Friday, October 22, 2004

Redundancy in Nature

It's said that each person has their place, their task to accomplish, their thread in the great tapestry. That's not to say that everyone is needed, though. Creator does not require anything from Creation. We have free will: we can carry our task as far or as short of completion as we wish, and live or die by the consequences of our actions. Others will take up the necessary where we have left it, and the necessary will always be done. Nature is mother to necessity.

There are more dimensions to the pattern than we know; there is always a Plan B in the cosmic workings, and if Plan B should become action, then it will splice perfectly with Plan Epsilon, already in effect. That is the key to redundancy in nature: the complexity is such that it can only be understood if approached with humility, and the clear knowledge that one is a pixel on a screen, trying to understand the film being portrayed by the entire television. But in the case of nature, once the pixel dies, it will be replaced by another that does the job just as well.

All things change. Patterns shift like light refracted through a spinning jewel. The variations are infinite. You'll see how perfectly it functions once you acknowledge that you are not needed.

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