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Saturday, December 08, 2007

The Hills Sing For Joy

Happiness like all feelings that we experience however brief or sustained, is rooted in Nature. As far as we are concerned we deem it so. It is like Life, as I said earlier, beyond circumstances.
Do we have any other key to unlock the mysteries of Life than from nature?
We make God as a father-figure and use symbols and worship ideas, which we represent by something we can point out from nature. Thus we explain elements as sinews and bones that hold up our existence. Love for God for instance. How do you think we are superior in our love than the law of attraction a magnet has for a piece of iron? Have we plumbed the depths of matter to have an iota of its experience pure, and can we divest from love everything that is not material?
Now let me ask this question: is an inanimate object like a stone happy?
Every object,- stone or metal is suffused with energy. It follows the laws of Nature. A stone cannot feel as Cain felt towards the Lord God or to his own brother. Cain must have soiled it by blood but it is no less manifestation of Nature. This being the case how can anyone think a stone is not happy?
benny

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Thursday, November 22, 2007

On Happiness

Nature as manifestation of Life: abiogenesis, the question of the origin of life, is the study of how life on Earth might have emerged from non-life. Let us for a moment forget about various hypotheses that have been put forward. I am a layman seeking answers to the question: why am I here on the earth? What is the compelling reason that I said ‘yea’ to life though experience of living among the living show that I shall also die like my parents before me? Shouldn’t that be a downer for me?
The hold of life on each living creature is far stronger than fear. Happiness is what gives it extra strength to follow life through thick and thin. It is the very stuff of Life.
Death has been everpresent yet life triumphed every hour of my life. In my very bones I still know the slow contagion of death works. I also know it is natural.
Nature made me, young that I was, to say ‘yea’ to life. Having grown older I haven’t found any reason to go against natural processes of ageing or death. Nature as manifestation of Life has also given me a somewhat better understanding of my life: Life shall however remain unchanged no matter how I may negotiate with non-being over all that baggage I carry about me.
Happiness outwears life.
benny
Let me wish my readers wherever you are, happy Thanksgiving holidays.

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