Important   → It turns out that the notion of Resilience is synonymous with the notion of Home. They can be considered together every time, even though they reference different dimensions of each other. In a later revision, I will elaborate on that by defining further what ConserveLiberty means when the term "Home" is used. Perhaps I may define it by linking to it → [ ... here ... ] ← ←   Important

For example, All That Is, from the Big Bang that generated all that we are aware of (and more!) has demonstrated significant Resilience. 13.7 billion years of it, give or take (who really knows?) Ask an astrophysicist where it occurred, and the answer that you will most likely get is "everywhere." Basically, current theory is that All We Know Of "Banged" from a singularity point, infinitesimally small, and from there expanded to ... everywhere we can ever look for it.

Even Space Itself, which we may consider extraordinarily HUGE, in fact (according to theory) started out infinitesimally small. If one wants to consider "Home" as the place one would start one's first journey from, then "Home" started out infinitesimally small, and from there has expanded out to everywhere we might ever be able to detect or go to.

All That Is began (again?) with The Big Bang. All That Is is Resilient. All That Is began its Bang at Home.

And, if All That Is were ever going to stop expanding, and eventually collapse down upon itself again, it is possible that the reverse of the Bang would happen at the "end" (or is that the "beginning"?), again winding up all within a singularity. All matter, all energy, all space, all everything ... which is where Home began.

Don't think that the Universe (All That Originated With The Bang) might one day collapse back onto itself on its way to The Ultimate Ending? Evidence has been discovered suggesting that parts of it aggregated in trial attempts to do just that, and yet failed to include all the Universe with it (obviously!) (So far!!) Check out the discovery of the most ultra-luminous QSO as of this writing - basically the fastest growing 'monster' black hole found so far. (Click here for an easy-to-read summary.)

Singularly intriguing!

Bringing it all together

• Resilience is the "Is" in All That Is. Resilience is the "Anti-Isn't"
  
  • Is Resilience the Fundamental Prerequisite for All That Am (Is)? Or "simply" a Fundamental Rule?
  
  
• While not considered a part of the Resilience Tapestry (but should be?) another attribute also essential for Resilience is ... Unity. The coexistence of Resilience with Unity may be an abstract example of Persistence with Gravity (the "everlasting existence" with the "coming together") that may be among the Fundamental Rules, or the Fundamental Prerequisite(s), from which All That Is is of. In other words, Resilience and Humor are paired.
  
  
• On the "obvious" extremes - gamma ray bursts (generated as a result of gravitationally induced collapse of very huge masses), and the The Big Bang (creation/generation of ALL the mass / energy that exists and its subsequent expansion.)
  
  
• On the "not obvious" extremes - matter / anti-matter contact annihilation with zero "evidence communicated", meaning no energy emitted as a result. In other words, with annihilation, what "Is" becomes what "Isn't"! This has NEVER been seen to occur.
  
  Generally, the energy produced by matter / anti-matter contact annihilation is equal to the mass annihilated using the formula E=mc².
  
  While violations of CP-symmetry just after The Big Bang are believed to explain why the universe appears to be composed primarily of matter (rather than equal parts of matter and anti-matter or nothing at all), experimental validation that violations can occur may or may not have been shown. The science has not been settled!
  
  
  
  
  
• Life and Death - its relative actually. Contextual. -
  
  The passing of one's friend leaves one with sadness and a sense of loss. And that is real. Yet, for those who are enabled to consider it, there is another Truth, also Real. "The Living" have but a few purposes that All That Is "has for us to do." As if All That Is "had anything for us to do." For many of those, passed or passing, we can celebrate a Gain.
  
  The Living are stepping stones from the Individuals "before" to the Individuals "after" within the resilient Living Lineage. From them came forth you and me and all of our friends and family. With them, all the impacts that occurred with everyone and everything they interacted with. We all have our time here, and then we depart. All The Living do.
  
  At the "end," All That Is simply "Welcomes us Home." From where we came, we return. Truthfully, "the end" actually doesn't happen. A Transformation happens, as it always does. Because All That Is is Resilient. It keeps on going. One thing after another. As it did one thing before another.
  
  
• Fire
  
  
  A lot can be said about "Fire". And yet, not enough. Much will be left Unsaid, just as we have done with all the essential defining dimensions of Resilience. Resilience cannot adequately be defined using the cognitive abilities we are graced with in order to understand the actual reality of All That Is. Same with Fire ... which Is Resilient ... in its own dimension.
  
  For the purposes of this section's example we will simply mention a few things about fire from the subjective perspective that is relevant to most humans.
  
  The capture, harnessing, and control of fire was one of the greatest scientific achievements in human history. The control of Fire made civilization possible. Whether intended or not, food could be cooked, resulting in sanitized eating. Hominids could migrate to cooler climates and survive!
  
  While the interpretation of evidence is difficult to validate as actually factual, it appears that hominids began "managing" fire perhaps 500,000 to 1,500,000 years ago. Not as Homo sapiens, but rather as Homo erectus. The eventual ability to "control" fire evolved slowly, and the earliest evidence of actually being able to create a fire happened perhaps 150-700,000 years ago.
  
  Coincident with the earliest harnessing of fire is the earliest evidence of Homo erectus migrating out of Africa. The advantages of managing fire are legion, too many to list here. Check a few examples out by clicking here. By 400,000 years ago, fire was being used to harden wood for use as spears for hunting. From 60-164,000 years ago fire was used to heat silcrete rocks for use as stone tools and weapons.
  
  The fact is that the nutrients in cooked foods are easier to digest and use than those in uncooked foods. Whether intended or not, the altered dietary access to digestible nutrients very likely enabled the relatively rapid evolutionary enhancement of hominid brain and cognitive development ... among those hominids that ate cooked foods.
  
  → Fire enabled the evolution of "The Cognitive Me" that you experience today as "me." ←
  
  Skipping over most of the rest, suffice it to say that there would have been no:
  • Neolithic Age
  • Copper Age
  • Bronze Age
  • Iron Age
  • Industrial Revolution, etc.,
  ... without fire.
  
  Do we comprehend the synonymous relationship between Fire, The Me, and Resiliency yet?
  
  If so, then why can't your humble author describe it accurately.
  
  In so many words ... because its Spiritual. Period.
  
  
• Love
  
  Wrapping up, do we need another example dimension to illustrate the potency of Resiliency with regard to the Persistence of All That Is? No. But another assertion will be offered anyway.
  
  If ever hominids learn how to truly capture, harness, and control "Love" (abstract fire), it will be the second time in history that we have "harnessed fire." In this case, we will have learned to leverage the energy of Love. The Power of Love.
  
  It may take just as long to do that as it has taken hominids to harness Fire. Currently, we're just messin' with it.

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