These are the beautiful living things which made me happy today ...
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Flowers, birds, and pollinators of all sorts busy perpetuating life and beauty on a planet which is alive and going to remain that way against humankind's worst desires otherwise.
Hard to believe that so many humans are unhappy on such a planet as the Earth. Humans have been given so many gifts but humans rejected them all and has chosen to live in perpetually dissatisfaction, competition, conflict and sorrows instead.
Yesterday I had an opportunity to argue with people. I read through the comments on yesterday's post and thought: If anyone wanted to verify and validate my lack of interest in their own opinions, these people have done so in a thoroughly effective though perhaps unintentional manner.
I wrote a post about abiogenesis which for whatever reason some people thought did not relate to my photographs. Perhaps those people did not realize that my photographs are all about life. Abiogenesis is the scientific study (i.e., desperate speculation) regarding the origin of life.
Since the scientists don't have a clue as how abiogenesis could have occurred it seems quite reasonable to suppose than unhappy commentors on a blog post know even less than the scientists who have devoted their careers to the subject. Without anything to say they must rely upon emotional sniping and other intellectually vacant nonsense.
One person did show a little initiative. I had mentioned a Scientific American article and said that the article isn't available online so therefore the reader must visit a bookstore or library. A person actually visited the Scientific American website and disputed with me about its online availability.
Here is the article under consideration:
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Note that at the bottom of the page it says in big bold letters, "Get the Rest of this Article Now ... Subscribe Buy the Issue".
Hence the article isn't available online for the casual reader. Perhaps the person who objected thought that the few paragraphs on the website constituted the entire article ... ?
I've got to tell you people know: Engaging in arguments on the internet must rank among the most pointless of pointless activities.
So I spend my time outside and take photographs of beautiful things and marvel that the vast majority of humankind overlooks such things while obsessing about shopping, consuming, money, argument, strife, violence and unhappiness.
Humankind lives in the worst possible manner and there's an entire planet's worth of evidence indicating that humankind is a lost cause nearing its own self-inflicted end.
There's no happy ending to the human tragedy.
David Mathews
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