tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post1702533616006236778..comments2024-02-19T04:50:58.170-08:00Comments on Shuck and Jive: The Meaning of Life, Part 3John Shuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-25853885213463130972008-11-17T13:51:00.000-08:002008-11-17T13:51:00.000-08:00We abuse the earth because we are greedy, prideful...We abuse the earth because we are greedy, prideful, etc. Which, if you are an evolutionist, we are because that is what we need to survive.<BR/><BR/>In order to <I>transcend</I> our nature given instincts, we need something transcendent to appeal to. Or at least that is what we find in history.<BR/><BR/>Nature is cruel, Richard Dawkins assures us. Pagan cultures reflect and even celebrate that cruelty.<BR/><BR/>Only someone living in an affluent society can fail to see nature's cruelty.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17612999135177842776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-78482931710506911152008-11-17T11:01:00.000-08:002008-11-17T11:01:00.000-08:00I wonder if your philosophy can ever be meaningful...<I>I wonder if your philosophy can ever be meaningful outside of a highly advanced industrial civilization where living is made easy by raping the Earth. You and I and most of the readers here have plenty to eat and are quite warm and cozy because we abuse the Earth in any number of ways.</I><BR/><BR/>This is the very reason why a primary focus on care for Earth, and care for Earth's inhabitants via food, shelter, and so forth is so critical in this time.<BR/><BR/>Why do we abuse the Earth? One reason may be that we do not view it as sacred.John Shuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-3015739668792538262008-11-17T08:04:00.000-08:002008-11-17T08:04:00.000-08:00Rev Shuck:You wrote:"If we don't think eating, sur...Rev Shuck:<BR/><BR/>You wrote:<BR/><BR/>"If we don't think eating, surviving, and reproducing is exciting enough, thrilling enough, or meaningful enough, then what is the alternative? Death. Extinction. Game over. I don't think it is wise to trade life for a questionable prize in heaven. "<BR/><BR/>But for most people throughout history, eating, surviving and reproducing has <I>not</I> been enough.<BR/><BR/>Getting enough to eat has always been a struggle, keeping warm almost impossible. And death has always been inevitable.<BR/><BR/>Reproduction has always been popular and easy, though.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if your philosophy can ever be meaningful outside of a highly advanced industrial civilization where living is made easy by raping the Earth. You and I and most of the readers here have plenty to eat and are quite warm and cozy because we abuse the Earth in any number of ways.<BR/><BR/>And we have always secured enough to eat, enough water to drink, and enough territory to reproduce in by seizing it by force from other weaker peoples.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17612999135177842776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-13082189898726944282008-11-15T03:11:00.000-08:002008-11-15T03:11:00.000-08:00At this moment I do not have the right words to fu...At this moment I do not have the right words to fully express what I am thinking and feeling.<BR/><BR/>So for this moment, regarding this post and the earlier one, I simply say thank you and amen my brother.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181529277715646835noreply@blogger.com