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Friday night, upon pulling the sleeping child from the warm back seat of the car having just driven for an hour to Pop's she awoke with the first influx of cold, clear mountain air, feet up and cradled in my arms. "Wow!" was the first word I'd heard from her since shortly after we'd left home, "I saw that once at the planetarium with Auntie M!", she says with that enthusiastic roar kids sometimes have. With the plan to build 20 - 25 new homes in the immediate area around Pop's I suspect that the incredible view of the stars, the milky way galaxy and its galactic disk are soon to be a thing of the past.
I realize people have to live somewhere . . . It's why I'm pro-abortion.
For whatever reason, people in general can't move into an area without polluting the natural order, and ruining a given habitat, completely. I think that's what Helen means when she says that there is spiritual 'stuff' having its origin in God that is spread increasingly thinner among an ever-expanding human population. That 'stuff' I believe to be consciousness and more people exercising less of it is an equation for a disasterous future. Although, in my opinion, consciousness is a renewable resource in that respect - the human being is a perfect recepticle for cultivating consciousness. The problem being that, like appreciation, it cannot be forced onto people. The individual has to want it, the individual has to work to cultivate it. And it would appear that the individual wants nothing more than convenience, they want cheap food and cheap fuel (heh, at any cost!) and a constant source of stimulation and entertainment. And by the time they move into their couchy little community, and the bodegas and gas stations and movie theaters are firmly in place and lit up like Vegas they won't ever be aware that there are an infinte universe of stars overhead. It never occurs to them because they'd never dream of ever stepping outside of their comfort bubble where such a thing is possible, and they don't care anyway . . .
I realize people have to live somewhere . . . It's why I'm pro-abortion.
For whatever reason, people in general can't move into an area without polluting the natural order, and ruining a given habitat, completely. I think that's what Helen means when she says that there is spiritual 'stuff' having its origin in God that is spread increasingly thinner among an ever-expanding human population. That 'stuff' I believe to be consciousness and more people exercising less of it is an equation for a disasterous future. Although, in my opinion, consciousness is a renewable resource in that respect - the human being is a perfect recepticle for cultivating consciousness. The problem being that, like appreciation, it cannot be forced onto people. The individual has to want it, the individual has to work to cultivate it. And it would appear that the individual wants nothing more than convenience, they want cheap food and cheap fuel (heh, at any cost!) and a constant source of stimulation and entertainment. And by the time they move into their couchy little community, and the bodegas and gas stations and movie theaters are firmly in place and lit up like Vegas they won't ever be aware that there are an infinte universe of stars overhead. It never occurs to them because they'd never dream of ever stepping outside of their comfort bubble where such a thing is possible, and they don't care anyway . . .
