Humanity , Racism and Individual

After the ending of the war, racism, Sri lankan, humanity are so commonly spoken words. So, is speaking about ones own race racism? The common approval by the higher authority is to think as Sri Lankans and not as individuals from what ever the race you are born to.
Is it bad to think as a race, why is that? If we identify as a hierarchy

Individual
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Family
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Village/Town/Province
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Race
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Country
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Species-humans
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"Earthlings"- living beings from earth
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It goes for ever till it reaches the point defining whether we are matter or Energy. So now is the problem identifying ourselves between the 4 ^th or the 5 ^th node? How about the others? So if we are always going to identify ourselves as Sri Lankans, are people in other countries something very different from us? Why stop at that specific node? What is the specialty. It is true that we have some differences in each country, when it comes but what is common is higher in extent than what is uncommon.
It is believed that civilized societies are rejecting cannibalism. But eating other animals flesh is not rejected at all. In the contrary: its encouraged(at times). The tigers(4 legged) do not eat their own flesh but other animals. What is the difference between us and the other animals. We do not approve eating human flesh only because its is of our own species. Humanity is spoken only because we are in the human species, so what about the other living beings. What is so different between us other than the other animals. We speak about humanity as if it is the best thing, only because we are humans.

Finally it comes out that we are just some self centered creatures. We start thinking from our selves and try to go up the hierarchy to some level. Some stop at the level of the individual, they are selfish according to others. We love our country, our school , our species only because we are in it. Not for what they are. Therefore all of us are selfish, the difference is how much space and thinking scope we try to define as our selves.
People cry when their loved ones passaway. How much tears are actually shed for what the dead person has lost and how much is for the loss of the 'crying person'. Are we crying, because the dead person has lost some thing or because we lost the dead person? Would we cry the same if he/she had not done so much for us. We are self centered to the extreme. Racism or Humanity or the special affection for the people of the same village; what ever the point we stop at is based on us being in that group, not the specialty of the group it self.
Humanity, racism just depict the points at which most of the humans reach their limit of thinking scope. A reason to specifically identify an individual to either group is not clearly defined. If it is not good to introduce them selves based on the race; it is equally bad to identify them selves as a person of a particular country as well. The reason for categorizing people based on country to be superior might have been the earlier difficulty in traveling between countries(specially if you are in an island). And the differences in environmental conditions might have made us look bit different from each other.
Finally what ever the category of organisms you try to fit your self in to, it could be concluded that we are a selfish group of beings only interested in our own survival and the support services for that survival .The importance of the group is entirely dependent on the difficulty in isolated survival.

What we believe.......

What we believe is at times exclusive of what we understand. We tend to believe what we were taught and what is accepted by majority of the society to be correct. Why do we so strongly believe in things we do not understand? Considerable number of Sri lankans strongly believe in astrology. They work according to astrologically set auspicious times. What is the base for these beliefs. According to my understanding there is no base at all. The planetary system is generally understood as rocks (or masses) (except gas giants of course)rotating around sun. Some try to find a scientific background when people question about the reason to believe. One such attempt is to explain the effect as an gravitational pull. People on earth are affected by the gravitational pull of these planets.

So, M of Saturn is 5.6851x 10²⁶, r is about 1.3 x 10¹² and we get the effect as GMm/r² to be 2.243.76x 10^-22 N(man is 100kg). The distance between two people(100kg) to get the same gravitational force is 0.5 m(Hope my mathematics is right*). So lot of humans are affecting you than Saturn. And not only people, dogs, cats, cars and every non living object. Same situation is with Stars as well, because the r is in squired. It is a higher value just like the M.
Another point is that that the rays from the planets and stars are affecting us. So, light bulbs and touches are different. Might my mobile phone change my future; it emits microwave alright. And the planets are just reflecting the sun's rays they do not generate any themselves. In other words the rays we get from the planets is a segment of the rays we get from the sun. Any way most of these stars could be dead now, as it takes time for light to travel, may be thousands or even millions of years. So a star which died about a thousand years ago is affecting us. But light and gravity works in speed of light.

