Comments on: The Political Garden http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2008/02/the-political-garden/ Heronswood Voice – A web log written by George Ball Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:50:49 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dave http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2008/02/the-political-garden/#comment-316 Dave Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:57:43 +0000 http://heronswoodvoice.com/2008/02/01/the-political-garden/#comment-316 "First is to eschew religion. Gardens neither appear nor disappear by magic, but gradually develop over time through tested knowledge and dedicated practice. In a democracy, outcomes are not faith-based. The ancestors who instructed us to garden successfully also taught us to keep the gods out of the garden. Religion serves to sort out fundamental personal struggles, but not to make the plants grow. A precious drop of empirical science yields more fertile public policy than the grandest theology" Our Democracy is indeed faith based, George. Our Bill of Rights most certainly is. Empirical science yields the fact that in any direction any astronomer can see (millions of miles) and can study their atmosphere (millions of constellations and planets) can not sustain a tomato plant except for ours. Your seeds will not grow anywhere but here and in this googleplex of space, for some reason, we are the only ones that can. We are the only "ones" actually. Eschew Religion? Convenient to serve ones agenda, don't you think? Funny how over time as you say, no other gardens have developed but One's. “First is to eschew religion. Gardens neither appear nor disappear by magic, but gradually develop over time through tested knowledge and dedicated practice. In a democracy, outcomes are not faith-based. The ancestors who instructed us to garden successfully also taught us to keep the gods out of the garden. Religion serves to sort out fundamental personal struggles, but not to make the plants grow. A precious drop of empirical science yields more fertile public policy than the grandest theology”

Our Democracy is indeed faith based, George. Our Bill of Rights most certainly is. Empirical science yields the fact that in any direction any astronomer can see (millions of miles) and can study their atmosphere (millions of constellations and planets) can not sustain a tomato plant except for ours. Your seeds will not grow anywhere but here and in this googleplex of space, for some reason, we are the only ones that can. We are the only “ones” actually. Eschew Religion? Convenient to serve ones agenda, don’t you think? Funny how over time as you say, no other gardens have developed but One’s.

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