We are a link in the universe!
I would like to make an observation about what I understand of the person as a human: what relationship does he have with the environment that surrounds him? Well, my analysis tells me that everything is related, everything has a balance and a logic, and I explain it here below in a very simple way. So I can say that if we observe ourselves, we will see what we are: simply a person, a unit, a link in our universe, just as the cèl·ules are inside our body. If we look at our body, we’ll see it’s covered with skin, and that’s where it ends, but if we take a microscope, we’ll see that under the skin, there are some cells, and then we’ll see the “DNA,” and if we continue to the very end, we would see protons and electrons, all dancing in a fantastic balance.
All of this is when we look at our body, but if we now look outside our body and make the same observation again, but this time outside our body, with us as the center again, and we look up at the sky, if it’s daytime we’ll see the sun, and if it’s night we’ll see the moon and the stars and maybe something more, but, here too, everything ends, but now instead of taking a microscope, we take a telescope, we will see that there are more stars than we could see with the naked eye, we will see that the moon, the planets, the sun, and the stars also dance around it, the planets revolving around the sun, as if dancing in balance, just as they did when we looked inside our body, with the neutrons revolving around the protons.
It seems there is a parallelism inside a person and outside; it seems there is a very intimate relationship, a balance, that we cannot ignore—what happens inside and outside, it’s the same, we are a link in the universe, like other billions and billions of links, and they all have an idiosyncrasy or a specific behavior, which is closely related to the close contact they have with the link next to them.
To conduct a deep analysis of these links, we must first analyze them; we should individualize them, and then they actually have a simple, common, logical behavior, just like everything else. When we understand this, we will understand everything.
Each link in the universe behaves in a specific way. The smallest link known today is the Quark and the Photon; protons and electrons are composed of Quarks and Photons. A link can be composed of one or more of these. From these comes an electron, which behaves in a specific way, with a cell-cell or other more visible links to us, such as a virus or a bacterium, or animals we know, like an ant, an elephant, or all living and non-living beings in the universe—they are all links just like us; there is no difference. But each link can be composed of millions of links.
Types of links
When we talk about a link, we have to be very careful, because it’s very difficult for us to know which link we’re talking about. Is it a human? An ant? A cell? A proton? A quark? That’s why we must define very clearly the link we’re referring to when we speak of one. For example, if it’s a human, what do we want to analyze? As I’ve already said, it’s based on many particles. It has many systems, since it has its own system of organization. It’s independent, although not completely. . Independent? It’s not, because like all particles, they are subject to the environment, and that happens with all particles and millions of others. Ultimately, you have to define exactly the behavior you want to analyze, and this applies to all the links whose behavior we want to analyze. Imagine that the universe is built from quarks and photons; everything else is just constructs built on top, including, obviously, humans and the entire universe. Therefore, we must be very careful when analyzing the links.
The problem humans have is the way we see ourselves: we believe our link is, above all, superior to others, and for that we need to reflect and analyze carefully to see exactly what is happening to us.
At first glance, it seems there are two types of links in the universe: one is organic and the other inorganic, which are the links that have life and those that don’t, Well, that’s a paradox, because that’s not how it is. There is no life or death, only the universe, and that’s where all the links are. Both organic and inorganic links have life; rather, life is created through close contact with other links. They move, they exchange, they evolve by mutating themselves, transform -ing with the specific behavior that this link has, that is very important, because they are organic links; when carbon is present, and when it is not, we call them inorganic, but we have to be very careful with this, because very superficially we will also see a class of links, which we call, living, such as bacteria, animals, people, etc. …we all behave the same way, we all have our own behavior and we act according to our own baula.
Now, a very superficial characteristic of the analysis of man and his development, because what we know well is that his building blocks have been different, but only apparently—we’ll see that later—and why different? Human development has been like that of other animals, but along its path, and through contact with its links, a special characteristic began to emerge: communication. I will explain it now.
