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- Path: sparky!uunet!well!dasher
- From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
- Subject: Re: Environmentalism is not Anti-Individualism
- Message-ID: <Bxst62.9q3@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <2082@sousa.ltn.dec.com> <1992Oct28.024211.2058@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <2156@sousa.ltn.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:37:14 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <2156@sousa.ltn.dec.com> gentile@bcse.enet.dec.com (My name is Sam Gentile) writes:
- >
- >Ok, proof about the wb of life, all life being connected and
- >interrerelated. As modern physicists have demonstrated, this understanding
- >is more than a mystical dream; it is an actual physical fact. Via the
- >all-pervading web of what scientists call "superstrings", at a sub-microscopic
- >level the Statue of Liberty is literally connected to the butterflies in
- >Nebraska and everything else. Infinitesimally delicate subatomic linkages
- >connect everything to everything else - all energy and matter. By inevitable
- >extension, everything is part of the same continous web of energy and matter.
-
- That's nothing new. We've known since Newton that everything in the
- universe is connected by gravity. So what?
-
- If everything in the universe is part of me, then I have the obvious right
- to do as I please with it.
-
- A logical system that can prove anything and everything -- proves nothing,
- because it can't tell things that are proven (and true) from things that
- are proven (and false).
-
- I know I'm missing something. A young Pagan said to me once, "But don't you
- believe we come from the earth?" I didn't know what to say, because I
- didn't know what I was arguing against.
-
- Maybe it's the magical Law of Contagion. (The best exposition I know of
- this is the "Lord Darcy" stories by Randall Garrett.)
- --
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