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Sociology > Depression |
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"Noon Cat Nick" |
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18 Jan 2006 10:27:35 PM |
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19 Jan 2006 - today's quote |
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a
social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction,
despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of
our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly,
to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came
with early wisdom.
--Murray Bookchin, _The Ecology of Freedom_ (1982)
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: 19 Jan 2006 - today's quote |
19 Jan 2006 01:25:06 AM |
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In message <43CF14F5.4050701@hotmail.com>, Noon Cat Nick
<chatdemidiSPAMBEGONE@hotmail.com> writes
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a
social condition that has always contained the potential of
destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great
project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly
and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and
nature that came with early wisdom.
--Murray Bookchin, _The Ecology of Freedom_ (1982)
Hur! Hur! He said cleavage.
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The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: 19 Jan 2006 - today's quote |
19 Jan 2006 12:47:37 AM |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:27:35 GMT, Noon Cat Nick
<chatdemidiSPAMBEGONE@hotmail.com> wrote:
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a
social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction,
despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of
our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly,
to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came
with early wisdom.
--Murray Bookchin, _The Ecology of Freedom_ (1982)
Interesting. There is a theory, or rather many related theories, that
suggests that humans were literally created in God's image. That is humans
are infants who have the potential to achieve Godhood at some point in the
future.
The main problem is that growing up in this state means someday discovering
the knowledge that will allow any one human to end all life on earth.
Extending that into the future, any single human could, with a purely
mental effort, end the universe as we know it.
God's purpose in this scheme would be to see if he can guide such
potentially powerful, but free-willed beings towards ultimate knowledge and
peer level creatorship in their own right, without them destroying
themselves in the process.
There are all sorts of details one might surmise about any species
potential for survival. But most come down to the idea that any creature
that is merely adaptive could never be God-like. Any successful candidate
would have to have the ability to manipulate the environment as opposed to
just adapting to it. They would need the ability to conceive of things
that don't exist, and then bring them into existence. But such manipulation
can be a treacherous journey.
It's kind of an elegant idea since it involves God actually procreating
instead of just fashioning simple little pets.
It's kind of humbling to actually sit down and ponder what kind of universe
I would create if I had the power to do it. It goes without saying that
anything I have imagined is, to say the least, highly derivative.
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EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the
foolish their lack of understanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
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