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Enlightenment

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

What is enlightenment?  It is when you recognize the world for what it is: an illusion.  Everything in this so called universe is an illusion, a dream.  It truly does not exist.  All that exists is God, or consciousness, or whatever it is you wish to call it.  What you are is a divine being, a part of God or consciousness, having a dream of separation, when there is no such thing as separation.  Your ego is a part of this dream.  It is a very persistent dream and there is little room for spectacle.  We think that it is real, just as if we are dreaming while sleeping and feel that the dream is real, but when we wake up, we realize just how absurd the dream was and how it is in no way real, but a projection of the mind or consciousness.  The key to enlightenment is that you become lucid in this dream that we call reality and realize that true reality is Source or God and nothing else.  It is often referred to as Heaven.

For those people who have become enlightened, such as the Buddha and Jesus Christ, they lived in such a way that inspired others to write about them.  Once you become enlightened, there is no more need for additional reincarnations.  It may take many lifetimes to get where it is you need to be to reach enlightenment, but realizing that this reality is indeed a dream, an illusion, is the first step to getting there.  We all are one in reality, but in the dream, we have the illusion of separation, due to the ego’s influence on our consciousness.  The ego is very defensive, and will do almost anything to ensure its survival.  If you ever try to transcend your ego, you will notice that it will fight you to the bitter end.  It will try and trick you.  But what most people don’t realize is that the ego, along with what we think of as the real world, is an illusion and the only true reality is of Source.  The universe was created by the ego, but only in a dream form.  But we don’t realize that until after we die as a physical being or become enlightened in our last incarnation on this planet.

If we were to all “wake up” instantaneously, it would be very traumatic emotionally.  This is why most people don’t truly wake up until they have achieved enlightenment.  It is a noble goal, and could take many lifetimes to achieve.  But you can accelerate the process by becoming a student of A Course in Miracles, or other texts that are designed to get you to the point where you can forgive unconditionally.  Forgiveness is the key to salvation.  And since what you are forgiving isn’t even truly real, but a dream, it’s not so hard to do.  That is, once you get the big picture about the true nature of reality.  I find this to be a fascinating belief system, which comes partially from Jesus Christ’s real teachings, not the stuff you’ll find in the Bible, but the stuff that Jesus and other enlightened beings actually said or did.  Not what people wrote about him centuries later in an attempt to control the masses through guilt and shame.  Christ never advocated such nonsense.  He loved everyone equally, and never judged anyone.  A true humanitarian.

I have to say, reading The Disappearance of the Universe has truly opened my eyes to what many of those enlightened beings were trying to convey.  All of it makes perfect sense from a subjective viewpoint, because they realized that the world is indeed subjective, not objective, and that objectivity was simply an illusion that people regarded as true, simply because that is how they had been conditioned.  The religions we have today have barely any resemblance to what these prophets actually taught, and it has become more about money and converting people to your way of thinking than anything else.  But when you look at what these people actually said, you realize that it has no denomination, as it is the simple truth and nothing else.  The universe is an illusion and the true reality is God consciousness.  Total and complete oneness.

I figure this stuff may be way out there for some people, but it makes sense intuitively to me and many others who have heard of such ideas as subjective reality and God consciousness.  To become enlightened is to truly know who you really are, not your ego, and not your mind, but pure God consciousness.  You are the same as God, as he created you in his image.  Not your physical body, but your spirit or soul.  And when your physical body dies off, you will return home to whence you came, and then come back to the illusion until you reach the peak of enlightenment.  At that point, you will no longer have any need to go back into the illusion, other than to help other illusory bodies pass over to the enlightenment side.  It’s a journey to say the least, and getting there will not be easy.  Most people need help from some spiritual source, but it will happen for everyone eventually, as there is no time limit, as the time in this illusory reality is also illusory.  So, no need to worry if you’re not there yet.  You will be, your path is already pre-determined, but you can always choose to accelerate or delay the process of returning Home.  The choice is up to you.  I definitely recommend reading The Disappearance of the Universe, and then A Course in Miracles.  I haven’t read the latter yet, but the former has tons of references from that book, so it has a similar structure.

Good luck on your path towards ultimate bliss and enlightenment.  It may take lifetimes, but it will be well worth it in the end.

