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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Bluejays are considered to be one of the smartest birds around and build & use tools for food collecting. They teach their offspring these skills. Often are in adversarial relationships with any nearby squirrels as they both compete in collecting, stealing, and hiding of each other's nuts for winter. Deliberately rub the folic acid found in ants on their feathers to protect them against mold and fungus...and the list goes on & on.
We have Steller Jays around here who revel in lording it all over the local cats and collecting in large groups around fruit when it starts to ferment to party like there's no tomorrow.
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Re: (Un)natural Disasters.... Is Mother Nature Trying to tell us something?
@federica said:
...'fewer'In spite of my current preoccupations, my fernickety obsession with correct grammar is flourishing, as ever.
I just didn't want to let you down, folks...reputation is important, as is constancy....
I was just making sure you weren't sleeping on the job @federica 😇😊
Shoshin1
Re: (Un)natural Disasters.... Is Mother Nature Trying to tell us something?
...'fewer'
In spite of my current preoccupations, my fernickety obsession with correct grammar is flourishing, as ever.
I just didn't want to let you down, folks...reputation is important, as is constancy....
federica
Re: Right Speech
I do practice right speech and find it helpful, in as far as I try to be factual, true, beneficial and pleasing to other people. I’ve always found the Buddha’s sutra to Prince Abhaya to be good in this.
Although I did just respond on another forum to someone with the statement “that’s prime codswallop” which strikes me with a certain irony in retrospect.
Jeroen
Re: Buddhist quotes
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
— H. H. the Dalai Lama
Jeroen
Re: About mind-altering experiences
Not sure Boris Johnson on mushrooms would be a good idea.
Angus
