Withirdeye

03:00 am: Drunk on Three Philosophers; go figure.
Maybe I'm behind the eight-ball here, but I just figured out that the Solar system is Hell. Taking Christian dogma and Dante's askewed vision of the "Inferno" into account, we have ten circles plus the center. Our Solar system is surrounded by a circle of ice, then we have the nine planets. I suppose Earth either represents one of the circles of Hell or Purgatory, but the other planets - with their inhospitable environments represent a different punishment (i.e. Mercury is solid rock , where a soul would be punished to futilely mine ore) and the Sun, Sol is Satan. Satan, of course, being another name for Lucifer, which is another name for Samael, angel of light.
Point being, I believe that we're not as separated from nature - the Universe, as many of us think. In that respect, humans are like cruel relatives who don't know how to show their love properly. We're definitely more selfish than the rest of life on planet Earth. Still, we're inexorably linked to the forces of our Solar system (if not the entire galaxy or Universe). It's just... As we know in our own lives, transition periods can be very confusing. I personally believe that we're in a transition period towards enlightenment. It's our somewhat evolved brain. We perceive so much of our surroundings and the Solar system, and we have the imagination to fill in any gaps and to conceive of nie infinite possibilities of what's "out there". The problem is our ego tends to get in the way. Ego being linked to our emotions, emotions being an amalgam of instinct and rational thought spiced with other variables of "the soul". We are by no means pure. But we're working on it. It may take thousands of more years for us to reach that evolved enlightened state to truly become one with our galaxy (again, if not the Universe) I just hope we live long enough as a species-evolving to realize our potential.