Always With Us
The Battle Never Stops
A very young human—an infant less than a day old—becomes colonized by millions and millions of bacteria, or else that human gets very sick and probably dies. Many days later—about 3/4 of the time around 365 days—that baby is a year old. Many more bacteria have colonized that baby’s body during that year. For the rest of that baby's entire life, it lives with thousands and thousands of those bacteria. It doesn't even notice them or care about them. Right?
The fighting is constant, and constantly mortal. It is happening inside you right now. Bacteria keep growing, and some of them keep trying to get stuff you want. They just don't get it. Even decades later, thousands of generations later, they don't get it. As a result, your immune system keeps killing them.
For example, say that 10,000 new bacteria grow. They think that they will move in somewhere and each have 10,000 new babies. And eat and poop and all that. Your immune system thinks no. Guess who wins?
That’s right. But then, next year, and the year after that, and a month after that, and two years and seven months after that next that, and so on, that same thing keeps happening. Some of those bacteria never stop trying to grow. (Their population grows; “grow” here doesn’t mean that they get fatter.)
It is not because they are evil that bacteria do this. Not because the bacteria like or don't like Jesus, Buddha, or anyone else. In fact, if there are no bacteria in you, you would get very sick. You need bacteria in order to live like you want to live—you are a symbiote of lots of bacteria. The depiction of the human body (and the human soul, but talking about that is for later) as an independent thing is a narcissistic delusion. Like being saved from the environment (a “Christian”), or being free of it (a “liberal”), it is not true. People like the idea of presenting themselves as independent, self-activated things, when in fact they are parts of the environment they are in. The environmental correspondence of how evolution works is different than Christian fantasies, be they Jesus-based or Saiunce-based. Fantasies that a certain kind of old man made everyone just to fit on Earth, or fantasies that random mutation, not dependent on the environment did so, are narcissistic delusions.
We Are So Tough! Really, We Are!
The “survival of the fittest” saying so favored (British: fave-oured but pronounced like "favored") by modern Earthlings is, like Calvin’s “God already picked whom to save, and He picked me” not surprising for its popularity. It is flattery. To say that everyone who hears the saying is the fittest is something that people very much enjoy hearing. That is why the story of random mutation is so popular. It is not believed because anyone ever found out why cells change a little bit when reproduction occurs. Rather, it is believed that cells change randomly and the best ones are selected.
“What makes you up was chosen as the best in a competition with really firm rules,” is, like "a rabbi made you just for here," flattery. A majority of people do not have the beliefs they have now because those beliefs are evidenced, but because those beliefs flatter those people. What they believe is anthropocentric in the sense that it flatters them by making the things they believe about themselves the center of everything—the way they see time, the way they look, the way they think…
I Did It All Myself
Imagine the Usican conception of the cowboy.
The cowboy is rugged, solo (he’s often shown in groups, but the understanding is conveyed that he has been very capable of being solo), etc. This is a delusion, though: the cowboy does not manufacture revolvers or horseshoes, and his seeming independence is just a fake; the madness of a phony if it is believed; an expression of narcissism.
He Chose Me
Popular conceptions of “this very special God who chose my kind of shape did it to make a place to test me” and “evolution by random mutation” are so. Bangist Christians who think they are so much smarter than dummies who believe in a personified godhead are wrong; they are flattering themselves, and basing concepts on things with which they're familiar, just as much.
The idea that an organism randomly evolved traits perfectly suited to thrive within Earth’s atmosphere, subject to 1G all/most of the time, etc. is utterly ridiculous. It is extremely more possible that a cowboy became a master gunsmith while also learning how to expertly craft chaps, boots, saddles, and hats, besides provisioning several towns with foodstuffs and becoming an excellent horse-breeder in his spare time.
(Like the fantasy of the brain-generated soul, the "I did it by myself" flattery of the currently popular form of Christianity is a narcissistic delusion. Fantasies that one is not part of an environment, and thus that the things on which one relies do not cycle i.e. decay, are like fantasies that S.R. makes you young again in a forever-sky paradise. And the gayness of that being so man-centered is again noted.)
Evolution is discussed elsewhere. The purpose of these examples is to make you think about how humans, like all life on Earth, are aspects of their environment. They are not rugged, independent things. Moving on.
Sometimes, there is a particular type of bacteria that starts to beat your immune system. When that happens, you can go to see someone and get a special permission slip to use antibiotics. (If you think you can buy and sell such things without cutting in the government, there are some nice men with automatic weapons who are going to visit you. They work for the Drug Enforcement Agency, which is an agency that makes sure that cutting in the right people while selling drugs is enforced. That is why their name is the Drug Enforcement Agency.) Those antibiotics kill the bad bacteria, but leave the others in there. If they kill too many, you get as aforementioned very sick and, if you keep doing it, you die. (If you die, it’s okay; a few jillion different types of bacteria can grow as part of eating your corpse. You lifegiver you.)
