"The Language of God" is a fascinating book on this subject that I would recommend to everyone interested in learning more about just how complicated the workings of our body and world are.
Here's some food for thought. Ever notice how almost nothing in the natural world is illogical? Everything follows a set order or rules and laws, even something as seemingly chaotic as a wildfire can't exist outside of a set of hard rules.
It's not until you start climbing up the ranks of living beings that you start to encounter illogical and irrational behaviour. The more intelligent a creature is the more susceptible to these kinds of acts it becomes. A wolf kills a deer not because it relishes in the suffering and pain of the deer, but simply because it wants to eat and survive. Humans on the other hand will kill and maim others for perverse and sadistic pleasure, differing belief, or material wealth and goods - all illogical behaviour from a natural perspective.
It's also interesting that the more removed from nature a creature is the more miserable and stressed it becomes. Tropical fish, as an example, will not display the same vibrant colors and behaviours that they do in the wild when placed in an aquarium. Wolves display markedly different behaviour in captivity than they do in packs in the wild.
This phenomena is also easily observed in people. The highest rates of mental illness, crime, and generally illogical behaviour are found in cities, which are also the locations most removed from nature. As you get out into the countryside where people live in and interact with nature more, these patterns and behaviours are found less and less.
The more we remove ourselves from nature and the gifts we were endowed with the more miserable and distorted we become. Fighting against nature instead of living and working with it. Rejecting virtue and a higher calling and instead choosing to debase ourselves with an endless lust for worldly pleasure and material goods. For many people, life is just chasing one dopamine fix after another. A whole life spent running on the hedonic treadmill before death mercifully ends it and frees them from their self-imposed slavery. It's really sad, but such is the nature of free will and choice.
"The Language of God" is a fascinating book on this subject that I would recommend to everyone interested in learning more about just how complicated the workings of our body and world are.
Here's some food for thought. Ever notice how almost nothing in the natural world is illogical? Everything follows a set order or rules and laws, even something as seemingly chaotic as a wildfire can't exist outside of a set of hard rules.
It's not until you start climbing up the ranks of living beings that you start to encounter illogical and irrational behaviour. The more intelligent a creature is the more susceptible to these kinds of acts it becomes. A wolf kills a deer not because it relishes in the suffering and pain of the deer, but simply because it wants to eat and survive. Humans on the other hand will kill and maim others for perverse and sadistic pleasure, differing belief, or material wealth and goods - all illogical behaviour from a natural perspective.
It's also interesting that the more removed from nature a creature is the more miserable and stressed it becomes. Tropical fish, as an example, will not display the same vibrant colors and behaviours that they do in the wild when placed in an aquarium. Wolves display markedly different behaviour in captivity than they do in packs in the wild.
This phenomena is also easily observed in people. The highest rates of mental illness, crime, and generally illogical behaviour are found in cities, which are also the locations most removed from nature. As you get out into the countryside where people live in and interact with nature more, these patterns and behaviours are found less and less.
The more we remove ourselves from nature and the gifts we were endowed with the more miserable and distorted we become. Fighting against nature instead of living and working with it. Rejecting virtue and a higher calling and instead choosing to debase ourselves with an endless lust for worldly pleasure and material goods. For many people, life is just chasing one dopamine fix after another. A whole life spent running on the hedonic treadmill before death mercifully ends it and frees them from their self-imposed slavery. It's really sad, but such is the nature of free will and choice.