Too Many Topics To Tackle...

After a significant hiatus, I return to imbue the internet with my more than likely uninteresting thoughts. Tonight I watched 'The Moon' starring Sam Rockwell. Great show. Great premise. It picks up where many sci-fi masterpieces left off, delving into the timeless, twisted perception of space occupation, specifically moon harvesting. We've seen cloning in the news. We saw the goat. We understand the concept of DNA replication. Until something steps out of the pictures and enters the workaday realm, we have only our ideas of what it all means, whether it is moral, ethical, plausible, etc. Here is where I stand...

I believe that every human being has a soul. It is unique, unspliceable, uncloneable and unquestionable. I think animals can be manipulated, or cloned if you prefer, because they do not have souls. All dogs do not go to Heaven, if you are wondering. They return to the earth. They are instinctive creatures which, like every other animal that is not homo sapiens, are merely here as moving scenery, albeit scenery which has the very definite chance of teaching us some very important lessons, not to mention showing us a rare example in nature of the unconditional love of our Creator. So, cloning. I doubt we will see it. At least on our scientists' terms. We already see it in identical twins. The fertilized egg splits. Perhaps it splits several ways. But is everything identical? The thoughts, actions, beliefs, ideas and personality of each split portion? They tend to develop their own self along the way. This is not just nature. This is the soul.

I suppose in conjecturing that this falls under most things I can conceive of, but simply don't assume will ever cross my radar (aliens, monsters, cyborgs, etc.). Every thing that is presently has a purpose in being, and everything is governed by a set of laws (i.e., laws of creation). To come across anything that even apparently violates those laws just doesn't make sense. At least, not to me. I don't disallow that extra-terrestrial life exists. I simply do not believe we will ever have a brush with it. It simply doesn't factor into the cosmology that we exist within.

To conclude, and I'm not even sure what I'm concluding to be honest, everything that happens does so by design, perhaps not purposed by but surely presided over by a single creator. All evil and tragedy will one day serve a purpose, and whether that purpose be broadcast on the grand stage or simply fulfilled in the occasional heart, rest assured it will be so. Good night, and good luck.

This has been brought to you under the influence of Bell's Two Hearted Ale. A finer IPA you will have to get very creative to find.