A Day of Life: Moments in Time

By Jerry Welch

A Day of Life: Moments in Time takes mankind as a protagonist on a daily journey through time where one human seven billion days ago counts down to day one and an environment coping with seven billion humans. The author tries to create a conscious awareness within the reader of the five life-forms and the six constantsthe imbalance of which has plagued mankind to this day.
A Day of Life is meant to encourage the reader to draw his or her own conclusions regarding the life-forms and constants and to make choices as to the immanency of a possible systemic collapse from exponential expansion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Dec 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466970403

Jerry Welch

Jerry Welch is a progressive author. A Day of Life takes the reader through “constants” of life from beginning to now. His forthcoming book, Encyclopedia of Observations: A Creed for Living, a collaborative effort with college graduates, offers readers help in contemplating their lives. His novels Corporacracy and Welcome to Reality explore the ways that leadership influences our lives.

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© Copyright 2012, 2014 Jerry Welch.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

ISBN: 978-1-4669-7039-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-7041-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-7040-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012922337

Trafford rev. 05/13/2014

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CONTENTS

Prologue

1 -     A Day of life…    7,000,000,000 Days Ago

2 -     Beginning              5,000,000,000 days ago

3 -     Conquering            1,000,000,000 days ago

4 -     Defining                 500,000,000 days ago

5 -     Engulfing               100,000,000 days ago

6 -     Finding                  7,000,000 days ago

7 -     Gnosticizing           5,000,000 Days ago

8 -     Heralding              1,000,000 Days Ago

9 -     Idealizing               900,000 days ago

10 -   Judging                  800,000 Days Ago

11 -   Kinging                  735,000 Days Ago

12 -   Lamenting             600,000 days ago

13 -   Monetizing            500,000 Days Ago

14 -   Needing                  500,000 days ago

15 -   Owning                  300,000 Days Ago

16 -   Portraying              200,000 days ago

17 -   Questioning           100,000 Days Ago

18 -   Running                 75,000 days ago

19 -   Sustaining              50,000 Days Ago

20 -   Technologizing      40,000 Days Ago

21 -   Understanding        30,000 days ago

22 -   Vilifying                 18,000 days ago

23 -   Wasting                  4,015 days ago

24 -   Xenogenesis          365 days ago

25 -   Yesterday               1 Day Ago

26 -   Zero         Today

Epilogue

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Special thanks to Brian Jahnke, Michael Fitch,

and Brendan O’Connell for their work on this book.

Moments

A Moment… it can be a second, a minute, an hour, a day.

A Day… it can expand to a week, a month, a year.

A Year… it can expand to a decade, a century,

a millennium, or an ERA.

Today is always a reflection of the past.

Tomorrow will always be shaped by the events of today.

Changing Differences

FIRST, KNOW THAT THERE ARE PHYSICAL

AND INHERENT DIFFERENCES

THERE ARE DIFFERENT ANSWERS FOR

DIFFERING QUESTIONS

THERE ARE DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS FOR

DIFFERING PROBLEMS

THERE ARE DIFFERENT OPINIONS ABOUT

DIFFERING CONCEPTS

THE ACCUMULATING SUM AMOUNTS TO

CHANGING DIFFERENCES

COUNTER BALANCED BY

Law and Order

THROUGHOUT THE MANY ERAS OF OUR

PLANET’S COLLECTIVE HISTORY DIFFERENCES HAVE BEEN MITIGATED AND BALANCED BY NATURAL

LAW AND ORDER AND DIFFERENT BRANDS OF

DEVISED LAW AND ORDER

PROLOGUE

In a day of life, the acceptance of another dimension that rides with or parallels life is crucial to understanding the words within its covers—a living world with limits tied to a spiritual world without limits. Also, awareness and acceptance of the following six constants are helpful in finding positive value in these words.

We know how to identify life because it is tangible and apparent through our senses. And we are continuously reminded of its identity by the six constants. Identifying the spiritual world is more complex. Is it God? Is it Satan? Karma? Or, most likely, what we deem it to be (by choice). The six constants connect us to our living world, but how do we connect with the spiritual world? By inherent instinct? Through the brain? Our susceptibility to influence by others?

The constants:

1)   Changing differences

2)   Conflict

3)   Resource usage

4)   Corporacracy

5)   Dependency

6)   Cultural Enigmas

Human efforts to cope with the complexities of the constants in life have always been funneled through one constant—that of Corporacracy (few controlling many).

CHAPTER 1

A Day of life…

7,000,000,000 Days Ago = 1 Human

There was once only a formless nothing. It wasn’t simply empty space as there was no existing space to be left devoid of matter. Nor was it unending blackness, as the void lacked any concept of color or light, and without such concepts it could not be described as blackness. It was a plane of existence that had yet to be called into being by God, and with the most effortless thought on His part, God created all the matter of the universe in an instant, causing it to collapse on itself. With a second thought, the microscopic ball of matter exploded with a force the universe would never see again, flinging matter across the cosmos at incalculable speeds. The shattered elements needed to form in perfect alignment after being ejected from this timeless ball of energy. Spread across the unending universe, matter formed into the celestial bodies of the firmament, swirling to create galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets.

