tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post7452536192924968409..comments2024-03-11T22:00:04.309-07:00Comments on Life and Spirituality : Love is the basis of Life Ashok http://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-57356106984363701482010-07-06T07:24:31.149-07:002010-07-06T07:24:31.149-07:00Ashok, I suspect that the Love you describe is muc...Ashok, I suspect that the Love you describe is much the same as Spirit or God as seen by others. I do agree that there is something - some unseen force as strong as gravity and just as intrinsic to our world - that nurtures us all. <br /><br />Vincent, Perhaps it is not always cruelty to allow the unfit to die. No, I'm not endorsing euthanasia or a change in human ethics. I am recognizing that without access to hospitals, welfare and other social supports, some critters are simply never going to make it. Perhaps in these cases there is a higher wisdom in denying food early, rather than allowing a longer, slower death later. As for the death of lion cubs at the teeth/claws of an unrelated male - this isn't a lack of parental love, but a refusal to become a step-parent. Some critters adopt orphans, some do not. In the rarer cases of a male lion killing his own cubs, I suspect something dysfunctional is going on. Anyway, it appears no more common than in the cases of human fathers who beat their children to death.Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02758977872663382006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-73168593086921586422010-07-03T06:43:36.258-07:002010-07-03T06:43:36.258-07:00Very well described Vincent. Most unfortunately cr...Very well described Vincent. Most unfortunately cruelty is as much a part of our universe as love. Our world is indeed made up of pairs of opposites. That appears to be a necessity of creation.<br /><br />I am glad you agree that a mysterious force pervades the universe and that it acts through the heart. I see Love as one manifestation of that force. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-43958346628673212952010-07-03T02:20:37.813-07:002010-07-03T02:20:37.813-07:00Ashok you write here on topics dear to my heart. N...Ashok you write here on topics dear to my heart. Never mind what any "Darwinist" may say. Darwin himself was wiser and more humane than any of them. I confess I haven't read any of his original works, only short extracts. <br /><br />But like you I observe animal behaviour in the garden, and see what's what directly from that. Once I had a similar experience with a young bird, which seemed to have fallen out of the nest prematurely as its feathers were not properly developed, it could not fly, and it was liable to be taken by a cat. Like you I put it back in the nest but the inhabitants inited in throwing it out immediately. I suspect they had thrown it out in the first place.<br /><br />Recently, watching a documentary about lions in the wild starring Anthony Hopkins, I learned that the male lion is liable to kill the cubs of another family if they are not constantly guarded by their mother, up to a certain age; and in rarer cases, may kill one of his own offspring.<br /><br />So I may be less inclined than you to take a sentimental view of parental love amongst certain species. Nor do I make any particular distinction between "higher forms of life" and the rest.<br /><br />I agree with you that a higher force (than materialistic randomness) does permeate the Universe. But I feel it as a mysterious force known through the heart and obeyed through the instincts.<br /><br />Certain mammals leave the runts to die, by depriving them of the mother's teat. That provides a microcosmic example of survival of the fittest.<br /><br />These are facts, but I agree with you that love is the basis of Life, at least in the eye of the beholder. I'm not sure that everyone can see it in a cosmic sense. Sometimes I can, sometimes I lose sight of it.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com