In a message dated 12/4/98 4:42:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< it seems to me that if we
allow ourselves to think of the earth and all on it as something to "rule"
than we are thinking dualistically. People/Nature. People have the power
to rule nature and as you believe this right is given to us by god.
another dichotomy. god/people god ruling people. this dualistic thinking
is exactly what allows patriarchal society to make the dichotomy man/woman
and man rules woman. this kind of dualistic thinking filters into race,
sexual orientation, class. . . essentially everything. i was thinking that
the belief that god rules people. . . god is better (for lack of another
term) than people. . .begins the notion that we have to select one part of
any dichotomy to "rule" the other, instead of things being equal. (could >>
Hi, I DO agree with what you say here. Dualistic thinking begins with
self/other.
Sincerely, Jane
