Comments on: What About Us?

By: lafourmiautodidacte

lafourmiautodidacte — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:57:38 +0000

Capital Ground

Now is the shared time
Of our last riches

To each birth
Freedom
A drop of water
Thirsty of river

To each birth
Equality
A drop of sweat
Exhausted of misery

To each birth
Fraternity
A drop of air
Dirty of deserts

Now is the exorcised time
Of our planetary reasons

The articulated time
Of a capital
Ground.

Mr.Anick Roschi 3.3.09

Greats,

By: Therese

Therese — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:30:06 +0000

Thank goodness for birds, and other creatures that CAN fly. Wish I could!

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:01:57 +0000

Well said.

By: David G

David G — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:36:32 +0000

Jeff, Jeannie and Grace, human conceit has led us to believe we are superior to all other living things. We have even invented the lie that we are going to live forever!

If we saw ourselves as a temporary part of the web of life, we might be more humble, more kind, more loving and less greedy and destructive.

By: Grace

Grace — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:43:57 +0000

David, I appreciate your speaking up for the bird – and all the critters we live with, that have no human voice. Speaking for the redwood trees in Northern California was a big turning point in the consciousness of the environmental movement in the Northwest. Julia Butterfly-Hill sat in Luna, the tree, and became her voice. It was an awesome time. It is right to think this way, because if anyone opens their eyes, we all live together here. If the canaries die, we die.

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:10:15 +0000

That bird looked so fragile in that huge human hand. Like so much of life on this planet so very fragile with the huge human inpact that is so busy killing anything or anyone that gets in the way of making more money or being more powerful.
And for so many of us having more and more stuff in our fruitless search for happiness.
I know that the end of the oil age will bring great suffering to many people who have done nothing to deserve it, but it will also make it much more difficult to humans to destroy the rest of the world. That can only be a good thing.

By: jeff B.

jeff B. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:38:31 +0000

Great Article David .

It says it all .Maybe human beings should think about before we are anything ie Jews christians muslims black white americans chinese etc.We are human beings who are part of this all not the reason for it.

By: David G

David G — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:56:57 +0000

Thanks for the link, Coco!

John, your English is going well and I’m also glad that you appreciated the point of my post. Since humans have been controlled by their technology, most have forgotten that they are merely another part of nature and that they need to coexist with it.

Kathy, you raise some very interesting points. A shorter, richer life would surely be acceptable to most people. Slowly dying as a vegetable in a hospice is not my idea of a rich life!

By: kathy

kathy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:31:35 +0000

If man had never stumbled upon fossil fuels I wonder what our population would be? If we still tended to be hunter-gatherers or small agrarian communities what would be our lifespan? Maybe we would die earlier and keep the population in check. But maybe our shorter life would be richer from living in harmony with nature?

I watched a video series of Dr. A True Ott and he was going over the history of influenza. He said there are more than 1500 known influenza viruses in nature and it seems to be nature’s way of culling itself. For instance when flu hits a flock of birds it’s because the flock has become unhealthy in some way perhaps over populated and sickly. The flu will kill the weaker birds and the flock remaining will be stronger and healthier.

He also said that when humans get flu the immune system kicks in and fights it so that when the flu is gone it actually leaves us stronger and healthier. The folks who die from the flu needed to die to strengthen the species remaining. I know this could get into a whole huge subject about population control.

It seems that humans are one big scientific experiment. Too many interventions and pharmaceuticals that can keep people alive but not quite well. What would our population be if left to nature and without all the artificial interventions?

By: John L. Jensen

John L. Jensen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:45 +0000

Oh GOD no… “HATE” no… sorry.. I meant HAT (the thing you put on top of your head)