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Transcending the Ego: Back to Nature

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

The world we live in is full of all sorts of crimes that are perpetrated by a mostly criminal elite, who have bought and paid for this world and who force their agenda down our throats through the mainstream media and through social conditioning.  But we don’t have to subscribe to their belief system, and we don’t have to buy what they are selling.  We don’t have to do their bidding.  We can recognize the media for what it is, a tool of propaganda.  Why do you think the government subsidized a digital converter device for people who could not afford to get cable and were going to lose their analog signal for the regular channels?  It is because television has become almost a necessity in this culture.  People would rather watch a show they don’t even really like than get off their ass and do something.  Why is that?

Television has a hypnotic effect.  I’ve noticed it myself when watching it.  I sometimes sit down with the intention of watching maybe one show, and end up[ watching for a couple of hours, maybe more.  But now I’m much more conscious of the effect television has on me, and also the media.  I watch essentially two to three shows a week, and now that two of them are “no longer in season,” I will be cutting down to one, and I probably won’t even watch in on my television, or I’ll record and and skip through the commercials.  Although I know that even the television shows condition us, I am aware of this and guard against it.  And since I spend most of my time thinking independently or at least soaking up new ideas that are less popular but more true, I am certainly not one of them.  I know what goes on behind closed doors, and I am aware of what us humans are doing to this planet.  And I am quite aware that there is no stopping us unless there is a major crash of civilization.  At least then our capacity for destroying the Earth will be significantly weakened.

Most people are not ready for a crash or collapse, and most people don’t even want to hear that one is coming, but as inevitable as global warming, there will be one in the near future.  It will be hard for us civilized humans to cope, as most of us have zero survival skills.  Most of us, including me, don’t know how to plant vegetables or how to “hunt” for wild edibles.  Never mind cope psychologically with the end of oil, global food scarcities, and the end of water.  Many, or probably most, of us will die, and there will be a bit of a cleansing.  I don’t see it as a bad thing, really.  We are a parasite on this planet, and I would even call us a cancer.  If we cannot live in balance with the rest of life, we don’t deserve to live here at all.  We’ve taken it all for ourselves and now we want more.  And even that won’t be enough.  So, then, what is our purpose here?

I would say our purpose is to live a life where we don’t destroy everything in sight.  Not just that, but a life where we live in complete balance with nature, without a control structure, with complete and utter freedom, and without a shred of civilization’s characteristics.  We need to completely shed the civilization mindset because it has completely destroyed everything around us.  And there are way too many people to live like this, with nature, so if they can’t adapt after the crash, then they will most likely die.  But it won’t be the ultimate worst thing.  The Earth will recover, and humans will be reduced to a population that cannot wreak havoc upon the ecosystem, mostly due to their lack of sheer number, then eventually due to their accordance with nature, not out of a desire to, but out of necessity, and finally they will understand what it is they were destroying.

We don’t see the Earth for what it is today.  We see it as resources and land we can exploit for our own selfish needs.  We see it as how it can benefit us, not how it can benefit all life on Earth.  The Earth would certainly be much better off without us altogether, but human extinction isn’t exactly a popular campaign theme.  Although it would certainly ensure that there would be no more toxic chemicals being created, other than the ones caused by what we’ve left here.  Every other living being would be able to flourish to the extent that nature would allow it.  Sure, complete human extinction is unlikely, at least for some time, and I don’t want it to happen, but a significant thinning of the herd and a moving back to nature over a few centuries would be great, not just for the planet, but for humankind as well.  And if we can keep our population at the level that nature will support, then we will have succeeded.  If we once again resort to agriculture, the same cycle will repeat itself, only with different resources and characteristics.

For two million years, humans, or what we think of as almost humans, lived in balance with nature.  It is only due to the ice age and other psychological traumas, followed by a desperate need for food that made us this way.  We are damaged in some way and we all know it on an unconscious level.  The world is very harsh and it reflects our inner self.  I’ve seen many a documentary on what the magnetic reversal of the poles and the ice age did to our species.  It is what created the ego.

The ego is like the office manager who is placed in charge while the boss is away.  The ego is what allowed our species to survive when all these traumas were taking place.  And instead of using the ego as a temporary survival tool, we adopted it as our identity.  The ego did save us and allow us to cope, but it also will be our undoing.  The ego was so paranoid about its own survival that it started agriculture to ensure that humans would be able to keep up this way of thinking for as long as it can go.  The culture of domination and exploitation was borne from the ego.  The totalitarian governments and control structures were borne out of ego.  Our individual identities were borne out of the ego.  This civilization first started in the mind and can only be transcended by the mind, assisted by a physical crash of the very system our minds and egos are so bent on supporting.  We need to move closer to who we truly are, the self, to truly become what it is we need to be.  And it is either going to happen through sheer force or a conscious choice.  I’m betting on sheer force right now, unless we have a gigantic shift in consciousness very soon.  But either way, the transition is inevitable, unless of course we go extinct, which would be totally against our nature.

