This challenges how we relate to each other.
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We could all use a little of this.
YouTube - The Teen Files - Part 2: Lines that Divide Us
We could all use a little of this.
We have never said that to kill another human being is the greatest sin on earth.
china,Is it?
Why are we more important than a deer?
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature we would never kill an animal for our appetite, we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies. But the healing of the mind is something totally different.
That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.
This is not sentiment or romantic imagination but a reality of a relationship with everything that lives and moves on the earth. Man has killed millions of whales and is still killing them. All that we derive from their slaughter can be had through other means. But apparently man loves to kill things, the fleeting deer, the marvellous gazelle and the great elephant. We love to kill each other. This killing of other human beings has never stopped throughout the history of man’s life on this earth. If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever. Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war. We have never said that to kill another human being is the greatest sin on earth.
I don't find it odd. It is the way we have designed our societies.It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate.
Speak for yourself. Killing is killing whether it is a tree, a bug, a chicken, or a person. What would you expect people to eat if they didn't kill something or other? :roll:We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature we would never kill an animal for our appetite,
Perhaps. Not everyone is the same, though. There will ALWAYS be people that deviate from what "should be".we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.
You think so? Amazing.But the healing of the mind is something totally different.
I don't think healing takes place without intent. Humans are surrounded by nature and have been forever, but we are still messing up.That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.
and the majestic tree and the succulent carrot and .......This is not sentiment or romantic imagination but a reality of a relationship with everything that lives and moves on the earth. Man has killed millions of whales and is still killing them. All that we derive from their slaughter can be had through other means. But apparently man loves to kill things, the fleeting deer, the marvellous gazelle and the great elephant.
Of course. People will never give out the same respect they think they deserve.We love to kill each other. This killing of other human beings has never stopped throughout the history of man’s life on this earth.
Nice dream, but that's all it is. There will always be people that deviate from what "should be".If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever.
I don't think we should. Perhaps if people gave the same respect toward our planet and its inhabitants that you suggest we give each other, we may be better off but it is only a fantasy.Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war. We have never said that to kill another human being is the greatest sin on earth.
Quite right.china,
My point is that we are an intrinsic part of the web of life. It is not just the killing of humans that is the sin. Any part of the biosphere that we destroy, destroys a part of ourselves. We are connected to the web of life except in our minds. We have been told that we are superior to the other beings on the planet and that is where we feel that we have a right to deal with or dispose of them as we see fit. We doe this at risk of our own peril.But understanding our relationship to other humans is just a beginning to undertsanding our relationship to the entire web of life.