OSaD, D69

Turn the other cheek has always been the most puzzling of the teachings of Jesus. The other day I mentioned that a few trees had been cut near my house. That got me thinking that, in a way, nature is always turning the other cheek. We cut it down, we abuse nature, and nature always comes back, turning the other cheek. One way to interpret turning the other cheek is to think of ourselves as actors in our own victimization. We could think "nature turns the other cheek so that we can keep abusin...