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Gaia

Many of us have heard about the idea that the Earth itself is a living, evolving being. Some have called it (or her) Gaia, after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth. Do we believe that the Earth is a living being? How do our feelings about the Earth affect our own personal choices today?

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BellaBlue - 10:57pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 5 of 14)

How can the Earth not be a living being. Plants grow from feeding directly off the Earth. Humans were once microorganisms that came from the Earth. Just as we have children, we are the children of the Earth. As for my current feelings toward the Earth: I feel it is similar to the relationship with an elderly mother. The role of caretaker is reversed. After billions of years, we must now take care of the Earth, after she took the care in helping to form us.

The Earth is it's own thing...not necessarily a living being. The Earth consists of living things. Just like a house, it holds the people who live there, the birds who have nested in its rafters, the termites in the wood, etc. They all live off the house, but the house itself is not a living creature.

We now have it so ingrained in us that our past mistakes are causing some of the Earths largest problems. I don't necessarily see the Earth as a living being, but I do realize the necessity to keep it healthy. Every creature feeds off this Earth...without it, we, of course, wouldn't be here.

Living Being...

Of course not! The earth is organic but I do not think that it is a being, because I regard beings as sentient, and I do not think that the earth is a sentient being.

the earth is not a living being

its organic in nature and it is going to be here before and after us, even if we destroy it, it will find a way to recreate what we have destroyed, though it may take millenia.

BellaBlue

Your question: "How can the Earth not be a living being"? Answer: The Earth is just a very humongous rock on which GOD Created life. A rock, no matter how huge or how tiny is not a living being. When the Earth carries in its belly and then gives birth to a new planet - when the baby planet feeds at the breast of Mother Earth, - then I will believe that the Earth is an actual living being. That is just sooooooooooooooooooooo rediculous to believe that a rock, though a very large and humongous rock, is a living being.

The earth

I see our planet as a planet on which life lives. I kind of view it as a giant resource for life.

To vent

I think some people see the earth as something like Mother Earth, or there is a spirit that resides over everything on earth. You can call that god is you want to.

to pepes

do you believe that earth is the only planet in the solar system to support life?

The earth is alive

The earth is alive because so much life comes from it and it must support it.