| The Earth is Our Mother
Posted: 9/5/2008 7:49:36 AM | My mother LIVES on Earth, but my mother is NOT the Earth. The Earth is a ball of matter upon which I live. It is my house, my home, not my mother. Of course I should look after the Earth, just like I should look after my home, and make sure that it is a good place for me to live.
I feel a connection with the Earth, because it is my HOME. It is where I live. I respect it no different than the flat I live in. | |
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| The Earth is Our Mother
Posted: 9/5/2008 8:30:06 AM | Here's something that hopefully will save Mother Earth.
Ecuador's proposed constitution includes an article that grants nature the right to "exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution" and will grant legal standing to any person to defend those rights in court.
Voters will get to decide on Sept. 28 whether to adopt the new constitution ... five articles that acknowledge rights said to be possessed by nature, or "Pachamama," a goddess revered by indigenous Andean peoples whose name roughly translates into "Mother Earth."
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/09/03/ecuador-constitution-would-grant-inalienable-rights-to-nature/
By the way. If Earth is our Mother, who is our Daddy? | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 8:36:07 AM | .....Look up.........There is your father......Mother Earth...Father Sky...and if we dont care for Mother Earth..........the pollution will prevent us from looking up to the FATHER.
I'm aware you really didnt want an answer, but there it is.
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| The Earth is Our Mother
Posted: 9/5/2008 9:11:02 AM |
By the way. If Earth is our Mother, who is our Daddy?
Civilisation.
Think about our mothers role since your conception.
Think about your fathers role since conception.
Then think about Earths role in your being alive.
Think about your civilization's role in your being alive.
Civilisation allows your mother to feed,protect,shelter and nurture you by doing that to her.
maybe a bit antiquated in today's world of multi tasking but mother is always mother and father is always father. | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 9:56:55 AM | Scorpiomover, I am glad thats you feel as much connection to Mother Earth as you do. If more people regarded her as their home, they would take much better care of her. I would assume that one of the reasons we say "Mother Earth" is because of the Christian Bible that says we are made from the Earth, therefore she would be our ultimate Mother. That is just one of the reasons for the terminology/
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Posted: 9/5/2008 10:46:15 AM | I think of it much more in the present - the earth provides what we need to stay alive - water, air, wood, fire, metal.....everything we are and have made/used/eaten/breathed/washed/drunk/used for heat/transformed from natural resources, harnassed the weather/wind/water.....everything that sustains us and keeps us alive comes from this planet and its atmosphere and that is why I believe it is referred to as Mother Earth.....without it we could not stay alive, just like our mothers or mother figures keep us alive as children......
I am astounded Scorpiomover considers this living planet nothing different than the inanimate structure he lives in. | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 1:55:35 PM | | If Evolution was true it would still be happening,It was never proven. It was a throught by a man that in his later years come to believe in God as his creator. | |
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| The Earth is Our Mother
Posted: 9/5/2008 8:41:37 PM |
Scorpiomover, I am glad thats you feel as much connection to Mother Earth as you do. If more people regarded her as their home, they would take much better care of her. I would assume that one of the reasons we say "Mother Earth" is because of the Christian Bible that says we are made from the Earth, therefore she would be our ultimate Mother. That is just one of the reasons for the terminology/ Thanks, Sherry. I love this planet, just like I love my home.
I just don't like the term Mother Earth, because I grew up learning that it was connected to Pagan ideology, that the Earth was like one of the Greek gods, and they were capricious, selfish, and would regularly kill humans for fun. I see the Earth as my home.
I am astounded Scorpiomover considers this living planet nothing different than the inanimate structure he lives in. I am astounded that you have no respect for the inanimate structure you live in. They did a programme recently on what would happen if humans disappeared off the planet. In a matter of a month, all the power would go. All the infrastructure would stop working. Your house would become unliveable in a matter of years. The only thing that keeps us from utter destruction is constant maintenance of the inanimate structures of our cities, and our homes.
