Are we all just 'Cells' on another living body?

Question

In abstract religious theology terms, please and thankyou have a good night.....I'd like some thoughtful answers.....will read them all.

Answer 1

more like parasites...we use more than we need, exploit our host until the brink of death and move on. Abstract enough for you?

Answer 2

not so likely, because if that were true cities and air planes, ships, et cetera would be outbreaks on the surface. If this were any kind of an intelligence at all, it would occasionally try to scratch itself. Something enormous would pop through the sky and itch the earth out of existence, mostly this would have happened already since the earth is 4 or so billion years old. This isn't evening mentioning exploding stars, etc, which would create quite an itch, I think.
Relax, we probably are exactly what we seem to be. LOL

Answer 3

I have at times pondered over the same possibility !
The idea occurred to me when I was told that are millions and millions of skin mites on the human body. Do those skin mites know that they are on a human body or for them the body is akin to a planet ? Similarly what about the micro organism within the human body ?
After all the planet earth is not more than a speck of dust when compared to the milky way and on this speck of dust is the human being thinking of himself as the know-all (!!) and for all he knows, he may be, as you put it 'cells' on or within another living body !!
For all its known brilliance, the human mind may possibly be totally incapable of perceiving what could be the ultimate fact !!
There is nothing to prove or disprove the same as far as I see it. And this is purely a personal opinion.

Answer 4

Yep. The nature of physical reality is that large things are made up of smaller things. Limbs, organs, tissues, cells, molecules. Galaxies are made up of arms (sometimes), stars, clouds, globular clusters, dark matter, and undefined 'bodies'. Go down to star systems and they are made up of stars (singular or multiple), 'planets' (however you choose to define them), clouds, gas, debris, and various orbiting bodies. The make up of each of the orbiting bodies is varied and composed of different things working together in some way. Tectonic plates, heat vents, liquid bodies, atmosphere and all it's various conditions, conditions of the bodily core, ect. Some 'planets' and orbiting bodies can produce life on them, whether this is their own way of expressing their Being or just a matter of chemistry is open for interpretaion. And, of course, the make-up of life involves the complex interaction, cooperation, and stuff of various components working together or producing something from their uncooperative interaction. No man is an island. If our 'souls' are just a part of our planet's own spiritual Being, our planet is just an extension of our star's Being. And so the spiral goes back upwards. Our star is just playing a part, with it's own neighbors, in our galactic arm, which is doing it's thing as part of the galactic whole, which is playing it's role with the galactic cluster, yadda yadda yadda. I have no way of confirming all this with any facts, so I must just use scientific logic. We must assume what we know to be true is, in fact, true untill proven otherwise. All large things play a part is something bigger and is also broken down into smaller units. Life and spirituality is abundant, virile, and damned stubborn and adaptive. Now, our species ability to fully interact with larger, or smaller, parts of the Whole is limited by our species evolution. So too is our ability to percieve the spiritual nature of all this. Some animals can see wavelengths of light that we cannot. It's like that. As sentients, we have greater perceptions of these things than the average animals, upon our births. Future generations of our primate species should be able to better perceive these things than we are capable of doing at this point. Of course, if we always ignore that which alters itself to conform to our expectations, and teach our infants to ignore that which we, ourselves, cannot see, we could not do as well.

Answer 5

If by "cells", you mean parts of one whole, yes. Each of us has a space in which we live and move and have our being within the same whole. Many philosophers describe a trinity: part/set/whole, self/society/reality, imaginary/symbolic/real, but my favorite explanation of our 3 dimensional relationship with reality is the Son, Father and Holy Spirit. God came after me and loved me to death. Jesus is my King because he laid down his life for me.

Answer 6

Did you pick up that idea from the movie animal house?
"That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be.....could be one little tiny universe."
They were stoned when this conversation came up by the way.

Answer 7

yes..it's call Earth, but we aren't cells so much as parasites which have many cells

Answer 8

Well, I'm a female and my uterus lets me know this once a month.

Answer 9

I don't think you and I are.They would have to millions of other people to have us on them.

Answer 10

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