ark said:
Well, humans also consist of atoms. Like rocks. So you could as well call them minerals. But you have chosen "animals" - for a reason that I do not quite understand. Humans are (perhaps?), more than "vertebrate biological organisms" as well as they are more than "minerals". I am having problems with your logic here....
Well Ark, the reference system I chose was, IMO, the most congruent with the physical manifestation of the uniqueness of humans in terms of structural anatomy, the erect spine, which was the focus of my statement. The erect spine is a physiologically defining attribute of human nature (although not the only one).
The channeled information above said:
They told me humans are like little lightening rods, channelling God's energy to the planet.
To me this lighning rod analogy brought to mind the erect spine, anatomically unique in humans. Anatomy is related to biology and the human as a biological organism, so I really thought I was being quite specific here. If I was to decribe humans as a conglomerate of chemicals and/or atoms, for example, then I am sure you would have been even more confused.
Your statement tells me that you may think it would have been more accurate to include a clause in my description defining humans as more than biological organisms. First, I did not say they were less. That they are more does not take away from their organic nature. Second, that which is more in humans, IMO is interlocked with their organic nature. Interactions with the environment, even hyperdimensional ones, include that organic/material nature down to the quantum level, osit.
To say humans can be a bridge between the cosmic and the terrestrial, because they have a soul would be a bit of a generalization because without bodies this interface is inactive. To say that a reference to the organic nature of a human being implies they are somehow
less than what they are is misreading what I was saying.
Humans are the only conscious and erect animals on the planet. Humans are conscious, they are erect and they are vertebrate biological organisms (which my biologist friends tend to call animals, so I followed suit here). All living physcially healthy humans have these three attributes. As to the
more, if you are referring to the soul, apparently that is variable among humans, as has often been discussed on this forum. To bring it into the picture could have brought a different kind of difficulty with my logic, and rightly so.
Since I was referencing the lighning rod analogy, which brought to mind that the erect spine might be connected, I focused my description to what I considered common human attributions in line with that analogy.
If my logic is still problematic, please feel free to point it out.