Homestead mailing list

[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

That which you mentioned about the origin is what I was thinking bev, 
"dominion' being a Jewish concept ,then borrowed by Christians.  As well as 
much of the rest of the Torah. 

 The fact is , outside of abstract thinking, we 'do' have dominion.  With a 
penny book of matches and a dollar worth of diesel, for example, a person can 
dominate much.  Not that the concept or reality is good or bad, 'just that it 
"is" .....bobford


--- On Fri, 10/10/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Plant life ethics --for real
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 9:42 AM
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> > I don't know about Mormons, but don't many
> Christian sects believe that 
> > humans have dominion over the earth? That we are in
> charge and 
> > everything else is here for our benefit? To make
> plants closer to humans 
> > probably wouldn't sit well with that philosophy.
> > 
> >
> 
> As I watched a hummingbird the other day, I was thinking
> about things 
> fast and slow...In our speed, in this dimension of space
> and time, 
> hummingbirds move fast and plants move slowly.  It could be
> very 
> different in another dimension, and the only way I can
> think about such 
> things is to think about an elapsed time view of how a
> forest changes, 
> for example.  If, by building a house in the forest, are we
> stomping on 
> it's toes, making it move further away? Or will it
> surround us and 
> incorporate us like a huge phagocytic cell?
> Dominion??  Well, I think that comes from Genesis where man
> was created 
> last to apparently watch over and tend the Garden of Eden. 
> However, I 
> think that is just one way that Judeochristians have
> misinterpreted what 
> was written or intended, because to tend, to care for, to
> cultivate 
> something doesn't mean that you have absolute power
> over it, in fact, 
> many times, it is something greater than yourself.
> 
> Bev
> 
> -- 
> "The nine most terrifying words in the English
> language are: 'I'm from 
> the government and I'm here to help.'"  Ronald
> Reagan
> _______________________________________________
> Homestead list and subscription:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead
> Change your homestead list member options:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/bobford79%40yahoo.com
> View the archives at:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/homestead