Are they really secrets or just sacred mysteries of life?
What do you think a fish knows about “the big picture”? Does it understand the world outside of it’s own environment, I wonder? Or is it pretty sure it knows everything there is to know, just like us. Just like the environmentalists, the leftist socialist communists, NASA, women? Are there prophets or fortune teller fish? Visionaries or astrologers? Does life beneath the water have Oracles that claim to know what lies beyond the surface overhead? There must be because we’ve seen them breach the surface ever so briefly, catching glimpses of the blue sky and shorelines unobstructed. We may not give it much if any thought, but we can plainly concede most fish (including what ever else lives its entire life underwater) are hidden in the vastness of oceans and Great Lakes. We can compare certain conditions and circumstances to our own mammal surface life in a few ways to better understand ourselves in terms of fish. Catch and release is near death experience to a fish. It is injured by the hook, brought out to a foreign environment and repaired, then thrown back to swim another day. It doesn’t have the slightest idea what just happened so it must assume it was a peek into the afterlife. It may or may not possess the strength to breach the surface and it most likely doesn’t even know the marvel of it, but it knows that it is being given a special opportunity most of the other fish never can even imagine. It is a clairvoyant; a medium; a spiritualist fish. It is either regarded as special or as evil among it’s contemporaries. It is indeed different from the vast majority.
In all reality, it’s better if the fish remain ignorant of things it cannot control and focus on its own survival within its own environment. If fish knew what could lie beyond their limited vision who knows how they’d behave in the outer depths?
Perhaps this is where humanity has ventured into territory it would be much better left to chance. Exploring what we know and advancing our abilities to thrive within our known regions seems more productive than searching through dreams and imaginations to discover what lies beyond our reach. When we argue what we think we know with someone who believes the exact opposite, what is to be gained? Would any of our lives have been better served knowing what lies beyond? We may think we know, and I’m not putting down our Faith in what we believe but I am personally at peace waiting for it all to be revealed. Either way it’s not up to us. The fish seem to be ok with it. They’ve been lucky enough to be left ignorant to everything beyond survival. I’d absolutely hate it if I knew I could end up on a dinner plate if I bit into the wrong sandwich for lunch. Trust in God. Walk with Jesus. Forget about the shape of the world or if men ever really walked on the moon. There’s way too much more to live for here and now. The answers to all the enigmas await us and the fish. Have patience and faith.
Flatstronomy 