I’m dreaming of a world where we don’t have to be the lords of the Earth, where we can still maintain intelligence, but we live as equals with the rest of the species on this planet.  We don’t use our advantages to exploit other beings, but we cooperate with nature’s plan and do not stray from it.  We transcend the ego and become who we truly are:  just another species on this huge planet that tries its best to fit into nature’s mold and not twist nature to fit ours.  We truly become our-self, and not our individual egos.  And if we can’t do that before we go extinct, then we shall go extinct.  So it goes. :)

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Opening Your Eyes

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Every week now I’m trying to write a blog entry, on either Thursday or Friday, because I work pretty much the rest of the week.  I work nights, so it’s not really practical for me to blog more frequently.  Besides, this is just something I do to express some ideas I have, or expansion on the ideas of others.  I am not someone who is going to post multiple times a day or even more than twice a week, because I feel not only that I would have less memorable posts, but also that it would become a giant time sink.  I would be spending hours, maybe more, every week just to maintain this thing.  And if I’m not making money from it, what is the payoff?  It’s not like I even want to make money from this blog.  I don’t feel like I’m saying anything special, other than the fact that I have a unique writer’s voice.  The ideas are as old as the hills, it’s just I’m expressing them in my own, unique way.  How many people have thought the same things I have and expressed them in their own way?  Millions.  Over the course of human existence, that is.

But I am not my ideas, because those ideas are not mine to begin with.  Nobody can own ideas.  Ideas are fluid.  It is the unique expression of those ideas that can be owned.  That is our gift to the world.  Our own perspective on things, on ideas.  That is what we bring to the table.  That is our uniqueness coming out.  And this is why every human has something to contribute.  (This is another bull shit, everyone is special post, when most people are not special, they are ordinary, but that is only because they have been conditioned not to think for themselves and to let the media and the government do all their thinking for them.)

Now I’m going to lash out at the world at large because that self-help shit really isn’t me.  No offense to those who got value out of  my posts about goal setting and following your passion.  My passion is exposing the world for what it is and how it takes from the wider world without giving back, and allows crimes of epic  proportions and we just sit there and accept it, or remain blissfully ignorant of it.  We accept what we are told by the media because nobody wants to put in the time and effort it would take to prove things wrong.  And when someone does prove that the “official story” or something is wrong, like Bush winning the election, people still believe it.  Or when 9/11 was debunked by quite a few people, they were viewed as heretics and unpatriotic, abominable to think our own government would attack itself.  If you know all the evidence, you’ll know that the WTC was an albatross, inefficient, and would need asbestos removal that would cost more than the original buildings.  Not to mention some guy just bought the building and put an insurance policy on it specifically for terrorist attacks less than a year before the “terrorist attack.”  And let’s not forget that Dick Cheney become head of NORAD, which had never happened before in the history of NORAD.  No elected official was ever put in charge of shooting down planes and for some reason, that was the time and Cheney was all, “Do NOT shoot that plane down!”  They removed all bomb sniffing dogs from the WTC 2 weeks before the collapse.  The buildings fell at near freefall speed, which is impossible for a steel-framed building unless it is being demolished with small charges at ever floor to lessen resistance to zero as the building collapses.

What happened to most of those who said something to the contrary about 9/11?  I’ll tell you what.  The people in high-ranking positions in journalism and politics were made a mockery of, many of them lost their jobs, and were told never to speak of it again.  Others were threatened and changed their official “scientific” findings.  9/11 is not about Muslim terrorists, it is about America wanting a fascist state of control and a reason to attack the middle east to get oil.  The people who are invested in the “official story” have everything to gain, while those who question it have everything to lose.  So it is a risky position, even to say that we trained Al-Quaeda is a risky position.  To say that Osama Bin Laden used to be a member of one of our government agencies is ludicrous.  But all of it is true.  They are hidden truths.  I have this theory that if even 1% of what we don’t know were let out, we would have a revolution.  But most people don’t want to know.  Better avert your eyes.  Why is it so few people truly want to know?

