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Old 04-23-2008, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by wolfgang View Post
is it natural to be out of touch with nature? to live in such a way that it supports our feeling of being an individual that is not connected to nature at all? and not connected to community? and not to Being?
No it isn't. But I was simply saying that if you define an idea of natural then you create unnatural. If you are truly connected to being, then i would assume that these terms have no meaning.

But if you use the term natural to describe something you also create unnatural. It's just how language and categorization works.

To say that factory farms, all humans, living in cities, etc are natural, actually negates the meaning of the word. You are essentially saying that there is nothing unnatural, which would mean that there is nothing natural either.
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