Current Events > My dad thinks the Earth is a living organism.

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He also said that diseases are part of Earths immune system. Is he a crazy hippie?

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What does your conservative grandpa have to say about this?

I mean in a figurative way it works. We are pretty much parasites at this point.

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Yes

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I mean, I kind of agree. It's real small to think evolution is solely an occurrence built around random organisms attempting to survive. I believe the planet plays a role in that evolution and we are a part of it's evolution. It's just so grand in scope that we can't really comprehend what's going on. It's difficult enough to comprehend human evolution, let alone the tiny part we play in the evolution of the planet, the universe, etc.

the earth isn't real

Physics has no concept of "living organism" vs anything else. It's just atoms / other particles interacting in the way those particles do, sometimes they add up to something we consider a living organism.

If he actually thinks that the Earth is conscious or some shit like that, he likely needs to lay off the weed, but if he simply has a looser definition of "living organism" than most... I could definitely see some validity to his point, one could certianly argue the Earth is at least as "alive" as, say, viruses.

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Did he write for Blizzard?

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Aka the Gaia hypothesis, as popularized by James Lovelock.

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It's real small to think evolution is solely an occurrence built around random organisms attempting to survive.

elaborate.

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Trumble posted...

Physics has no concept of "living organism" vs anything else.

...and computer science has no concept of gravity, that doesn't mean i can just use the word however i want lmao.

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Well it is alive, just in a different way from a plant or an animal.

It has chakra points, a "breathing" system in the form of seasonal climate changes and vegetation, a "nervous" system in the form of ley lines and other geographic phenomena that cities and towns, ancient and modern, use with planning construction, a "cardiovascular" system in the form of recycling land/magma/lava always being magnetically oriented to flow north and eventually into the core.

https://youtu.be/Mynr7uik5-0

This video is a great example of how perfect nature is and how it replicates the same basic set of geometry and structure throughout all aspects of life, from lungs and tree branches to lightning bolts, galaxies to sea shells, etc.

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Is he a final Fantasy villain?

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It's possible

Your dad's Sephiroth?

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He's wrong, life is the virus and humans are the antibodies. Either that or <insert plot of Xenoblade: Chronicles here>.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2adrUaiyI

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Your dad is a smart guy

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Your dad is cool.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

lol are you for real

It's not some conspiracy or fairy tale lmao, go read up on some books, science articles and documentaries

There are many fundamental relationships through geometry, electromagnetism and other natural forces between the macrocosm and microcosm that you wouldn't begin to start wrapping your head around if you're silly enough to denounce something without studying it.

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Mogo doesn't socialize.

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It's an ecosystem.

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Kaiganeer posted...

the earth isn't real

https://www.reddit.com/r/Noearthsociety/

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

but you really can't deny that we are the universes way of knowing itself

No I can deny that really easy.

We are nothing. An insignificant speck on the timeline of the cosmos. The meaning we give to ourselves is imaginary.

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gaia theory is an old psuedoscience thing
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ur dad slaps

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Earth is not Mogo.

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Xenozoa425 posted...

It's not some conspiracy or fairy tale lmao, go read up on some books, science articles and documentaries

There are many fundamental relationships through geometry, electromagnetism and other natural forces between the macrocosm and microcosm that you wouldn't begin to start wrapping your head around if you're silly enough to denounce something without studying it.

"science articles"

Let me guess, all the chemists and physicists and mathematicians who don't believe in magic are just part of a conspiracy, or are you smarter than that many people?

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DuranOfForcena posted...

lmfao

"yeah ley lines are real, go read some books"

Latitude and longitude lines have been used to plan out architecture of cities and structures since ancient times. Many sites are built on the same lines, even Washington D.C. has sacred geometry built into its foundation.

Tyranthraxus posted...

No I can deny that really easy.

We are nothing. An insignificant speck on the timeline of the cosmos. The meaning we give to ourselves is imaginary.

That's pretty naive to assume we are nothing. We're made of the same atoms and elements as animals, trees, rocks, metals, planets and stars. Take into account quantum theory, and we have a subatomic divine connection to all of existence within every possible point of spacetime. There is eternal amounts of knowledge to be found within nature, knowledge that has no beginning or ending; we are but one radio channel on a network of infinite amounts of music. Universe, uni-verse, one verse, one song that gives life to all possibility.

Guide posted...

"science articles"

Let me guess, all the chemists and physicists and mathematicians who don't believe in magic are just part of a conspiracy, or are you smarter than that many people?

Any science or technology that cannot be accurately measured or replicated has the capability to be considered "magic". Sound carries intelligence and is the foundation of the electromagnetic spectrum. Anything that has energy is "alive" and makes a sound, you just can't always process it accurately with the toolkit of your 5 physical senses you have as a means of measurement

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A flat organism.

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Its more correct than any of them there holy books, let your dad have his hippydippy shit

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DuranOfForcena posted...

where the fuck do you get all this bullshit from that you are spewing

what "science articles" and "documentaries"

Physics, cymatics, mechanical engineering, quantum mechanics, geometry, biology, genetics, etc.

You can learn from books, encyclopedias, internet, movies, magazines, articles, research papers, university studies, documentaries, etc. Not everything you learn has to come from years spent in a school or college.

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*Barret Wallace has entered the chat*

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Did someone say Ley line?



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AlisLandale posted...

Did someone say Ley line?

I like this.

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I mean, I have heard more outlandish stuff before. Like the Earth being flat, or that it was snapped into existence by an invisible sky wizard.

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Sound carries intelligence

try reading your posts out loud before you post them if you want that refuted.

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I think its a good idea in a philosophical sense, obviously the Earth does not meet the requirements of the scientific definition of life, but in the way that the fundamental motion of all things continuously toward expansion and eventual entropy presents itself repeatedly in the workings of the world, theres definitely a pattern or chain of events to be seen that kind of suggests a degree of personality or autonomy within the Earth and/or nature itself. Its a very human characteristic to look for traces of oneself within any entity or mechanism, and I think the Earth leans more toward mechanism than entity

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Your dad is a JRPG final boss

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earth provides food for life, has space for life to thrive, it's pretty much alive around here so why can't the thing we're all standing on be alive?

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Chicken posted...

I mean in a figurative way it works. We are pretty much parasites at this point.

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Nukazie posted...

earth provides food for life, has space for life to thrive, it's pretty much alive around here so why can't the thing we're all standing on be alive?

Cause there's a definition for life, and it doesn't fit that definition. You can make up other definitions to fit whatever you want it to fit, but then it loses meaning.

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