No Accident, Move Along Nothing to See Here

"There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood."  -Deepak Chopra

I could turn this into a rant against that last bastion of “My God is better than your God”, or welfare mama’s and their Lexus cars and gold hoop earrings, or about my Buddhist leanings and learning’s; I won’t however do any of those things as much as I could have fit the quote to all of them.

The question then becomes what is our purpose? That is the interminable question that has haunted mankind since the beginning of time immemorial.  Well I suppose not base man, not the man who’s only ideations revolved around food and procreation, but from the time man figured out he could draw on the walls with a burnt stick, and then discovered that some natural things around him could add some color to the drawings, I’m relatively certain that we have thought about something other than food and procreation.

Man is the only animal on the planet (and yes believe it or not boys and girls we are mammals) that forces his surroundings to fit his desires, rather than simply finding his place in the natural order of things.

Of course as previously mentioned, the discovery of oil in a Pennsylvania field in the 1800’s changed the face of mankind’s machinations forever.  At first it was considered a nuisance more than anything else, wrecking fields and poisoning animals.  It was not long however before us hairless monkeys figured out how to make fuel out of this black substance that flowed so readily out of the ground.

Plastics followed shortly thereafter, creating the detritus world in which we now find ourselves.  The plastic pumpkin universe here on earth, where large swaths of ocean are covered in floating plastic debris that will never degrade in the oxygen depleted environment that it finds itself, the salt water acting as an insulator of sorts against the UV radiation that is required to break it down.

For all of our “advancements” (ostensible at best) there is evidence that the human race (or something resembling it) has “been there done that” in the past. All one has to do is search for “out of place parts” (aka oop parts) for some interesting data on the true age of man.  It is possible that some catastrophic event wiped out a much more advanced civilization than we first thought our ancestors to be.  Christians will call this the flood of Noah, other say that the most advanced civilization predated even him and his family.

The legends of the Vedic in India, the legends of Atlantis and LeMuria in ancient Greek texts, these lost to time civilizations that supposedly existed prior to us arriving, could there be a modicum of truth to those legends?

We may never know, however we do know that the current “civilization” apparently is reaching the point in time when the other ones bit the dust.  The question is, will this version of man even have an ark to run to? Or are we it.