(October 5, 2024 at 11:17 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: As I explained in the tree example in my previous post, as humans half of our respiratory system is outside. Trees are producing the oxygen. They exhale what we inhale, they inhale what we exhale. And as I mentioned in the cookie box example, most people are not aware of this fact. Cookie boxes do not need a layer of plastic. I usually get them in my own container so that more plastic is not produced. But you do not need a plastic layered cardboard box to offer cookies to you customers. A paper bag or envelope would do just fine. But people don’t notice. All they see is cost. Plastic layered cardboard is very cheap. So who cares about micro-plastics right?
Some people say this has to do with education. The spiritual approach does not agree with that. Yogis says that education is empowerment. So spiritual understanding has to come before formal education.
So what is spirituality?
You have heard the motto “All is one” at least a few time in your lives right? That’s what I perceive as true spirituality. If I can understand that I am one with all of life, it becomes easier to remind myself to remind the waiter to not bring me plastic straw even if I know that he/she will be tempted to bring it anyway.
İs that wishful thinking?
- The opposite is wishful thinking. If you take a look at the state of the Middles East with all the religious wars and all that, personally I don’t see how this can go on just as it is without any evolution or transformation. All these people butchering one another and for what basically?
/ So yes my ideas are a little crazy. But the opposite idea is crazier. Don’t you agree?
Why redefine existing words, that already have a meaning, to dress them in your own personal word salad? Spiritual is the dictionary:
adjective
1. relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.
2. relating to religion or religious belief.
If that's not what you mean by spiritual then why use the word? Though I grant you the primary dictionary definition seems more than a little circular. Plants evolved to absorb carbon dioxide because it was in abundance, it is that simple, and as always Occam's razor applies.
As to spiritual, the actual definition, if you can't demonstrate anything approaching objective evidence a soul or spirit exists, then I have no sound or objective reason to accept claims they do.
I have no idea what you mean by the assertion you are "one with all life", it seems to be wishy washy word salad again, that all living things are linked is explained simply and elegantly by evolution, and it has the benefit of being supported by overwhelming objective evidence, so why violate Occam's razor and add things we don't need, and that are not objectively evidenced?
Nor do I need any of that word salad to easily understand that microplastics are harmful to the environment, and our dependance on and use of them, ought to be curtailed.
