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Please provide a topic for discussion. A video doesn't do it. Start the discussion on the assumption that nobody is going to watch the video. The forum posting rules say:
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Make sure it is appropriate for Atheism and Agnosticism.
I think it is cool that trees interact a lot more than most of us know or will completely understand. The discovery of more intricate interactions is not surprising though.
I think it is cool that trees interact a lot more than most of us know or will completely understand. The discovery of more intricate interactions is not surprising though.
Please provide a topic for discussion. A video doesn't do it. Start the discussion on the assumption that nobody is going to watch the video. The forum posting rules say:
When starting a new thread, please do not post only a link or a video. Other members may not know what your intent was if that is all there is. Also, subsequent posts may be off topic if they have no idea what topic you wanted to set forth with your link/video. Add a line or two to let the readers know your thoughts.
Make sure it is appropriate for Atheism and Agnosticism.
Sorry. I was out of town. Maybe a bit of the "something else" discussed in another thread.
I watched the video and while they made numerous assertions regarding tree communication, they provided none of the mechanics for how this was supposed to be working. For example, they said that if bugs attack one tree, that tree then warns the other trees. To what end? So those other trees can uproot themselves and flee? They said that trees feel pain but offered no explanation as to how something without a brain to process the feeling of pain, feels pain. They said trees have friends, but in what possible manner? They buy each other presents? They go out drinking together? They vacation together?
I think that I shall never see,
A poet who didn't kill a tree.
The bard inscribes his many verses,
While loggers ship trees in twelve axle herses.
The power of the pen flows from your lines,
While power saws dismember knotty pines.
You write your sonnets full of mush,
While pulp mills pound oaks to formless mush.
The maples of my youth are gone,
Just so you can ramble on and on.
Your consciences you need to vent,
On reams of paper and parchment.
Of course, that doesn't tell the tale,
There are all those quills pulled from peacock's tails.
And then there's me whose brain is tired,
As in your writings my mind gets mired.
And so I protest this English class,
Destroyers of nature -- you I'll bash.
Now maybe you think that I'm a ham,
But I think you're cruel, yes, you am.
its not they have intellect. thats just stupid. the point is that we are in a system that is totally connected and working like a unit. We call that unit the biosphere.
Most people don't even have a basic idea how the mechanisms work together. And the rest of are still learning.
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