This set of so-called living rungs, of which humans are also a part, is something I’d like to delve into a bit here. We’ll see that their behavioral characteristics are quite similar to all the other links; the evolution they’ve undergone has been possible, just like with other links, by communicating and exchanging with others in their environment. but their development, over many thousands of years, just like with others, they have acquired certain characteristics due to their exchange, location, or from countless evolutionary mutations of what I call living links. By communicating with one another, they also developed a characteristic way, which is through the mouth, just like animals, depends also on what kind of links they are; some will chirp, others will bark, but almost all have an acoustic language that only they understand. But a special feature is that with humans, this system of communication has been language. Now he doesn’t bark or chirp, but he surely has, Now he communicates with others by speaking, and this has made a before and an after. But that’s not all; he also has the characteristic of writing and other qualities of communication, etc. He has also developed memory, which is a very important characteristic for his development and for the transmission of all acquired human experience. All these characteristics allow him to accumulate a series of experiences, and in this way, it is possible to pass on all values and accumulate technology and culture through his descendants. All of this gives man a privileged and dominant position where he lives.
Who are we? As humans
Man, like other links, is made up of millions of them, and they are changing, mutating, every second of the link’s (man’s) life, now man, from the moment sperm enters the ovary, that is, from the beginning of a new life, until his death, although afterward, the process continues, the cells never die, they only change and mutate, the entire process of this cell’s (man’s) life will change, mutate, but it will never be as it was before. Every second of his life, he will not be the same person, because the links within him change, mutate, and make him a different link (man), and when we speak of ourselves, this is actually attributed to all links, both organic and inorganic, everything constantly changes and mutates in the universe.
As I’ve already said, a baula is exactly like an ant, an elephant, or a bacterium, but like each of them, it behaves differently and in relation to its environment, as well as to others.
One difference between humans and the rest of the links is communication: with almost all organic and inorganic links, communication is very primitive, especially in inorganic ones, but effective.
The difference between a person and an animal is precisely this: language. A bird or any other animal builds its nest just as it has for thousands of years—so why? Well, because of language, the animal hasn’t progressed; because of the consequences of its language, it doesn’t accumulate lived experiences, and it is precisely this accumulation of knowledge and experiences that gives the human being a privileged place and enables progress through the accumulation of experiences.
Well, now we know that we are a link in the universe, just like an ant, a bacterium, an elephant; we are completely equal. The only thing that seems to us is that we have developed differently, maybe that we are superior to the others, but we are still links, although, to us, it seems we are not, but our history tells us (because of our language) that we are, what we have always been.
Now we will describe the evolution of man from what we can gather and what we know.
I have already described what the universe is and how it behaves; now I want to describe human behavior, and I will do so based on organic subjects—specifically living links, that is, animals, including humans as well.
Our world
We live in a universe, let’s call it the World, where there are two characteristics, and they are the most important ones that exist, and that we must be very careful with. One characteristic is that living beings are Predators. What does that mean? this means that the strongest, or the one that is most able, kills a link in its own chain, either to eat it, to take advantage of it, or for pleasure. This is the rule that has existed since the beginning of the universe, and it continues to this day. Another of the characteristics that has also existed and still exists is Beliefs, Faith, or let’s call it Religions, which have existed and still exist, and they are the Gods, and they are all related to the fact that they were the ones who created the Universe. They are love, and they encourage, promote, and foster the love of one’s neighbor, but reality has another side, and it has had other consequences, such as wars, massacres, struggles, and even infighting, because there have always been, and still are, wars fought between the different Gods or Religions.
The main Gods, or Religions, are as follows
1 Christianity 2 Buddhism 3 Judaism 4 Hinduism 5 Islam.
Here is a summary of the main religions; it may be a bit extensive.
Beliefs or religion
One of the most important characteristics that has concerned, agitated, unsettled, disturbed, and changed society is and has been Faith, Religion, and these 5 main religions of the world are:
- Christianity 2. Judaism 3. Hinduism 4. Buddhism 5. Islam
Religions are cultural systems or groups that share certain practices, worldviews, texts, sacred sites, or organizations that relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
I will tell you a little about the five most widely practiced religions in the world.
1. Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world’s most widespread religion, with about 2.4 billion followers, and Roman Catholicism is its largest denomination (with 1.36 billion believers).
2 Judaism
Judaism is the religion, tradition, and culture of the Jewish people. Historically, it is the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, with Christianity and Islam having originated in the Middle East, and its spiritual tradition is identified with Abraham.
