Acolyte Of Pan 666
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This will likely get a lot of hate since people’s idea of nature is usually a naive one but I’ll lay out my views anyway. Nature lovers look at a beautiful plant or animal and think nature is amazing because it produced beautiful things, but they don’t seem to understand or truly contemplate the process involved these things.
Nature is personified as a mother, but if a human mother treated her children the way the way nature treats creatures, she’d be hunted down by the people and hung from a lamppost.
The beauty you see is the product of billions of dead, failed experiments of evolution. Billions of animals suffering because they didn’t get win the genetic lottery or even if they did, just got unlucky.
Nature is cruel, extremely cruel. I won’t say it’s evil because that would imply intent. It has no intent, it just does what it does. In human terms, imagine a mother who does nothing for her children and expects them fend for themselves since birth, and she also randomly rewards and punishes them, for no reason whatsoever. She gives one food, another poison. She helps one stand up, and kneecaps another, not out of malice but for no reason.
Nature doesn’t care about you. People do, some animals might, the Gods do, but not nature. If you fell down a hill and bled to death, nature won’t do anything.
Behind every beautiful and majestic animal are 1000 who starved, died of disease, or failed to reproduce because they weren’t born with the right speed, intelligence, size, or stealth to survive.
Plants too, most plant species that have ever existed are extinct. They simply weren’t born with the lucky traits to survive or the environment changed too quickly for them to adapt.
The realist view is to accept all this, and I do, but that doesn’t mean I like it. It’s awful, incredibly awful. The natural system is very abusive and uncaring, it’s as far away from a mother as you can get. Calling nature a mother is an insult to all good and caring mothers out there.
To truly understand evolution, watch this video, it explains it quite well:
It’s not that I hate life itself. I love life, I love animals and I love studying biology, evolution and genetics.
Some may mock this and say life isn’t supposed to be a nursery. I’m not asking life to be a nursery. However, I don’t think it has to be a slaughterhouse either.
Why is Nature like this? Did the Gods design it that way or was it always like this? The Gods and all good people strongly oppose animal abuse, and if you saw someone abusing an animal you immediately feel disgust and hate at the person.
Yet when Nature abuses animals, which it does at a far more gigantic and industrial degree that makes animal farms look like hospitals, we’re supposed to not just accept that but appreciate it as well?
Another stupid thing I hear is Nature’s “wisdom”.
Nature isn’t wise or intelligent. It’s blind. Imagine a blind man throwing 100s of darts for several hours all over the place, and 4 hit the target by the end of the session. Would you call that person a good dart shooter?
Nature’s “wisdom” is explained in detail by the video above. It’s good to copy from Nature because anything that wasn’t good didn’t make it. If an AI constantly spammed a million random words per second over eternity, you’ll eventually get a well written book. That doesn’t make the AI a great writer. It didn’t write it with intent or care. It just kept spamming.
Nature “wisdom” is throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks. You copy what stuck because it stuck.
Btw this isn’t really related to the artificial wombs post I made yesterday. I’ve recanted my position on that and as I trust HPS Lydia’s experience that these aren’t good things.
This also doesn’t mean we should live unnatural lives. On the contrary, we need to be as natural as we can, while also improving on where nature fell short, due to its utter randomness. I don’t want to see as anti-nature, more like I understand and live by the process to thrive, and I hate it because I understand it.
Where would we be without the Gods? Just look at modern apes today if you want an idea. We’re an unnatural product, produced with love and care, with an intent for us to succeed. This wasn’t nature’s doing.
Am I missing something here? Yes plants and animals are beautiful, but that doesn’t mean the system that produced them is. The process is incredibly ugly.
If Nature was made like this with intent, I’d like to know why. It just doesn’t seem right to me.
Nature is personified as a mother, but if a human mother treated her children the way the way nature treats creatures, she’d be hunted down by the people and hung from a lamppost.
The beauty you see is the product of billions of dead, failed experiments of evolution. Billions of animals suffering because they didn’t get win the genetic lottery or even if they did, just got unlucky.
Nature is cruel, extremely cruel. I won’t say it’s evil because that would imply intent. It has no intent, it just does what it does. In human terms, imagine a mother who does nothing for her children and expects them fend for themselves since birth, and she also randomly rewards and punishes them, for no reason whatsoever. She gives one food, another poison. She helps one stand up, and kneecaps another, not out of malice but for no reason.
Nature doesn’t care about you. People do, some animals might, the Gods do, but not nature. If you fell down a hill and bled to death, nature won’t do anything.
Behind every beautiful and majestic animal are 1000 who starved, died of disease, or failed to reproduce because they weren’t born with the right speed, intelligence, size, or stealth to survive.
Plants too, most plant species that have ever existed are extinct. They simply weren’t born with the lucky traits to survive or the environment changed too quickly for them to adapt.
The realist view is to accept all this, and I do, but that doesn’t mean I like it. It’s awful, incredibly awful. The natural system is very abusive and uncaring, it’s as far away from a mother as you can get. Calling nature a mother is an insult to all good and caring mothers out there.
To truly understand evolution, watch this video, it explains it quite well:
It’s not that I hate life itself. I love life, I love animals and I love studying biology, evolution and genetics.
Some may mock this and say life isn’t supposed to be a nursery. I’m not asking life to be a nursery. However, I don’t think it has to be a slaughterhouse either.
Why is Nature like this? Did the Gods design it that way or was it always like this? The Gods and all good people strongly oppose animal abuse, and if you saw someone abusing an animal you immediately feel disgust and hate at the person.
Yet when Nature abuses animals, which it does at a far more gigantic and industrial degree that makes animal farms look like hospitals, we’re supposed to not just accept that but appreciate it as well?
Another stupid thing I hear is Nature’s “wisdom”.
Nature isn’t wise or intelligent. It’s blind. Imagine a blind man throwing 100s of darts for several hours all over the place, and 4 hit the target by the end of the session. Would you call that person a good dart shooter?
Nature’s “wisdom” is explained in detail by the video above. It’s good to copy from Nature because anything that wasn’t good didn’t make it. If an AI constantly spammed a million random words per second over eternity, you’ll eventually get a well written book. That doesn’t make the AI a great writer. It didn’t write it with intent or care. It just kept spamming.
Nature “wisdom” is throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks. You copy what stuck because it stuck.
Btw this isn’t really related to the artificial wombs post I made yesterday. I’ve recanted my position on that and as I trust HPS Lydia’s experience that these aren’t good things.
This also doesn’t mean we should live unnatural lives. On the contrary, we need to be as natural as we can, while also improving on where nature fell short, due to its utter randomness. I don’t want to see as anti-nature, more like I understand and live by the process to thrive, and I hate it because I understand it.
Where would we be without the Gods? Just look at modern apes today if you want an idea. We’re an unnatural product, produced with love and care, with an intent for us to succeed. This wasn’t nature’s doing.
Am I missing something here? Yes plants and animals are beautiful, but that doesn’t mean the system that produced them is. The process is incredibly ugly.
If Nature was made like this with intent, I’d like to know why. It just doesn’t seem right to me.
