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Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 3:27

Thursday Thoughts/ponderings: Is Dominion an innately human characteristic?

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I was just wondering, I used to have some cats and I didn't have cats. I cared for the cats. And then they ended up living with me for a while. But I never on my own, went out and bought a pet and kept it. But that's neither here nor there

#dominion #animals #ownership #pondering

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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:00

Intelligence for me seems to be the answer. 🤔

But yes, I think it's in man's nature to hold Dominion over another due to our intelligence, the thing that's kept us alive as a species for over hundreds of thousands of years. Really great question, though
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@rafaelreyesiii
Process Imagining
@rafaelreyesiii · 4:58
But I'll tell you right now, when I teach or do certain things, I do need a certain form of control. I need to be able to elaborate what I need to say in a classroom setting. Sometimes I need to teach life skills to someone, and so then I do need to have some form of authority
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@Tim
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 2:11
Although human beings are making a good effort to wipe out most of the species of everything, not just insects, I think it's hubris to think we have authority over all the other species. We're not taking care of creation and B. There are other cultures, but I'm thinking of 100 gatherer cultures, especially in difficult climates, say the Calahari Desert or the Australian Outback, where cultures have arisen to live in harmony with nature. And agriculture is not the primary means of survival
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@PKBriggs
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 1:14

Agreed they figured it out 😁 @Tim

And also, we are definitely destroying the Earth and everything else. So I totally appreciate you jumping on this. And thank you for your perspective
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Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 1:09

@FryedOreo we are so arrogant, I.e. humans

But you're operating or measuring intelligence in the sphere in which we know intelligence, right? There are other creatures or Briggs, not creatures. Briggs living on other planets, doing whatever they're doing. Other universes. I would venture to say we would not be the most intelligent thing. And even in animals life. Right. Animal Kingdom, bees. I think, for example, I don't know. All the specifics are highly intelligent
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@JLMcMillan
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 2:14

Justification for dominion is the epitome of flawed hubris

And I love to hear some of the examples raised about living in symbiosis with other species, but yeah, I don't think it can be looked at separately as just man over animal or even man over the planet when we have structures that are very similar already at play. And then, of course, our Frankensteinian ways of manipulating the environment, manipulating nature as though we have a better sense of design. It's kind of beyond me
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

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Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 0:27

@JLMcMillan that was so good! Thank you!

J. L. Mcmillan not late. Right on time. There's nothing that was such an amazing response. And just all the things you flushed out like there's nothing to nothing to say that that was really good, really good. Thank you so much for jumping on. And as always, look forward to your contribution to the collective
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