You don't respect your home, and look after it, and in 3 months, you will be living in sh*t, LITERALLY, and the bugs in the sh*t WILL KILL YOU!
Ever been homeless? If you EVER have been homeless, you respect ANY roof over your head.
So you respect your "inanimate structure", your HOME, wherever you live, because it stands between you and death, and the only thing that keeps it there is your constant maintenance of it.
What, the Earth should be treated less well? | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 9:24:10 PM | The earth is happy here,
the gleam remains
Beauty is here,
the spirit of the place
I touch the faith which nothing can destroy
The Earth, the living chuch of
ancient joy.
- masefield | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 9:50:40 PM | Hi Sherry!
No, I personally don't believe that is how Earth was created. I don't mean to be rude or anything, but to me, it just doesn't make sense. I guess it all depends on what a person's belief is. Nothing happens just by chance and I don't think we have a just by chance God. Like I said, it all depends on what a person believe. Ask yourself and be truthful with yourself. Do you really believe the statement you wrote?
Kimberly
P.S. I hope I wasn't too hard on you, if I was I am sorry, I didn't mean to be, I was just being honest with the way I feel. | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 10:11:32 PM | I totally agree with you chrissy43 about the evolution part. If evolution existed," it will still be happening." Good answer chrissy43! If evolution was true, why is it not happening right now? Men come up with all kinds of theories about creation because they choice to refuse the MIRACULOUSLY GOD we have and I think that is so sad.
Kimberly | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 10:12:50 PM | Kimberly and Chrissy, I believe in a Creator, so no, I guess I do not totally believe that is how the earth was created. I am not sure how the Creator created it. But, I do know that it holds the ashes of my ancestors, the animals ancestors, and the plants and trees ancestors, and that, if for no other reason, is a reason for it to be respected. I also believe that Creator made us to evolve and that we do. I believe the legends and myths have a basis, most times, in some kind of truth. And to understand them is to see the wisdom in them.
Sherry | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 10:30:05 PM | | scorpiomover....I respect my home, and feel no disrespect for you or your home, or in any way do I not appreciate the maintenance a home requires. I was just surprised by your comments, but I understand more now. thank you for explaining more and where your reason for not liking the term 'mother earth' came from. I had no such pagan anything in my background. I think of this planet as sacred, and guess it's a sensitive issue this one because it feels like so many just treat this planet like an inanimate object.....hence my thinking that was what you meant.....but as I said, I understand more now your deeper feelings. thanks for sharing more. | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 10:58:57 PM | Sherry yes your right the Earth holds non living ashes, but I don't believe that is the way the Great Earth was created. I believe a lot of things happened on this Earth, what we don't know, will we ever know? or does it really matter? What is it that we really need to know while on this Earth? What is really important to God? I really believe it is how we act on Earth, meaning how we treat ourselves, people, our faith in God, our dirty little secrets that no one knows about, but God, is it exceptable to GOD Almighty, is it a forgivable sin? Will we get in order. And more. I believe we will all be judge one way or another, do we truly believe with all of our hearts that there is a Real God out there somewhere and will we be able to explain what we need to explain to get us pass this level. And did we do what we was suppose to do on this Earth while we were here? These are questions some can think about as it applies if one wants to. My faith, I believe, I know with all my heart that a relationship with God is important and not the things of this Earth. Please don't think for one minute that I think I am perfect I know for a fact that I am not perfect and I also know not one on Earth is. We all make mistakes God knows I do and the wonderful thing about that is that I know and I do acknowledge my mistakes, as mistakes. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 5:33:35 AM | perhaps consider it's all connected....God, Earth, people, animals, energy, all life....all blessings, all 'mistakes' or challenges....all pain....all learning...evolution.
