alrighty, there’s some people who I would like to speak more often about stuff when possible. As I have all three of the main messaging services(AIM, Yahoo, and MSN) I figure I’m going to do a friend drive to get people whom I don’t speak to often online.

if you’ve got any of these three systems, here’s my info for them:

MSN Messenger: froydman(at)hotmail.com
AIM: username is popsfroyd
Yahoo: username is froydman, email is froydman(at)yahoo.com

Join up. it’ll be fun. it’ll give me something to do while in the whacko environmental class tomorrow.

I thought I was having a good week, but then this.

I mean, what can I do? I re-evaluated everything, I tried to change some stuff…and then I saw this, and I knew there was no turning my life around, I guess I’m destined to let people down.

of the environment, and the fallout of the industrial age, is basically being blamed by thomas berry on christianity and its influence on the western mindset.

he blames more the shift from the creation aspect of Christianity to the redemption aspect. As he says “This Christian redemptive mystique is little concerned with the natural world”(129). Of course, he brings up the world-story of science, “because this story presents the unvierse as a random sequence of physical and biological interactions with no inherent meaning, the society supported by this vision has no adequate way of identifying any spiritual or moral values”(130).

In this section he’s arguing that the west needs a new story that will protect the earth. That’s why he’s being so concilliatory to both religion and science. Though, for the most part, in the earlier essays of the book, all the environmental destruction is due to consumerism, the industrial revolution, and Christianity.

and yet, it seems to be obvious, that the evolutionary view of science is just as much to blame for the destruction of the environment in its inherent view that everything is getting better. We are at the peak of the evolutionary process, and everything before has been building up to us, or everything in existence now is inherently more suited to their environments than they were before, and evolution is a continuing process. This gives a certain air of progressive positivism.

Now, I won’t discount the responsibility that Christianity and industry has for the environmental degradation, but for people like Berry and others like him to discount the essence of evolutionary science’s “everything is getting better” and the excuse that we will be able to fix things in the future, so let’s screw things now, is ultimately irresponsible.

but there lies another issue: the underlying assumption that thinking is evolutionary as well. Religion is SUPPOSEDLY a mark of older thinking processes, and science is an evolved way of thinking. So consequently, religion is a mark of a bygone age, and therefore whatever is wrong is religion’s fault, and it’s a fault of wrong thinking. Wrong thinking that science will supposedly “cure”.

doesn’t seem to have worked over the last 150 years though…and who’s fault is that?

must be Christianity.

why suffer when you can be supper?