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>she apparantly decided to go wild.
>may be she didn't see the point to come back home to get some meat when our
>garden was full of mices and birds.
> .
>the other option could be that we have been so mean to her by depriving her
>from all the bounties of sophisticated cat foods that we find in
>supermarket, that she  just decided to leave us.

I think there is a third option, that the poor creature never in her mind
made any decisions at all. She simply could not discern much difference
between living with you and living in the wild, and so her leaving was a
random but inevitable occurance.

> i am not an idealist anymore because i realised my ideals of the past.

It seems to me that you are an idealist in the extreme!

In some ways your point of view is reminiscent of the Amish, a culture with
which I have some familiarity having once lived for several years in and
around Amish country in Pennsylvania. The Amish people share many of your
sentiments about the virtues of simple living, though they might articulate
them differently.

> i envision peoples awakening,  to   take CARE of the garden of eden ,

I have that same vision but perhaps unlike you I see that happening *now*. I
see an exciting new field of science called environmental science. This new
branch of science was almost non-existent only 40 years ago. It came into
its own in the 60's and is now attracting some of our best minds. This *IS*
your vision of people awakening to take care of the garden of eden,
jean-claude. And biotechnology and other branches of the natural sciences
can and will be used toward that same end, even despite your pessimism.

Science may create some problems but it solves far more than it creates. I
think you fail to see this positive side to science, and instead wrongly
blame science, and the general evolution of modern technological society,
for many of the evils of the world.

You disparage even the use of rudimentary technology by writing things like
"i don't see anything smart about having to heat a house to 25 degrees
celsius to feel confortable". It is most ironic that you broadcast these
unusual opinions on a hi-tech computer attached to the internet!

I hope I am not too bothersome to you, jean-claude. I like you and I think
you are a very interesting person with a lot of interesting and fascinating
things to share, though I do disagree with much of it.

-gts

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