tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post392695769250061849..comments2024-03-26T16:24:34.218+00:00Comments on Meeting The Masters: It's Not AGW, It's AGMWilliam Wildbloodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-11393996529328048082020-03-09T17:42:11.303+00:002020-03-09T17:42:11.303+00:00The acronym is just facetious really but the thing...The acronym is just facetious really but the thing itself is very real. William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-21781334499170361002020-03-09T17:11:25.788+00:002020-03-09T17:11:25.788+00:00AGM. Anthropogenic global materialism. I like this...AGM. Anthropogenic global materialism. I like this term. <br /><br />I hope it gains traction in the world! (Of course, like you, I don't care for what it describes, but I do hope more people become aware of its harmful effects.)Francis Bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11063224017320651978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-21108284726327026482020-03-09T12:45:00.987+00:002020-03-09T12:45:00.987+00:00"Mankind refuses to recognise miracles"...."Mankind refuses to recognise miracles". That's exactly it. When we close our minds we actually start to form a barrier between ourselves and the real world.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-53746695505399384752020-03-09T11:21:18.751+00:002020-03-09T11:21:18.751+00:00@William - "Mankind is a co-creator with God ...@William - "Mankind is a co-creator with God of the world. God creates the world but man then affects it through his thoughts and actions. "<br /><br />Yes, I agree. A primary truth. <br /><br />"this is no longer an age of miracles"<br /><br />Yes - but not because there are no miracles happening; but because Mankind refuses to recognise miracles - and will *always* explain-them-away as delusion or fraud, or coincidences. <br /><br />All that needs to happen for this era to become an age of miracles, is for us to live by a perspective that acknowlegdes the possibility. <br /><br />Of course, we will probably not be able to convince 'other people' of the reality of these miracles - and it is best not even to try. But our personal lives may be (when we are living them well) miraculous, IF we choose to acknowledge the fact. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-4766957224687646052020-03-08T16:21:42.845+00:002020-03-08T16:21:42.845+00:00"the desertification of formerly arable land&..."the desertification of formerly arable land". Statistics i've seen based on NASA satellite images show that the earth is getting greener due to the beneficial qualities of CO2 for the plant kingdom. But that's not really my point here. I'm not arguing about the whys and wherefores of climate change just questioning whether it is as much manmade as claimed and also wondering if it matters that much anyway. And I'm certainly not saying that our destruction of the environment is not important but that's a totally different matter, nothing to do with climate change..<br /><br />But what I'm really saying in this piece is that I believe the quality of our consciousness is actually making matter either seem or even be more material. It's becoming denser. I'm not saying that we create reality. Reality is as it is but we can have an impact on it through our minds and what we are doing at present is causing the material world to close in on us. We are literally cutting ourselves off from higher reality and that means we are living in an illusion of our own making. Your last few sentences sum it up.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-7099946968125122682020-03-08T14:30:43.488+00:002020-03-08T14:30:43.488+00:00I'd be cautiously more accepting of the realit...I'd be cautiously more accepting of the reality of man-made climate change, personally - based mainly on the evidence of the desertification of formerly arable land and on the loss of polar ice. As for direct personal experience supporting local climate change (aka'weather'), there has been little to suggest a pattern in the annual fluctuations.<br /> But I share your criticism or hesitancy about the issue overall - largely as most of the proferred solutions seem to tend towards continuing and increased artificial engineering of the natural world, whatever the cosmetic shift in emphasis.<br />David Bellamy several years ago opined that habitat and species loss were the real danger the world was facing rather than climate change, and he was banished as a result. Which lends support to the hunch that there is an agency within the climate-change movement whose intentions are quite other than they claim (and if anthropic climate change is real, they don't appear to intend stopping it).<br /><br />There is something readily noticeable, though, (which comes back to the main point you were making) - the alteration in the natural world caused by the increasing of industrial or otherwise unnatural environments - not just roads, factories and concrete, but the mental or spiritual underpinning behind them. The abstraction of mankind's purposes & designs that accompany the divorce from the greater spiritual world and the spiritual world as it incarnates in nature not only ossifies the human mind but seems also to have a corresponding effect on the natural world itself. It appears to shrink and withdraw in some way - not solely in terms of the measurable effects of human action but in some manner both more subtle and powerful. There seems to be both a contraction in our finer perceptual capacities and also in the Earth's disposition to enchant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com