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Growing old is
mandatory; growing up is optional.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Robert E. Bowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3:58 PM > 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
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