Some of the kinds of microorganisms within the human body—many of them—are symbiotic in the way that makes them be called “passengers.” Because they play nice, the immune system does not kill them. This is happening right now inside of you: your immune system is discriminating between many kinds of foreign bacteria and killing the ones it doesn’t like. (You cold-hearted realist you. Those illegal immigrants have rights, you know! To be a genuine crusader for equal rights, you have to kill your immune system by committing suicide. If you don’t do that, but say you are for open borders, you are a hypocrite.) These names are used in the sense that some bacteria or viruses either do things that benefit the environment in which they live, or just “ride along.”
Many bacteria, for example, break down components that the human stomach cannot break down. They are so reliable that you often think that “you” can eat (i.e. digest) certain things just fine. Like the narcissistic denial of environmental correspondence that is believing your predecessors won a random competition of survival of only the bestest, your appetite does not really depend just on you. These bacteria get things that they want as a result of breaking down these components. In turn, humans receive the ability to use things for calories in food, which things they are not able to digest without those bacteria doing the breaking down while riding along. Your appetite—the things you discriminate against and for—is based upon that constant relationship with bacteria. Many millions of bacteria operate this way inside every living human digestive system, and it has come to pass that humans cannot live without being symbiotes with those bacteria. So much of the food that humans eat because of a need to get calories from that food requires bacteria to digest it. In exchange, human bodies provide the environments in which these bacteria can thrive; those bacteria would never live without the human hosts. That is why humans and many types of bacteria are symbiotic organisms: because they cannot live without each other.
Human beings are part of the environment of Earth. There is not an all powerful rabbi up there, and humans only exist because they are parts of this environment and constantly discriminate.
However, there is a thing about Decay using parasitism which does not seem at first to make sense—a trait which is indecipherable if you are a narcissist who thinks you are independent. Like a very stupid cowboy who believes himself to be a gunsmith, tailor, cobbler, farrier, etc., the narrative that your life is solely derived is immensely popular. The potentially confusing thing about parasites is that if they seem very successful, they take so many resources from the host itself that the host dies. Some diseases are like this: if they do really well, if they win all the battles with the immune system, then their only reward is doom. The person holding them dies, so they die. That makes them seem like a failure. They all die off if they do what they’re supposed to do.
This does not seem to make any sense. What the perfect disease should do in that light is be a forgettable passenger, not cause a mortal disease. If a few thousand of its guys have to lose fights with the immune system now and then, they should do that and die off so that the immune system, thinking itself a winner, can endure. The immune system can then work for the benefit of that bacteria, as well as for the ones who break things down for humans for a place to live, and other passengers. From this perspective, the “border patrol” is really there to protect bacteria rather than the environment in which they live, by perpetuating the host by fighting off other stuff and keeping the host alive, thereby keeping a place in which that bacteria can live. It is like the way that self-interested illegal immigrants who’ve got into a certain country would want the border patrol for that country to be tougher, thereby reducing further illegal immigration so that more money is still available for the illegal immigrants who’re already there. The “battles” between bacteria and the human immune system prove themselves to not really be a confrontational process (which the narcissist prefers to think is a contest he’s won) but a process whereby the immune system is strengthened. Such finely tuned regulation causes the immune system to be designed to kill off (bar admittance to) certain types of bacteria and not others. I.e. like the human body is finely tuned for 1G, breathing oxygenous nitrogen mixes endemic to Earth, etc., it corresponds precisely with its environment in many other ways. In just as many ways a stupid narcissist can feel that she or he is a rugged individual surviving completely independently within that environment.
(The way that White people have been tricked into engaging in self-punishment shows how collectivist cultures are superior to individualist ones. Because the individual, like the proverbial cowboy, is in truth nothing without the environment, the individual does not evolve alone. People who bolster and receive from their collective against people do not, because people are not individuals. From the moment that any person is born, that person is reliant upon others to feed, protect, and warm etc. it. Think of the way that a baby needs adult caregivers. For an individual, feigning that s/he is a self-impelled entity is incorrect. Literally incorrect. Every single human being who has ever lived has needed to be cared for, at least occasionally, from birth. Even before birth, human beings need care or they die. If you are unsure about this, try to hold your breath for nine months, and also eat no food and drink no fluid for nine months. Okay, we’ll be easier, hold your breath for half that, no even less, hold it for only four months and eat no food and drink no fluid for just four months. When you fail, you will understand that every single human being ever has not been independent.)
