Newer Man, is needed more than older lineage (ape or otherwise)

[Hans Blaster]

Humans have potential… animals do not.

Object in a field have potentials.

 

[Gottservant]

Object in a field have potentials.

That's what I've been saying all along!

 

[Freodin]

Humans have potential… animals do not.

Potential? Singular?

So, what is this potential? (And please consider how you would go to demonstrate its existence.)

 

[JohnEmmett]

So, what is this potential?

Creative or spiritual development…

 

[SkyWriting]

Hi there,

So the crux of this, is that you should take far lesser confidence in having come from anything, even if it seems more remarkable at first, that you did at all. What is needed is a newer you. This is hard, in and of itself. Even if you did come from apes, and it seemed even more remarkable to you, that confidence that you came from something else, should still ultimately be subservient to what you are now. A Man.

A Man, does not need to remember a tree, in the same capacity as a house, if he wants to make the house from the tree. The tree is subservient, to the building of the house. Newer ideas about the house, are what was needed. Everything else is a luxury. You might have that luxury while you are contemplating what sort of house you will get from the tree, but ultimately "reality sets in". The house proves more worthy, the newer your ideas about are able to become.

You do not think about how old your parents were, when you yourself are seeking out a mate, one of men like you to marry. Your parents waive the need for you to think about what you have been, when they give birth to you - they don't hold onto you and say "have this idea, and this idea only", they say "we forgot our parents too, and it was still worth it" because you have things that go with ideas, that make that relationship you find, all the greater. Indeed even being greater, it is not a cultural expectation to make the relationship public to everyone - it is for you, and you only!

So whatever you think you are going to do, with the gamble that your lineage is greater than you thought, just remember that it can only be in serving your newness, that it has any meaning - you do not mean more now, because you meant enough more consistently, in the past. The past is not a signpost to the future. The future is not dependent on the present getting more from the past, than it was already going to. You have to let go, you have to admit before God that Wisdom comes from Him and you can't do the future justice, unless He helps you. This is repentance. Without it you will die (as Jesus said - gospels).

If you still think "Evolution is true", fine! But you need to think about it in terms of how that makes you "new", not how old it will get when your other beliefs have been so regrettably shelved, on the bookshelf of eternity...

Man without a soul is an animal. We came from animals but God remade us with a soul. We were remade spiritually, into man.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Man without a soul is an animal.

Animals have souls.


And we're not… animals.

 

[pgp_protector]

Animals have souls.


And we're not… animals.

Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia
So if you're not an animal, are you Bacteria, Archaea, Protozoa,Chromista,Plantae,Fungi ?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia
So if you're not an animal, are you …

The Thirty-one Planes of Existence

(5) Human beings (manussa loka)

 

[dlamberth]

Humans have potential… animals do not.

What is it that animals do not have potential for?
I think that they have a major potential to live as they evolved to live.
Nature is naked. Nothing is hidden. What you see is what you get.
The potential for what nature births is unlimited.

 

[JohnEmmett]

What is it that animals do not have potential for?

Humans can be reborn in heavenly realms … via meditation.

Animals do not meditate. Nor have insight …

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Animals do not meditate. Nor have insight …

I read that to my cat. She came out of it briefly to roll her eyes, then went back into it.

 

[SkyWriting]

Animals have souls.


And we're not… animals.

I concede..... you're somewhat correct on both points.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I read that to my cat. She came out of it briefly to roll her eyes, then went back into it.

Animals do not meditate.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Animals do not meditate.

How do you know?

 

[JohnEmmett]

How do you know?

There is no teaching for animals.

No animal religions.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

There is no teaching for animals.

No animal religions.

Meditation is not a religion.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Meditation is not a religion.

Do you meditate?

 

[dlamberth]

Do you meditate?

I meditate, and have for years. I agree with Bungle_Bear that meditation is not a religion.

Where I suspect I stand alone in this form is that I experience animals as having souls. That insight for me comes from meditation.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I experience animals have souls.

Right…

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Do you meditate?

Sometimes. Why do you consider that to be relevant?