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the girls were not dumb bunnies, either. But gorgeous too. I fell in love when I was seven and named my cat after one of them. Not quite on the level of kissing cousins, because. . . . well. . . . just wasn't something I'd do. It would ruin the whole idea of idolatry about how wonderful they are.
Proof of Relation
It was the lawyer who took the lead in the general discussion, holding forth on his recent visit to Scotland to check out the family castle. But the doctor sorta cornered me and began talking about quantum physics in the context of his General Theory of Relativity. . . . how from a Mormon perspective Joseph Smith anticipated Quantum Mechanics by almost a century in declaring that "spirit" is matter, only of a sort that is "more fine". Right along with a statement anticipating the law of conservation of matter, before it was firmly established. Pretty good for a home schooled backwoods digger, fence builder, and charismatic storyteller. . . . .
It was the lawyer who took the lead in the general discussion, holding forth on his recent visit to Scotland to check out the family castle. But the doctor sorta cornered me and began talking about quantum physics in the context of his General Theory of Relativity. . . . how from a Mormon perspective Joseph Smith anticipated Quantum Mechanics by almost a century in declaring that "spirit" is matter, only of a sort that is "more fine". Right along with a statement anticipating the law of conservation of matter, before it was firmly established. Pretty good for a home schooled backwoods digger, fence builder, and charismatic storyteller. . . . .
The gist of his "General Theory of Relativity" specifies that "consciousness" is a fundamental element of all nature. Mormons might call it "intelligence", other more or less religious folks might equate it with "God", but my doctor cousin explains that we, and everything, have an actual relation with everything else, and cannot be separated from the web of connectedness with the cosmos. . . .
He says some early Christians were delving into the subject as well, and earned for themselves the name "Gnostics". . . . people whose faith consisted of a direct, personal connection with the Cosmos, who could "just know everything". They got a bad rap as being mystics, but it strikes me that they shared a link with the sages of some other older religions. . . . like Buddha, for example.
He digressed a bit to discuss various philosophers such as some early "progressives" who spent lifetimes of denial trying to prove that there is no coherent human philosophy, and made examples of incoherence within their own works, without actually comprehending either their own failings, nor the truths revealed by others. . . . .
Angry philosophers who wanted to make nothing of everything human beings have ever conceived. . . . . . but too conceited in their own rantings to realize that while it might be actually true of their own views, they were cutting into the foundations of their own logic. . . ..
So, as a consequence of his "General Theory of Relativity", the "gift" or inherent nature of human intelligence does indeed "connect" with the reality of our existence, perceiving truths in the physical and spiritual dimensions in a manner that is more than just "rational" or "logical". . . . but transcendent, serendipitous. . . . . For those of us who choose not to blind ourselves in denials of those truths. . . . .
Angry philosophers who wanted to make nothing of everything human beings have ever conceived. . . . . . but too conceited in their own rantings to realize that while it might be actually true of their own views, they were cutting into the foundations of their own logic. . . ..
So, as a consequence of his "General Theory of Relativity", the "gift" or inherent nature of human intelligence does indeed "connect" with the reality of our existence, perceiving truths in the physical and spiritual dimensions in a manner that is more than just "rational" or "logical". . . . but transcendent, serendipitous. . . . . For those of us who choose not to blind ourselves in denials of those truths. . . . .
addictionary
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So the philosophical comprehension of existence runs in the family?
Absolutely. . . . .. I might be laughing at myself and my cousin a bit here. . . . while I extend the proposed "General Theory of Relativity" to my cows, dogs, and indeed the flies. . . . every living thing. . . . as well as to the rocks and seas. . . . . for that matter to the stars.
With Mormons, there has been a scandalous charge that Joseph Smith was an animist, as he stated that even trees as well as the earth have an organized "spiritual" body. . . . In fact, his version of the Genesis creation myth has God creating it all "spiritually" before it was created physically.. . . and as such a creation, it was more "than a twinkle in our father's eye."
I'm actually realizing that "the philosophical comprehension of existence" runs in the whole human family, and that the level of comprehension may be somewhat different in other living things, perhaps vastly different in what we in our arrogance consider the inert and unthinking "non-living" world. . .. the rocks, for example. I'm saying that when we slam, say George Bush or Obama for being dumber than a rock, it might not be all the insult we imagine it to be.
A Russian scientist/philosopher of sorts, Vladimir Vernadsky, of the not too recent soviet tradition succeeding in keeping his funding while elaborating on the light radiated by radish and potato roots. . .. and even on some processes ongoing in the geological sphere of planetary evolution. . . . describing these things in terms of the "Noosphere" and publishing his work in the soviet science press. . . .
We could not have had a planet that can sustain our present diversity of life without the contributions made by primeval bacteria clearing the air of hydrogen sulfide, for example. . .. and rendering nitrogen into a form that can be taken in by other organisms to build proteins. The primordial soup needed ancient life forms to jump start our major traditon of life today, and they are still there in the underwater volcanic plumes that the rest of us can't live in.