January 05, 2004
aristotle stated that life is circular.
the moment i read that, i disagreed, as i have a habit of doing when i take in other people's philosophy. but then after some pondering i guess i concede this point to him. let's start with...the earth. it's round. ok we've established that. it's not even exactly round...but we won't debate that fact. The life cycle is round. producers to consumers to decomposers and back to producers. that comes from bio-nya. our lives as humans are round. birth to growth to aging to death. non-existance back to non existance.ashes to ashes dust to dust. so physical life is round. what about the life that we can't see?
our spiritual life is often compared to a roller coaster, or in my brother's terms, a sine wave. AH HAH i exclaim. that's not a circle ...until it occurs to me that sine waves are only circles that are unrolled. that tidbit comes from mr. walker, my 536 math teacher. emotions are round. or at least "sine waves". and belief in karma is also round. in a sense. whatever you do comes back three-fold.
so i guess mr. aristotle was right.
peanut-butter chocolate cookies are round. and they are the basis of all life.
