Trees/plants as sentient beings...thoughts please

[David Goss]

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!"

 

thats because there is a male presence, and females being the way they are, prefer making us suffer as often and for as long a time as possible, they will readily synchronise their ovulation to spread out evenly over the month so that just when you think its all over, it starts again at the beginning:thumbdown:

 

 

I just made that all up but it sounds about right

[wisewood]

Interesting thread, I've dabbled with holistic therapies and rightly or wrongly believe that everything is connected. All life is sacred and at some level has intelligence whether it be a plant, an insect or indeed the planet itself.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous,by way of respect I always try to inform the tree/plant that pruning or felling is immanent. I feel that on a core level we are all made of pure energy,and giving a plant the choice to release its energy willingly back into the earth is preferable to a surprise attack.

There you have it, I'm a hippy

[brassmonkey001]

thats because there is a male presence, and females being the way they are, prefer making us suffer as often and for as long a time as possible, they will readily synchronise their ovulation to spread out evenly over the month so that just when you think its all over, it starts again at the beginning:thumbdown:

 

 

 

Now that I can beleive!

[Le Sanglier]

Interesting thread, I've dabbled with holistic therapies and rightly or wrongly believe that everything is connected. All life is sacred and at some level has intelligence whether it be a plant, an insect or indeed the planet itself.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous,by way of respect I always try to inform the tree/plant that pruning or felling is immanent. I feel that on a core level we are all made of pure energy,and giving a plant the choice to release its energy willingly back into the earth is preferable to a surprise attack.

There you have it, I'm a hippy

 

Absolutely classic! I have been keeping an eye on this thread knowing some New age dreamcatcher stuff like this would come up.

Do you inform the lettuce,potates, broccoli aswell?

ps.No real offence meant

[sloth]

Some good posts keep em coming, nice to see others opinions and know I'm not the only tree hugger/cutter on arbtalk that's edging dangerously close to 'hippy'. Must the weight of my pony tail restricting blood flow to my brain!

[Fungus]

thats because there is a male presence, and females being the way they are, prefer making us suffer as often and for as long a time as possible, they will readily synchronise their ovulation to spread out evenly over the month so that just when you think its all over, it starts again at the beginning I just made that all up but it sounds about right

 

David,

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but making this up doesn't make this (sound) right. Mothers and daughters having PMS at about the same time because of synchronisation of their ovulation cycles results in making us men "suffer" as little and for the shortest time (as) possibe, as women - luckely for us - don't have conscious control over it.

When Lucy walked the plains of Africa gathering food and lived in her cave with other female family members while the men were out hunting, it is hypothesized this synchronization took place, because the women thus would be pregnant and give birth at the same time, so they could share nursing (breast feeding) their babies, while some of the women still could leave the cave for a while.

[Fungus]

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

 

And "dollen", "de gek steken" or "de spot drijven" met ... (mocking bird = spotvogel) ? Funny how a single word in one language has so many words in another language, that mean about the same.

[wisewood]

Absolutely classic! I have been keeping an eye on this thread knowing some New age dreamcatcher stuff like this would come up.

Do you inform the lettuce,potates, broccoli aswell?

ps.No real offence meant

 

Ha ha, no offence taken.

Yes I do, it's always a very formal affair. A letter of intention is forwarded to said vegetable and if no response is given within the allotted time then I eat the ignorant b@$tard.

[Le Sanglier]

Ha ha, no offence taken.

Yes I do, it's always a very formal affair. A letter of intention is forwarded to said vegetable and if no response is given within the allotted time then I eat the ignorant b@.

 

Firm but fair:thumbup:

[Fungus]

Yes I do, it's always a very formal affair. A letter of intention is forwarded to said vegetable and if no response is given within the allotted time then I eat the ignorant b@.

 

Simon,

Just as I always said sorry before I trampled upon the grass and extensively apologized before I took the lawn mower and grass cutter out, when I still had a lawn to mow behind my house , which I rearranged with ponds and wild plants, bushes and trees, because of guilty feelings over my earlier actions.