Monday, December 26, 2005

A GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR THIS SITE, Part Twelve

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An Act of Friction: A vigorous act of physical union (practiced by a male and a female pairing among the various species) which can result in the release of male sperm with the potential of fertilizing an egg in a female. The act (if fertilization happens) begins another cycling of elements that persons wrongly take to be an “act of creation” (as in, “We made a baby.” Magical thinkers claim, “We and the Creator worked together to make a baby” or “God sent us this precious gift.”) In fact, the process is natural and automatic and is limited to only two contributing participants. The last thing on the minds of a human couple at the moment of ejaculation was the specific "child" that followed, and among the thousands and thousands of other species that enter into acts of friction, they certainly have no mind at all and are merely engaging in an act of friction that is inspired by a natural drive of attraction, pleasure-seeking, and release.
No Creation: One survey of U.S. adults revealed that 87% do not know “how babies are made.” 87% do not believe that the process involves only two entities—a male and a female—but believe that a third party in another realm also plays a direct and active part in the process. Some believe in a physical intervention in which an other-worldly-male guides the swim-path of 40,000,000 sperm per second on this planet as well as the movements of all the eggs in females engaged in acts of friction. Some believe that entity provides a supernatural element while intervening and controlling the process and inserts some non-physical parts. So it is in a culture dominated by magical thinkers who have been conditioned to ignore the simple facts surrounding acts of friction.
No Creators: Why is nothing being created? All the elements involved in what persons take to be “creations and births” already existed on the planet, along with the air that will eventually be called “breath.” Of the trillions of trillions of “humans” that have supposedly “come and gone”—and of the trillions and trillions of other life-forms that have seemingly “come and gone”—nothing really came and nothing really went. Every element involved in all those temporary cyclings was present on the planet then and is still present on the planet now. Appearances that are labeled "babies, children, adults, etc." are assumed to be something other than what they are. By comparison, a steel girder's appearance is taken to be what it really is, but looking at the beam under an electron microscope makes clear that it is not at all what it appears to be. So it is with all appearances. The only factor in the process of all the cyclings that arrives from outside the earth’s closed system is the “energy.” No creation or destruction happened. Neither energy nor matter can be created nor destroyed. No part of anything that has every manifested has left the earth’s closed system, save the conscious-energy. Thus, there is no “birth” and there is no “death.” Elements, air, and consciousness merely cycle. At the moment of what persons call "birth," the recycled elements' appearance is taken to be a body when in fact it is mainly space, and the form appears to change throughout the length of its manifestation because billions of cells are constantly being replaced along with a supply of conscious-energy, all via the intake and digestion of plants or via the intake and digestion of animals that have eaten plants. Nothing mystical, magical, or supernatural is involved with a very simple, natural process that unfolds automatically. Among humans alone, 40,000,000 sperm cells per second are being released (20,000,000 per instance of friction that results in an ejaculation) and two eggs are being fertilized per second as one sperm cell per instance “wins” the race to the eggs. Among all species, trillions and trillions of sperm cells are being released every second and billions of eggs are being fertilized every second. No “Prime Causer” or “Creator” is guiding trillions and trillions of sperm cells per second. It happens automatically, and nothing is being created. No creation equals no creator, including those assuming the roles of proud “parents.” They merely entered into acts of friction that resulted in another cycling of elements, air, and consciousness.

All that happens when an egg is fertilized happens automatically as long as the female consumes the plant-food that provides the elements and conscious-energy required for development of a space that will "house" consciousness. What persons call a “new-born” is simply a reorganization of the already-existing elements on earth into what is nothing more than a plant-food body/space with temporarily manifested consciousness. As with the eight-legged ancestors of “humans” that emerged from the water and later began to breath the oxygen in the air, the “new-born” that was in water in a womb will walk the surface of the planet and breath air until the consciousness is no longer manifested. Nothing mystical or magical or supernatural is involved in the totally natural process which begins with an act of friction that can trigger another cycling of three components—the elements, the air, and the consciousness—in combination, temporarily. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

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