[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by John Prophet

Why does everyone seemed to think that because something is natural that it's necessarily “good”? For all of its “naturalness”, nature can be very cruel and indifferent.

if one looks at nature and puts a label on it they are not looking properly. To say nature is cruel and indifferent is to apply the human mind to judge nature. if you look at a lion taking a zebra what do we say about that? that that is "bad"? it's nature. it's lightworking at it's best. we forgot how to act naturally and in harmony with nature. we think we are not part of nature or that we can conquer and control it to make it not just comfortable but make it serve us and we deplete nature instead of working with nature.

But what’s even more amusing is the idea that we humans should care about what’s “natural”. I like artificiality!

then go sit in your a/c room and don't look at trees or the ocean and tell me how healthy you will be without any nature input at all!

And history has shown that humans seem to thrive under conditions which have been customized to suit our needs.

we have a chance to harmonize with nature instead of conquer.

In fact, we practically demand that we live a largely fabricated existence (just look at what we’re doing right now, lol). I agree that nature does have its merits and we must work with it to a certain extent. But just as its can be very beautiful, it can also be harsh and uncomfortable. Love-of-all-things-natural is one of those things that people preach about more than they practice.

love of harmony with nature and knowing how to work with it is great. but to not love it at all and sit in a/c rooms all day and forgot that we are part of it all makes it harder to realize oneness and how to feel connected and whole such that we are default darkworkers.

This tells me that it sounds good in theory, but really isn’t the most preferable choice in practice (notice that when it comes to engaging in natural selection, most people suddenly don’t want to side with the “natural” thing anymore).

It’s a mistake to assume that natural = good.

I'm not sure about natural selection - it's an assumption and there are other ideas that nature is not competing so much as cooperating. but our minds like to see it as competing while nature is cooperating. even when the lion takes the zebra it's a cooperation.