Jeff:
>Gene, i looked up red cedar and the latin name is: Thuja
>plicata. I think it is quite different from the one you are
>talking about.
Yes, I wrote Eastern red cedar. That's what your eyes saw but your brain
made it Western red cedar.
What i find interesting is that language on
>the internet does not carry a complete sense of place or
>culture. We each interpret discussions relative to our local
>conditions.
Yes. I have long asked posters to indicate their place when writing about
anything that is affected by climate, topography, soil, sun, other
conditions, the air, the ethereal energy. It is irresponsible to make
generalizations about gardening, for instance, that just don't make sense
in other parts of the world or even on the next homestead. Each plot is
unique.
>If we expand this idea i think the conclusion
>is that "right" and "wrong" depend to a large extent on
>culture and local conditions. Taking this another step
>says "right" and "wrong" can not be converted into simple or
>absolute laws. Our discussions are only relative views where
>"right" and "wrong" states are seldom useful. I can think
>of lots of examples where "right" in one culture is "wrong"
>in another culture.
In most of nature there is no right or wrong. In human actions there is
what we perceive and are conditioned to believe to be right or wrong.
Perceptions are colored by past experiences. Conditioning comes from
everything we perceive. And the beat goes on.