one wise one told me once we don't evolve at a constant speed, gradually increasing our level of consciousness....but that we evolve in jumps...which is why you will suddenly get an incredible 'new' invention or thought popping up in several people at the same moment around the world.....also illustrates the connection or 'oneness' we all have with each other (and everything, many say).
i believe what resonates as truth in each of us as our beliefs is perfect for each person and no one (including me) should try and persuade others to agree with them....if what one says resonates as truth in another (or our selves), they will not need convincing.
wishing all a blessed saturday, even in the midst of hurricane season in parts of this country. energy is building for it's going to take a great force to heal the crisis our planet and our humanity is in (imo). | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 9:15:18 AM | I believe this earth is a living breathing organism, not just cold ashes., I am so glad, Kimberly, that you have found a Creator that you believe and have faith in,. Many people are not so fortunate. I, myself, perhaps follow another path, but all paths lead to Creator, sooner or later. I am as happy in mine as you are in yours. And, I might add, probably a lot closer to the end of the path. And still, it sustains me. . LOL! I agree with WeAre1, in so much that she says and says it so well.
Sherry | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 9:30:24 AM | aww sherry, you and i have agreed on much, haven't we, for a long time. :)
just got a thought reading a phrase that hasn't felt completely right (to me).....who is to say that ashes are not living? are they not organic material? do they not provide nutrients for the soil of earth to grow and produce more life on the surface? i actually do not think of ash as dead, that's all. in fact i'm not sure i think of anything as 'dead' in the way that words is normally used....but must not digress here !!  | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 9:48:26 AM | I do not think of ashes as dead, either. We have a Women's Spiritual Retreat every spring that we call Women's Dance (Native American type dancing), where we dance within a Medicine Circle. Of course, we have a fire within the circle. And the ashes in the fire are brought forward from fires, many years old, from the Native American Community. Also, we have the ashes from the Beltane Dance in Ireland. And these ashes are hundreds of years old. Recently, the Dance went to Egypt, so now we have ashes added from the Eqyptian Dance. And ashes from Switzerland and Italy. These are living, breathing ashes that carry forward the traditions and emotions that are attached to them. This I believe. It is very awesome, the visions you can experience and the sounds you can hear, I remember one year one of the young women was pregnant, and she and a couple of other women were dancing and twirling around the fire, late at night. It was just awesome She, with her swollen belly, swirling scarves and twirling. It was like it could have been a thousand years ago. So evocative.So full of power. And these pictures are brought forward through these ashes. So beautiful!
Sherry | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 4:34:18 PM | I think that's a very beautiful post Whitefether... I feel close to Earth because I am the Earth. I am not separate from the Earth but it sometimes seems that way... Maybe so I can be objective with my findings... Who knows?
Although I do refer to the Earth as Mother Earth sometimes, I don't believe it is self aware even though I believe it lives. I believe if it is self aware, it is only through us. I like what you say about forefathers... When I pray into the void, it is those who have been and those to come I am speaking to.
There are folks who believe in Gaia... Some believe she is Mother Earth and we are her nerve endings. We are the way she hopes to communicate with others of her kind. The Gaia hypothesis claims the whole ecosystem is a single organism. I like that way too.
I love how different ways believe much the same thing when it gets down to it. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 8:27:16 PM | Stonestongue, I've read your post over several times now. You say you believe The Mother lives, but is not self aware. But,, as you said, if we are the nerve endings, then how can She be anything other than self aware? We are all part of the whole...
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Posted: 9/6/2008 8:54:48 PM | Hey Texasbaby;
Well I put it like this;
I believe if it is self aware, it is only through us.
but I don't believe she separates herself from her experience. And I don't think she holds any grudges. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 10:06:55 PM | Hi, TexasBaby! Good to see you! I just got in from Saturday night Sweat Lodge!
but I don't believe she separates herself from her experience.
Hi Stonestongue
Could you please explain the above sentence to me. For some reason, I am just not understanding what it is saying., Thanks a lot!
Sherry Whitefeather | |
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