3 Hinduism
Hinduism is a religion (the belief in Dharma, that is, based on doing good to one’s neighbor, developing happiness, and universal brotherhood) widely practiced in South Asia, characterized by being composed of different Hindu religious denominations.
4 Buddhism
Buddhism encompasses various traditions, religious beliefs, and spiritual practices attributed primarily to Gautama Buddha; its form of Buddhism is the fourth largest religion in the world with over 500 million followers, that is, about 7% of the world’s population.
5 Islamism
Islamism, whose main Islamic scriptures are the Quran, which is believed to be the literal word of God, as well as the teachings and practices in the traditional stories of Muhammad, is the second-largest religion in the world, after Christianity, as it is estimated to have 1.9 billion followers, 24.9% of the world’s population.
It is estimated that there are about 4,200 living religions in the world, plus countless extinct beliefs. Furthermore, a 2020 global survey conducted by the Pew Research Center published that 84.4% of the world’s population considers themselves “religious” and 15.6% “non-religious.” For some, we are sent by external forces, such as God, Buddha, etc… our life will be eternal, or hell, burning for all eternity, or heaven, surrounded by indescribable well-being, depending on how we have behaved in life.
Here we have two realities, one that is our universe, with all its links and among them, the animals, and of course, man, and that they are all Predators, and the other reality is a multitude of gods, where 84%, or 4% of the population is believer, and also paradoxical, since they consider love to be something that clings to and preaches love for one’s neighbor, yet 84.4% fight in wars against other people, of one religion or another.
Types of Bibles in Christianity
Bibles in Catholic Christianity
Bibles in Protestant Christianity
Bibles in Orthodox Christianity
Bibles in other Christian denominations
Types of Bibles in Judaism
The Tanakh as the Hebrew Bible
Bibles in Messianic Judaism
Types of Bibles in Islam
The Quran as the Holy Book of Islam
Hadiths as additional teachings in Islam
Types of Bibles in Other Religions
Tripitaka as Buddhist scriptures
The Guru Granth Sahib as the Holy Book of Sikhism
The Vedas as the Hindu scriptures
Conclusion
Well, total chaos, we live in a universe where these Beings are Predators, and they have to kill to survive. Well, it seems that’s how we were created. Here we have to solve many things; the most difficult is Predation, since this is how the universe works, and it cannot be changed, but man can, as he can stop being a predator by finding other ways to eat and live. There is more to the problem than Predation: the Extraterrestrial Beliefs, which are not in balance with the Universe, all living beings have the ability to decide what they must do for their survival, and they all depend on each other. Besides being predators out of necessity, for example, an elephant, an ant, a sheep, a cow, and a human are completely equal within the Universe; the only thing that doesn’t make them equal is Man, since he is the one who believes himself superior to all other links in the chain. Killing millions of cows, sheep, fish, or birds and other animals for food means nothing, nor does exterminating wolves, wild boars, or others because they eat our crops. But in reality, we are all equal. When we exterminate an anthill, we don’t put ourselves in the ants’ shoes; we just exterminate them, and that’s it. But they have been organizing and working to do a fantastic job, just like humans do. and then someone comes and destroys the anthill in the blink of an eye, an entire society destroyed, and the ones that survive will keep working, so their consciences decide, and they do it just as a human or any other link in the chain would. All of this is allowed, but killing a human is not allowed and is punishable, but exterminating man, under the excuse or justification of war, that is permitted, whatever the reason. Another issue is that the superior and intelligent man is the one who allows that as long as he is okay, everything is okay, even if in the world he lives in, he exterminates everything around him, whatever the case may be, for example, in World War II, between 50 and 85 million people were exterminated, which was 2.5% of the world’s population; in the Mongol invasions, 20 to 57 million were exterminated; in the An Lushan Rebellion, 13 to 36 million, in the Three Kingdoms War 34 million, and so I could go on explaining the exterminations that man has committed, in addition to the wars that exist today, which are many, and also today, there are 24 million people who are starving to death, and 25% of them are children. As we see, Who are we? And returning to the Gods, Belief, Faith or Religion, we see that something is out of balance with the Universe. It seems that these are created by men themselves to control their conduct and lead them to a specific behavior, to control them, so that man behaves in a specific direction for his own satisfaction, but as we can see, this has been the case, and it continues to this day: the wealth of 99% of humanity is in the hands of 1%, and this is the basic principle of the Universe: Predation.
