school learning, there is a reference about matter and energy. Matter converts to energy, energy can convert to matter, but the bottom line is that energy cannot be destroyed, though it may change form. Scientists have been puzzled why matter stays together as it does....going back to the "Big Bang" when matter was first created. Why/How did we end up with a "soul" that is energy only that wants to stay together and uses the body to experience "life". You may have read that scientists now have pretty proven the existence of "dark matter", aka "the God particle", as the ingredient that holds all things together instead of just being pure loose energy. One learns more about the workings of God everyday and the awesomeness of what he/it accomplished.

Yup, it gets deep.

You bet it is indeed deep when you stop and really think about it! But then our thinking is so limited, even the smartest of us still don't know it all! I find that a very comforting thought!!! LOL

You know some of my favorite heroes through life have been the simple and gentlest of all. Like Mother Theresa, many of the Saints throughout history, and one new one that Nan wrote about a few weeks back....Irena Sendler of Poland (in the Thread named: This is really frightening by: KYH) simple, beautiful people!

And in support of this- wasn't it Einstein who said that "the spirit is 100% ENERGY and once created, ENERGY can never disappear. It may change form- but it's always here and can never go away."