The Sun

People believe that the Sun (or The Son, if you are religious) GIVES life, the Earth and Water NOURISH life, and Fire (or evil) DESTROYS life... in one form or another, all religions are based on the ancient humans breaking the sky into 12 parts, representing the time it takes the Earth to travel around the Sun. The ancient Zoroastrians had twelve commanders on the side of light (light being a symbol for the Sun), the Greeks imagined 12 Gods on mount Olympus, and many Gods have had 12 sons. Mithraists, and then Christians, believed that their saviour had 12 disciples, and Muslim Shi'as list 12 ruling Imams following Muhammad. Such holy persons are often depicted with a bright solar light around their heads... the Sun... but... the Sun is a ball of fire... that which gives life, and that which takes it away. The Sun personifies something that is full of "good" and at the same time, full of "evil"... much like the human race... or "created in His image"... I can do this all day but at the end of that day, you will not waver in what you have been taught and "believe" to be true, even if the proof is staring you in the face. There is a God... A Supreme Being... something on a realm of which humans are incapable of describing... I believe that... "Life" HAD to start SOMEWHERE, but I doubt very much it is limited to this small out of the way planet we call Home. In the vastness of the universe there MUST be many, many forms of life, most of which is much, much older than the life our planet, and some newer, and perhaps even some that are at the same stage of development. Of course, when you are talking trillions years since the "beginning" of our universe, the hypotheses are limitless... there are simply too many things that we as a race DO NOT KNOW at this stage of our development. However, I do believe that when a species becomes so powerful that it can literally destroy the planet which nourishes it, that species reaches a cross road. One path leads to a higher consciousness, the other to complete annihilation. I am not referring to "Global Warming" which is something I believe humans have no REAL control over, but Nuclear weapons that could destroy the World as we know it, and possibly wipe out our species all together. That cross road is before us now, the direction we take will change us forever. The Earth has harbored other life in the past that was wiped out, this we know as fact, it is one of the reasons that we are here today. Will we make the next jump, or go out like the dinosaurs? Only time will tell.... but one thing is for certain, when our Sun dies, the Earth will die...