RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 22, 2016 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2016 at 9:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We're the single-most important organism in the dominant ecosystem on earth, the human one.
Cats, dogs, roaches, mice...we're a dependency. If it weren't for us our livestock would die, our agricultural environments would disappear. I'm not sure why anyone would think that human beings are somehow -outside- of nature or ecosystems. Primitively we fill the same niche (and provide the same dependencies) that any other primate does...we're just better at it than any of them. So we build skyscrapers and cities..which are, themselves, an ecosystem all their own. Taken from the other end...we're omnivores - garbage collectors. We're also habitat modifiers. That's the vital role we play.
Cats, dogs, roaches, mice...we're a dependency. If it weren't for us our livestock would die, our agricultural environments would disappear. I'm not sure why anyone would think that human beings are somehow -outside- of nature or ecosystems. Primitively we fill the same niche (and provide the same dependencies) that any other primate does...we're just better at it than any of them. So we build skyscrapers and cities..which are, themselves, an ecosystem all their own. Taken from the other end...we're omnivores - garbage collectors. We're also habitat modifiers. That's the vital role we play.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
