Some words… (Will become political pretty quick)

[rgraham666]

from a man I've always liked for his courage and level headedness, Vaclav Havel.

The Need For Transcendence In The Postmodern World.

I was especially struck by what he said about 'the miracle of our own existence'. This is something I've long known. The chances of each of us existing, of life itself, borders on miraculous. To damage that miracle in anyway is perhaps the worst crime a person can commit.

 

[Guest]

The Gaia Hypothesis is what I've been reading about lately, in increasingly serious tones.

Yes, we are only a small part of the greater whole. If indeed it is human action that is causing the death of wildlife in the oceans, the warming and thawing of polar regions, pollution of the pristine areas and even the air, WE will be the ones who will suffer in the end.

We will cease to be, and it will be the earth that will survive us.

 

[Pure]

nice posting rg!

i agree that a 'gaiea' consciousness seems required. the view and feeling that we're part of a system that has been rather balanced. to which we add, things seem to be getting dicey.

it's definitely 'transcendence' of the individual, but i'm not sure if it's 'transcendence' in the older quasi religious senses. it IS a sense of something 'beyond ourselves.'

 

[past_perfect]

Excellent speech. I would submit though, that it is more a question of reclaiming a knowledge wired into the very fabric of our existence, though we struggle hard to dull it with the illusionary notion of separateness.

There were stories about the astronauts living in space stations like Mir having severe emotional problems until they eventually got plants up there, which almost immediately restored their equilibrium.

I guess this will out me as a tree-hugger, but it is my contention that nature or the earth talks to us, we just forgot how to listen, thus forgetting who we are, and, ultimately, what reality is.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The Gaia Hypothesis is what I've been reading about lately, in increasingly serious tones.

Yes, we are only a small part of the greater whole. If indeed it is human action that is causing the death of wildlife in the oceans, the warming and thawing of polar regions, pollution of the pristine areas and even the air, WE will be the ones who will suffer in the end.

We will cease to be, and it will be the earth that will survive us.

May the force be with you!

 

[rgraham666]

The Gaia Hypothesis is what I've been reading about lately, in increasingly serious tones.

Yes, we are only a small part of the greater whole. If indeed it is human action that is causing the death of wildlife in the oceans, the warming and thawing of polar regions, pollution of the pristine areas and even the air, WE will be the ones who will suffer in the end.

We will cease to be, and it will be the earth that will survive us.

I'm thinking of a line from the novel, Jurassic Park.

No. You don't understand. The planet is not in danger. We are in danger. We don't have the power to destroy life on this planet. We don't have the power to save it either. We might have the power to save ourselves.

 

[Guest]

May the force be with you!

Amen.