When I come on to this forum and see frivolous junk I am going to trash it because in my world life is short and for people to talk trash means they have a much easier life to churn out bullshit. Don't tell me bullshit.
Mike, you take yourself a bit too seriously at times. I have done all the work you describe,not in the heat and humidity of Florida admittedly but in West Scotland and in the South of England where it can get pretty hot in summer. I love Monty Python and have had the lumberjack song sung to me on many occaisions if I get carried away describing my tree felling days. I do agree with you about some of the trivial crap posted on this forum though. Alec
What's this? "I'm a lumberjack and I'm allright,Work all day and I sleep all night. I like to wear girls clothing , and hang around in bars I wish I was a girlie just like my dear mama. etc,etc" To know how seriously you should take yourself is an good thing - as in when you compare what other people think, do and say is pretty funny it is an indication of how well you know the subject about which you speak. Above you talk like a little girl/contribute nothing. Unlike what is popularly held to be true that we are all somehow equals is totally wrong (from a mind point of view). From my perspective I live in a world almost totally devoid of non-bullshitters. Everybody thinks their fart is particularly smart. And I get real tired of it so much so to the extreme. I hate politics and if I see a spade, I am going to call it a spade no matter how many people tell me it is a hoe. LOL!
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...5F0FB94D10806A2025615F0FB94D10806&FORM=LKVR4# Well if you can watch the attached video clip and not find it funny then you do take yourself too seriously and are totally up your own arse. What the hell has humour got to do with bullshitting. It must be a heap of laughs round the old camp fire with you at break time!!.
Now for more important stuff in the unrelated off-topic camp. Many years ago I was sitting on a towel on some grass with a cup of ice with coke in it at a nearby spring (Deleon Springs). I was doing my calculus homework or trying but the gnats were driving me crazy. I began slapping them just hard enough to stun them and then having few places to put them I wondered what would happen if I put them on an ice cube (not in my drink). They just laid there motionless for a long time and then they all seemed to start kicking around like they were going to fly off - about 20 of them. Then then quite suddenly the ice melted enough to form a drop big enough to cover all of them. In seconds all motion ceased. They drowned. It appears as if at first they were in some kind of suspended animation from being frozen by the ice. As the ice melted it seemed they began to thaw out and started kicking around. Then suddenly they all drowned. My brother told me a long time ago he took a fly and froze it in an ice cube and the next day he thawed out the ice cube and it flew off! Well yesterday a beetle flew right at my nose and I swatted it without even knowing what it was at that instant but it fell into a tub of water and in seconds it was motionless. I felt a little sorry for it and decided to identify it later so I left it in the water for maybe 2-3 hours and then took it out and put it in a plastic container to identify it. I forgot about it again for probably another 6 hours and then picked up the container only to find the bug clinging to the side of the container! It turned out to be a metallic wood borer beetle. Can you say cryogenic Mr. Spock? I was reminded of this again this morning studying some chemistry and biology - the so-called 'building blocks of life' which is the common and highly erroneous notion that life = bodies. On my account of the above insects their bodies became incapacitated and their consciousness left it. When their bodies reaquired the ability to move, they did/their consciousness returned to animate their bodies. If you were an alien with a powerful telescope you might see people on Earth moving around but your telescope might not be good enough to be able to determine that it is not the cars themselves that are alive but something in them that is animating them. To the alien when a car no longer moves 'it is dead'. To science today, when your body becomes incapacitated and you as consciousness are no longer able to animate it - you are similarly dead. I am not my car any more than I am my body. Bodies are containers of consciousness. Bodies do not produce consciousness. Consciousness animates bodies. Consciousness on my account = soul + energy. Remove the energy component and you are left with souls. And by souls I DO NOT mean what people commonly associate with souls. ALL living things have a 'soul' to one extent or another in the sense I refer to the word. Vitalism is true. Science is wrong.
Sure hope acorns are not a sign of the Mayan Dec 21'st 2012 end! Plants tend to exude their fruit when they know they are dying. If you bend the stem of a flowering plant, you will find it accelerates its bloom. Well I have never ever seen anything like the acorn mess around my house! It is weird! Also sure glad that aircraft carrier size asteroid missed the Earth traveling at 29,000 mph as per the national news tonight - by a mere 205,000 miles - less than the distance of the moon to the Earth. Truthfully I am more worried about solar flares in the year 2012 than anything.
Speaking of acorns..... Did you know you can eat acorns? But they have to be leached of their tannic acid first and some are more edible than others. Visit youtube eattheweeds.com Green Dean. Its a survivalist thing..... LOL!!
