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| 2008-09-08 |
| Found this via Curmudgeonly and Skeptical. Emotional Hippies crying over dead trees. Note that this is an Earth First! group. Read some of the comments.... |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #15 YouTube video - The Trees by Rush. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-09-08 23:52 |
| #14 I believe that (#12) is the Lyrics for 'The Trees' by Rush. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-09-08 23:46 |
| #13 great poem. Where did it come from? |
| Posted by: Betty Grating2215 2008-09-08 22:55 |
| #12 There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas. The trouble with the maples, (And they're quite convinced they're right) They say the oaks are just too lofty And they grab up all the light. But the oaks can't help their feelings If they like the way they're made. And they wonder why the maples Can't be happy in their shade. There is trouble in the forest, And the creatures all have fled, As the maples scream "Oppression!" And the oaks just shake their heads So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights. "The oaks are just too greedy; We will make them give us light." Now there's no more oak oppression, For they passed a noble law, And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw. |
| Posted by: spiffo 2008-09-08 14:53 |
| #11 Ima do that twice more and get triple double, then I wins the game. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-09-08 14:30 |
| #10 Nature Worship is the earths oldest religion. Maybe these people are just 'old skool and keepin it real'. Reminds of the movie with the guy that took video of bears in Alaska until one ate him and his girlfriend. There's a scene in that movie where the guy actually cries over a dead bee. Says something like "I love you little bee" while crying like it was his favorite puppy. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-09-08 14:28 |
| #9 Nature Worship is the earths oldest religion. Maybe these people are just 'old skool and keepin it real'. Reminds of the movie with the guy that took video of bears in Alaska until one ate him and his girlfriend. There's a scene in that movie where the guy actually cries over a dead bee. Says something like "I love you little bee" while crying like it was his favorite puppy. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-09-08 14:28 |
| #8 Their screams of pain sear my soul... I have always choked up not over trees, but of little John Barleycorn.. If it wasn't mid morning on a Monday, I'd go and grab a beer: Lyrics to John Barleycorn (Must Die) : There were three men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try And these three men made a solemn vow John Barleycorn must die They've plowed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in Threw clods upon his head And these three men made a solemn vow John Barleycorn was dead They've let him lie for a very long time, 'til the rains from heaven did fall And little Sir John sprung up his head and so amazed them all They've let him stand 'til Midsummer's Day 'til he looked both pale and wan And little Sir John's grown a long long beard and so become a man They've hired men with their scythes so sharp to cut him off at the knee They've rolled him and tied him by the way, serving him most barbarously They've hired men with their sharp pitchforks who've pricked him to the heart And the loader he has served him worse than that For he's bound him to the cart They've wheeled him around and around a field 'til they came onto a pond And there they made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn They've hired men with their crabtree sticks to cut him skin from bone And the miller he has served him worse than that For he's ground him between two stones And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl and his brandy in the glass And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl proved the strongest man at last The huntsman he can't hunt the fox nor so loudly to blow his horn And the tinker he can't mend kettle or pots without a little barleycorn |
| Posted by: Capsu 78 2008-09-08 12:32 |
| #7 'Nother form of idolatry. Tree and rock worshipers. Interrestingly many of the peoples in Asia that were idolatry worshippers a thousand years ago were wiped out by invading legions of... Islamists, the greatest antagonists of idol worshipers. |
| Posted by: Snosing and Tenille9185 2008-09-08 11:43 |
| #6 Horticultural Psychoanalysts around the world today expressed alarm at the damage being caused by groups such as these expressing themselves in the forest. "The trees simply don't understand. They 'hear' the screaming and it simply stunts their growth. In essence, these groups are, in fact, killing the very trees to which they are grieving. Yes, we promote 'talking to nature' to stimulate growth, but this is pure herbicide" And so new light is shed on the cause of the mysterious blight in forests around the world. And they said it was global warming... |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2008-09-08 11:04 |
| #5 I don't want them out in the woods. That's where I go to get away from nutballs like this. I do doubt that they were very far out in the woods, though. Probably at some roadside park where it's not scary. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-09-08 10:30 |
| #4 Those poor trees! They must have been terrified by those people!! I have a nightmare like that: frightening experience and, try as I may, I can't run away. |
| Posted by: Betty Grating2215 2008-09-08 10:17 |
| #3 Please stay out in the woods and leave the rest of us alone. Thank you. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-08 09:48 |
| #2 The Onion now has a video outlet. Who knew? |
| Posted by: Thrusoper Jones1634 2008-09-08 08:15 |
| #1 Obama can fix it. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-09-08 01:29 |