OMG, a lifeless planet is a "functioning organism"!

In GD I was responding to a luddite misanthropist who was bashing terraforming, and I responded by saying that colonization was the biosphere/Gaia reproducing and he/she responded with THAT doozy!

:wow:

nothing shocks me anymore. :crazy:

Mixed in with more complete ignorance of what the Gaia Hypothesis actually entails. :banghead:

I know that some people think that asteroids might have a bunch of oil and other resources we could possibly mine... Who is going to speak for these poor helpless lifeless hunks of rock!

or eating them deadens your soul.

Fuck me. :eyes:

how does one eat ANYTHING without deadening the soul?

Geez, you must have heard of the Breatharianites (or whatever the hell they're called).

the bacteria that die when your immune system slaughters them?

edit: just to be clear, yes, i know you're kidding :)

My personal shaman told me that bacteria was an invention of the corporate-science complex. Really, bacteria are just microscopic crystals and are an important part of our Qi.

Um, or something.

thank them for their sacrifice.

I really hate the portrayal of native cultures in film, tv, etc.

One of things to add to my list of "shit I would do if I had a TARDIS" is going back to NA cultures before whites, and seeing what their real religions and spiritual interactions/relationships with nature were really about. New Age wooists pervert NA religion for their own purposes, and I fear that current tribal leaders would be biased towards counteracting the "white" way of thinking. I want to see it pure, when there's no frame of reference for the people themselves. Humans are humans, and I find it hard to believe that NA culture was a great deal different from any other hunter-gatherer/early agrarian society. Sure, there would be differences, but I don't think it would be much different from, say, ancient celts. Of course, there I'm assuming a monolithic NA culture, which of course is not at all the case. I'm in Ohio, so I always picture Eastern woodland tribes, but even then, there are many languages and traditions within that group.

I'm sleepy, hopefully that was fairly coherent :)

better, I'd like to think my last thought would be deer for "fuuuuuck youuuuuuu"


My great grandma was a native American (Mexicans are American too!). I think the most she ever thanked an animal she butchered was by slipping a chicken under a bucket after she broke its neck so it wouldn't flop around too much.

if the mountain lion that took out that hunter a few seconds later muttered a prayer asking for his forgiveness?

Their reputation for being "one with nature" is more than a little undeserved.

There's nothing that comes out of their kitchen that isn't inimical to earthbound life.

:yoiks:

ROCK DOES NOT POSESS LIFE.

Does that make me a biologist, then? Although the definition of a rock includes "is not alive"...as a geologist, I must say someone at DU is utterly confused!

Though that claim wouldn't surprise me much, either. Maybe if somebody...inserted Wilhelm Reich into the living-rock theory.

Well, it was some planet, anyway. :o

Just saw that in GD. Talking about throwing oil eating bacteria into the Gulf.

Which would be unremarkable, except I've heard that same notion again and again all my life. I think more people believe it than not. Here, have some poison ivy.

"All-natural organic hemlock grown in biodynamic gardens."

arsenic and mercury minerals!

It's just DU afterall. :hi:

:)

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