I’ll tell you why.  Because if they lied about that, what else did they lie about?  What other load of crap are they feeding us?  The government lies on a daily basis.  The government is not your friend.  Unless it is a friend who kills people and lies about it.  Big Brother is watching us almost everywhere we go now.  The PATRIOT Act was a total dissolvement of our freedoms in so many ways and we just stood there and took it.  People don’t have critical thinking skills, not even our leaders.  Not anymore.  The public education system, for the most part, creates a population that is a worker  bee, that will go along with the status quo or whatever the government is doing, because in school it is the same way.  Most people get their spirit broken in school.  Imagine 6 year old children forced to sit at a desk for the better part of 6 hours listening to a teacher drone on about mathematical equations when all they want to do is go outside and play and explore their world.  Even things that would be considered fun, such as kickball or singing a song is done under threat of punishment.  We are trained to do what those “above” us say and believe what they say as well.  We are conditioned since birth if our parents were really lousy and placed us in front of the television.  If they actually paid attention to us, we were conditioned since the start of school, the stupidity-manufacturing institution.  No wonder most people don’t really know what is going on in the world.  They don’t know that they don’t know that they are being conditioned and are being brainwashed on a daily basis by all forms of media.  They are told how to think, they believe what the media tells them to be true, even when it could be completely false.

Very few people take the time to question what they read or see on the television.  And that’s the problem.  If we actually did examine and pull the wool off of our eyes, we would see more than we could ever imagine seeing in this socially-conditioned state we are in now.  How the media placates us and gets us hung up on issues like whether or not a mosque should be built at Ground Zero, rather than focusing on the erosion of our freedoms of religion and speech.  The very things that are not reported in the media are the things that bear the most importance.  We never hear about secret societies that control the world on the news.  When was the last time they had the Bilderberg Group on the TV?  Or the Freemasons?  All this secrecy in the name of controlling people, and gaining more and more power, substituted in the form of money and land.  It is a power addiction that has led us to be left in the dark while those in power take everything and maybe throw us a little crumb every now and then.  They commit crimes of epic proportions, right out in the open and blame it on someone else.  As Napoleon said, “To be believed, make the truth unbelievable.”  And he’s right.  Most people can’t believe we attacked ourselves on 9/11 because it would shatter their reality.  It’s easier to believe that someone far, far away that hates us did that horrific act.  Not Uncle Sam.  Not our government, not people who live in this country and have for their whole lives.  It is just easier to believe that some brown people did it who believe in a foreign God that most people in this country don’t believe in or even understand.

It’s just so sad, because human beings have such a capacity for good, but also one for evil.  And when I use the words good and evil, I don’t mean in any religious sense.  I guess you could call them constructive and destructive.  Sane and pathological.  The choice of words is meaningless.  It’s just good and evil are better understood.  Fear and love are also easily understood, and so is love of power.  We have the capacity to create heaven on Earth, but most of us can’t because we would have to quit our jobs and possibly be homeless just to see our visions through.  The system has got us by the balls and we know it.  It is only through transcending the dominant system in small ways to start that we can begin to live autonomously, with the need for less and less from the system.  The system that lies to us and kills people.  Then we can finally begin to do good in ways that are good from every perspective.  For example, buying a piece of land and letting it run wild, like it should be.  That creates diversity and you could also live on it.  But in order to buy that land, you have to spend time in th dominant system earning money to get the land.  But once you have it, it is yours.

Dropping out completely is stupid, but the further you go, the more free you get.  If you no longer depend on your government for subsistence, then you are no longer complicit in what it does.  That is a nice bonus.  It’s not just the government, but those who control most of the world’s wealth.  When you no longer need much money, they can no longer control you either.  They can’t dangle money in front of you to silence you.  You have more integrity than that, now that you are outside the system, although you still take advantage of it in some ways.  I dislike the word dropout, because it still places the primary focus on the dominant, parasitic system, but what’s a better word?  Naturalist?  Minimalist?  Anarchist?  Anarcho-primitivist, although I don’t know if I want to go back that far.  I still want decent  shelter and some form of comfort.  I don’t want to have to try to sleep with bugs all over me.  Yuck.  What I’m looking for is a way forward where we lessen our dependence on government, technology, and hierarchical systems and start focusing on community and truly good values.  Values that come from love, not fear.  Get rid of fear completely and have a world just filled with love.  Will it take time?  Yes.  Are we ready for it now?  No way.  But is it possible?  Definitely.  We just have to make it happen.

