11/18/2004: Swarm at the pyramids

[jinx]

Originally Posted by wah

there are the male fish with the eggs and such. <-my take.

or go straight to the national geographic web page.

If the 'god talk' rubs you the wrong way...how about..."There is a disturbance in the Force." Then we can use one of the modern day myths, instead of the old skool stuff.

Or maybe...'a glitch in the Matrix' is a better way to state it.

We don't know whether its a matrix, a force or a god - but we're qualified to recognize a disturbance (glitch, anger...)in it?

[wah]

We don't know whether its a matrix, a force or a god - but we're qualified to recognize a disturbance (glitch, anger...)in it?

Well, 'we' (I) don't know what 'word' you (both singular and plural) use to describe such things. Hence, we use a more 'linguistic shotgun' approach.

It certainly <i>seems</i> like a disturbance. It certainly <i>feels</I> like one. To call such events 'normal' seems a bit of a stretch, IMHO.

Some folks get very, very hung up on words. So much so that using one conception or another causes them to stop thinking entirely about the dataset being presented.

[jinx]

Originally Posted by wah

Some folks get very, very hung up on words. So much so that using one conception or another causes them to stop thinking entirely about the dataset being presented.

What I'm saying wah, is that "we" (as in all of us) don't even know what/that "it" is - how then do we know that "it" is disturbed? I say we don't. If you want to strap on a sandwhich board and declare the end is near! though, be my guest.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by jinx

If you want to strap on a sandwhich board and declare the end is near! though, be my guest.

Huh...huhhuh...uhuh...Jinx said "strap on"...uhuh...huh...

[Brown Thrasher]

Originally Posted by wah

Well, 'we' (I) don't know what 'word' you (both singular and plural) use to describe such things. Hence, we use a more 'linguistic shotgun' approach.

It certainly <i>seems</i> like a disturbance. It certainly <i>feels</I> like one. To call such events 'normal' seems a bit of a stretch, IMHO.

Some folks get very, very hung up on words. So much so that using one conception or another causes them to stop thinking entirely about the dataset being presented.

Some would say, that thinking obsessively about the database being presented; could get one very hung up on th words......

[wah]

Jaguar said:

Or you're anthropomorphizing the ecosystem, the same way the greeks said the reason the sun went over the sky was because it was the wheel of Apollo's chariot.

Well, as we now have the theory/myth of evolution, one could quite rightly, IMHO, say that we have been antropomophized by the ecosystem.

It would only be kind to return the favor.

Also said:

While it certainly is becoming an icon of sorts I'm not so convinced of the Infinate, call me down to earth but it looks like a tired soldier grabbing a fag and keeping an eye out for stray Iraqis with automatic weaponary.

O.k., I shall call you down to earth in that case. No one can tell you what the matrix is...it is something must be believed to be seen. A curious conundrum, that.

They've made it to southern Israel now

LET THOSE PEOPLE GO!!!

[glatt]

Now they are in the Canary Islands. I guess they went from Africa to Israel and then all the way around the globe back around to the other side of Africa again.

[Cyber Wolf]

That couldn't be another swarm, could it? I mean who's to say that one swarm is comprised of all of the pink locusts that exist in that area?

Or perhaps the bugs turned south and skimmed the southern coast of the Mediterraean Sea...?

Or maybe they appear on one horizon, move across a landscape and vanish into nothing on the other horizon like in that game Cleopatra?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Different bugs bugging buggers.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I beg to differ. You don't know how many two headed turtles there has been, how often they appear or why. You're assuming something you aren't knowledgeable about portends bad shit.

Btw, love your picture, Jinx.

[jinx]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Btw, love your picture, Jinx.

Ahh! Are you trying to get me beat up or something? I don't want your harem comin' after me...





Ps:

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by jinx

Ahh! Are you trying to get me beat up or something? I don't want your harem comin' after me...

Not to worry, they can be stopped by a mouse (click)

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Btw, love your picture, Jinx.

The one of Jinx in the pool was far less scary.

[capnhowdy]

As a child I remember hearing about people in biblical times "feasting" on wild locust and honey.
Isn't there a botanical version of locust? I hope so.....................
"and in the year of the famine, hunger and black death raced across the land, many were tortured and set sail for the Americas. For some there was hope, but some couldn't cope, so they spent their lives in search of fools gold" Thin Lizzy