From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 01:35:52 MDT
From: "Amara Graps" <amara@amara.com>
> A productive use of my time is to focus on fulfilling the vision I have
> of myself, and then putting myself in the context of the stream of flow
> of humanity and applying my vision in a larger context in space and
> time. It must start from the inside, though. That's the deep work
> of exploring one's own vast inner universe. Putting my inner visions
> into practice and into the stream of humanity is the next step. For me,
> some of this hard work is very spiritual.
Amara, what do you mean by spiritual? Is that something better than
non-spiritual?
> Many of these discussions of killing or viewing groups of people as
> less valuable than other groups of people. make my stomach turn over.
> For sure, this is not in my vision of my future or the future of the
> community of people that I care about. I doubt that humanity would
> ever get off this planet if the majority of people hold that opinion.
I may have missed a few posts, but at least this list didn't equate
animal-animal life with human-animal life ... right? My husband and I have
gotten into big, big, big trouble for not appreciating the worthiness of the
lives of dogs-and-cats compared to human lives (link to one such article
below, written by my husband).
http://home.sprynet.com/~inniss/humanist.htm
> I think that all of us can better use our time and
> energy celebrating our differences and using those differences make our
> lives richer.
Our similarities far outweigh our differences (the differences being mainly
optional and chosen to be worn - like a hat, or scarf, or Judaism, or a
watch, or Quetzalcoatlism, or Libertarianism, or lip gloss - over our
inherently similar natures). I'm not sure if those superficial differences
are worth celebrating. For most of our history the maintenance of those
supposed differences has cost us dearly. Stripped of our artificial
baubles, there's still a lot of variation among us. But the best thing
about the streamlined human model is that is that it's based on the real
deal: what we have in common. And that's truly worth remembering and
celebrating.
O.
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