As the shards of a universe’s birth began to coalesce into these stellar objects, God’s eye turned to one planet above all others, watching patiently as the fragments fell into the flawless mold required to sustain life. All the swirling elements needed to retain perfect integrity to instantaneously mold cellular protoplasm into living tissue and mix gases in perfect ratio to become water and breathable air. As perfect as the design was, so also was its imperfection… subject to changing evolution and the effects of differences on a spinning sphere serving time within space.

In that first moment, so many days ago, water was and continues to be the staple of all life. Though to us, water is taken for granted, in the beginning stages of this planet, the most intricate and critical combination of elements crashed together within this substance. This improbable moment in time witnessed the birth of life itself, starting as single celled organisms. Life-giving water nurtured chemical reactions of enzymes tasked with the construction of single celled organisms into living, breathing life-forms. Water fostered aquatic life and gave rise to the reign of plant life, which would become the first form of dominant life. With the advent of life, God infused the constants of changing differences, conflict and struggles for survival, dominance by species and eventual dominance by few under the guise of leadership, imbalances with resource utilization, and cultural beliefs that acted like a pox on the lives of those destined to adhere blindly forever. Plant life dominated the landscape as it was essential to the formation and existence of other life as well as its own. As billions of days progressed, what could plant life make of this world? To them, the land lay flat, vast expanses of tall grasses lined the horizon fluttering to and fro in the warm meadow breeze, as if God had knelt down to brush back the wispy, playful hair of his newborn child Earth. Massive groves of trees sprouted forth from the ground, each climbing toward the eternal life-bearing sun seemingly desperate and determined to prove to its maker just how far it had come. Rivers darted through the land, carving out passageways for water to bring nourishment to its natural brothers in places where land was more isolated from the gigantic reservoirs of life-supporting water. As plants continued to grow in number and change in size and shape, they dominated the world—at home in the vast expanses of water and patches of flat land, humungous jungles grew with canopies sheltering the growth underneath. Vines hung like tresses, binding tree trunks in an endless web of connections, communicating with each other through the whispers of rustling leaves.

From the beginning, plant life was inherent to differences and the ensuing battle between fragility and strength. Some were weeds, others trees—some grew faster, some grew higher, others lived longer—but the common denominator, as with all life, was inevitable death. However, the inevitable death of the plant served its eternal purpose in the cycle of life. In death, the plant was laid to rest in the same place in which it was born, leaving a legacy of carbons for the benefit of its mother Earth and generations of plants to come. Each death was a gift to future generations of plants; plants that would be stronger than the last. The seeds of other life forms stood ready to sprout forth from the Earth, but their day of maturation was yet to come—patiently waiting for energy to work its charm emanating through space from Earth’s sun. The dawn of the animal kingdom crept closer, as the self-aware Human loomed formlessly in the shadows through the millennia—only a thought in the mind of God that had yet to find its shape. The plant growth was so prevalent that it was hard to differentiate between land and water. Regeneration slowed as the natural decay of plant life and recycling of carbons dwindled.

CHAPTER 2

B eginning a day of life…

5,000,000,000 days ago

Human Oid sat back on his haunches and looked at the creature in front of him. The other creature was similar in size and appearance. He could feel a head, torso, and four legs with small, wriggly appendages from each leg. Both creatures were surrounded by an immense overgrowth of plants, concealing the unknown elements of life. Human Oid was overcome by an overwhelming urge to approach the other creature, and any motivation to do anything else in that moment was completely exiled from Human Oid’s mind. Instinctively, he moved towards the creature on all four legs and carefully mounted it. A strange and heightened feeling spread through Human Oid’s veins. He felt empowered with every movement, as he and the other creature became one, cradling each other in perfect harmony.

Unsure of what had just occurred, his animalistic urges now sufficiently quelled, Human Oid moved a short distance away and sat to observe the other creature with the same curiosity that overwhelmed him with each new event in his newly created life.

His contemplation was interrupted by a ground-shaking roar. He could not see its source but his attention was diverted to something crunching through the underbrush, accompanied by a low growl. Human Oid was overcome by a desire to protect his likeness as she stood dumbfounded, completely immobilized by the deep grumbling noise approaching them. He took hold of the other creature and hid in the underbrush. The noise stopped abruptly. The thing causing the disturbance had stopped and was trying to find the source of a scent it had detected. The creature Human Oid now held in his arms seemed to unconsciously pick up on the urgency of the situation. She stared with wild tenderness into Human Oid’s eyes. The black dots that studied his face were surrounded with spikes of yellow, and gave way to a gentle pale grey, fading into a rich and full blue which all at once completely dominated Human Oid’s attention.

Human Oid realized that he did not know how long he had been staring into his counterpart’s eyes. The animal had made its way by, unwitting of their presence, but he had remained staring deep into those eyes… they were bottomless pits. The owner of these eyes