Humanity |
I just had left the
hospital. Every time I have to work on weekends or late times, I think why am I
here? Is it an obligation or an option? Indeed, I’m honored when I work to save
souls, relieve pain, and improve life quality. Yet, how does my work make the
difference? Usually the service provided in hospitals is below average. We’re
talking about standers of care. On a lesser scale, all I have to do is
optimizing my care to the patient better outcome. When I try to help in a
faster, delicate, and compassionate manner, I don’t only reach the point of
self-satisfaction and patient’s as well. Then, I believe I initiated the wheel
of caring. I expect the patient, as an individual, to do the same to another
individual. This’s how I serve humanity! I’ll spare a man or woman more time to
take care of their families, jobs, and contribution to civilization, just by
being a better doctor, and a humbled person.
So, what makes us
alike? For my family, they all grow a big belly after marriage. It’s not a beer
belly, it’s the “fucking” belly. Indeed the trend to cluster into nations,
communities, and families is very characteristic of human beings. We feel the
threat of nature around us, we’re in a continues fight against it. I’m not
surprised by the current behavior in destruction it, because this way we
conquer and defeat volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. It’s like slapping
and slapping back. Besides that, our instincts encourage us to be competitive.
When we feel hopeless against mother earth, we direct our powers against each
other. Dog eating dog, even when we feel defeated against higher authority like
a senior doctor. In the end, it’s very amusing how we are all alike, share
most of motivation, aims, behaviors, and manners, despite the big change in
outer frame, even when we see things in different perspective. The human
behavior passes the borders of race, gender, or ethnicity.
The Origin of Humanity |
Is it due to a common
ancestor? If the evolution is true, then
why there’s no other intelligent life forms in earth beside us. It’s funny to
criticize a theory which extends over two billion years, when first nucleated
cells appeared. So, let’s trace briefly our family tree. Fifteen million years
ago, the first great ape descended from the gibbon. We shouldn’t take things
away from the context, everything is evolving. Intelligence, morals, behaviors
and even religions are changing, advancing, and adapting to the surrounding
atmosphere. We weren’t born the way we see each other’s now. The beginning was
far away in history, around 200000 years, and we kept surviving and adapting to
the nature. Thus, when you ask how come such a decent creature descended from
monkeys, remember some primitive behaviors which some humans do. Also, remember
this package wasn’t brought from heaven all sudden, but built through the ages of
trial and error. There were at least fifteen ancestors since we’ve separated from
the great apes. Some of those species were eliminated by other dominating one. So,
survival of the fittest.
The big picture is
really more holistic. We’re all, all the living and nonliving forms, made of
star dusts. It’s funny killing somebody because of beliefs disagreement. And
after generations the same exact atoms which built that the victim may contribute
to your child's body. Would you kill your child then? I can’t understand why we
shout at each other? Why do we show signs of force and power against each
other? Why there is no peace among people of same eyes, mouths, noses, and
ears. I mean like are we really that different to justify killing each other? Even
though, I can’t comprehend the idea of killing a human being. It’s really
shocking. If I would have killed all the men and women to live one day more from
the sum of their lives, I just couldn’t. If shouting would prove my point or my
power, somebody always would shout louder so he/she would be right. We’re not
equal, for sure, but very similar.
Beside all things we have in common, all of us
die. Just imagine, what is capable of killing all of us at once? Just imagine
the amount of silence if all humans are gone. Would our apocalypse be a
man-made, a natural disaster or something else? I remember an old cartoon TV
show about a war, the third world war, in 2008
using magnetic weapons which destruct the earth and manipulate all of its
magnetic fields. Yet, an island has survived, and life flourishes afterward.
Anyway, if a nuclear war takes place, I’m afraid it wouldn’t leave any
survival. Another possibility is another ice age, we’re not where better than
dinosaurs if such a disaster happens, and it’s really possible. But the most preferable mode of extinction, for me, is being eliminated by another intelligent form;
computers.
We are developing
technology so fast that soon it can take over.
That doesn't matter. I care the
most about the possibility of a world which would be exclusive only for
computers, where their initial creature, humans, would be eradicated. Would
ultra-smart computer's wonder who did create them? Would they come up with the
idea of god which we have now? Or are they smart enough to believe there is no
as such as creator? Nevertheless, we humans created them in first place. This
is a very beautiful paradox.
A computer programme is only as intelligent as its human programmer.