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  • From: Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:56:11 -0800 (PST)

Greg,

Couldn't argue with that, fantasy and imagination are certainly part
and parcel of sex and human reproduction. But so are fantasy and
imagination part and parcel of human creativity. Creativity and
Reproduction.

Having passed the hottest phase of youthful vigour, I grant, that to
some the kind of discipline and control you talk about may seem
appealing. Nobody would find fault with that.

Yet it is quite another thing if the church uses its muscle to make
everybody conform to this type of discipline. That is the corner I
thought you come from, but I may of course have been wrong.

I'm by nature suspicious of anybody trying to impose rules on his/her
fellow beings based on observations in the animal kingdom and be it
only by way of a negative example.

>gave up sex toward the end of the marriage and I let her go.

You let her go. Is that like letting go workers when they are no
longer needed? Fired! Or are my linguistic sensibilities in a
language that is not my own are getting the better of me?

Dieter

Gregory Konger <gjkonger@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dieter,

I believe it is our fantasies that lead us into sex. The real thing is never
as good as the fantasy.

I was married at one time, because of my fantasies, but I did not have any
children. I gave up sex toward the end of the marriage and I let her go.

When I disciplined myself to ignore my fantasies and give up sex, I felt
healthier mentally, less ashamed, and more in control of myself.

I learned in biology that if animal populations get too large they all die
because they destroy their food source. That's is why I believe God created
carnivores.

Obviously, animals don't control thier population or sex lives, so some other
creature does it for them.
If that creature doesn't exist, their population will get too big and
destructive.

If we wish to do better than the animals, we need to learn to control our sex
lives and population.

Greg Konger


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