TOWARDS SOMETHING AMAZING!

Andrei:  Someday our entire existence will be nothing but a very thin layer of sediment 
         on this giant planet that has witnessed so many other life forms.

Soo:     Yes, to realize we are dust and that we shall return to dust is strangely comforting.

Ellesha: On one level this is certainly true. However, on another level we are more than 
         mere atoms and molecules. We are also ideas and part of an evolving discourse.

Elijah:  (raising his eyebrows) An evolving discourse? More often than not, I see 
          repeating stupidity and little evidence of any evolving discourse.

Ellesha: What we see depends on our time scale. If you judge our species by a few lifetimes, 
         it is difficult to see any progress. However, if we shift to longer timescales such as 
         equinoctial cycles, a pattern emerges.  We are evolving towards something that is amazing!

Elijah:  Amazing? (smiling while chuckling and disengaging from this conversation) Well,
         whatever you say!


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from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: An image of interstellar gas and proto-cognates and conversation about human evolution.
KEYWORDS: human evolution, ephemeral existence, equinoctial cycles, repetitive stupidity

Begun: 2017 in Xīn-Táiběi, Taiwan,  / Finished: 2017 in Xīn-Táiběi, Taiwan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted
by T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ]

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DEUTSCH   https://www.tnewfields.info/de/erstaunliches.htm
ESPAÑOL   https://www.tnewfields.info/es/hacia.htm
NIHONGO   https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/nanika.htm