ZetaTalk: Worlds

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ZetaTalk: Rituals

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ZetaTalk: Rituals

Note: written May 15, 1996.

Rituals comfort, as they are formalized routines and have predictable results. In an uncertain world, life often follows such routines simply because of the comfort predictability brings. Change, even change for the better, brings anxiety.

Thus the lowly crab may pause before entering a dark crevasse in a rock, routinely, finding that this extra moment to scan the path ahead comforts.

Done repeatedly, a routine becomes ritualized. Humans speak of rituals in the context of religion, as religious rituals, but their lives are fairly riddled with rituals that occur daily, weekly, or in any case frequently. Start with the morning routine. Why should the newspaper be read routinely over coffee and not at other times during the day? Someone used

to this ritual finds a morning cup of coffee without the news lacking, feels uncomfortable, and may even dress and

leave the house in order to buy a paper so the ritual will be complete. Males are expected to open doors for females, a rule established due to the expectation that the woman may be with child, or have an infant in her arms, but this

routine is frequently ritualized so that a burdened male will put down his parcels to open the door for a free handed and hale female.

Rituals may start as routines, but become rituals when they become absolute rules. Where the ritual is self imposed, as in obsessive compulsive behavior, any argument over the nature and necessity for the ritual is with oneself. Religious rituals develop to assist the religious elite in maintaining control over their flocks. There can be no encroachment of the rules, as first a ritual must be broken. Controlling rituals are very much in use within Service- to-Self alien groups, so much so that almost every motion is within some ritualized behavior. One might imagine that such an activity as

piloting a space ship would be procedurized, but unlike what humans might expect, an alien pilot in the Service-to-Self orientation may not break the routine, even for good cause. To change the ritualized behavior would be stepping outside of the control of the overlords, who would rather lose a ship than lose control.

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ZetaTalk: Music

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ZetaTalk: Music

Note: written Jun 15, 1996.

Life is rhythm, from the surging and regularity of heart beats to the repetitive swishing motion of a traveling snake or the vibration of beating wings in flight. Living things take comfort in rhythm, as in this they find a reassurance that life is as it should be. Catastrophes have irregular rhythm, the thump of a falling object or the steady screech of tearing rock or roots as a tree uproots. Beyond rhythm, harmonies exist in nature, in life itself. Breathing and heartbeats are syncopated, the balancing swing of limbs on animals in motion forms a syncopation to pounding hoofs or paws, and

even the surging blood carries a syncopation in the thub-dub of the heart valves. Harmony, which mankind takes to be tones, is nothing more than vibration frequencies, either in syncopation with each other or clashing. Clashing is

distressful, and syncopation soothing, so music that combines the two is found to be relaxing. First the clash, then the syncopation, so in the end comes the resolution that life finds soothing. All life thus has music, on all worlds, though the tones might not be those humans can hear.

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ZetaTalk: Sexual Variations

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ZetaTalk: Sexual Variations

Note: written Oct 15, 1996.

Bisexuality is the most common form of sexuality in the Universe, emerging due to the obvious - if one wants to form a new genetic entity from various DNA samples, mixing two DNA samples together will do it. In fact, any life form

that does not combine into new variations will die out, unable to withstand the environmental variables that it sooner or later encounters. Inbred gene pools likewise are susceptible to disease or heritable diseases, as zoo keepers are acutely aware. This ability of the mixing gene pool to survive is the reason that DNA most often has two strands. Those life forms that had but a single strand did not survive to reproduce, and life forms with more than two strands were prone to genetic flaws during the parting and re-merging phase of conception. Thus bisexuality is the most common form,

followed by the ability of the life form to clone itself.

The Earth is an example of the great number of sexual variations that can emerge. But whether the new offspring is the result of an intense and devoted coupling, pairing for life, or a casual encounter where insects swarm or fish mingle their deposit on the bottom of the pond, the process is the same - two DNA halves meeting to make a whole. How the

life form arranges that varies, on Earth, from egg and sperm external to the body as in fish eggs to internal until fully formed as with most mammals, from singular to mass numbers of offspring during each mating depending on the

survival chances, from resulting from a distinct coupling to resulting from a promiscuous arrangement such as whales often engage in to multiply the chance of conception. The Earth has a number of life forms, such as earthworms, that can clone themselves when opportunities for bisexuality do not arise. Thus, the additional variations that the Universe would present to man would not be that surprising. Size, shape, longevity of the coupling, and timing of mating or

frequency of the routine are factors related to what the life form found was most successful during its evolution.

The frequently seen sexual characteristic of male bulk versus female delicacy, so common in mammals on Earth, is not the most common arrangement throughout the Universe. Large males have emerged on Earth due to their tendency to

win the right to mate with the available females, thus passing their genes along. Many of your insects have the female huge, such as the queen bee, her size reflecting her focused vocation. Size of the male matters not as mating is done once, as a result of a swarm. Throughout the Universe, the most common size and shape arrangement is a similar size, due to the fact that most life forms are from water planets and conception occurs outside the body. Where life is

carried inside the body, the female form reflects this. The extremes of this vary from birth when barely formed, as

with your Kangaroos, to birth when fully formed, as with most of your mammals.

Male strength and aggression versus female composure, common in life forms that have emerged on Earth, are not the

only arrangement that mankind is aware of. Some insects, such as the Praying Mantis have the female