Yes it is a well-worn subject, a Monty Python staple skit, an ongoing preachable subject at church and arguable in front of women’s services facilities and on the steps of political buildings. Why add to the confusion? Because only by discussing it can we come to terms with it.
Some people live without existing; others exist without living. Humans and other creatures of varying degrees of substance or purpose are born and die every second of every day. Some living things we have too much of, while others are in short supply. Yet when it comes to human beings we often argue over the subject of life as if everybody should be expected to conform to one idea without exception. That can and should never happen. It is the diversity of life itself that makes the very notion of pigeonholing it into absolute law, book, chapter and verse impossible. Even God in His wisdom made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Adam and Adam ad infinitum. He also made trees and rocks, lions and tigers, clouds and earthworms. If you subscribe to evolutionary theory, the creation of the universe included such diversity as a part of the greater plan (the dinosaurs probably had a purpose that was short but necessary in the grander scheme of planetary development, but that discussion is for another time). Either way you look at it, diversity is the key to how the earth works.
Life is its own chaotic experience. From one second to the next, every square microscopic measurement of space on this planet is being changed just by our being here. As you read something like this online, billions of particles that could or might have a purpose are starting their journey, and others are ending theirs. We will never know how many opportunities never came into being, or which ones should not have been started. What life truly means comes from what good is made from what does live.
. . . .to be continued.
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