daibhaid@summerlands.com
Re: Da' boy makes some sense
Luis
luis@pacifica.edu
Sun Aug 20 00:10:17 2000
just a couple of brief comments:*p*1) Searles is right to cautiously note that even apparent eco-friendliness may be pretty transient. For instance, our native American brothers and sisters probably killed off all the large (=easily killable) mammals in the Americas (much as the Polynesians did with various birds reptiles mammals and marsupials from Madagascar to Hawai'i)...not to mention that the mysterious Anasazi had to leave because they cut down all their trees -- sure, their descendants were eco-friendlier than early Industrial Age Europeans...but  my point is (as I coined in a post elsewhere on the Net today and am so proud of saying) cultures are four-dimensional.*p*2) Cell phones are not 'off the grid.' There are antennae somewhere making people eat EM radiation for lunch, sometimes quite literally -- summer '99 I did my lunch breaks on the 6th floor balcony at Cottage Hospital in Santa Bárbara CA, right under some three or four such. And afaik antennae cannot be made to not overlap human populations -- quite the opposite I should think.*p**p*daibh wrote,*br*: If anyone here and there are a few has been following the *br*: recent match between bad-boy Tiger JLB and his opponents the *br*: entire posting membership (for the great part) of the NG *br*: Alt.Religion.Druid, the boy has said little that cannot be *br*: taken with less than a box of salt. He has a serious case of *br*: crúb sa beál //hoof in mouth// disease. However in one of *br*: his most recent posts there is a quote from which I will *br*: pull the following. ">What would be an essential *br*: authentic tenet, and how would you evaluate it?*br*: Well, let's put it this way: what seems to exist today is a *br*: curious*br*: mish-mash of modern beliefs and ideals, which are somewhat *br*: super-imposed on the Celts and  the druids. For some reason *br*: (and this has always bugged me)the druids appear to be *br*: viewed as nature-loving eco-friendly types. Why is this? *br*: What do people base this assumption on? Sure, a nod is made *br*: towards recognising the gods of the Celts and Celtic *br*: mythology - but this seems secondary to what people actually *br*: want out of 'druidism'. To say that one is a druid nowadays *br*: is more or less meaningless, ..." *br*: Well granted that there are a lot of folk out there talking *br*: the talk, but few to walk the walk and there is a lot more *br*: to being a Druid that just being 'eco-friendly' but that's a *br*: good place to start. My hot button is all the fluffy bunnies *br*: that permeate various areas of the new. Yet they're *br*: everywhere and it's a job that we must work at in stamping *br*: out their ignorance. That in my fundamentalist belief is *br*: what we as Druids should hold as a tenet. Our goal should be *br*: first the great triad, they secondly work to educate *br*: ourselves and those around us that are spouting ignorance. *br*: Whether confirmed trolls like JLB or just some newbie who *br*: has come along with the idea that whatever the most current *br*: Llewellyn book says on the subject is right. Lasters, use *br*: this site, post, read, participate, don't be a wallflower, *br*: ... to sound anachronistic for a moment, be a doobee. There *br*: is a great deal more I could say, but for the moment I'll *br*: let the above sink in and see if it'll stir some keyboards. *br*: :^)*br*:*br*: Slan!*br*:*br*: Daibh*br*
Da' boy makes some sense
daibh
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Wed Jul 26 07:22:39 2000