Before we were here we must have been somewhere else. No one
knows for sure, or I should say, some think they know for sure- - but they have
belief not data. Unless you wish to quantify the preponderance of myth and
religious belief that describes such a place and call that “data”. In some
traditions it is called purgatory, in some a piece of heaven known as “the
guff” where souls wait to be born, or, in yet other traditions, re-born. Many
insist the data shows that we are simply evolved primates, but though part of
our bodies certainly does seem to indicate we are first cousin to the
chimpanzee, so many other things are vastly different. Personally I think there
is some truth hidden within religious tradition and myth. I like to think we
are human alien hybrids of some sort, set here to supplant the great lizards of
eons gone by. Sometimes I even wonder if the disappearance of the dinosaurs
was, as science currently hypothesizes, the result of a cosmic catastrophe or a
planned and well executed genocide clearing our ideally terraformed plant for
new experimentation in lifeform genetic engineering.
6-minute writing prompt courtesy of Deb Norton at www.partwild.com
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