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Truly Following Your Passion

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Nobody knows what they want.  Well, not nobody, but most people.  Most people simply want what they are conditioned to want.  If you ask random people what the purpose of their life is, or what they want to accomplish in this life, the chances are you’ll get a laundry list of socially-conditioned answers, such as, “make a ton of money,” and “become famous.”  Another thing you’ll notice is that most people’s answers are very vague and don’t really have any direction.  There are those few, committed individuals that have the drive and the knowledge to accomplish what it is they truly want, but most people never take the time to acquire that knowledge in the first place.  Most people do what is safe, what will allow them to live comfortably, but not extravagantly.  They live paycheck to paycheck, which in its own right is stupid.  And their lives become one big recurring dream, where one day isn’t so different from another.  There is little excitement and even less passion.

Most people are beaten down by the world, by society.  They had dreams once, but now they don’t believe in them anymore, or somebody else told them it wasn’t possible for them.  Maybe they’ve outgrown their old dreams and have new ones, but don’t have the courage to pursue them.  Or maybe everyone and everything they’ve wanted to be was themselves, but you can’t make a living doing that, so we’re forced to place our unique selves into a box that will fit in society’s mold.  We may find something we are truly passionate about and can make a good living from, but that is the exception and not the rule.  ”Do what you love and the money will come,” is not a complete lie, it’s just that most people don’t love anything enough to put in the amount of time it would take to become proficient enough to make a career out of it.

It is said by some famous author that you need to put in 10,000 hours in a particular field to become an expert at it.  And these have to be quality hours.  Not half-assed hours.  Who here has that kind of commitment, self-discipline, and willpower?  Sure, you could also become a jack of all trades, and a master of none, which could also be useful, but at the same time you don’t really have an identity, other than the fact that you’re good at a lot of things, but not excellent at any one thing.  If you pour your time into one field, one focus, you can become more powerful in that vein than you could ever be from just dabbling in it.  To thrust yourself fully into something and commit to it for a long period of time (hopefully driven by interest and passion) is the very definition of mastery.  And if it is something you truly enjoy, it will be that much more fulfilling.

But how does one stay on a course like that for so long without diverting from it?  How do you stick with it?  You should pick something you love to do and that also can net you a career.  It has to be something that will serve others and will also serve you.  It’s okay to give more than you receive, but no self-sacrifice.  Don’t become another starving artist.  We all have the ability to contribute and to be compensated fairly for it.  We all have (for the most part) functioning brains that can aid us in making decisions about what it is we are supposed to do with our lives.  We know what we enjoy doing, but do we enjoy doing anything enough to turn it into a career?  Would we be able to stomach doing work in a certain field for decades?  As long as it doesn’t get too boring, and there is some kind of learning and self-discovery taking place, I would say yes to most fields out there.

When you dedicate your life to something, you know who you are.  When you pursue your passion, you become it.  You don’t question whether or not this is what you should be doing.  It is what you have to do.  The life inside you is forcing this out of you, and unless you completely ignore the life inside of you, there will be no stopping it once you know what your “purpose” is.  You will be unstoppable.  If you look at successful people, they decided what they wanted and they worked hard for it, but it was  worth it because the journey and the destination were just as rewarding.  It wasn’t just about the destination.  If that’s all that is keeping you on your current path, it is a path without a heart.  If you are not enjoying where you are on your journey right now, then what’s the point?  The point of life is to enjoy it.

The problem with most people is they never even find their passion.  They never even try to find their passion.  They don’t even know why they are here, other than the fact that their parents had sex.  They haven’t found anything worth pursuing, so they end up fulfilling other people’s purposes, others’ passions.  They become the cogs in someone else’s machine.  They become one of the facilitators or someone else’s goals, which unless you are in line with those goals as well, is inauthentic and shows that you truly have no direction, no sense of yourself, and that you are willing to adopt the goals and vision of some other person, whose motives you aren’t exactly sure of.  You are not really the author of your life then, are you?  You are more a supporting character in the game of life.  Which is suboptimal at best and downright stupid at most.

Now, I wouldn’t suggest quitting your corporate job right away, because you read this blog entry.  But what I would suggest is becoming more conscious in what it is you are supporting.  What it is you are actively engaging in.  And then I suggest you look for what truly stirs your soul and start to pursue that, while simultaneously still doing what you have to to make ends meet.  Do some self-exploration to find what it is you think you would most enjoy doing and try it out.  It is very important that you at least try to do this because otherwise, what kind of life are you living, fulfilling others’ goals while standing on the sidelines of life?  Is that really who you were meant to me?  An extra in the movie of someone else’s life?  Why not create a life that people make movies about instead?  It is at least worth a shot, I’d say.

