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Date Posted: 23:48:42 12/24/05 Sat
Author: frisby
Subject: And give thanks that we finally know that ...
In reply to: anom 's message, "happy winter solstice!" on 09:26:15 12/21/05 Wed

Happy winter solstice anon! And let us all give thanks that we finally know that our sun is a star! Of all the people who ever walked the earth, only a few of us recently have been privileged to know that fact. That fact is the mark of the modern mind which thus eclipses with that knowledge both the biblical and classical minds. Even Copernicus and Galileo did not know it. Descartes gets the official credit. But we all know it and many even think little of it! Imagine the perspective required to even ponder the possibility that there is no significant difference between our sun and the other stars. We moderns are really something! Now, all we need is a proper new ethic and ethos to go with our new understanding of the sun and the earth. Part of that might relate to Aldo Leopold's idea of thinking like a mountain, of realizing that the grizzly that lives on the mountain, "is" in a way the mountain. And so also we can think of ourselves as not just living on the earth but as 'being' the earth. But what about our star? And it's galactic year (about 250 million earth years)? Is that another mountain or plateau of mountains we have yet to climb? Is there a galactic winter solstice?

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