"The Psychedelic Pope - Saint Isadore of Laytonville - Patron Saint of the
Internet" <tadapope@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1118716174.609945.68580@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

I'll bet you wouldn't even admit to being an animal.

I have this argument with many of my friends from time to time...

I argue that humans are animals, and many of the worlds problems result
from our inability to see ourselves as such... I'm constantly confounded
at the number of people I generally consider extremely intelligent, who
will deny that we are simply animals with a superiority complex. We think
we've more right to this planet than another being that also exists here,
and that thinking is one of our greatest mistakes.

The problem I see with this attitude is that it detaches us from the
earth, and we no longer view it as our means of survival. Instead we've
replaced our hunting ground's with shopping centers, our drinking streams
with Coke dispensing machines, and our custodial nature with
consumerism... it is this culture of detachment that has resulted in our
environments rapid degradation, and yet we persist... we buy the latest
general interest magazine which tells us about the great new advancments
in *****-wiping technology, and we are convinced that we must have it, not
considering the environmental cost of the paper the ads are printed on nor
the lack of need for a better arsehole hygene system. It just doesn't
cross most people's minds.

To me, this spells the biggest flaw in humanity: we believe we are some
kind of devine manifestation, and apparently answer only to an unseen
mythical entity. In this thinking, it apparently doesn't matter what we
do with our time here on earth, because one day, said mythical entity will
swoop on down from the heavens and dissolve all the problems we have
caused. People who hold this belief, I question their morality, aswell as
their comprehension skills... from my own childhood bible studies, one of
the reoccuring themes that came up was the concept of not relying on God
to solve your troubles, instead rely on him for guidance to solve them
yourself. We need to be acountable for our actions in our own minds, not
rely on God to save us when *we* have completely destroy everything we
rely upon to survive. Our actions today will effect tomorrow, ad
infinitum. In order to have a habitable tomorrow, we need to create a
hospitable today.

What was I talking about again?

/rant