EXERCISE INCREASES OXYGEN TO THE BRAIN

My friend wasn’t very enthusiastic about my take on our earthly “purpose,” which I boiled down to strictly biological terms—reproduction. I try to see biology and behavior first and foremost and then run it through a spiritual filter. Sometimes it goes the other way. In either case it depends on one’s definition of the spiritual, which I heard recently to be defined simply as reality. But reality is different for everyone and so it really does work as a definition of sorts. Religion on the other hand simply complicates things, and we didn’t bother to go into that. But more and more I see religion as simply treacherous ground to tread upon, so casually tossing aside our place in the ecology and giving people more credit than they deserve as some kind of divine creation, though there are numerous examples otherwise. We’re animals plain and simple, with cognitive thinking that can perhaps intuit some other metaphysical reason for our existence, though to an ordinary animal (one that doesn’t muck things up) it wouldn’t even apply in a the world of surviving and reproducing. We’re not much different with our constructs of society and politics lumped in with some morality that gets a nod when expedience prevails. We really do love each other at times, sometimes tolerating and accepting to make the machine move along more smoothly. And then again there’s power and war and all the trouble and suffering all that brings into the picture which posits a kind of moral relativism though some vehemently deny though proven otherwise over and over (see War). It’s all too personal really, nothing a mandate from any church or Pope or preacher has the right to tread upon.