Baking My Favorite Cake ©                     

One day, when baking a Devil's Food cake the called for six spoonful of allspice.

I took the allspice can from the spice rack and opened it. I extracted a measuring spoon of the contents. I held it over the bowl before pouring it into the other ingredients.

Something wasn't quite right, so I looked closely. The spoon contained nothing but the dry skeletons of tiny beetles! Investigation of the rest of the half-can of Allspice showed the whole thing to be nothing but beetle skeletons, right down to the bottom.

Months or years before, some beetles had gotten into the can, started eating and reproducing. With no natural enemies present, they multiplied into several generations, all happily supplied with a surfeit of food.

Eventually, there was only a thin layer of allspice in the bottom of the can; a layer of eating, breeding beetles; and a thick layer of dead beetles. The eating beetle thought they were in the best of worlds, as they could not yet see the bottom of the can, and all they had to do was live it up and celebrate!

Soon though, there were only a few grains of allspice left. Seeing the bottom of the can finally, there was nothing left to do but eat them all. Then, soon hungry, they started to eat their offspring, or the remnants of their ancestor, or both. Before long, as if by alchemy, the cans original allspice contents had been transmuted into beetle skeletons.

Life as they knew it ended and life in that little world was reduced to merely a few microbes, encapsulated against the lack of moisture. If moisture and other right conditions had appeared, they could have started again a one-billion-year evolution toward an intelligent being, a Man-II.

Intelligent Man-1

Intelligent Man-1 is busy cutting down his essential rain forests at the rate of 5000 acres a day, cutting down the supply of oxygen. Man is using up the supply of natural resources all over the world. How soon will our descendants see the bottom of the Allspice can?

I didn't finish making the chocolate cake! I hope you understand that this is just a metaphor for the current situation that is happening to Earth. I know that after man is gone the Earth will return itself to the best state that it ever was. It has been doing that to itself for millions and millions of years. It will do it again but man won’t be around.

By the way, do you know what "All Spice" is, and what taste it adds to whatever you’re making, you probably have one in your pantry, and never used it. Google it!