>Sorry, you are right with regards to rocks, but given that you believe
>the Earth is sentient without given much in the way of reasons why and
>your discussion below of this "force", I fail to see how you can
>delineate between the Earth being sentient and a rock not being
>sentient except in a arbitrary manner. As in, "I choose to label is
>sentient, but that is not sentient."
ok, good question... i believe that "a sentient force" interpenetrates
everything... but when i talk about some*thing* being sentient, as a human
is sentient, or a dog is sentient, i mean it in a different way... we
have a sentience that is separate from this universal force, that is
individual, our sentience is a subset within the universal sentience... a
rock, in my opinion, is not an individual subset... it is not individually
*aware*, as humans and dogs are... and as i believe the earth to be...
bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Is Altruism consistent with environmentalsim?
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>---Bryan Hyden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> >If the Earth can be sentient with no justifcation or little
>> >justification for it then so can a rock. I believe that you and
>Bryan
>> >are on a slippery slope to having everything being sentient which of
>> >course renders the word meaningless.
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>> steve, how many times do i have to ask you to be more careful in not
>> misrepresenting me? this is getting quite rediculous and i think
>you are
>> being frivolous in your consideration towards me and i don't
>appriciate
>> it...
>
>Sorry, you are right with regards to rocks, but given that you believe
>the Earth is sentient without given much in the way of reasons why and
>your discussion below of this "force", I fail to see how you can
>delineate between the Earth being sentient and a rock not being
>sentient except in a arbitrary manner. As in, "I choose to label is
>sentient, but that is not sentient."
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>Steve
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>> i said that i think the earth is sentient... i've also said that i
>think
>> rocks are NOT sentient... someone else did and you somehow
>attributed that
>> sentiment to both of us... other things that i think are not
>sentient
>> include, but are not limited to, plastic, steel, anything that's
>dead, and
>> the list goes on... now, to make a further point but to
>hopefully not
>> confuse the issue, i DO beleive in a universal awareness (i.e. god,
>if you
>> want to call it that) that interpenetrates everything... and i
>believe
>> this "force" to be sentient in that nothing would be sentient
>without it...
>> i.e. it is the "source of sentience"... now, again, these are
>things that
>> i *believe*... it is not my problem (nor do i consider it a
>problem) that
>> they (seemingly) cannot be proven...
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>> bryan
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