How did we  become a material world?
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One word. Greed! It's all about who makes the most money and who has more or the best. It really makes me sick. No one cares about the important things anymore.
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we cant as we are all just tainted monkeys. If we could mentally join with each other and see the world through other eyes then we might stand a chance but as of now we cannot, maybe we could find a way for technology to help us mentally connect a bit like we are doing on the internet now. I bet a hundred years ago no one saw the internet coming and who knows maybe in another hundred mental wet wired plug ins for the whole family courtesy of microsoft.
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Hmmm. All the things you've noted as things we don't want to do are the things that remind us of living in a society of consumerism.\n\nI think once we drop that ideal - this is a biggy! - and let go of the accumulation of wealth as a primary goal, turning our attention to the development on knowledge and wisdom while understanding that our needs can be met locally with minimal transport, packaging, waste, then we will end up with a lot more time on our hands, a lot more resources and a desire for unity that will lead us to explore new worlds and new civilisations and boldly go where no one has gone before.\n\n:)
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The earth when young was a nice place to live,\nTill man came along, and made the world give,\nNow the land is being polluted, And the air too,\nLets learn to recycle, and keep the earth new.
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how do you think the earth was created? Or you?
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We need to be willing to talk about spiritual and moral values in public, such as here.  Materialism is not the same as greed, however, although it can foster greed.  Materialism is the belief that only the material world exists, or at best, that only the material world matters.  It's what the Soviet Union formally espoused, and you see what happened to them.  The problem is, if nothing non-material is relevant, then morals, ethics, values of any kind are not only irrelevant, but foolish, in that they make a person vulnerable to the vultures.\n\nWe need to see real ethical and moral discussions that are not based on religion, or at least not dependent upon any particular religion.
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There are things that happen in this world that are above our understanding.  If we were to know how everything worked, we would be God.  Not understanding everything makes us human.
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What do you want to know about the creation of the earth? Our solar system condensed from a cloud of gas and dust about 5 billion years ago. This was induced by the gravity of that gas and dust. Most of the mass was incorporated into the sun or blown away when the sun's fusion reactions started. The remaining planetoids went through a period when they collided and merged forming the major planets including the earth. There is evidence that a Mars-sized object hit the earth fairly early on, forming the moon.
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This is a brilliant thought. Please read the book "The Case for Mars" by Dr Robert Zubrin, PhD. for a nuts and bolts down to earth scientific discussion of what it would take to put men on Mars, and ultimately to turn Mars into an Earthlike planet. It is available on amazon.com and in many local bookstores. I highly recommend it.
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He used the dust because our bodies are what connect us to the earth and the world. He breathed life into that body, giving us a spirit, and that is what connects us to Him. You will notice that there is a term known as "living in the spirit", and this means that we focus on the connection/relationship we have with Him rather than the connection/relationship we have to the world.
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The pyramids. Some of those stones must of weighed in excessive of 100 tonnes, all moves into place by man. They developed some very intriguing devices to help get them in place.
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Evolution, but if you go back far enough, accordning to quantum physics thusfar, material matter is created by energy.
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Gold and helium are made of the same stuff, but are radically different.\n\nWhat is important is how the compenents are arraigned.  And by that, I mean through natural processes.\n\nYes, we are made of star stuff.  Without iron created in a supernova somewhere, our blood wouldn't work.\n\nHumans didn't "mysterously" appear.  From the first organism to humans a few billion year laters, it took trillions of babysteps and trial and error to build the eventually more complex organism of man.\n\nThe alive question is simple to.  A computer in pieces doesn't do a darn thing, but if you put it together correctly, it operates perfectly in an extremely complex manner.  At some point, humans emerged into consciousness when all the pieces, via natural selection, fit together in the right way.
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Everything you own comes from some type of natural resource.\n\nEverything from the clothes you wear, car you drive, house you live in, toothpaste you brush your teeth w/. EVERYTHING comes from natural resources.\n\nList of natural resources...\n\nTrees-foods, wood for paper & building material, medicines, etc.\nMinerals-this could go on for days b/c there are so many minerals that are used for so many things...gypsum used for sheetrock/wallboard, talc for powders, mica for makeup/toothpaste/etc., graphite in pencil "lead"; minerals are used in foods, dyes, paper, building materials, cars, computers/electronics... ANYTHING you can POSSIBLY think of would be connected to minerals!\nFossil Fuels-we all know about those!\nPlants-used for food, dyes, medicine, cloth, etc.\n\nThere are many more in which I know I have forgotten to list...\n\nEverything is made from natural resources.\n\n:)
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Who says they did? Before metal was introduced, people were happily killing each other with wooden methods and rocks. Metal just made the killing easier and faster.
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The universe is constructed from a multitude of various materials. It is dynamic in form and shape due to a multitude of various processes and interactions between these materials. To the human, however, in his need to establish his place and purpose in the universe, the most important material is biological and the most important process is evolution, far it is only here that the human can learn to understand himself, an understanding that is vital to his survival.\n\nWise men, psychologists, philosophers and theologians have surmised and conjectured about the human over the centuries, and still do, but the truth about the human may be found only through factual knowledge. That factual knowledge lies in a process called evolution. The human is what evolution made him. \n\n\nfor more details log on to  http://www.onelife.com/evolve/manev.html
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Our surroundings and out physical make-up is how the periodic table relates to us. We are comprised of some of these substances and the environment we live in is also comprised. It's the basic formula for life. I hoep that maybe got the ball rollinga  bit, i was trying to think of it also and can understand why it is hard to come up with. Best of luck.