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     The fourth published book, ...Heavy Tales Rising, features a tale titled "Warrior Babies." Within is  presented  a  fictitious  ex-professor from the Netherlands. According to the storyline, the Dane,
Dr. Struenheilfir, wrote a treatise which was published in a Dutch (pseudo) science journal. Its title
is "Wrathful  Earth  and Extinction of Species." The  contrived document is given in three separate parts, in  the  story.  Here,  for  the benefit of interested visitors to this site, I display the three seg-
ments of  Struenheilfir's work in tandem. This will allow for a more integrated experience in reading
it.  In  the story, as mentioned above, the segments are disjoined and separated by story material.
 
Note that, as is the case with other excerpt material featured in this site, the material below is pro-tected  by  copyright.  Reproduction  in  any form without expressed permission from the author is strictly prohibited.
 
Wrathful Earth and Extinction of Species
 
Synopsis
                      Treatise consists primarily of a set of propositions supporting the contro-
            versial  view that Earth is a live entity undergoing a state of plague. The conditi-
            on  as  described  results  from its dual role as member within a cosmic family,
            and host to its plethora of parasitic crust, and sea, inhabitants. Body of work o-
            pens  with  initial  summary  presentation of Earth’s stature within the celestial
            system, followed by seven (7) propositions.
 
The Celestial Family
                      The colossal revolving orbs of the solar system, with the great star at its
            center,  constitute a true family of giants in motion. Virtually all masses partici-
            pating  in  the elliptical revolutions are offspring of the immense, red-orange-yel-
            low  central  body  a hundred  times the size of all its creatures taken together.
            With  one exception, progeny of the fiery matrix are sterile components operat-
            ing  in  systemic balance, planets unflawed at their surface by the appearance
            of  biosphere  parasites.  Devoid of Earth’s film of rapacious microbes, each, a-
            long with its surface-marred “sibling,” acts in unencumbered obeisance of laws
            of systems.
                      The stellar issue, Earth, however, caught (perhaps literally, from cosmic
            impacts)  the  virus-like  progenitor  of  its  later-developing  bio-forms at a time
            three  quarters  of  the way to its present age—that is, something over a billion
            years  ago.  At that  time,  naturally  evolving amino compounds in the oceanic
            environments  were  made susceptible, via electrolytic processes, to intra-sys-
            temic  organizations.  From  these  ordered activities within amino compounds
            the  components of living cells emerged, operating within the precursors of cell
            walls.  The  interacting  harmony of these early organelles was in fact the start
            of viable bio-forms—that is, life—on Earth.
                      Through processes of cellular division, replication, reproduction, and mu-
            tation,  Earth’s  initially non-destructive surface layer of protists evolved to enor-
            mously  complex  organisms  many of which breached the boundaries of seas,
            over  time,  most  often making  the planet’s crust their preferred milieu. Within
            each bio-Kingdom emerged distinct life forms. Various taxonomic systems are
            developed  to  distinguish them in terms of phylum, class, order, family, genus,
            and species (as well as the sub-categories within most of these).
                      As  was  perhaps  inevitable, creatures abounding upon Earth’s surface
            have  amounted  to  crust-infection.  (Arguments for the latter are presented in
            the  propositions  to follow.) But Earth has not been a defenseless leviathan in
            the  assault. The medium-stature star-spawn indeed retaliates in various ways.
            Most  notably  its  fight  takes  the  form of both insidious and alarmingly rapid
            environmental change. A notable outcome of its wrath: plant and animal extinc-
            tions. This paper argues that the vanishing of species on Earth may be viewed
            as healthy and wholesome to the planet.

Propositions

 

§         Stars are alternate life-forms and, by exten-sion, so too their offspring.

 

       Materials   of   whatever  magnitude  acting through  natural  processes in systemic relation constitute a bio-system. This contradicts theory that all life proceeds from the microcellular level exclusively.  According  to  this proposition, it is not only  activities  of  substances  within  cells that make life happen, as we interpret it. Here it is  asserted that any naturally occurring relation among  parts acting to cause or maintain an ef-fect represents an alternate bio-form. This is so, regardless of the system’s magnitude.

       From the celestial perspective, two status-es  of life exist. These are 1) micro-life: such as occurs  in  Earth’s biosphere, and 2) macro-life: such  as  occurs  among the members of a star family,  that  is,  a sun  and  its offspring. A star holds  its  enormous  progeny  in  a gravitational grip  that  may be likened to emotional bonds of loyalty  and  affection.  To  these  macro  orbs it has  imparted  the total extent of energy power-ing the planetary processes, from rotations and revolutions  to tectonic and meteorological phe-nomena.

