Is Mother Nature stupid?

"Mother Nature" is a metaphor, not an actual, thinking being. She doesn't "want" anything.

If she DID want something, it would not be for young people to convince themselves that having a family and an established, well-regulated society is old-fashioned and not consistent with their endless "self-discovery."

It is almost unbelievable to me the extent to which fearsome nonsense is spreading across the land, accompanied by somber nods and complacent agreement. Are we sure it is accidental? Let's ask on TikTok!

If you find the answer, please don't text it to me while driving.

@Noflaps said in #21:
> "Mother Nature" is a metaphor, not an actual, thinking being. She doesn't "want" anything.

True. Humans want; whereas Mother Nature dictates what the Natural state of the Universe would be, and gravitate towards, if no one did anything about it. Life doesn't have to exist in this framework either, even though Life does exist in Nature in the here and now. How long will the anomaly of life persist within Mother Nature? Will we as humans ultimately make friends with our environment, or will our environment given its nature continue to persist long after all life has perished? What kind of Universe would that be without existance of life? And, if the Universe did reach such a state in the future - then can a creator, or ever existing God, recreate the existance of life, and try again? Hmm... I'm not so sure about this!

@Approximation, I should have added that Mother Nature is not merely a metaphor, she is also a video game. Play well!

But in your quiet moments, ponder: Who is the Programmer?

@Raspberry_yoghurt greatly improved my mood today, when he made known (to me, at least) that there are 350,000 different beetles.

How cool is that!

I remember once, when I was but a downy-cheeked under-graduate, lying down on tawdry shag carpet, in a rental fly-trap, gazing into the face of a fat, black, motionless cricket.

Although a cricket is not a beetle, for minutes I meditated on the cricket's alien face. And as I did so, I gradually realized how really beautiful the cricket was.

Parts of him (or her, since I don't know how to sex a cricket) had a subtle iridescent sheen, and he was wonderfully complicated.

He seemed to gaze right back, unperturbed. As if he knew he was being inspected, and was taking the opportunity to inspect me, in turn.

And at that moment, I had an epiphany that lasted a lifetime: "just say no."

That, #24. THAT is the greatest source of human joy.

There is no separation between us and nature, we are it - so you can't speak of one as if the other has some sort of will unto itself.

The will of humanity is the will of humanity but it is still the will of nature.

The will of an ant is the will of an ant, but it is still the will of nature.

The will of the Earth is the will of the Earth, but it is still the will of nature.

You cannot act outside of nature because you are it.

@Passionate_Player said in #25:
> That, #24. THAT is the greatest source of human joy.
Well, that and crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, hearing the lamentations of their women

Ah, the beauty of Mother nature

@salmon_rushdie said in #26:
> You cannot act outside of nature because you are it.

Life doesn't have to exist within Nature. Mother Nature's natural state is what all things gravitate towards, except that life's will can choose to fight against that. How much time/energy is left in life's fight against nature? Nature will not ever perish given infinite time, but every life can perish in a finate amount of years.

Most of these responses are not actually contradicting the OP. :).