Tag: nature
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A path to non-violence
My slow, slow, and on-going switch from meat eating to veganism. I see a parallel between violence against animals and violence in general. The final destination, will be non-violence. That’s the vision that Jesus gave us. But we need the path to get us there. I still struggle how the total opposite of Jesus’ teachings…
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Look gravity in the eye
The way we look along the the flat of the land is very boring. Flatland. Apart from its not flat its ever so slightly curved so we’re not even looking at it straight. Lie down flat on the ground in a wood or forest and stare directly up. Now you’re facing gravity. Now you’re properly…
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The eternal law of the animals
Tolstoy explains beautifully as ever, the hypocrisy of Christians at war. “There are in Europe twenty-eight millions of men under arms,” says Wilson, “to decide disputes, not by discussion, but by murdering one another. That is the accepted method for deciding disputes among Christian nations.…either Christianity is a failure, or those who have undertaken to…
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God the mother
I’m becoming more firmly of the belief that Mother Nature is the closest rational approximation of God. Mother Nature isn’t the Earth alone, the rules of mama nature apply throughout the universe. So if Mother Nature is God, God is a woman. Only that which has the power to create life could be anything close…
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Paradise theory
Let’s assume that the earth is paradise (Heaven in other words). Its an oasis of life in the middle of billions of light years of death. So when we talk about global problems, we’re talking about paradise problems. Or indeed, trouble in paradise. Gaia theory says that paradise is alive. It maintains its temperature and…
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Sea of thermodynamics
Reading about Ernest Shackleton stuck in a boat (the James Caird)… … the struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which men never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated. —…
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Time
We’ve got all the time in the world as long as we don’t fuck up the world. So slow the fuck down and take care of nature.
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The Kingdom of Delusion is Within You
I’ve been reading Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You alongside Dawkins’ The God Delusion. I agree with almost all that Dawkins has to say, yet in my eyes he says it without any of the grace or weight or feeling of Tolstoy. They’re both attacking the church, but Dawkins chooses to attack all…
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We’re in Hell (it’s just not that bad yet)
I keep thinking how we create hells on earth (torture, slavery, colonialism, war, pollution, sweatshops, factories, sacrifice, genocide, gas chambers, executions, mafia, gangs, poisons, concentration camps, suicide, terrorism, horror films, gladiators, nuclear bombs). Maybe this was Jesus’ point – if we don’t follow his advice hell is where we will end up. The more you…
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What if the trees were the real angels?
“What if the trees were the real angels?” — Me, Lier, 2021 This is what I sat to think looking at this war memorial angel statue in Lier. Turns out there is a name for this – Pantheism. My interpretation is roughly that Nature and God are the same thing. This makes sense to me…
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