Maybe ants are capable of more than we give them credit for. ;-)

I think we're just as natural as can be, but we have complicated minds and those minds lead us into all kinds of unwise situations regarding Nature...and regarding our general behaviour. Is our behaviour unnatural? Yeah, you could say that...but it has its origins in Nature, it's just gotten stretched out of context by our complex minds which have invented money, sophisticated weaponry, machinery, politics, and all kinds of strange ideas that we pursue toward various objectives we've decided are important.

Religion usually seems to start out as an effort (by some spiritual teacher) to return people to a balanced and wise way of living. Then it soon gets established as a hierarchy, a power system, a tradition...and then the trouble begins...as it does with all human hierarchies and power systems. Their primary objective becomes to enlarge and extend themselves. That's the problem in politics, it's the problem with nations, it's the problem with our economy, and it's the problem with organized religions...but they all started out with some positive objectives in mind too.

So which part will one choose to focus on? The positive or the negative aspect?