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This is how it is used. But, what do we mean by "the weaver bird builds a nest by instinct"
One thing we mean that is clear, is that they are not taught how to do this by another bird. But if you watch a bird weave they will solve problems, make adjustments, get better at selecting materials. There is learning within the process.
No one has given a definition of nature that isn't either absurd* OR just vibes based.
However most definitions of "nature" are BOTH.
*including and excluding things that no one would agree makes sense
Defining what is meant by "instinct" and "instinctively" is much much much harder than I think most people realize.
It's almost as big of a mess as "natural"
It's bad enough that all I can talk about are ants. Ants and radiation. How will that go over? Not good say my mother's voice in my head.
Please don't further activate my slowly growing obsession with the details of this meltdown and containment.
I'm trying to just... not get sucked in.
... or think of it this way.
If you are an artist making a humble whimsical object that may not go in a big gallery show.
Some day thousands of years in the future people may sing about your work.
The unreasonable power of a cat with slightly (but not extremely) too short legs.
Short cats will take over the world I think.
"honey what are you thinking about?"
this is why I don't always answer
piggy got BANK shaped like a TANK. yomamama feet STANK. piggy got BANK
@wavesculptor @Tattie @vfrmedia @funkula
Where is "meandering is mandatory"
I'm always a little suspicious when some guy from 1947 starts tossing around the word "race" so maybe that's part of why I missed it on the first pass.
I've also looked up most of the species names that he uses for ants. They have all been revised: but some aspects of the story make even more sense now that I know the modern names of the ants he's talking about.
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In “Consider Her Ways” by Frederick Philip Grove, there is a phrase that has trouble me for some time. He says “the human race-conceit of the investigator” What could this mean? I thought this might be about investigating different species (races??) of ants, but I was wrong.
It’s actually another one of his jokes: “the human race-conceit of the investigator” is Grove saying that humans do science instinctively. Birds build their nests, the human creature investigates things.
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I know my mom and dad love each other because that woman would be gone in a heartbeat if she didn't. Gone to the other side of the earth never to be seen again.
Heck she might leave if she got sick of me. It's sad she didn't grow up in the era of memes. "hit da bricks" is in that woman's soul.
The question about if taking on a loan is a good idea to pay for college should be separate from the question of if it's a good idea to go or not at all.
I think it's better to be debt free and have a less prestigious institution than big debt and a fancy name... but much of this depends on if you are "good at school" and other questions.
And really college should be free. If we had any sense.
Americans will look at this and call it "primitive" and they are doing the same things.
No. LOL. That book just has a lot of themes.
Real love is only possible when people are free. Real love is only possible when it's a free choice made by independent people.
My great grandmother, married at 16 did not have much love in that marriage. At best it was hopefully polite, tolerable. I look at her eyes in the photos and I don't know if it was even that. I do not want our daughters to live that way. Not ever again.
Wanting someone to be free and independent *is* loving them.
It would feel hollow if I thought the only reason my husband was around was because in some sense he had no real choice. I don't think he'd enjoy being with me either if I was just... stuck. Not here because there isn't anywhere else in the world I'd rather be.
And if something happens to either of us it feels good to know one of us could still make it.