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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (6742)	2/27/2001 2:24:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Yet some people choose God. Maybe your duck would have chosen you. After all, some of our mistakes are really really big and uncorrectable (well all are uncorrectable in the sense that you cannot undo things once done) . I think, at this moment, of the black Nike folks who left their vehicles to follow that comet. Now that seems like a mistake. Who can say for sure? But from where I am sitting....it doesn't look good. Back to the duck, though. He might have chosen you. Or his mother might have led him in front of a truck and squashed him. Or he might have been eaten while still alive by a fox, or mauled by a dog. I bet you sat by him while he had pneumonia. I bet he didn't die alone or uncomfortable- and pneumonia really isn't a horrible way to go- at least not as animal deaths (including human animals) go. We can't avoid taking dominion sometimes- like with babies. And then we have those impulses- like you had, to care for things. But the most important thing I've come away with is we don't know when we are being good stewards, we have no "right" to be stewards- except for the right we give ourselves to just do it. Of course we can say our imaginary friend told us we have a right to everything- that's an easy out- you can define "right" as that which I can do. But if you define right as that which is the "right" thing, the good thing, then you jsut can't know. SO whether you took the duck, or whether you didn't take the duck- either way could have been an incredible screw up- which even to this day you cannot understand the ramifications of, nor will you ever understand the ramifications- because you cannot know what life would have been for you, and for everyone that came into contact with you, but for the duck. Nor can you know what the duck might have been had he lived. Maybe he was the Hitler of all ducks. You just can't know.