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From: HARM@SLACVM.slac.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: subtle mission
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Date: 11 Jan 91 01:33:38 GMT
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consider:                                less
     With no men on Earth, there would be no danger of extermination
                of all life and resources on Earth.
     We have worked for thousands of years to develope the skill to
                cause complete destruction.
     All acts of the "civilized" man result in destruction of some
                tangible resource.
     Even the perpetuation of inflationary population growth is keeping
                with the rushing to the end of all life.
Now the extermination of Earth life could come about as the result of
     a comet or natural disaster of some sort but maybe the purpose of
     the life of men is to be that natural disaster.  In this particular
     case the return to non-living universe is the unknowing goal of
     mankind.
If each man were as a drop of water with nature coming into being and
     returning to the sea, refusing to explode with destructive
     invention and unnecessary activity.
Doubting this recall the law of Entropy.  Every action causes the universe
     to move toward a peaceful energy level of smooth dispersion.
I am depressing myself. Please prove me wrong.
Being one with nature can be a sad thing.
Being at odds with nature can bring wealth and power, like oil companies and
     insurance companies.  perhaps not at odds but manipulative and
     abusive of nature, or is that itself natural for us to do and
     possibly our subtle mission.

This is obviously not the opinion or policy of any company or organization
                  of which I am aware.