I mean, we all know you get sore because of lactic acid, and we all know the body makes lactic acid when the muscle isn't getting enough oxygen, but why does lactic acid make us sore? Why doesn't nature make it so lactic acid DOESN'T make us sore, then we'd be super-humans, working out all the time! Eating furniture!
And then I was like because THEN everyone would work out so much their muscles would never get a rest, and therefore the microrips in muscles wouldn't have time to repair and build back up again, which is what makes muscles bigger when you exercise them, so we could never get ripped!
We could never be so fit!!
And then I was like, WOW, nature figured that out? Like how did...how did nature figure out that we needed lactic acid to make us sore so we wouldn't overwork so we could develope? How did mother nature know that thumbs were good, and tails were bad, but it can't figure out that hair belongs on the head only and that appendixes are unnecessary?
Oh my gosh!!! I just went downstairs to say hi to Papa because he just came home from work! So I say hi and fill up my water and prepare a bowl of cereal and then my mom goes up to my dad and goes "Did you hear?" and he's like "Liz Taylor?" and she starts hugging him and like crying.
i'm like WTFFFFFFFFFF
And my dad's like "Liz Taylor died..."
So apparently she was beautiful and my mom thought she was the greatest thing ever and this was the most terrible tragedy.
Anyway I come upstairs and take one bite of my cereal before i start fucking choking and i'm like WOW REALLY WRONG TUBE RIGHT NOW? and i start coughing and of course NOWWWWW i'm coughing as if this isn't REAL suspicious.
I just took another bite after a while and i started coughing AGAIN!!! I think the flakes in the cereal sneak down my throat and tickle it and try to go into my lungs, as if there's anything for them to do in there.
mmmm Yum yum I think I just had to remember how to eat cereal I just ate the whole bowl and it was soooo yummy! I wish I knew what kind of cereal it was so I could tell you to try it...it's like corn flake stuff with like walnuts and cranberries but wayyyyyy more delicious than it sounds.
Anyway, there's more about the nature stuff.
Human beings have the largest brain to body ratio in the entire animal kingdom. It's
Okay I just read wikipedia and let me back this up. Apparently that title belongs to the shrew. Humans have the highest "encephalization quotient" of all "extant animals". Okay I was right, extant means animals still alive today.
So whatever, same thing pretty much. Although I do have to add that each family, genus, order etc of animals has its own expected encephalization quotient with a lot of variables in between. So aren't even out of line for what's expected for primates, however, gorillas ARE!!! (I think they're lower than expected or something. Who cares about gorillas)
Anyway...we have this great big giant brain we lug around and it requires a ton of fat to stay alive all day, but what are we equipped with? Sturdy little fingernails and some eyebrows! Okay, Neanderthals were admittedly a little tougher looking, but they were as close to us as they come. And we were never equipped with.......
Well, hold up. This is what I'm saying. If you go back far enough on the evolutionary chain on Earth, primates began to become more human like. I mean starting from the beginning, you start from a single-celled organism and slowly progress to multi-celled and more complicated organisms, you develop fish eventually and plants and progress toward land animals. The land animals evolve from lizards to birdies to mammals and the like, which crawl along for several millennia until they become us: Homo sapiens.
And within only a few thousand years (we humans are a fiber on a page in the story book that is Earth) we have come so far that we are now, in the past only 120 years, slowly destroying the Earth. We are unscrambling, decoding, and solving nature, and we are manipulating it and overcoming it to serve our needs.
Here's my question...nature knows that our bodies need lactic acid, but nature didn't know that the pattern of evolution would inevitably progress toward smarter and smarter entities which would eventually destroy the very Earth they came from?
Are humans inevitable though? Was our evolution inevitable?
Ask yourself this: what if scientist somehow rigged 5 other Earth's, exactly our size and distance from the Sun, with all the same features that we had when we formed, would life have sprung forth as it did? And imagine if on every planet life did succeed, as I believe it definitely would-
Side track for a moment here. I'm going to continue right where I left off in the next paragraph, but I just wanted to say here...Imagine Earth right now, and then subtract all the humans and all their impact on Earth. The pollution, the countries, the canals, the dams, the buildings, the trash, the irrigation, the waste, every person, gone. Okay, hopefully you are also near a window? Look how beautiful it is outside. It's really sunny and delightful in here right now so I apologize if it's raining and miserable where you are, but regardless, you can see how lush it is. Sure, without human impact, the temperature could possibly be varied by a fraction of a degree, and there might be trees right where I'm sitting (Actually, there almost definitely would...which is really weird if you think about it because I live a short walking distance from the beach. So if all none of the trees in this town were cut down, they would extend almost entire to the shore line I think....can you even imagine a shoreline not populated with the occasional palm tree, but with a dense forest of conifers and maples??"
-would humans inevitably evolve? Whether it took 6 billion or 4 billion or 10 billion years, would it happen? On every single planet? If you believe that human evolution was inevitable, do you believe TECHNOLOGY was inevitable? That if there were humans on each of those Earths, they would all eventually develop rapidly and exponentially and get to our point and beyond?
And that leaves me here: does life continue to evolve until it causes its own demise? Or...are we still evolving...is there one more step on the evolutionary ladder that we have to take, that will take us to being civilized and at one with the earth while still technologically advanced and comfortable and...healthy? Can that happen? Can we become at one with the Earth, stop creating a negative impact, stop defacing the scenery so much, stop hurting each other, and yet still have technology?
If we can't, why does life seek to end itself? How can nature go through a complete circle without knowing what it's doing? How can nature be anything but a conscious being?
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