cancer gardening

[Tom]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Jeff Bone wrote:

--]
--]benign neglect, choosing to regard everything that grows in it as a
--]precious flower. 

"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.  You are the same decaying
organic matter as everything else.  We are all part of the same compost
pile. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world".

--]survival of the gardeners and the other plants, I say we are
--]obligated to act pragmatically and in our own self-interest to
--]unsentimentally identify and eliminate the poisonous weeds.
--]

And this is the crux of many peoples problems, or personalities as they
are called in certian circles.

There are many here who were rasied to NEVER  think of the self, to see
any self that precludes other selves as evil, the cause of all that is
wrong with the world and thus be shunned without recourse to reason or
situation.

That some one, any one, can claim to make a dessicon is the top sin of the
selfless. They who can give thier earnings and worth  to the cause of
(fill in the blank) can never EVER do for themselves and should they see
anyone do for themselves they need to call the evil selfers on thier
actions.

Self becomes Sin

Where does this lead? To a control structure that makes sure the Self is
given up in place of the Other. 

And here we are.