D and N
We are here, on this planet, as Robert has suggested, to be stewards.
The trustee of an estate does, however, earn a professional fee for his (or her) stewardship and oversight.
Those who take good care of hte earth should at least be able to live in Cesar Pelli's MoMA Museum Tower (where the trustee of one estate I happen to know of in fact lives). [Yes, I kjnow, some persons prefer to "wear hairshirts" -- de gustibus....]
Leisure is the basis of culture.
(--Josef Pieper)\brad mccormick
arthur
Maybe yes, maybe no. We are here. Maybe that is all we can know.
-----Original Message----- *From:* Darryl and Natalia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, June 3, 2003 12:19 PM *To:* futurework *Subject:* Re: [Futurework] Re: I like (some) pop music :: There are 2 Gaia's!
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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> Robert E. Bowd wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> [snip]
>
> Have you embraced your oncogenes and colon polyps yet?
> Your dental carries? Head lice? ....
We embrace people do we not? What higher form of viral contamination
or parasite is there?
> It just struck me: "Gaia" applies not only to the
> muddleheadedness of the New Ageys who think(sic) that
> the universe thinks
Where do all these converted, polluted, convoluted ideas come from
(muddleneadedness, smokeybrains)? People attempt to anthropomorphize
everything and/or anything so they can feel closer to it, or perhaps
understand it in an emotional sense. But I have never spoken to a
"hippy" or "one who loves and cherishes the earth" who believes the
universe thinks. They may hope it has the ability but that is not
the same.
If we consider that the universe is an extension of this plane in
which we find ourselves, there may be RE-actions to our actions. But
the energies that have given rise to this universe (whatever the
name: God, Holy Spirit, The Great One, Allah, Vishnu,....) likely is
not concerned with what these wholly insignificant beings called
humans do. We are not on the plane of "creation" (currently, it
appears to be one of MIS-creation). We are here, on this planet, as
Robert has suggested, to be stewards. That becomes a much larger
thought position than most on this planet can comprehend; due less,
I think, to their ability than to their education and circumstance.
(*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....)
>
> More anthropomorphizing.
>
> 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!
This would be where the education begins. The growing up is part of
circumstance.
> (I should have thought of this 20 years ago....) > DJB
--
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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