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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] RE: Response to Mr. Shoemaker
  • Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 07:54:27 -0500

Marc

Let me know when you have answers.

Bill

>It's feels like evolution versus creationism.
>
>Does the sentience of the species matter when the title of "farmer" is
>conferred?
>
>Does pure instinct count toward the final judgement of "farmer" or can a
>reactionary being drivien by outward stimuli qualify?
>
>Is humanity really sentient or does humanity operate on instinct that gives
>a perception of sentience?
>
>Is the instinct due to design of a higher being that is sentient and has
put
>intelligence into us?
>
>Are we simply a product of evolution and have the ability to imagine a
>higher being?
>
>Do the ants also imagine a higher being and are just more obedient than us?
>
>Is eveything a biochemical reaction to hormones and scents and daylight
>hours and we are all governed by a complex reaction from a living earth
that
>rewards or punishes us for our actions and reactions?
>
>Are feelings of happiness and awareness and self-actualization really
>rewards from the living earth for acting in it's favor and feelings of
>depression and failure punishments for acting against the mother earth.
>
>Do we really have true self determination or are we rewarded with the
>feeling of self, will, control, existence and awareness by a power beyond
>the fathom of our limited instinctive existence.
>
>Are we no more than leafcutting ants - just bigger - and they have the
same
>feelings of a G_d, angels, good and evil, each other and are just acting
>more in line with their creator's wishes?
>
>Have they been blessed by the Creator with happiness and cooperative
>community and devolved from an ancient master race into a contented race no
>longer needing power and domination as their obedience reward with
>consciousness never lost as it exists in the hive so they can never die and
>have eternal life?
>
>My pothos needs watering.
>
>mn
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "jay gee" <JayGee AT jghelp.com>
>
>> If ants successfully raise and support aphids to feed their community
>> I would call that very successful. Ant communities often have as
>> many members as large cities.
>>
>> Leaf cutter ants in South America regularly deforest patches of
>> ground so that new growths of the leaves they long for can sprout.
>>
>> This strikes me as farming on a rather large scale.
>>
>> jay gee
>> not a farmer -- but interested in farming
>
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