I would like to comment that the Gods urge us to have a conduct that they say and order must be, and if we do so, we will be rewarded with a wonderful life when we die, full of happiness and eternal; if not, we will be punished in hell, burning eternally. I have thought a lot about this premise, and of course, as a human, I can’t understand it, I find it very childish, first of all, what is eternal happiness?, I have managed to be happy here on Earth, but only for a little while. I can’t imagine a very long period of happiness, let alone a whole lifetime, and I can’t imagine being eternally happy for thousands of years, or millions of light-years. I mean, if we obey or comply with the criteria of the Gods, but if we don’t, we will be punished with the eternal fire of Hell, and that involves being burned for thousands or millions of light-years or eternally. All of this is difficult to understand, but maybe I can explain it better: what did the first stone of the Universe, or that which created the first Quark or Photon, because for example, an ant cannot understand a mathematical or physical operation, in the same way that man cannot understand how the first Quark or Photon was created, and here is the center of it all, a living link, an ant, a dog, an elephant, or others, have feelings such as love, fear, restlessness, worry, etc. exactly like the Human Link, but they cannot understand a mathematical equation, and a link exactly like them, me, or 15.4% of the world’s population shows an inability to understand that a Quark or Photon was created from nothing or by a God, and our surprise that all Living Baulas, both those who no longer exist and those who will exist, will go to either hell or heaven, is unacceptable, that man, who considers himself superior to the rest of the world, has this 84.4% of believers with God’s love, and we kill each other with fights and wars, and that there are 24 million people who starve to death every year, and we look to the sky instead of looking to the earth where our brothers are killing each other and going hungry.
Let’s put a little order into this world of predators and Gods
Summary – Excerpt
This entire analysis of “Who we are” can be summarized in three parts,
1) Predation, it is composed of organic links, like animals, and inorganic ones, but they are all predators. This means that in the world we live in, we have to be careful with what is beside us, because it is dangerous for us, as they can annihilate us, Predator, to me is a diabolical word, but, obviously, it’s how our world or universe is built.
2) The Gods or Religion, there are many of them, but the most important are, 1. Christianity 2. Judaism 3. Hinduism 4. Buddhism 5. Islamism, and that 84.4% of the entire universe believe in them, and they also seem to be Predators, because they are at war with each other, and also against others
3) Man, his intelligence, is also a very important problem. He knows that the universe is composed of links, and when he was just another link, there was no problem. But with the emergence of his intelligence, he considered his link to be superior to the others, and now, man considers himself far superior to an ant, a fly, a dog, a horse, a cow, a sheep, and then he believes he can and must kill them, and besides those I’ve mentioned, he sees no problem doing so, but from the perspective of the universe or the world, no! because a link is just that, a link! Even today, there are thousands and millions of men exterminated in wars, and there are also thousands and millions of cows, pigs, sheep, and ants that are constantly being exterminated.
How can we solve these three problems?
Well, I don’t know, because now we are intelligent, and that has betrayed us, and with it, we have seen that it goes against the universe, but it’s an analysis I’ve done personally, and I use my own principles, which paradoxically, are in favor of—not what Religions or Gods do, but of what religions and Gods say or proclaim, and that is “Love your neighbor as yourself,” but we should analyze these two things very carefully, both the Predation of the universe and that of the Gods.
I hope you understand everything I’m laying out here, but it’s not easy. This is how I see the world, and the question remains the same: how small and insignificant man is, yet essential, just like an ant. You know it now. Who are we?
The first, Predation: the entire universe works this way, and we can’t do anything about it. The only one who can is man, but the universe doesn’t call it Predation, but rather mutation, exchange, etc. And it happens through an intimate proximity of the links between them.
