[lit-ideas] Re: FW: Re: New Orleans

I think you may have missed what I was getting at.  Let me be a bit  clearer.
 
The earth and its surrounding phenomena (weather, space, seas, etc.) are  all 
part of the environment which was designed for human life or which, if you  
prefer, human life adapted to.  The tides, the moon, the air currents, the  sea 
swells and rotation of the planet, the warmth of the sun, the oxygen in the  
air, all are a habitable place for the animal called human.  This stuff --  
tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes -- are all just part of the earth's  
functioning.  The "primitives" on the remote island knew their home and how  to 
cooperate with it and work with it.  Industrialized society has lost  that 
knowledge 
and has erected artificial environments that do not cooperate  with the 
natural course of the planet's functioning and pose enormous threat to  human 
life 
when some of earth's natural functioning occurs.  To blame a  Creator for the 
devastation of the hurricane is a little like blaming the  pharmaceutical 
company when someone overdoses on a prescription drug, resulting  in their 
death.  
They misused something that was designed to be  constructive and positive, and 
it became something damaging.  
 
Julie Krueger
striving for clarity

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but nonetheless.....I don't know if you recall, Andy, but in the  tsunami 
there was a village on a remote island which we westerners would  call 
"primitive" -- thoroughly non-industrialized.  No phones,  computers, radios, 
tv.....   
The knowledge of the ways of the sea  had been taught generation after 
generation, wisdom about their earth-home  passed down for centuries.  When the 
sea 
gasped and the tide went out  for miles, the elder of the village knew from the 
passed-down wisdoms what  the sea would do next, and he called for all the 
villagers to run for high  ground.  When the walls of water came in, the 
villagers were  safe.  No one was lost.
 
 
A.A.  Isn't this the same sort of thinking that drives  religion.  God (here, 
village elders) saved the villagers (us).   Reality:  elders are clueless, 
villagers drown.  God farted and  never noticed the dead ants.

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