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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Deep thinking, Bev :-)  I sometimes wonder things like that, too. I've 
often noticed that volunteer plants do better than ones I plant and 
'tend' (try to bend to my will?). Makes me think. I like the idea of 
stewardship or care-taking rather than dominion.

Lynn Wigglesworth

EarthNSky wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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