Hi Ray:
I like the Will Rogers quote. I would likely alter it, though, to suggest I have never met a life form, I didn't like. Is not the embrace of all life forms (Gaia) a preferred stance, in our stewarship of this planet?
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Have you embraced your oncogenes and colon polyps yet? Your dental carries? Head lice? ....
It just struck me: "Gaia" applies not only to the muddleheadedness of the New Ageys who think(sic) that the universe thinks (*what* does it think? Perhaps what Stephen Jay Gould said it thinks: "Nature is in love wih the idea of the individual, *not* with specific individuals" -- such a characterological disorder wouldn't cut the mustard with a mere human being....)
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Anyway, there is another "Gaia": the adjective
in the title of Nietzsche's book "Die Froliche Wissenschaft"
("The Gay Science") -- in Italian:La Gaia Scienza
So, folks, there's a second, better Gaia out there, not in "nature", but in the library: Tulle, lege!
(I should have thought of this 20 years ago....)
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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