That is the important part of the message of the Natives and tribal peoples. Earth plus us is a marriage, a relationship, a friendship. The current re...
Exactly, give ‘em some drugs cuz science! Also… time is money so “long term” equals more than one hour, for billing purposes. :zip: Over 200 medicatio...
Thanks. :up: I’d put a similar thought in this way: a culture of people can either be a ‘dominator culture’ or not. These days the word ‘dominant’ is ...
I get this unsettling feeling that many people (10 thousand? 100 thousand?) in the USA are actively chomping at the bit to start another US civil war…...
Ok good, thanks! :up: You had mentioned in another thread that you leaned towards democratic socialism, and I was trying to reconcile that with what s...
Most are fair and goodwilled… not much different than any others that I know. Political issues seem to be more divisive than strictly religious ones. ...
:smile: :up: Well said. Patriotism may be the ‘last refuge of the scoundrel’ (as the saying goes), but having an absolutist, inflexible, and literalis...
But that’s how you worded it. Either / or. And that’s an invitation for purging the dissenters and foot-draggers. Thanks for not actually calling me a...
Thank you for clarifying. :up: Well, as a general statement I’d generally agree, but ‘part of the problem or the solution’ is a bit absolute (cut and ...
Excellent, thanks! :up: Sorry, this sentence is reaching for a conclusion, but seems too general and vague (?) to me. Could you please reword it if po...
But to elaborate on my techno-skepticism… The sheer physical fact of the living planet being turned into ‘stuff’ at an exponentially increasing (and u...
The post was meant to be satire, sorry if it was too broad or amateurish. But anyway the point of my post is that Tech is the dominant ‘worldview’ (NO...
I thought that technology worship (technophilia?) has been the prevalent worldview for years, no? It’s not a religion, but that’s exactly its appeal: ...
Thanks very much for your thoughtful replies! :smile: (Your two quotes were from different posts, but they seem to be related). Stories… our stories… ...
I’m a little disappointed that my fanaticism is being overlooked. Imho, with all due respect I’m much more fanatical and unhinged than anyone here! (U...
I was not objecting to EVER exploring deep space, just objecting to doing it now with the turmoil you mentioned. If we drag ourselves out of the mud, ...
The planets are here doing their thing, and will be doing it until the sun explodes. :sparkle: If someone wants to gaze at them, or write a symphony f...
The album Synchronicity by The Police has many songs that seem timely: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=trX9gQssm9c&pp=ygUgd2Fsa2luZyBpbiB5b3VyIGZvb3RzdG...
Yes, I only mentioned this as an example of technology that’s at least trying to deal with climate change. (Another example was solar power, which see...
Excellent example! And it serves as an antidote to anthropocentric thinking. :up: Sometimes (probably 10 times per day) we (myself included) need a li...
Meaningless objects? Dinosaurs and the solar system just a bunch of insignificant junk? Your enthusiasm for human potential is admirable, but throwing...
“That broken bulb is a symbol of the outer darkness to which sinners have been cast! Beg for forgiveness, but don’t expect any mercy. The saved give o...
Sweet deal! :ok: I’d love to get some solar energy going on here, even though we’re not in the sunbelt… yet. :yikes: (like most belts, it seems to be ...
Looks like a cool car! Hope they become more common, at least solar panels in other vehicles. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to have to make an e...
Thanks! :smile: If people are worked until they are mentally and physically exhausted, they will have little energy to do much more than stumble home ...
Ah yes… the bottle falling from the sky. Wonderful movie! Unfortunately, it seems like the versions on YouTube are all the mediocre sequels. If you ca...
The word ‘war’ is of course loaded with connotations, mostly negative. So personally I would not use that term for animals, but ‘territorial fighting’...
Thanks for your input. :up: I would agree that capitalism (as a general worldview) at its core is destructive in reaching its aims. The Earth is its r...
Thanks for your reply. :up: Yes, ‘memes’ are a deep and interesting topic, and I understand them as little as their physical counterpart ‘genes’ lol. ...
Thanks! I started to read it earlier this year. Didn’t finish it then, but now I’m tempted to try again, maybe with an audiobook version from the libr...
:up: It seems like something went askew with civilization at some early juncture. It probably was inevitable that humans started clumping together in ...
:hearts: Wow, thanks for the response and the agreement! (Getting both is a nice experience, because of its rarity lol). When I was younger and hearin...
@"Vera Mont" @"Athena" Good question… thanks. :up: How about using words for groups people, in an increasing scale: Cultures (small to medium sized)… ...
@"Athena" @"universeness" Thanks for your reply! This makes me think of George Carlin’s comedy routine about ‘stuff’. George Carlin on Stuff transcrip...
@"universeness" @"Vera Mont" (this post might be relevant to our conversations) Thanks very much for your comments! :smile: I think that our culture (...
Upon further reflection, this metaphor doesn’t quite seem so hopeless a situation as when I first read it. If the parasite is killed, the host will be...
“Same big mouth…” haha, yes definitely! There’s too much absolute hierarchy, by which I mean ‘completely vertical’ (like scaling a sheer cliff) with l...
No, it’s not a reference to all humans alive today. I worded that rather vaguely, which I’ll now try to correct below… It was an elliptical sentence p...
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