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The Human Cycle

Friday, September 10th, 2010

All human beings are mortal.  All human beings will eventually die.  We see it every day.  People die.  New people are born.  Thus the cycle of life.  Over one billion years of organisms being born and organisms dying.  Some species have lasted a long time, while others have perished rather quickly.  It is all impermanent, every species will ultimately meet its demise, including  us humans.  When the human species goes extinct, what will that mean for the rest of the world?  There will be nobody to record what is happening, no eyes of the world.  It will be something none of us will ever see, and yet I’m sure some of the most interesting things will happen, but with nobody to record it.  Sure, animals will recognize what is going on to some extent, but they will not be able to keep a record of the post-human future.  There will be no reason to keep a record because there will be no record keepers. It will be a world mostly lived in the present, with new and exciting things happening that are just accepted as is with no pre-judgment or negativity.

The freeways will start to crack open, and the skyscrapers will become home to thousands of animals.  Eventually, there will be no visible trace of any human structure.  It will be an animal’s world.  There will be no wars, no weapons, no fear, just existence.  The consciousness of the world at that point will be almost entirely present moment and there will be no regrets or worries.  Life after people will be very diverse and resilient.  It will also be abundant, due to the lack of a primary exterminator, us.  Everything will pretty much coexist in balance with everything else, and create a harmonious world that nature itself intended.

Whether us humans go extinct in 1000 years or 1,000,000 years, the fact remains that life will go on.  New species will flourish and ones that depended on us for the sustenance will suffer.  We will be gone and the rest of the species on this planet will simply be allowed to live.  They will be free in the most absolute sense.  Kind of like we used to be.  There will be no guidelines, no rules.  Just nature.  Just a diverse array of lifeforms competing for resources and territory, with safeguards to keep them from getting out of balance.  Without humans destroying natural habitats, many environments will come back that had previously been destroyed.  All it takes is a little time and nature always recovers.  So, maybe it’s not such a big deal that we are destroying the planet.  We will probably destroy ourselves before we ever get to destroying the entire planet.

I don’t think humans can get back into balance with nature.  I don’t think they can coexist with other creatures as equals.  We are just too smart at this point.  We know too much.  We know how to create these fantastic civilizations where we wield all the power over all other living things.  We can’t go back to what we once were.  It’s not that we can’t, it’s that we simply don’t want to.  Human life is good for a good portion of the people, although things are getting worse.  But the thought of living in a grass hut or a cave, catching our own food, and bathing in a lake just seem silly to us.  We’re smarter than that.  We can do things that other creatures cannot.  We have opposable thumbs, damn it!  We’re comfortable in our lives.  Our air is conditioned and we are shielded from extreme temperatures of any kind.  We are the kings of the world right now.  And we are really reluctant to give up our throne.

Our time will come and go, however.  Something will make humans extinct.  Be it a plague or a natural disaster, we will go extinct eventually.  Our throne will finally be vacant and will most likely stay that way for millions of years, or forever.  Human beings are nothing special, other than their intelligence.  If we didn’t have that, we would be goners in the wild.  How in the world would we hunt for food if we didn’t know how to make tools?  There are tons of theories on how we developed our superior intellect, but nobody truly knows for sure.  All we know is that it has allowed us to be at the top of the totem pole for tens of thousands of years and only now are we starting to pay for the exploitation and destruction of our home planet.  It’s just a pattern we’ve been running since grain agriculture and it just kind of got out of hand.  Now we have nearly 7 billion humans, who consume at the highest rate in history with most of them having no knowledge of the consequences of their actions.  But our cycle is reaching a tipping point if it already hasn’t.  Things are starting to get worse and there is nothing we can do about it.  Since we are consuming more than we can produce from the Earth, production will go down, as will consumption, which will lead to all sorts of economic  problems, which will lead to people being hungry, which may or may not cause a drop in population.

All I know for sure is that a world without humans will be a world where everything else is just allowed to be.  Sure, there will be competition, but there will not be extermination.  No animals are going to clear-cut forests.  They are not going to have nuclear power plants.  There will be no processed food or pharmaceuticals.  It will be a clean world, a natural world,  one where every organism has a chance to thrive, instead of just one species and the species who are considered useful to that one species.  No exploitation, no destruction.  Just pure life, the way nature intended it to be.

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