--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" > > > wrote: > > > > I thought about it for a while and decided it > > > > relates to my unbounded and unending fascination > > > > with mind science. I'm totally enamored with > > > > learning about how beings interact with each other, > > > > and, being self-absorbed, how it all relates to *me*! > > > > :-) > > > "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways > > and be wise" - > > King Solomon, Book of Proverbs. Chapter Six. > > Excellent! > > > For me it's the undiscovered worlds in my backyard, all > > these highly complex and organised creatures living their > > amazing lives without the human race being relevant to them > > in any way. I get a deep satisfaction and sense of perspective > > from knowing that even when we humans wipe ourselves out or > > evolve into something else these little universes will still > > be carrying on without even caring or noticing that we > > ever existed, or even whether Clinton or Obama got elected. > > I take great satisfaction in the ruggedness of natural systems. > Individual species may disappear, as they have been doing throughout > natural history, but macrosystems keep on burbling and frisking > along. When Iowa becomes a tropical/undersea paradise AGAIN due to > global warming, the plants and animals will be harmonizing in their > warm and buzzy ways. We might be there to join in or not -- that is > ultimately up to us as a group of humans. > > You might not like this, Richard, but I just wiped out most of a > colony of sugar ants that had invaded my living room from their nest > down in the crawlspace. I put out a little dish of borax laced with > sweets, and they took it. As housemates, sugar ants just do not > cooperate as well as spiders.
Aargh! murderer! Only kidding, it will probably count as natural selection in the long run. Maybe we'll evolve a type of ant that avoids living rooms. Or, even better, maybe you could train your spider to catch the ants!
