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posted July 11, 2008 06:12 PM         

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Who loves Mother Earth?

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posted July 11, 2008 08:36 PM         

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Thanks Randall -- a nice, quiet, drama-free forum dedicated to a crucially important part of everyone's life: Mom Earth.....

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posted July 13, 2008 10:24 AM         

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hey zala

for us aussies - that would be "mum" earth.

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posted July 13, 2008 04:58 PM         

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Thy semantical preference is duly noted, PA

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posted July 13, 2008 10:42 PM         

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posted July 14, 2008 07:23 PM         

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Congrats on the Modship, by the way.

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posted July 14, 2008 08:03 PM         

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posted July 15, 2008 07:16 PM         

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For a long time I have been wanting to get this Forum more activity.

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posted July 15, 2008 09:02 PM         

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Guess that all depends on what kind of intriguing posts and people we can attract here

It's the nature of the "beast" in that the subject(s) of Our Home Planet will run the gamut between reverence and agony about what humans have done and how we continue to despoil our home and make ourselves sick. What other creatures poop in their own beds and their own drinking water and grow their food in poisonous garbage and compromised air??

An appropos quote from Jean Auel's Earth's Children Series ("The Plains of Passage," page 182):

... Unspoiled, undamaged, ruled by her own natural law, and subject only to her own will – and the great void whence she sprang - The great Mother Earth took pleasure in creating and sustaining life in all its prolific diversity. But pillaged by a plundering dominion, raped of her resources, despoiled by unchecked pollution, and befouled by excess and corruption, her fecund ability to create and sustain could be undone.
Though rendered sterile by destructive subjugation, her great productive fertility exhausted, the final irony would still be hers. Even barren and stripped, the destitute mother possessed the power to destroy what she had wrought. Dominion cannot be imposed; her riches cannot be taken without seeking her consent, wooing her cooperation, and respecting her needs. Her will to life cannot be suppressed without paying the ultimate penalty. Without her, the presumptuous life she created could not survive.

..... as humankind would go the way of other mass extinctions over billions of years, an unsuccessful experiment in the universe's millions of life forms.....

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posted July 16, 2008 06:21 AM         

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zala & randall

just because this is all still quite new to me - out of curiousity - what is involved in a modship?

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posted July 16, 2008 10:25 AM         

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Just keeping an eye out on your Forum for offensive posts and maybe posting a little to help your Forum along. We probably don't need more than one Mod for this Forum.

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posted July 16, 2008 12:33 PM         

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Randall, you still looking for a Mod on here?

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posted July 16, 2008 07:39 PM         

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cool. thanks randall.

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posted July 16, 2008 08:17 PM         

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Not on this Forum. I was the Mod for a short while and gave it to Zala.

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posted July 17, 2008 01:50 PM         

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Ok cool Randall!

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posted July 24, 2008 11:56 PM         

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Congrats

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