Trees/plants as sentient beings...thoughts please

[Mark Bolam]

Honestly I feel feel real empathy with bigger, older trees, but will slash and burn young suckers all day without a thought.

 

Why is that? Am I some kind of sicko baby-killer? It really makes you think about things.

 

Great thread.

 

(Unless I top myself).

[RobArb]

Would that be a 20% "topping" or a full 30%?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[Fungus]

urge to ridicule ... even Gerrit's first reaction was to mock a previous poster.

 

Daniel,

Even in the country, we share as our common birth ground, where a sister of the queen is talking to and hugging trees, there is a difference between joking, ridiculing and mocking . If I was ridiculing or mocking, would I have been so serious about the communication of plants or trees in my following posts ?

[Fungus]

Honestly I feel feel real empathy with bigger, older trees, but will slash and burn young suckers all day without a thought. Why is that? Am I some kind of sicko baby-killer?

 

Mark,

Killing old trees is not that much different from baby trees, as old trees still have living embryonic tissue.

[Daniël Bos]

I meant no offense my friend, I'm afraid what you did whas excactly what I said it was: mocking (To make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible). It does not have as much negative connotations as you seem to attach to the word though. In Dutch the closest would be "plagen", not "pesten".

[Fungus]

In Dutch the closest would be "plagen", not "pesten" ...

 

... which in English would be "teasing" as opposed to "pestering", "ragging" or "harassing", which is quite a bit nastier.

[Daniël Bos]

... which in English would be "teasing" as opposed to "pestering", "ragging" or "harassing", which is quite a bit nastier.

 

Excactly! but as there is no proper direct Dutch translation of "mocking" I thought to supply you with the nearest available:thumbup1:

[Fungus]

but as there is no proper direct Dutch translation of "mocking"

 

How about "spotten" or "de draak steken" met ?

[Daniël Bos]

How about "spotten" or "de draak steken" met ?

 

Komt in de buurt:thumbup1:

[brassmonkey001]

Women in their fertile years regularely sharing the same rooms (mother-daughters, same sex partners, nuns), synchronize their ovulation.

 

I have often heard this said but whenever I have asked people I know who live with their wives and two or three daughters if it is actually true the reply has always been "It's a load of bollocks!"