Cob: Re: Fwd: nomads

[bob hutson]

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> Subject: nomads
> To: sheora at yahoo.com
> From: DErickson at notes.intermet.com
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:14:24 -0400
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> zapit at webtv.net (Elly Mann) on 08/15/2000 03:45:41
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> Subject:  nomads
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> 'elllloooo :)
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> "keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain
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> Think green,
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> Elly
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> 
> :Smart Planet, Foolish Choices
> :
> :By Swami Beyondananda http://www.beyondananda.com.
> :
> :I had a dream that the Earth wasn't feeling well
> and went to see a
> :doctor.
> :
> :"Doc," said the planet, "I'm feeling depleted.  My
> water tastes
> :funny, I have terrible-smelling gas, and there's
> this premature bald
> :spot in my ozone layer.  I figure I must be running
> some kind of
> :fever, because I've been awfully warm lately.  And
> I'm getting
> :those tremors more often."
> :
> :"Hmm," said the doctor.  "About how long have you
> been having
> :these symptoms?"
> :
> :"Not long.  Just for the past hundred years or so. 
> But recently it's
> :gotten worse, especially those violent flares up
> around my
> hot-spots."
> :
> :"Well, you definitely show signs of mineral loss
> and lack of
> :oxygen.  You've been overmined, and consequently
> you've been
> :undermined.  Looks like you got a pretty nasty case
> of People.
> :
> :"People?  Isn't that a benign condition?" the Earth
> asked.
> :
> :"Well," replied the doctor, "it was, for many
> thousands of years.
> :People lived in relative harmony with other
> organisms. and their
> :numbers were kept in check.  But there must have
> been some
> :mutation because People are now the most dangerous
> parasite the
> :Earth has ever known, consuming everything in
> sight, and leaving
> :behind abnormal growth and toxic waste."
> :
> :Naturally, the Earth wanted to know whether the
> condition is curable.
> :
> :"Yes, it is," the doctor said.  "There's a warm
> solution anyone
> :can make that will dissolve all toxicity.  And that
> is --"
> :
> :But I never finished the dream.  Unfortunately, my
> hotel radio
> :alarm was set to a radio talk show and I was
> abruptly awakened by
> :somebody's barking dogma.  All day I pondered the
> dream.  Yes,
> :it was clear that People were indeed the problem. 
> For one thing,
> :there's already too many of us, and more of us
> arrive every day.
> :Do you realize that if all the women of
> childbearing age on the
> :planet were laid end-to-end -- we'd end up with
> even more children
> :than we have now?  All it takes is for undulating
> and ovulating to
> :occur at roughly the same time, and just like that
> you've sprung
> :off some offspring.  No wonder we are eating our
> host out of
> :house and home.
> :
> :And our petrochemical dependency has fouled the
> air.  If he were
> :alive today, do you know what Franklin D. Roosevelt
> would say?
> :First thing he would say is, "Boy, do I feel OLD! 
> Geez, I must be
> :120 or something!"  Next, he would probably say: 
> "We have
> :nothing to fear, but atmosphere itself."  And
> clearcutting?  It's
> :clear-cut insanity!  It's put us out on a limb, and
> we've continued
> :cutting without noticing which side of limb we are
> sitting on.
> :
> :That next night, I went back into the dream state
> with the intention
> :of asking the Earth exactly what the doctor
> ordered.  So naturally,
> :I dreamed I was a talk-show host and had the Earth
> as my guest.
> :I said, "You know, you're a pretty smart planet. 
> But clearly, we
> :humans have tried to outsmart you and have made
> some foolish
> :choices.  What do you suggest we choose instead?"
> :
> :And the Earth replied, "Three things.  Diversity,
> moderation and
> :love."  She elaborated on each of these, and I
> promised to convey
> :her message to people everywhere. "Oh, and
> something else,"
> :the Earth told me, "I know that the military buzz
> cut has come
> :back in style, but personally, I'm ready to let my
> forests grow long
> :again.  So I would appreciate it if you tell the
> folks 
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