[lit-ideas] Re: FW: Re: New Orleans
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:43:07 EDT
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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