[Buddha-l] The course of Nature

[John Willemsens]

> 
> Dear Joanna,
> Thank you very much for your remarks.
> I shall look at them very carefully with more time.
> I would however like to comment in the meantime that what we say
> is that human beings _experience as progress_  that which accords
> with the overall course of Nature.
> I.o.w. not that the overall course of Nature is progress -
> overall existence is as such quite indifferent.
> But allow me to revert.
> John Willemsens.
> ===========================

> John,
> Thanks for clarifying--I got a distinct impression from reading
> your website that the "experience as progress" (a relative)
> qualification was absent. 
> In any case, I wonder what your support for this interpretation
> of humans experiencing Nature as progress might be. 
> There's abundant evidence in media of various sorts -- good, bad,
> or indifferent in quality-- of  people who contrarily do not
> "experience" the "overall course of Nature" as progressive at
> all, but instead as destructive and teleologically negative,
> especially today in conditions of global warming, cyclones,
> tornados, earthquakes, oceans rising, meteorites, and so on.
> 
> Best,
> JK
> 

Dear Joanna,
Might I ask you to please have a look at our Q&A page in the meantime :-)
Thank you.
John Willemsens.
http://www.euronet.nl/~advaya/qanda.htm (Q&A page)