Just Me Magazine - July 2017 July 2017 | Page 4

Bernard Creamer Jr Capitalist Revolutionary??? Nature tends to provide the most beautiful examples of universal connectivity. Inter-connectivity as the way things should be. Ideally. There is nothing in nature that operates against the grain of natural laws. Even the mutations and abnormalities are factored into the grand scheme. Everything has its time, place, and purpose with the end goal of sustaining species and the ecosystems that hosts them. Giants . . Elephants are not only among the most majestic animals on earth; they are the strongest mammals on the planet. A single elephant is fully capable of uprooting a decade's old tree simply by applying minimal might to it. The beauty of the elephant is that with all of the power it possesses, it is among the most peaceful animals on the planet with no interest in killing other animals, for food or folly. Man. . Man is the only creature on earth that operates in total disunion with nature. Most activities undertaken by man serve to evaporate, dissolve, or destroy all that nature presents as gifts to all of this planet’s occupants. Nature is the great provider. At the pinnacle of nature is the sun. Without the sun, there is no life on this planet. The original occupants of this planet grew to understand the connection between themselves and nature. They grew to acknowledge and appreciate nature and their place in it. Eventually, the veneration man had for nature evolved spiritual systems which featured the various tangible life-giving components of nature; the earth, the water, the air, the animals, the moon, the stars, the planets, and the sun. Nothing GOoD last forever . . As time went on and certain mutations and deviations of man lost their way, that appreciation and veneration man had for nature, and the sun turned towards himself, not inwardly, but outwardly. Man began to worship himself, not as gods, but as godly. Man became disconnected, in many cases, living in places on the planet that seemed disconnected; dark, merciless, and mysterious places. Hostile environments where man’s links with nature were rife with whatever death nature could provide, often through a mix of depravity and depression. There were places on earth where man’s existence wasn’t the sun and nature’s abundance, but instead, cold caves and callous climates. The Caucasus Mountains come to mind. In these places, genetically-mutated man mentally crafted mean and mysterious gods that behaved as monsters, taking and rarely providing. Gods to fear, devoid of love. These men eventually migrated to warmer places where nature was a friend, and they conquered, possessing an evil devolved from an existence that was saturated with the mayhem and misery present in life in closer proximity to the earth’s northern pole. They replaced the veneration the original people had for the SUN with veneration and admiration for a SON. The son of a god that interacted with men in a spiteful manner, mannerisms of a monster that sought to punish and purge the planet of those who came up short fulfilling what was ordained as their purpose. Sacrifices were the rule of the day to pacify that angry father in the sky. Dad came to eventually look like his Roman-Greco children, quite unnaturally and in reverse. A son had totally replaced the SUN as the pinnacle of our existence. Disconnection notice . . Elephants in some of Africa’s most arid regions wander around as nomads in search of sustenance and the earth’s most precious commodity, water. Generally, larger animals can’t survive the harshness presented as months of scorching high heat and severely restricted precipitation; there isn’t enough water to sustain larger species of animals. Elephants are built for it, along with a few smaller animals that have found creative ways to adapt. Nature is both amazingly inventive and hostile. Elephants strategically and eventually come to locations in these dry places where they sense that there is water underground amidst the death that is the desert. The elephants use their tremendous strength to dig up the earth; large feet, strong, flexible trunks, and tusks as tools. They dig deep enough to expose the treasured hydration hidden beneath the hot sand. The elephants drink, all of them, the less dominant, the children, and the sick. As the elephants quench their massive thirsts, the smaller animals join in getting their fill. The elephants don’t hoard the water, they don’t attack the animals that come to drink, and they don’t dismay at the act of sharing what nature has provided for all. Nature provides for every creature on this planet. .