The second, the Gods or Religion, the Earth or the world we live in, appeared approximately between 3.700 and 4.000 million years ago, Homo erectus appeared 2 million years ago and Homo sapiens approximately 300,000 years ago. Where were the gods then? It seems they haven’t always existed, or if they have always existed, we weren’t of interest to them until a few years ago, in the year when Jesus Christ was born—that is, the year 0—there were only between 200 and 300 million people in the world, where people were very poor and education was very low; today there are 8 billion. The gods were only interested back then, when there were so few of us, and not now that we are many, and technology is very advanced. Back then, only the five most popular Gods existed: 1. Christianity, which was born 2,000 years ago. 2. Judaism, from 1,000 to 1,500 years B.C. 3. Hinduism, from 2,000 years B.C., 4. Buddhism, 500 B.C. and 5. Islam, 570 A.D. Why weren’t the Gods with us 3,000 years ago or 300,000 years ago? Why didn’t they spread love? It’s only recently that the Gods have been spreading love and justice. If we were good, we went to heaven; otherwise, to eternal hell. And before they came, where did the good and the bad who died go?
And why were there so many saints back then, yet hardly any today? Currently, there are 1,726 saints officially canonised by the Church, but if we include blessed martyrs and those venerated locally, the figure could range from 9,000 to 20,000 – that really makes you think, doesn’t it?
Is it perhaps another invention of man, not to love, but to control and dominate one’s fellow man, since that’s when he began to become intelligent? The Gods have existed for many years, but the current trend is that religion seems to be declining for many reasons. The first is that it has been greatly discredited, and this, everyone knows the ideal reason for religion’s existence, but the other reality is an economic empire of incalculable power and enormous, astronomical value. It is also an institute for creation, establishment, and foundation that always promotes conflict, whether through wars against other religious communities or not, but creating wars, conflicts, and aggression, which is the opposite of what the Gods promote and spread, so we know what needs to be done, right? There is only one phrase we can keep from all the Gods and Religions, and it is wonderful: “Love your neighbor as yourself,” because with this, we can finally survive and also be happier.
Third, man, like a link, like all the links that exist in the universe, we humans can compare ourselves to the family of living beings, because behavior in general is more similar to this group of links than to inorganics. Therefore, we are, or should be, in constant balance with our group, before we would have developed intel-ligence, we behaved like them; we were predators and we killed our links to eat and also to abuse and take advantage of them, but the problem is that even today we continue doing the same thing we did thousands of years ago—nothing has changed. It is very important for us, Considering what I have said countless times, when we kill, sacrifice, or destroy a living being—such as ants, cats, cows, pigs, elephants, or men in wars—all of these beings have exactly the same feeling. And this happens every day as we exterminate all these creatures, but obviously it means nothing to them, because it has been this way for many thousands of years, and that’s how our universe works, in our history, very close to us, even today, every day many people die, but it seems we don’t notice. I don’t care about anything; every day we sacrifice cows, pigs, sheep, etc. and also ants, flies, birds, fish, and men in wars, or in murders, etc. and it is also so today, our reality as intelligent humans, who continue to kill as predators that we are, and with fantastic intelligence, how can we solve this problem? Do I need to explain the solution, or is it obvious? Well, yes: for the 25 million people who die of hunger each year, we must provide a quick solution. Besides, humans don’t need to be predators of animals, since nutrients today can come from vegetables, as well as vitamins, proteins, etc. and can be obtained from plants, but the other abuses against society, such as wars and other atrocities, must be stopped and eliminated. How can this be done? Again, we must be in balance with all the links in the universe, because if we are not, we will not be able to survive, and the universe will continue without man. So if we don’t stop these abuses, we will all disappear from the planet and the universe will continue without us. Man can more or less understand his own link and perhaps other links, but he cannot understand the universe; it is beyond him. Just as I said, an ant cannot understand a mathematical equation, that is how the universe and the God we believe in are. They are the same thing.
Well, I’ve done an analysis of what I believe the universe to be, and within it—despite everything—I’d really like you to get in touch with me and tell me your divergence or version. So at the very least, let’s try together to find a way to demonstrate our intention to seek the truth.
I’m a musician and writer. I’ve written a book where I describe the world I would like to live in. The book is called Analysis for a Better World. I’ve also composed 7 songs, two of them, is the philosophy of my life, one is called “Let’s Love Each Other”, and it’s about how we must love one another in order to survive.
Enric Giné and Orengo