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Subject:	Re: Asian tsunami OT
From:	Adam Hollis
Date:	Jan 13 2005 10:43:34

On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at 09:26 PM,

uktc-request@xxxxxx.tree-care.info wrote:

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:09:13 EST
From: AndrM768@xxxx.com
Subject: Re: Asian tsunami


In a message dated 11/01/2005 11:30:07 GMT Standard Time,
adam.hollis@xxxx.com writes:

One  could equally state that if we hadn't evolved and come down from
the  trees, we'd have all been safe.

it is a sad fact that natural though these disasters are human

intervention

generally makes the out come worse ie removing trees for agriculture

andrew


Andrew

Hi

Yes, this is certainly true and I don't deny it - most of the time

we're floundering around in the dark and as John Lennon said, "you

think you're so clever, so classless and free, but etc."

But cast your mind back to that unattractive kid in the playground who

always responded to every new set-back, "see I told you it wouldn't

work!" Did you like him?

We can equally say, it is a pleasing fact that human intervention helps

to lighten the suffering.

Man makes both his own heaven and hell on the earth. Sadly, I think

there is a forceful tendency to find only the hell in human endeavor,

an almost self-fulfilling tendency.

It is this negative mind-set, not its truths that I find unhealthy and

a little too pervading:


"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the World we safely go,
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine."

Auguruies of Innocence by William Blake


Regards

Adam


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