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Author Topic:   Evolutionarily Drawn to Nature?
petrophysics1
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Message 9 of 40 (490639)
12-06-2008 4:22 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by yetman
12-05-2008 9:46 PM


Are people part of nature?
Yetman,
I see you have gotten several answers to your OP.
You along with several posters to lesser or greater degree appear to REMOVE humans from your natural scene.
Any ideas about why people are doing that?
Don't you, or them, believe people are a part of nature?
The presence of my wife, or my three sons, or my good friends, or whoever, makes me think a place is even more enjoyable.
People excluding other humans from nature, or what they consider a "natural scene", makes me wonder to no small degree about the social and political opinions people like that hold.
Do you think it represents a hatred of others?

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petrophysics1
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Message 37 of 40 (492205)
12-29-2008 8:26 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by Taz
12-26-2008 3:19 PM


Re: Are people part of nature?
In 68 I was working in a steel mill and had a friend Danny there who's dad was dead but who's grandfather was still alive. He was 105 years old. When he told me this I suddenly realized that his grandfather was alive while Lincoln was president.
Now that's ancient history.
Tents in the past had no floor so you had to dig a small trench around the tent to keep the rain from flowing under the wall and onto the the ground inside. Always best to make it so the water drained away.
BTW I don't regard beaver dams or lodges or birds nests or bee hives as unnatural. Since man is part of nature I don't regard his buildings or the civilization he has built as unnatural either.
Man being a special creation outside of the natural world appears to be a religious idea, although it appears many atheists seem to feel this way as well. At least they seem to remove or regard man's creations as being outside of nature.
Happy New Year

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