Documentary Review - Planet Earth - Episode 6 - Ice Worlds
I've long been fascinated by science and the structure and nature of the world.
In our modern, technologically advanced age, it is a sheer blessing that we can circumnavigate the globe from a recliner, while eating pizza, in short, hour long segments, whenever it is we have a liking to do so.
This is what the BBC Documentary Series: Planet Earth does.
And there is no shortage in Episode 6 - Ice Worlds, of the tremendous gravity and stark totality of the carnal nature of life.
Watching this episode, I'm struck with the impression of nature's unrepentant cruelty.
A polar bear literally starving to death because he's had to swim for days to find food, and doesn't have the strength to kill his prey.
A massive giant to us, this bear looks so tiny against the backdrop of enormous walrus, who stab him with their tusks for trying to steal their young.
You can't blame the walrus, but you also can't help but to feel for the starving bear, who has lost half of his body weight in less than three months.
Half.
Can you imagine what that must be like? I weigh 300 lbs and whenever I get even a twinge of hunger, I leisurely stroll into the kitchen and grab something to eat (which is why I weigh 300 lbs).
After discovering that this bear has literally been starving for months, his roar seems like desperate and frustrated cries of agony, as he starves to death.
I ask again and again: why is nature so cruel? If God created the universe and the world we live in and everything in it, why did He create such a horrible system of death and torture and depravity.
Of course, He didn't.
The bible says our fallen nature has been subjected onto the world and everything in it.
The ground has been literally cursed because of man.
So in the end, as I defy the curse of Adam by no longer living off the land that he was shackled to, as I live and breath and the world draws closer to the end, I am - mankind within me - is responsible for this carnage.
But there is such joy and beauty mixed together with the unthinkable tragedy.
The penguins, as they find their mates, and copulate, raising their young - mother passing off her egg to the father who brunts out the terrible winter with his brothers - only for the woman to return with food in the spring.
The mothers who have lost their young, fighting to adopt the motherless chick.
There is no science fiction, in my mind, that can touch the strange and peculiar world found in our oceans.
Those massive hump back wales, how grotesque they are, but also how utterly fascinating and captivating they are.
The great expanse of the earth - how microscopic our lives are in comparison.
How minute we stand against the backdrop of history - of nature.
It begs to question, who are we, when all of us - every last one of us breathing in and out right now - will be long in the dirt in 200 years.
And yet, science tells us that the earth is billions of years old.
That man has been here for 50,000 or more? Even the young earthers claim the earth is over 6000 years old.
that is 60 one hundred year generations.
In 100 years, you will be nothing more than history.
Something for someone to maybe read about if you are lucky - most of us (as has most of humanity) will drift away into eternity without any record to account for us.
How many people have been born, have lived and have died, without even the acknowledgment that their life amounted to anything but a brief instant in time? How many more animals? Creatures? Insects? it is an unthinkable number.
The arctic fox raises her young in the snow.
The birds scare away the threats from above and below.
We humans in the western world do not think beyond our stomachs or our refrigerators or our WiFi, BlueTooth enabled, convoluted, self-gestating lives.
The imperative to procreate has been all but lost on humanity.
It is sport now, while our children are tossed aside on the State run trash heaps to be raised and educated and put to the mill to mass produce our consumer plethora.
It is a terrible tragedy words cannot adequately describe.
Existence.
But this episode of Planet Earth, captures the very essence of that tragedy, without words.
In our modern, technologically advanced age, it is a sheer blessing that we can circumnavigate the globe from a recliner, while eating pizza, in short, hour long segments, whenever it is we have a liking to do so.
This is what the BBC Documentary Series: Planet Earth does.
And there is no shortage in Episode 6 - Ice Worlds, of the tremendous gravity and stark totality of the carnal nature of life.
Watching this episode, I'm struck with the impression of nature's unrepentant cruelty.
A polar bear literally starving to death because he's had to swim for days to find food, and doesn't have the strength to kill his prey.
A massive giant to us, this bear looks so tiny against the backdrop of enormous walrus, who stab him with their tusks for trying to steal their young.
You can't blame the walrus, but you also can't help but to feel for the starving bear, who has lost half of his body weight in less than three months.
Half.
Can you imagine what that must be like? I weigh 300 lbs and whenever I get even a twinge of hunger, I leisurely stroll into the kitchen and grab something to eat (which is why I weigh 300 lbs).
After discovering that this bear has literally been starving for months, his roar seems like desperate and frustrated cries of agony, as he starves to death.
I ask again and again: why is nature so cruel? If God created the universe and the world we live in and everything in it, why did He create such a horrible system of death and torture and depravity.
Of course, He didn't.
The bible says our fallen nature has been subjected onto the world and everything in it.
The ground has been literally cursed because of man.
So in the end, as I defy the curse of Adam by no longer living off the land that he was shackled to, as I live and breath and the world draws closer to the end, I am - mankind within me - is responsible for this carnage.
But there is such joy and beauty mixed together with the unthinkable tragedy.
The penguins, as they find their mates, and copulate, raising their young - mother passing off her egg to the father who brunts out the terrible winter with his brothers - only for the woman to return with food in the spring.
The mothers who have lost their young, fighting to adopt the motherless chick.
There is no science fiction, in my mind, that can touch the strange and peculiar world found in our oceans.
Those massive hump back wales, how grotesque they are, but also how utterly fascinating and captivating they are.
The great expanse of the earth - how microscopic our lives are in comparison.
How minute we stand against the backdrop of history - of nature.
It begs to question, who are we, when all of us - every last one of us breathing in and out right now - will be long in the dirt in 200 years.
And yet, science tells us that the earth is billions of years old.
That man has been here for 50,000 or more? Even the young earthers claim the earth is over 6000 years old.
that is 60 one hundred year generations.
In 100 years, you will be nothing more than history.
Something for someone to maybe read about if you are lucky - most of us (as has most of humanity) will drift away into eternity without any record to account for us.
How many people have been born, have lived and have died, without even the acknowledgment that their life amounted to anything but a brief instant in time? How many more animals? Creatures? Insects? it is an unthinkable number.
The arctic fox raises her young in the snow.
The birds scare away the threats from above and below.
We humans in the western world do not think beyond our stomachs or our refrigerators or our WiFi, BlueTooth enabled, convoluted, self-gestating lives.
The imperative to procreate has been all but lost on humanity.
It is sport now, while our children are tossed aside on the State run trash heaps to be raised and educated and put to the mill to mass produce our consumer plethora.
It is a terrible tragedy words cannot adequately describe.
Existence.
But this episode of Planet Earth, captures the very essence of that tragedy, without words.
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