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Earth Day 2010 - 4/22/2010 1:54:27 AM

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I ummed a bit over whether to post this as I had mentioned it on lallys thread, but in the end, it's worth it's own thread IMO.
Anyone googling today will see the image - today is EarthDay2010.

This year is it's 40th year. Regardless if you believe or don't believe in global warming or other related phenom - there is a lot of things we can do that makes life better for us as individuals, whether that's exercising or eating healthy produce and not just the mass produced items.

I do dig these kind of days - over on the politics forum there is a post on Prayer Day. The one thing that makes me kind of cringe is the assumption that these days are created to make people do something they wouldn't normally. Most spiritual and religious people do not need a National Day of Prayer to know the strenth in prayer and meditation... because they already do it everyday or regularly anyway.

So in that sense, Earth Day isn't that much of a point is it? If you take care of yourself or your environment, then you don't need an 'Earth Day'. If you don't, then Earth day is just an uncomfortable reminder and a feeling of oppressivness. Is it purely then more a place of teaching for children - for example - something good to bring up in schools to help them learn how to grow plants or produce?

Meh - rhetorical ramblings - but blessings to all on Earth Day regardless.

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RE: Earth Day 2010 - 4/22/2010 3:30:36 AM

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ORIGINAL: RCdc

I ummed a bit over whether to post this as I had mentioned it on lallys thread, but in the end, it's worth it's own thread IMO.
Anyone googling today will see the image - today is EarthDay2010.

This year is it's 40th year. Regardless if you believe or don't believe in global warming or other related phenom - there is a lot of things we can do that makes life better for us as individuals, whether that's exercising or eating healthy produce and not just the mass produced items.

I do dig these kind of days - over on the politics forum there is a post on Prayer Day. The one thing that makes me kind of cringe is the assumption that these days are created to make people do something they wouldn't normally. Most spiritual and religious people do not need a National Day of Prayer to know the strenth in prayer and meditation... because they already do it everyday or regularly anyway.

So in that sense, Earth Day isn't that much of a point is it? If you take care of yourself or your environment, then you don't need an 'Earth Day'. If you don't, then Earth day is just an uncomfortable reminder and a feeling of oppressivness. Is it purely then more a place of teaching for children - for example - something good to bring up in schools to help them learn how to grow plants or produce?

Meh - rhetorical ramblings - but blessings to all on Earth Day regardless.

the.dark.

thanks the.dark - i had no idea this was happening.

i think its great, it shows that we are on some collective level sending out the right energy and message that enough is enough and we have to look after the planet we rely on.

we have moved from 'hug a tree hippies' to 'Earth Day' thats progress and more palatable for the majoirty. it makes you hopeful and thats a great thing.

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RE: Earth Day 2010 - 4/22/2010 5:24:51 AM

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I think of it as a simple reminder to look and see where we have come from to now in our ability to change habits of pollution to habits of conserving. It is a good day to point out the anti-enviros how much things have changed and that they changed because of people driving the change.

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RE: Earth Day 2010 - 4/22/2010 10:34:14 AM

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Most spiritual and religious people do not need a National Day of Prayer to know the strenth in prayer and meditation... because they already do it everyday or regularly anyway.

This is a good point although probably it's an attempt by the federal government to make people celebrate their differences rather than actually pray. There was some keen debate as to if this day should fall on Saturday or Sunday and so in the end we used statistics to find the day of the week least associated with any religions prayer.

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So in that sense, Earth Day isn't that much of a point is it? If you take care of yourself or your environment, then you don't need an 'Earth Day'. If you don't, then Earth day is just an uncomfortable reminder and a feeling of oppressivness. Is it purely then more a place of teaching for children - for example - something good to bring up in schools to help them learn how to grow plants or produce?

Earth day is another one of those awareness days, I don't have to do anything different on it because I'm already aware the earth exists. They should have called it 'humanity day' really because it's not the earth that's going to get arse fucked when all the ecologies humans depend on die out.

I was watching that 'Invisible worlds' thing about the plankton, things like this are already affecting us and we've only just realised it.

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RE: Earth Day 2010 - 4/22/2010 9:02:13 PM

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I am reading a book at the moment called ; The Higher Taste ~ A Guide to Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking and a Karma - free Diet, as yet another attempt to get into moving over to a vegetarian diet. Some interesting quotes from the book which do give food for thought and strengthen my resolve to become a veggie ;

If slaughterhouse had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals knowing that we are not contributing to their pain ~ Linda McCartney

I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals ~ Geoffrey Giuliano, the main Ronal McDonald actor in the 1980's, in his public apology after quitting his job

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet ~ Albert Einstein

If you ar as you have described yourself the king of the animals - it would be better for you to call yourself king of the beasts since you are the greatest of them all ! - because you help them only so that they may presently be able to give you their young in order to gratify your palate, for the sake of which you have tried to make yourself a tomb for all the animals. Even more I might say if to speak the entire truth were permitted me.... Now does not nature produce enough simple vegetarian food for you to satisfy yourself ? ~ Leonardo da Vinci

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the enviroment and a living nightmare for animals ~ Chrissie Hynde, singer/songwriter of the Pretenders

And you may ask just what has this got to do with Earth Day 2010, well quite simply; Cow Farts

Yeah, we may be polluting the Earth with our mechanised ways, but with all the forests felled to make way for cattle to feed to answer a small portion of the world's insatiable desire for meat to eat, all our green spaces giving way to concrete and industry and the insiduous search for the wealth of the few, the air we breathe is becoming harmful and may yet become the death of us. Surely in the past before our mechanised ways there wasn't as many cows ?

I believe it is interesting to find out the digestive tract in a carnivore is about three times the length of the creature's body, whereas a human's is about twelve times the length of the body and the stomach acid about twenty times weaker than a carnivores. Meat starts to decay the moment the creature is killed.

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RE: Earth Day 2010 - 4/22/2010 9:41:15 PM

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For you Anerien:

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" — but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the Naturist reveals his hatred for his own race — i.e., his own self-hatred.
In the case of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women — it strikes me as a fine arrangement — and perfectly "natural" Believe it or not, there were "Naturists" who opposed the first flight to old Earth's Moon as being "unnatural" and a "despoiling of Nature."

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