Pre-eminence of Pomegranate Packaging!

[mkirkpatrick]

While taking a well earned break, from posting posts, and earning a living as well, I sat down and picked up a pomegranate to eat. It was then that a thought struck me. What a wonderful piece of packaging this is? What could we learn from this? After eating the fruit, there seems to be more left than before! I can only think whether you call it nature or whatever, there is great intelligence afoot here. If I could properly understand this piece of fruit, I would understand life itself? And that burns with a dark flame!

A piece of fruit, chock full of particles and pips, what on earth could one learn from this humble lump of matter? Well, there was a young man many, many moons ago, who as the story goes, sat under a tree, picked up a leaf, studied the leaf and apparently became enlightened, and today has many followers. All that from a single leaf. What on earth then could you discover from a whole pomegranate!?

The only Boson I ever met personally was a tugboat captain, who seemed a very odd chap indeed. As for Fermions, I have not come across any yet, but I will keep a sharp look for any! What have we ever done that nature has not already been there before us? Certainly, we are rank amateurs in the packaging business.

Just look into a beehive, and see the wonder there. You just might be able to squeeze a boson or two between the hexagons. Who knows? Chemical warfare just cast an eye into amateurs’ world, or insects. They were fighting it out long before we came along. We know little compared to nature. Maybe we can find enlightenment and the answer to the TOE. By all studying the pomegranate! Who knows?

To look at nature, whether it be that wonderful fruit the pomegranate, or at the
way a beehive is arranged, or the air conditioning that termites use for their homes. If I ask myself honestly, what is this I see? I can only answer Intelligence that is far superior to mine. If I cannot wonder at this beauty, then I am dead.

Regards, Michael.

[michellemfry]

My favorite structure in nature, the spider web. The massive designs that some of these things becomes is indeed remarkable. That and the symmetry seen in the beehive. How do they know such geometry?

[baudrunner]

Let us not forget Human Design.

Or the millions of years it took to create the wonderful form that is the human being in all its glory, reaching out to the stars, discovering new ways and means that once were thought the stuff of miracles, inventing and engineering, and knowing.

Ah… I'm hankering for a big mac. No pits in a big mac.

[mkirkpatrick]

I was fortunate enough this year to be able to pick pomegranates from the tree in Turkey,
and to further wonder at the perfection exhibited within the fruit,after eating one there seems to be more left than you started with!

To follow on this theme,I recently while walking along a tidal estaury,I noticed what at first
appeared to be gravel or grit,I bent down and picked up some,to my great surprise what
I thought was prehaps grit,turned out to be minute shells,I put some in a bag,and took them home,I looked at these very tiny shells with the aid of a magnifying glass,and was
in awe of the perfect spirals on each shell,even more so when I realised that the only real
difference between those spirals on the tiny shells,and those spirals of a galaxy,was just
size,the ratio was the same!

regards michael.

[mkirkpatrick]

Nature is a master in the packaging department,we could learn much from her,as with
Pomegranates or Nars,as they are called in Turkey,when you unpack one to eat,there seems to be more left that you started with?There is a parellel with us as human beings,
as we are unpacked,through human interactions,we grow and seem to produce more of
us than before we started caring and sharing our lives with others.?

Prehaps there is a parellel between the warmth of the sun,which ripens the fruit,and the
warmth of human emotion which ripens the person!




regards michael.

[mkirkpatrick]

We as humanity are neatly packaged too,and as with the fruit that needs the sun to ripen,
we need the warmth of identification and kinship to ripen and find ourselves.



regards michael.

[labelwench]

We as humanity are neatly packaged too,and as with the fruit that needs the sun to ripen,
we need the warmth of identification and kinship to ripen and find ourselves.



regards michael.

We require the luxury of time for such introspection.

The state of the world today, perhaps more than ever, precludes such opportunity for many.

My personal definition of wealth - to have some measure of control over the disposition of one's time, not requiring the use of all of one's personal energy and resources merely to continue "existence".

Time to enjoy playing with the "puzzle pieces of life".

Labelwench

[Unreal Zelta]

Most people do not believe they need to visit the thoughts and theories discussed here at TQ. Much of the same is spent indulging oneself.

Some common quotations from teenagers;

"You only get one life, might as well live it the way I want"
"Live life, Love life, Enjoy Life"
"Live hard, Party hard"
"Love life, Love friends"
"Life is hard and unfair, need to make the most out of it!"
"The only things that matter are Love, Life, Friends and Family"

Indeed such pseudo-philosophy dictates much of their 'lives'. And such framework at times extends to other age groups as well, with slight discrenpencies. However, among the older generation, the busy lifestyle which fuels the 'lives' of their children is the main hurdle.

regards

Zelta

[labelwench]

Thank you for your comments, Zelta, and indeed I hear much the same from all age groups.

People are living their life at a frenzied pace, made faster by modern transportation and technology.

It's not the pace I question, as much as the purpose, and is it being achieved to the satisfaction of the participants. There seems, among those I work with, an inability to achieve any sort of lasting satisfaction. Perhaps it is this quest that in part drives the pace?

There is great difference between living for the moment and living in the moment. Your signature would seem to reflect that thought.

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life"

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."

Immanuel Kant

Regards,

Labelwench

[mkirkpatrick]

The "nar" Pomegranate season has just begun here in Turkey everywhere there are nars being sold,I had my first one of the season today,wonderful taste,but very messy,with bright red juice everywhere,I find the best way to eat them is in my swimming shorts that way your clothes are not messed up!

I never cease to wonder how nature manages to cram so much into such a small space,and the odd thing that after eating the insides there seems more left than you started with!
It is just a piece of fruit,but it contains a message inside if we but care to ponder.

regards michael.