mia kreda je maraĵo
I just watched The View from Space over at Aeon.
Around the 2m15s mark, astronauts are talking about witnessing thunderstorms from orbit. The woman mentions how the vantage gives an impression of each lightning flash precipitating another far away, suggesting they're all connected.
It gave me an epiphany.
I believe if there is a god, then that god is water. Water is everywhere. We are 75% (give or take) water. We need water. We evolved in water. Our blood is (probably) as salty as the oceans were back in the Cambrian, so we're walking, talking, meaty oceans. Consider how lifecycles parallel water. We are solid, upon death our water returns to the Earth, ultimately evaporating then returning to the ocean. Some mavericks propose water has memory, after a fashion, but that's been coöpted by homeopathic nonsense. When water vapor reaches the right altitudes, clouds form. Negatively charged particles sink, while positively charged particles rise. From this arises lightning.
Bringing me back to that scene and narrative from The View from Space.
Lightning could be analogous to synapses firing. The hydrosphere could be thinking, processing all those memories in water before returning those droplets into the ocean. Just as one can never step into the same river twice, as Heraclitus said, the same person and the same amalgamation of water will never happen again. The hydrological analogue of a soul only exists 'til death and those tiny rivers begin their journey towards the sea.
It's all part of my personal belief system. I know about a species that uses the belief system.
Around the 2m15s mark, astronauts are talking about witnessing thunderstorms from orbit. The woman mentions how the vantage gives an impression of each lightning flash precipitating another far away, suggesting they're all connected.
It gave me an epiphany.
I believe if there is a god, then that god is water. Water is everywhere. We are 75% (give or take) water. We need water. We evolved in water. Our blood is (probably) as salty as the oceans were back in the Cambrian, so we're walking, talking, meaty oceans. Consider how lifecycles parallel water. We are solid, upon death our water returns to the Earth, ultimately evaporating then returning to the ocean. Some mavericks propose water has memory, after a fashion, but that's been coöpted by homeopathic nonsense. When water vapor reaches the right altitudes, clouds form. Negatively charged particles sink, while positively charged particles rise. From this arises lightning.
Bringing me back to that scene and narrative from The View from Space.
Lightning could be analogous to synapses firing. The hydrosphere could be thinking, processing all those memories in water before returning those droplets into the ocean. Just as one can never step into the same river twice, as Heraclitus said, the same person and the same amalgamation of water will never happen again. The hydrological analogue of a soul only exists 'til death and those tiny rivers begin their journey towards the sea.
It's all part of my personal belief system. I know about a species that uses the belief system.