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Tag: Sacred Ground
The Opposite of Love …
I have not been online here for a long time — and there are many reasons of which I may tell you one day.
Tonight I watched the last few minutes of an interesting documentary on Australias NITV (the National Indigenous Television), “Standing on Sacred Ground“. In this four-part documentary series, native people share ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence while battling a utilitarian view of land in the form of government megaprojects, consumer culture, and resource extraction as well as competing religions and climate change.
[ 1 ] In the last couple of minutes, the author Barry Lopez is being interviewed:
Most of the time when you ask people, “What is the opposite of love?”, they will say hate. But the opposite of love is indifference. People are indifferent to the Earth. What we have in front of us in an enterprise to repair indifference on a vast scale and turn it into a loving relationship.[ 2 ]
This is a remarkable statement.Indeed, you can’t really “hate” nature, rather than another person or a natural feature. But by being indifferent to either of them, human beings or nature, I don’t care — in essence, I don’t love.
As a migrant I have left my turf in Germany to live in Australia, but here having worked with Aboriginal people I have had the chance to see them “come back” – to their country.
I have to get the chance to watch the full documentary!
Footnotes
- Synopses [top]
- Transcript, p30 (pdf). [top]
Posted: 13.03.2016, 23:20
Theme Aborigines, Australia, Culture, Nature, Theology.
Tags: Indifference, Love, Sacred Ground
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