tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post1505842951170278438..comments2024-02-19T04:50:58.170-08:00Comments on Shuck and Jive: Apocalypse, Progress or Hospice?John Shuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-45099153022671784762011-03-26T10:04:29.763-07:002011-03-26T10:04:29.763-07:00@Sea thanks for catching the hopeful note. No one...@Sea thanks for catching the hopeful note. No one wants to talk about something that is simply all bummer all the time. I am hoping for a future that is ecologically balanced. This transition can be a hopeful, cooperative, transforming one for ourselves as well as long as we don't cling out of fear to perpetuating a way of life that has no future.John Shuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-49336352845227664502011-03-26T08:04:53.173-07:002011-03-26T08:04:53.173-07:00Thanks to Jodie for a beautiful metaphor. Think t...Thanks to Jodie for a beautiful metaphor. Think the Celtic World Tree. Think the tree of life in Avatar; think the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil in the center of the garden.<br /><br />We do need new metaphors, but so long as we have trees, they can do a lot for us, metaphorically and actually.<br /><br />John -- terrific editorial. Actually, it is hopeful. It offers a confidence in "god" similar to what Jesus may have been trying to express.Sea Raven, D.Min.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11437086460582996056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-79752264976511573432011-03-25T20:12:02.776-07:002011-03-25T20:12:02.776-07:00You are likely right, Jodie, but that doesn't ...You are likely right, Jodie, but that doesn't mean it is going to be pretty. 50 million people died of influenza in 1918. That sort of thing may be lost in the timeline, but not when it's your family that goes.<br /><br />But, it's likely that it can't be helped, and may be necessary to the survival of the species as a whole.Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-22509654658599299812011-03-25T18:27:39.233-07:002011-03-25T18:27:39.233-07:00Jodie,
Yes, pruning is a very good metaphor. Eve...Jodie,<br /><br />Yes, pruning is a very good metaphor. Even a sprout from the stump.John Shuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-34127683000244149752011-03-25T18:06:02.074-07:002011-03-25T18:06:02.074-07:00Neither.
Civilization is like a tree. It grows wi...Neither.<br /><br />Civilization is like a tree. It grows wildly in the spring, then it gets pruned back, the weak and sick branches get broken off by the weather and disease, or the work of the gardner, and then it comes back again, stronger, fuller, with new branches, reconfigured and reaching out in new directions.<br /><br />Sometimes devastating fires come by and it takes a long time for it to grow back, but it always does.<br /><br />Sometimes only the seed is left. But that is enough.<br /><br />Isaiah 6.Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15447125159108080797noreply@blogger.com