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THIS is the way I live (credit to Richard Dawkins)....
* Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.
* In all things, strive to cause no harm.
* Treat your fellow human beings, your fellow living things, and the world in general with love, honesty and respect.
* Do not overlook wrongdoing or shrink from administering justice, but always be ready to forgive when wrongs are freely admitted and honestly regretted.
* Value the future on a timescale longer than your own.
* Live life with a sense of joy and wonder.
* Always seek to be learning something new.
* Test all things; always check your ideas against the facts, and be ready to discard even a cherished belief if it does conform to them.
* Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be blindly led by others.
* Enjoy your own sex life (so long as it damages nobody else) and leave others to enjoy theirs whatever their inclinations.
* Do not discriminate or oppress on the basis of sex, race, or (as far as possible) species.
* Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
* Question everything.
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My Emmy made this for me....
When you defeat a thousand opponents, you still have a thousand opponents. When you change a thousand minds, you have a thousand allies.
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more
mystical concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature, and living by
complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys
the creature through the glass of his knowledge
and sees thereby a feather magnified and
the whole image in distortion. We patronize
them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate
of having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal
shall not be measured by man. In a world older and
more complete than ours they move finished
and complete, gifted with extensions of the
senses we have lost or never attained, living
by voices we shall never hear. They are not
brethren., they are not underlings; they are
other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of
life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour
and travail of the earth.
This civilization is killing the planet. They say that one sign of intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns. I’m gonna lay out a pattern here and let’s see if we can recognize it in less than 6,000 years. When you think of the hills and plains of Iraq, do you normally think of cedar forests so thick the sunlight never touches the ground? That’s how it was before. The first written myth of this culture is that of Gilgamesh deforesting that area to make cities. Plato complained that deforestation was drying up springs and destroying the water quality in Greece. The forests of North Africa went down to make the Phoencian and Egyptian navies. We can go north and ask, Where are the lions who were in Greece? Where are the indigenous of Europe? They’ve been massacred, or assimilated—in any case, genocide was perpetrated against them by definition because they’re no longer there.If you start asking questions, the questions just keep moving back and back and back. This is a pattern that’s been going on for a long, long time. This culture has been unsustainable from the beginning. On a finite planet, you would think that we would think about that. You can’t exploit a planet and live on it too. At this stage, since there are no new frontiers to exploit, the planet’s falling apart. ~Derrick Jensen
The concept no longer makes sense in light of evolution, unless we are willing to grant souls to chimps, dogs, sea sponges and celery. Since species evolve incrementally over time, insisting that we have souls, but other living things do not, requires us to come up with some pretty unlikely scenarios. At what point in evolution did the soul suddenly appear — and why didn’t the previous generation qualify?Whatever sense of self and personal identity we have springs entirely from the constantly recomposed electrochemical symphony playing in our heads. Some find that horrifying; I find it utterly amazing. And asking where our “self†goes when that electrochemical symphony stops playing is just like asking where the music goes when an orchestra stops playing. ~ Dale McGowen
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