THE ELECTRIC MIND

I lay awake this morning thinking of the past – at this point I have far more past the future.    I thought of all the crossroads I have transited in my life and the path I took at each juncture.   The thousands of decisions I have made that presented alternate outcomes and would have resulted in entirely different futures.  

This isn’t sour grapes – I am content with who I am; but the man I am is the result of a chain of decisions that led to other decisions that led to other decisions – now here I am.   

We are not who we are by design, but who we are by chance.  The world we exist in is the product of Chaos: A butterfly in Brazil flapping its wings results in a storm in the Atlantic.  

CHAOS IN A DARWINIAN COSMOSE

RANDOMNESS

A thousand choices I have made

Each a bifurcation to diverse outcomes

Each leading to entirely different futures

A chain of events that’s totally random

ACCIDENTAL

The man I am - accident of birth

A product of a random sexual selection

One of a million sperms that penetrated

A particular egg at place and time

HAPPENSTANCE

Our entire world has resulted from happenstance

Once Mars was very much like Earth

Then something happened and its future changed

As Mars is so Earth could be

CHAOS

There is no reason we should believe

If Earth would began the process again

That the evolutionary path would somehow repeat

And resulting life turn out the same

MANKIND

There is no God no guiding hand

No past no future from divine design

We are just bits of cosmic debris

Brief random life with electric thought process  

Have a happy day

the Ol'Buzzard