Help has come and I have heard the call

of the wind, of the wild, of the rather pedantic exaltations of... whereeverdom, now now, on to the show.

the Question is, "why have we not encountered other intelligent life outside of the earth yet?"

My stab at it, for one, let us breakdown the question,

1. it is asking for a reason, a why?
2. the adjective is "intelligent"
3. the quantifier of range is "outside of the earth"
4. and a little hopeful intonation of "yet"

so how shall we attack it. How does one answer the question "why"? and what is really intelligence? My initial answer would be, well how can we as a people encounter what is qualified as intelligent when we ourselves do not display any of it in how we conduct our own lives? we kill each other over what the name of god is.... we let children starve and old men lay in the streets... if viewed from an outside world, how would that look?

but let me meditate on the question a little furthur... would the answer be different were the intelligence looked for came not from outside of the earth, but inside? from the consortium of souls, perhaps... ha ha, what is a soul anyway. i used the word "soul" yesterday, in describing the loss of a part of which, when faced with certain decisions of the carnal kind. yet do i even know what a soul is... ha ha ha ha ha ha

yet still we are hopeful, in the search, yes... yes we are, most certainly... yet.