No our developed sense of consciousness and utilization of our surroundings put us at the top of the food chain here on Earth, not God. It has nothing to do with any life we have not yet found elsewhere or things we create, which could indeed dwarf us in importance. this "brief veil of tears" is inheritable brief because our lifespan within time is brief. It's tearful because we are overly attached emotional animals with an overinflated sense of self importance. It sounds pretty harsh, but what makes that baby baby any more or less important than the 50 million ants that died in the same tsunami or the minerals and ores stripped from an ecosystem by mankind? From the perspective of one who created all of it, IMO, little more than the difference between loving 1 of your 1000 pet hamsters a little more than the rest because he has a little strip of red hair down it's back. I grant that a whole lot of humans in general are self- absorbed and ego centric as a mild generality, but that has zero value on productivity within an ecosystem (usually a detriment). As to why he doesn't materialize heaven because we chose and choose to fail to trust in his plan and guidance and are left with our own selves to figure out what's good and evil. Once we as a species become more socially one, in this regard, I think ego will have a swift decline.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