May be they are having a special kind of gravitational force or rays other than the spectrum we know. These things are unproven just like i could say we originated from aliens. And i don't see lot of people schedule their activities on alien invasions or worship aliens.
Some people believe that there are other laws at work when designing homes buildings, other than the laws of physics(වාස්තුවිද්‍යාව,nothing to do with civil engineering). They set suitable locations, angles etc. based on unproven logic. One person i heard say that it is not good to have the staircase base at the center of the land(it's a personal experience). The problem in that logic is: there is no center of the land; the earth is a sphere. And there is no land such that is mine. The ownership of land and physical objects including ourselves has no meaning. Its just in our mind. So center of land is in our mind and bad luck is in our mind as well. Is it necessary for us to prove every thing to know it is right? No it is not the idea. There are some things that have a higher probability of being correct such as world being round. Accepting that assumption will give a sensible explanation to so many other things( such as sunrise). And there are some things that does not fit in to this category.
It is better to think that there are things that we do not understand but totally depending and scheduling life according to an unproven logic is something different. There is a chance for it to be correct, a chance equal for us to be of alien origin and so many other unproven beliefs. Any way it is comforting to believe that there is a higher power and we can save, improve our life by working accordingly. That comfort is what we seek by all beliefs.


*Assumptions: The distance can not be taken between Saturn and Earth because both are moving. The lowest value i took. The radius of Saturn not added. Even those added we are in the error range, from human to a train may be.

Naked Earth

It was finally over. The mission they pursued for generations, has been finally accomplished. A world with inhabitable temperature of 450-480 ℃ and much CO₂ as needed for photosynthesis process. It was a miracle: two worlds with almost the same friendly environment but only one inhabited by local beings. The native beings were beginning to develop complex forms but were slow at the process. It did not matter any way. They were determined to colonize in this region, one way or other, but at this stage no persuasion was needed at all.

The two explorers landed on different land sites, specially intended for diverse data gathering processes. The region around the equator was highly expected to harbor indigenous life forms: mostly simple, while the poles were expected to contain high amount of water(H₂O) in the atmosphere and possibly liquid water(due to higher pressure) .
The equator exploration was carried out with caution of a possible unknown attack. The control was continuously monitored by the control mothership before any habitation attempts were made. Every possible measure was taken to make the quest a success after all the long years across the universe. But the extra caution resulted in something different: something they never expected. It was thought to be natural first, but formation of such complex forms in calcium, with such amount of duplication was not natural(at least not in their own world ). It was so hard to believe that it was an inner structure of a living being, once roamed on the planet.Certainly crawling as it was impossible to imagine balancing such a complex form in two stands, as one of them suggested. Could the mounds of rock around once served them as homes, it was impossible to say.

Explorers at the polar were less lucky. The attack began when they were out side the protective shield, covered with only the thin outer layer which protected them from the less friendly temperature. The attackers were never reported. It had been completely organized and well handled by the native species, unaware where they had inherited it. Though not technologically advanced now, still they understood the importance of protecting their borders , and they were the survivors of an unimaginable planetary change. The new finding was to change the simple native mind, just as it happened to their ancestors millions of years ago but in a completely different environment.But were they that lucky this time? The guests were not interested in biological experiments but on their own survival.
It is unknown whether the habitation program succeeded or not. But this is a glimpse of the distant future under the current CO₂ emission rate in the world.

How Gigantic And Advanced We are

We are earth beings to the best of our knowledge. Just as all the people in history before Galileo, earth is the center to us. More precisely for us, our selves are the centers of the universe. But as it comes, how small are we with respect to the universe.
I found this interesting video
As it seems earth or our selves is not the center of the universe after all. We are just individuals from billions of other humans on earth. Any way how important are we to the universe as a species.
If we consider the time line The universe may be older than 14 billion years(big bang) and our earth is over 4 billion years old (4 x 1,000,000,000) and our civilization history is less than ten thousand years (10,000) old at the best. So if we compare

