Thursday, October 29, 2015

God Dam

I often don't think about God, or God's existence, anymore, the study of history and amount of blood that continues to be shed around the world in his or her theoretical name having left me thinking that there is no God, or at least one that cares about intervening in the affairs of planet Earth to end exploitation and oppression etc., however, the existence of the beaver does lead me to believe that perhaps God or some form of multidimensional spiritual unity (God for short) does exist, for the following reasons.

Most of the animals I'm familiar with spend most of their time searching for food and/or taking care of young, striving to exist, peacefully or aggressively comporting themselves.

But for some bizarre reason, the beaver spends its time collecting wood in order to make dams so that it can significantly alter its terrain, often to the benefit of neighbouring species.

The raccoon doesn't do this.

Neither does the fox.

I saw a nature program about the foolish introduction of beavers to islands off the coast of Argentina which suggested that beavers build dams because the sound of running water irritates them intensely, and they proved their point by playing the sound of running water on a ghetto blaster, which a beaver then covered in mud shortly thereafter.

Why does the sound of running water irritate them so?

And how did they figure out how to stop it?

It's possible that they just watched birds building nests and somehow applied such home building skills to the creation of dams, but why don't other animals do similar things?, why is it only the beaver?

Perhaps the other animals are simply much lazier than the industrious beaver whom they thank for helping them find food yet secretly begrudge for working so hard?

And if God gave the beaver the power to build dams, why didn't he or she give similar powers to the other animals?

Impossible to say, yet still, for some primordial reason, beavers build dams while most of the other animals have a less productive relationship with existence.

Why do they build these dams?

Why?

*If the existence of the beaver does prove the existence of God, I still don't think he or she is set to intervene in human affairs at any given time. It makes more sense to me that s/he gave us the power to understand and take care of our environment in order to better our lives. If we destroy that environment through pollution and oppression consequently, I wouldn't expect him or her to return to heal it, rather, I would expect her or him to return to reprimand us for having destroyed it. That makes more sense to me.

Eternally so.

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