And don’t say two blocks from your house in answer to the title of this article! Always remember that you live on this planet, Earth. How many of us forget this little particular is unfathomable. I know for certain that I live here, how about you? If you have doubts at times I cannot place blame on your shoulders. The next obvious question is how long will Earth survive us? By us, I mean those living here now. The dead have fulfilled their obligation in a way positive or negative but they’re still here, in one form or another.
It came to me this afternoon that Earth is a fairly decent place to live. I recall having thought the opposite in Vietnam but I recanted that once I got home and spent a couple of months backpacking in the Sierra-Nevada mountains. Sometimes you just have to go to ground to figure out why you are alive, right? I mean, given the state of this planet it seems that a majority of people don’t care about where we live and are, in fact, trying to hasten our exit from a livable planet! Screw them idjits!
I am not what a body might call an environmentalist. I am certainly not green because I have never been seasick. I’ve seen seasickness a time or two and I never wanted any part of that. Puke everywhere.
Where is Earth? We have no idea of Earth’s relative position in the universe outside of our solar system. It’s kind of like not knowing where a town in Kansas is as we have never been there. “Dorothy, I can see your house from here!”
Nah, you only think you can see her house from here. Who the hell knows what is beyond Pluto anyhow? I don’t except for glimmering white spots in the sky at night, if it isn’t foggy or cloudy. I recall having seen the Southern Cross going to New Zealand once. Even that sky was not the same as I was used to. I mean, where are the scientists who have all the dadgummed answers? Why aren’t the stars dependable no matter where we go? If the Earth rotated on its poles I wouldn’t have a problem. It doesn’t so it gets confusing doesn’t it?
And you thought we had to worry about governments who want to kill all of us. Russia, China, Iran, Fresno. Nah, they want to live to and don’t we just have the weapons to blow us all to hell should they change their minds? This is called, Being painted into a corner and it’s a huge problem for you and I isn’t it. I know, you don’t want or like to think about it but, hey, we were all born to die weren’t we? Who cares how we die because eternity is only for a few lucky ones who managed to do the right thing dang near all the time. It may or may not be a surprise, like a present or package left at your front door. Who is it from?
What is the right thing about living a good life? Well, it ain’t murder or rape is it. Maybe it is knowing a few truths that most nowadays think are bologna. I don’t think it is bologna. No, I bet my life that it is truth that is sometimes the hardest to get our heads around. What does God think of what we are doing to His planet? I’ll leave you with that question.
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