Menachem Bluming inquires: Can you Imagine a Totally New Color?
I didn’t imagine so. It is beyond the human ability
to conceptualize anything whatsoever that has no basis in reality. All human ingenuity
is the result of taking pre-existing ideas and readjusting them, using
ingredients that are already present and making a new concoction. There is
nothing completely new under the sun.
Human invention is the simulating and harnessing of our
environment. That's why airplanes are similar to birds, with wings and tails,
and cars look like horses, on all fours with two eyes at the front. If you think
about every human invention, you will discover that nothing is absolutely
original.
Even in the world of dreams, human imagination can
only design characters that somewhat resemble physical creatures. Any aliens
from the weirdest science fiction stories are only overgrown frogmen or human rats
with big ears. The scariest space giant looks strikingly similar to a giant
lobster. The wildest imaginations have never been gifted to create an entirely
original being. Even fictitious characters are rooted on real life.
This also applies about the gods of ancient
mythology. The , Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman deities were nothing
more than inflated humans or embodiments of forces of nature. It is easy to see
how they were man-made, a mishmash of mortal man's fears and desires and
fantasies. All ancient gods, alike all human inventions, were creative
depictions of familiar realities. G-d alone creates originals we just copy from
there (even cloning is just reproducing).
And G-d alone created you; a true original!