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Earth it self is approximately 4000 000 times older than us(no body knows the exact values). Earth has passed through so many different stages, and it is said that our entire civilization is born in between a time period which is unusually suitable for life. In other words we are between two ice ages or any other disastrous eras. The point is, who can say we are the first to be here(on earth) as an intelligent species. There is a chance because no one has reported to have noticed any artificial satellites other than the ones we have sent, but we are always looking for things which are similar to our technology to pass it as advanced technology. May be they have taken a completely different path and we do not know what to search or expect.
Can an advanced civilization be born without buildings like ours or rockets like ours. May be not(who knows?). But the problem is we are always appointing our selves as an advanced species and try to find facts similar to our selves to declare any thing advanced, so we might have missed some important details even if they were in front of our eyes.
Another idea is that there were some advanced species and they are still among us, in a way we can't see or understand. They might not be in a physical form any more, while we search in the three dimensional space for them.
This is just considering the size of objects in the universe and the time(time as we know it). The situation gets worse when we consider the vastness of space and the distance between these objects.
If there are any other intelligent beings in the universe or in earth, advanced than we are then why haven't they contacted us. Or have they contacted us and no one knows it? How many alien stories in the internet are genuine?
So, finally it comes to the obvious question again: Can you really really believe we are alone in this universe with all these time and space? If so it is a terrible waste.

There Is Life on Europa...........

Europa the 6^th largest moon of the Solar system is supposed to be a dead ice ball with less chance of harboring 'life as we know it'. It is too far from the sun to receive adequate sun light to maintain plant life: the base of life as earth found it. It's ice layer is so thick that not even sun light; the amount that filters through, could reach far. The atmosphere is too thin to keep human tissues from swelling out. Surprisingly it contains a considerable amount of oxygen. The subaqueous volcanoes still keep the water below the thick layer of ice. The volcanic eruptions and the magnetic waves from Jupiter dragging the ice layers produce enough heat for the organisms to survive. The life between ice cold water and lava is an existing example for the concept of 'deep hell'.
That is the condition of the Europa as man kind ever knew it. The situation was so different about 25 million years ago. Earth was younger and Europa was much younger. 25 million years may be so huge for human beings but for a solar system aging for more than 5 billion years its not large at all.

The first intelligent Europian was nothing like a human. They were amphibians evolved mostly under the ocean covering the entire planet. The thin atmosphere was enough for them to look up and see the distant sun setting behind the giant parent, Jupiter. Some of the Europian plants did photosynthesis just like earth plants, but not all. Some were highly dependent on the sulfates and carbonates firing out from the volcanic eruptions. The plants which used the sunlight did emit much oxygen to keep its weak atmosphere and the powerful ocean filled in.
They had to follow a completely different path to accomplish what human accomplished. Fire was not to be made as pleased, but they had to be in the place where heat was satisfactory. But luckily locations with heat were not scarce and they were in the best place they could be. The technology of the Europians began on the tips of volcanoes where the heat was good and the metal was in abundance; the exact place they ,them selves were born.
Their technology never reached the limit for them to leave the planet. Reaching the stars were not ever in their priorities. They were trapped between the vast ocean and sea floor. Explorations were carried out to search the sea and the ice layers but never above that. They had followed a completely different path in technology to do space explorations and they were stuck.
Climate changed with time and Europa got cold with the limitation of volcanic activities. The gravitational pull of the Jupiter was not enough to keep it stable. Europa was about to enter the ICE age. The Europians found safer locations to keep the survivors of their kind, under the sea; far far under for any one to reach or see. The climax of their intelligence was reached long back.
But just like any intelligent species would; they could snap out of the mental barrier once the environment conditions would resettle. Who can ever tell it will not.......?

Are we alone

Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in this universe? I bet you have. But what if humans exist on other planets. That we may not ask so frequently.
As some scientists suggest there is a missing link in human evolution, may be we really are an experiment of some advanced species, million times advanced than we are. The real story no one asked ever, began like this.
They visited us about 3 million year ago, when we were just getting down from the trees.Homo ergaste, had the least resemblance to modern man kind. But it had a brain of 70% to a modern human. After identification of the correct species they started the experiment. A sample of humans was taken away from the planet as they continued to genetically alter our DNA. That sample they planted in another planet thousands of light years away; a distance which humans will not be able to penetrate for millions of years.
The new planet was beginning to harbor life as well. Why they selected our blue planet to the other, is not a question we can ask. The oxygen percentage was about 78% of the earth. It contained water and some plant life. It was more than enough for the most adaptable species on earth to survive in, but they evolved in to some thing else. Something more tough and more physically capable.
The years passed in millions and the experiment continues. The same species in two different planetary conditions. It may be more than two. It may be thousands as well. But not any of them know the truth about their origins, and how they began.
And now two philosophers from two different worlds, but from the same seed, stare at the sky wondering whether we are alone.................