do we borrow the earth from our children, or do we inherit it from our ancestors?
2006-10-05 10:25:22 · 7 answers · asked by ỉη ץ٥ڵ 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Both; the children of this planet, the next generation, are stepping into the earth as we are gradually stepping out of it. It's like a room with two doors; as children enter it, middle-aged people walk around in it for a while, then finally depart through the other door. We also inherited the earth from our ancestors, for they had walked on the earth first, before us. But no matter who roamed the earth first, no one can truly, in essence, own the earth, for earth really does (or should) belong to everyone. Unfortunately, our current ways of thinking do not bend that way these days...
2006-10-05 10:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by Display Name 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
-sigh- Soooooo ...... in accordance to the actuality, our youthful little ones "own" the earth, yet they're borrowing it from their little ones, as our ancestors "borrowed" it from us even even with the actuality that we not in any respect owned it. i understand the great knowledge that this sage actuality is testifying -sigh- -sigh- -sigh- yet in accordance to the regulations of common sense it can not likely be authentic. So NO, i do not agree. I detest those little pithy sayings. they're trite, obnoxious and mascarade as "Deep idea" even as they're in elementary words a stupid manipulation of words that are prepared in this kind of fashion that they seem profound. they are not.
2016-12-04 07:43:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A marvelous question previously known as Chicken and the Egg.
2006-10-05 11:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created the earth, then he gave mankind dominion over it. We humans are stewards, or caretakers of earth. "The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein..." Psalm 24:1
2006-10-05 10:45:08 · answer #4 · answered by Rose 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither.
We use it for as long as it lets us not knowing what is next.
2006-10-05 10:28:22 · answer #5 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. And no one owns it.
2006-10-05 10:39:14 · answer #6 · answered by catarina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you acquire something that you are of?
2006-10-05 16:37:35 · answer #7 · answered by Kindred 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