Yet Another Story

Yet Another (Younger) Story

Others tell yet a different story:
With a primal bang
the cosmos (or chaos or
a mix of both) was born.

It’s all physical energy in
thicker or thinner forms.
It’s dynamic and mechanical,
a collection of it-objects that
function according to
codifiable laws (or randomness).

Life, consciousness,
emotions, and rationality
are chemical reactions.

We humans are living,
conscious, emotional,
and rational beings
dwelling on a tiny, planet-speck
at the edge of the Milky Way,
one galaxy among hundreds
of billions.

Our rationality makes us
superior to all others
on this planet, the crown,
the most advanced,
of the evolutionary line.

With our rational, scientific method,
we discover and learn about
our species and other
it-objects and their laws.

There is no reason to believe
there is a limit to what we
can discover and learn.

We use what we learn
to dominate and manipulate
at will all other it-objects,

We dominate and manipulate
all others according to
our own needs and desires.

Not yet do we know why
there is anything rather
than nothing. Things are
because they happen.

Not yet have we learned
the origin of life. We just
know it keeps happening.

If there is a purpose to
our life and others, we
do not know what
it is. We just know some
are alive, others aren’t,
and we are free to live
as we choose.

So, some believe.