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originally posted by: Direne
a reply to: Ksihkehe/sapien82
To deforest an entire jungle just to sell timber, to look the other way when it is put on the table that the standard of living of one part of the planet is at the expense of the misery of others, is this not indifference?
..were good people, handsome, with looks of the male kind. Thoughts came into existence and they gazed; their vision came all at once. Perfectly they saw, perfectly they knew everything under the sky, around in the sky, on the earth, everything was seen without any obstruction...As they looked, their knowledge became intense.
Their sight passed through trees, through rocks, through lakes, through seas, through mountains, through plains. This troubles the gods who understand that humans should not have the same gifts as their creators. They confer among themselves, saying, "Aren't they merely `works' and `designs' in their very names? Yet they'll become as great as gods unless they procreate, proliferate at the sowing, the dawning, unless they increase. Let it be this way: now we'll take them apart just a little."
The gods introduce mortality to humanity and: ...changed the nature of their works, their designs, it was enough that the eyes be marred. They were blinded as the face of a mirror is breathed upon. Their vision flickered. Now it was only from close up that they could see what was there with any clarity. And such was the loss of the means of understanding, along with the means of knowing everything.
originally posted by: Direne
a reply to: Ksihkehe/sapien82
You both ask interesting questions. And you both show some hostility and anger against a hypothetical species that would exhibit the selfish and indifferent behavior I described.
Its possible with the largest personal wealth on earth you could single handedly buy out all the logging companies, mining companies and other companies buying up swaths of the amazon , then shut them down and pay the workers and their families and all the tribes to act as forest protectors from poachers and people committing environmental crimes in the amazon.
originally posted by: Direne
It is not about giving humans a bad name. It is that we are waiting for them to finally make good use of consciousness. You have a soul. Use it.
"That made the difference: Denebian Maharishi Science technologies achieved the desired goal of averting the birth of an enemy, and thus they achieve victory before war.
Giselians simply learnt how to revert the effect, that is: how to induce in their enemies the feeling that they were already defeated, before even trying to defend themselves. That knowledge is what Avramenko was pursuing."