       It  would  not  be  illogical,  in  this view, to make  the  extended argument that atoms also have life. The foundation of all matter, each con-stitutes a natural system. The focus here, how-ever, is on macro-relations.

       It is proposed in addition that informational exchanges  are  ongoing between a star and its offspring as well as between and among familial planets  and  subplanets. These exchanges are hypothesized to be reciprocal and ongoing com-munication.  Significantly,  these  occur outside the  detection  and comprehension of a planet’s micro-life  entities. In analogy to the latter point, consider a case involving life on Earth: The can-cerous  cells of a host-organism have no under-standing of relationships conducted by that host with others of the host’s kind.

       If  solar  systems  constitute  live  families, then  the galaxies they compose are families in prodigious  cluster.  It  is  regarded  conceivable that  individuals  of these cosmic clans practice communicational  exchanges,  even  as they in-volve astronomical distances. 

       We  are well advised, however, to acknow-ledge  the limitations of human comprehension. Achieving,  at present, any except the slightest understanding  of  the  living  relations between worlds  and  stars is probably not attainable. In-deed,  decoding  interstellar  communication  is likely  to be as fraught with error as attempts to understand  incisively  the  life experiences and relationships of amoebas.

 

§         The  conscious  experience  of  all  species (that is, of individuals within those species) has one  essential  commonality:  the  perception of self or group  primacy.

 

       Individuals   of  each  species,  particularly those  undomesticated,  view the world from the perspective of their group’s primacy in the glob-al  scheme.  For example, given whatever spec-ies  of  grasshopper, all individuals of that group view  the  world  (according  to its limited know-ledge  of it) as a grasshopper’s domain intruded upon by all other species. Some “intruders” are construed  as  predators,  others  as  prey, still

others  as  creatures  of  some combination  of either malice, benefit or neutrality. The proposi-tion  is based on an intuitively drawn determina-tion  only,  but has the benefit of derivation from sober,  objective  and  rational  thought  and  is therefore presumed worthy of consideration.

Propositions

(continued)

§         The brain and nervous system, for all crea-tures  endowed  with  either  instrument, are at-tracted  to  pleasure,  repelled by pain, and are thus naturally pleasure-driven.

 

       A  major  implication  here  is that the con-cepts  of ethics and morality have meaning only with  the  imposition of rules and prescripts gen-erated by a particular society. In the absence of such  rules  all  creatures act in accord with Na-ture when they seek pleasure. In this case, only the  personal conscience and values of the indi-vidual may dictate “right” and “wrong”.

 

§         (Corollary  of  the  last proposition) Regard-less of the variety of activities engaged in plea-surably,  the  two  in  which all creatures derive  the  most  apparent  pleasure have intimate re-lation  to feeding and procreating. 

 

§        For species Homo sapiens, it is imagination that  allows  great  variety  in endeavors beyond other  species. Thus, his pleasure “base” is lav-ishly broadened.

 

      The work of human imagination is intricate-ly  interwoven into man’s behaviors. Besides in his artwork, it is best seen in such abstract en-deavors as the assignment of value and beauty to  certain objects and ideals. It is also seen in his  suppositions ofwhat comprises worthiness. Pleasure  derived from these preoccupations is undeniable.

 

§         Viewed in stark objectivity, the species Ho-mo sapiens on Earth possesses no facets, be-yond  imagination, which differentiate him, sub-stantially,  from  other  animal species of which Earth is plagued.

 

       Taken from the perspective of the living en-tity, Earth, the creature Homo sapiens has sta-tus  not  greater  nor less than that of the smal-lest  or  largest  creature  enjoying parasitic ex-istence on its crust or in its waters. The human species,  however,  by  virtue  of its imagination and  the products thereof, is by far the most ex-ploitative  and  destructive,  both  presently and potentially. 

 

§         The living  entity,  Earth,  generates its own processes for combating, eliminating, dispatch-ing  its  most troublesome  microbes—to the e-ternal peace of extinction.

 

       Assuming  the  reality  of  Earth’s celestial life  as proposed, it is of great importance to re-alize  the  vast  difference  between its life in the heavens and that playing out within the thin film of  its  biosphere.  The  latter is an existence of constant strife with rhythmic visitations by plea-sure and trauma; an existence wherein pleasure is  continuously sought and rarely obtained sat-isfactorily.  That  is to say, achievement of plea-sure in life, for Earth’s microbes, which includes Homo  sapiens,  is both very fleeting and anticli-mactic. This fact seems to account in large part for Homo sapiens’ restlessness.

 

*               *               *

 

       The conclusion arrived at here is that some species  within  the planet’s biosphere can only know  true  peace and serenity in Earth-initiated elimination.  It  is further determined that the liv-ing  planet  intends  to  set  Homo  sapiens and other species at peace, through its own proces-ses—namely, the extinction of species.