Date sent: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 06:36:56 EST
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Subject: Re: Two Alternatives
> In a message dated 98-11-05 05:12:54 EST, you write:
>
> << We possess our bodies, but if we mistreat them, we die. The earth
> belongs to us as much as we belong to it - we belong to each other
> (this is the Sacred Marriage). If we continue to abuse this covenant >>
>
> Hi! Joe - who told you this? How do you possess your body? How do you
> belong to the Earth in Sacred Marriage? Who made the Earth sacred? Define
> sacred? What covenant? With whom? With each other - what made us? Since
> when and why? You spew out words that fit into your own understanding of
> yourself and the Earth (without God) but how do you arrive at thse conclusions
> without asking and answering these questions?
>
> Peace!
> Angela
>
It's called evolution, Angela; the earth and the life upon it have
coexisted and coevolved peacefully and with mutual beneficience
together for millions of years, until the advent of humans, who are
destroying their own home (like my brain runs my body, yet is a part
of it and cannot run without it). The covenant between the Earth and
the life on her, which has existed for millennia ( read "The Gaia
Hypothesis" by James Lovelock), has been shattered by the
heedless multiplication and, thoughtless species destruction and
rapacious resource consumption of the human race. We are the
self-cannibilizing psychos eating our own limbs, and the futureblind
killers of the Golden Goose. WE have broken the Covenant of Life,
upset the delicate balance between our Home and Her Inhabitants,
and it is WE who must either restore this balance or pay the awful
price, for it is our own foundations we undermine when we do these
things. It is WE who must resanctify our relationship with our
Home, and return to the sense of sacred mutual belongingness,
care and responsible restraint which the original tribes shared with
Her before the apostasy of transcendant monotheism reduced her in
their profane minds to a pile if worthless dirt. She is much more than
that; we all come from Her as surely as we issued from our mothers'
wombs, suckle at Her breast for our entire lives, and when our lives
are done, return to Her bosom. As you can see with crystalline
clarity if you will but remove your god hood and look with truly open
eyes, far from "spewing without understanding", I have both asked
and answered the questions you posed, long before you posed them
- as have many others. Joe