The microorganisms which eat up the body when the soul using that brain leaves (which can be called when that person dies) are thus: they spend about your entire life trying to reproduce and eat up your body, failing each time and getting killed by your immune system in gigantic numbers. Probably for decades this continues. After years and years of that defeat, they suddenly seem to win. Your immune system suddenly stops being the victor in battles, stops killing them, stops fighting entirely, and they can eat whatever they want. The beginning of this epic series of moments is called death.
Stupid narcissists think that they are surviving as rugged individuals who fight off invaders, but they are quite wrong. The process of constant battling is part of the environment of the planet. Like the way that the constant battle between an individual’s immune system and invading germs is not really due to animosity, your body, like the Earth’s environment, is a system that provides for itself. There is no independence. Beginnings and endings are concepts, but there was never, and will never be, a beginning or an ending (to the verse, but not to planets/stars within it--there are beginnings and endings to those). The extremely common human fantasy that there is a “my birth,” “my life,” and/or “my death” tends to include the “my” in a sense which is not true.
Decay is how environments are environment; how they maintain themselves. Within their lives, environments, like people, are cycles. Not straight things with beginnings and endings. That is why, to some degree or another, you often take showers, clip your nails, get your hair cut, and don’t cry about any of those things. The cells making up your skin, heart, lungs, and even brain are constantly in a state of flux, dying and being replaced.
So too are cycling human societies. They do not last forever. A person thinking he will live forever is a fool; everyone knows people die, but organizations of people also die, and when they do it is decay. People do not like to believe that organizations of people also die. They much prefer to believe that their organizations are magical things that do not do what every other part of the world does.
That thing of which we were above speaking happens every single time there is a person who dies. It doesn’t just happen to people; it happens to every single thing that has ever lived. Way more than trillions and trillions. That is why mummies look like they’ve changed after a few thousand years even though the best experts in the whole world, using lots of very powerful chemicals, have tried to make that not happen. It is why religions recursively flatter people with fantasies of the person/process/thing being unchanged. From priests in Egypt wrapping bodies in cloth, to Christian priests assuring you that a special rabbi will re-create you young and perfect inside his special sky kingdom, the fantasy remains.
If someone dies away from their environment, such as an astronaut who dies in outer space in a space suit that is airtight, the body still decays. This is because the body itself always carries inside it, nourishes, etc., the things that will eat up that body when it dies. Decay is incredibly powerful, incredibly present, and so forth. The reality of the omnipresence of decay is why the envious illusion of Christianity has an omnipotent, omniscient deity, despite the incredible problems with omni-things.
Why is decay so important? Because once a creature stops using a body, decay is the process where an environment can use the stuff in that body. The Earth is a place where we’ve all been, and it is not covered by the bodies of even 1/10,000 of the things that have ever lived there—even a simpleton can tell that. Again, imagine trying to breathe and every breath makes you take in a few trillion bodies of dead bacteria. Try to imagine how that would feel, and then imagine all the houses where the people once there had never left. All the roads have everyone on them who’ve ever traveled, and all the jobs have everyone in them who’ve ever worked. It is very basic to understand that decay happens, and thus quite stupid to not think that a thing made up of living things does not include things that are constantly trying to break that thing apart. They try to do that not because they are evil, but because they are maintaining the environment. What they do can seem quite unpleasant, and is often very painful of which to be a part, but every human society is part of the environment, so thinking it is wrong or bad is stupid.
Think of the way in which many people refuse to see things that are factual about the world. In times of old, people who needed the story of an invisible sky rabbi refused to look in telescopes, and invented epicycles to explain things their associated smart people could not help noticing. This does not happen because those people are evil or bad (like with supporters of Jesusianism, they may serve such ends, but are generally not themselves such things. Think of good Jesusians now [2025] who oppose immigration into Europe and trains no eye agendas, yet who feel that European history is worshiping S.R.--deceived into supporting evil, but not inherently evil, so that they advocate for both evil and anti-evil). It happens because those people are not built the way that human illusions say they are built. Their refusal to see planets being as they feel those planets should not be is because their minds are built to perceive things as centered around their own existence—their minds are built to decay. Like apoptosis, it seems to make no sense unless you consider that the individuals within an environment are part of that environment, not separated from it.
The organizations built by people developed on the planet going around Sol will decay when it is time for that to happen. Similarly, it will rain when it is time for that to happen. Those things cannot be prevented (if you did something big like blew up a planet those things could be prevented, but realistically, those things cannot be prevented). Therefore, increasing numbers of people are going to think that everyone should unify without discrimination, and they will not be swayed by an understanding of that destroying everything they like.
These types of people will always believe that they are being good and rational. Evidence to support them seems to abound. For example, this non-Jesusian did a very bad thing. Therefore, Jesusians can always say there is a special rabbi living in the sky. To them, evidence exists supporting what they need to believe.
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