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Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement...
- From: Primal Parent <primalparent@hotmail.com>
- To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement...
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:31:58 +0000
Greg Konger wrote
" Abstaining from sex reduces unwanted pregnancies, abortions, and the amount
of energy and materials used and wasted in making birth control devices.
Condoms have to be picked out of our sewer systems and they have to be dumped
somewhere. Being celibate reduces the population explosion thus reducing our
impact on the environment."
I must take issue with the assumption that being celibate somehow assumes
conservation of resources.
An example: the Catholic priest who lives across the street from where I
work. He weighs in around 250 lbs. He has an SUV and a Harley. Does not
recycle. Or attempt to limit his utilities. Buys a $4 caramel latte everyday.
A few years ago I was behind him in the grocery and he had a cart full of tv
dinners, Hostess cup cakes, diet coke, and tabloid newspapers. Oh, plus a
carton of smokes....
I would be willing to wager that his impact on the environment is greater
than my friend who lives in the woods w/o electricity, grows most of her own
food (edible landscaped) and occasionally hunts for meat....and enjoys sex.
I would also like to add that native/indigenous peoples managed to more or
less check population growth for tens of thousands of years without
industrial products like condoms, the pill or other birth control devices.
I
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Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement,
Gregory Konger, 12/26/2007
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Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement,
Dieter Brand, 12/26/2007
- Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/26/2007
- Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at itsorigin and the Permaculture movement, Robert Waldrop, 12/26/2007
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Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement,
Gregory Konger, 12/27/2007
- Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement, Dieter Brand, 12/27/2007
- Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement..., Primal Parent, 12/29/2007
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Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement,
Gregory Konger, 12/28/2007
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Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement,
Dieter Brand, 12/28/2007
- Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at itsorigin and the, Vital Scherrer, 12/28/2007
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Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement,
Dieter Brand, 12/28/2007
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Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement,
Dieter Brand, 12/26/2007
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