Sandra Dodd

From another thread, I've brought something for a new thread:

-=-Having fun, exploring our physicality through sport and other
activities is part of being human. To deny these things is to work
against our own nature.-=-

Maybe. Maybe not. It must be human nature to throw and kick things
and to compete, but those urges can be satisfied by hunting and by
taming animals.

-=-There is a theory that many of the world's current woes can be
traced to the split between body and spirit found in monotheistic
religions. Denying our bodily urges, pleasures and needs divorces us
from the natural world, hence the exploitation of animals, of the
earth, global warming ... -=-

If I squint I can see a little of it, but whether the basis of a
culture's religion is based on worshiping trees or rocks or
waterfalls, or the sun and the moon and weather, they still ended up
through human nature creating tools and mining metals and creating
vehicles (animal powered or otherwise), and those are parts of human
nature too.

Sandra

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saturnfire16

--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
>
> From another thread, I've brought something for a new thread:
>
> -=-Having fun, exploring our physicality through sport and other
> activities is part of being human. To deny these things is to work
> against our own nature.-=-
>
> Maybe. Maybe not. It must be human nature to throw and kick
things
> and to compete, but those urges can be satisfied by hunting and by
> taming animals.
>
> -=-There is a theory that many of the world's current woes can be
> traced to the split between body and spirit found in monotheistic
> religions. Denying our bodily urges, pleasures and needs divorces
us
> from the natural world, hence the exploitation of animals, of the
> earth, global warming ... -=-
>
> If I squint I can see a little of it, but whether the basis of a
> culture's religion is based on worshiping trees or rocks or
> waterfalls, or the sun and the moon and weather, they still ended
up
> through human nature creating tools and mining metals and creating
> vehicles (animal powered or otherwise), and those are parts of
human
> nature too.
>
> Sandra
>


My monotheistic religion (though I dislike using that word to
describe my beliefs) absolutely is in tune with human nature and the
earth. God created my body to give birth and to do that most
effectively in the peace and safety of my own home. He made my
breasts to nourish my children and my hips to carry them and my body
to keep them warm at night. He gave me mothering instincts, filled
my heart with love for my children, and told me to love them as I
love myself. He gave us this earth to discover and use and enjoy,
but also to care for and be responsible with. He created human
nature and part of that is having fun and being goofy. My beliefs
even led me to unschooling.

And to the shock of many Christians- God created the ability to
orgasm!