• The Crust And The Rest Of The Earth

    From ibshambat@gmail.com@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 00:34:23
    There are people who say such things as that they are “Earth people” and that “we must live on Earth.” They have an inadequate understanding of what
    the Earth means. The Earth is not just the crust. It is also such things as the
    oceans and the
    atmosphere. And equating the Earth with the crust, these people do ignorant and
    destructive things, such as poisoning the atmosphere and throwing garbage into the ocean.

    The same people see their mentality as “reality.” It is nothing of the sort. It is a mentality. Now certainly the technology and business is real enough, but to claim that it is reality and that nothing else is is ridiculous.
    There is also the
    reality of the Sun. There is also the reality of the rest of the planet. There is also the reality of other societies. To equate a mentality with reality proper is completely wrong.

    The same people say such things as that spirituality or philosophy is something
    that people do when they can't deal with reality. This, again, is ridiculous. Their own system is based on a philosophy and it owes vastly to many people with religious and
    spiritual beliefs. Most people believe in something spiritual or another. Many of them have very good reasons for believing what they believe. To them – and
    in my own experience – such forces are completely real. And it is complete ignorance and
    foolishness to claim that these people are fools and lunatics for believing what they believe. Once again, they have very good reasons for believing such things. And many of them are actually far brighter – as well as far better people – than the
    ignorant and abusive bullies who like to attack them.

    Do we deny the crust? Not at all. We also remember the sun, the atmosphere and the oceans. More importantly we pay attention to such things and calculate their benefit in our computations. We care about such things and look after them wisely. And we
    arrange our activities one earth in such a way as to make possible the most beautiful blossoming of life.

    The crust is real enough, but it is no way the whole of reality. When one looks
    at the sky or the ocean, one sees a lot more. It is vitally important that such
    things be computed and seen rightfully as part of reality. And it is only then that people's
    concept of what is reality will be informed by actual reality, and what they see to be sanity will be based on what actually exists.

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