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    Shape-shifting

    Many of us reject anything that is not within our often tightly restricted worldview.

    This topic transcends what we "know" or think we "know".



    Bertrand Russell: 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.'


    #2
    Plant cells allow things human cells do not, so I hope you won't take this further into the realm of mankind.
    "Thought he, it is a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
    ~Herman Melville

    2016 1200 Superlow
    1982 CB900f

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      #3
      Originally posted by GS1150Pilot View Post
      Plant cells allow things human cells do not, so I hope you won't take this further into the realm of mankind.
      Perhaps, some cabbages are smarter than some humans after all. LOL
      Komorebi-The light filtering through the trees.

      I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. H.D.T.

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        #4
        Originally posted by earlfor View Post

        Perhaps, some cabbages are smarter than some humans after all. LOL
        That may be true in politics, where, as elections approach, they are often said to be leading by a head, but when they do not win their supporters call it sour grapes.
        .I suspect that may be because they cannot spell sauerkraut.
        Bertrand Russell: 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.'

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          #5
          Originally posted by GS1150Pilot View Post
          Plant cells allow things human cells do not, so I hope you won't take this further into the realm of mankind.


          The article is quite specifically about plants, not humans.

          That said, since you have expressed some concern, the article shows that cells do not not always follow an inflexible direction of development and there is conclusive evidence that what science and scientists had long thought of as impossible is actually live right now but that revelation has left them guessing about how it happened.

          Who knows...with so many humans now identifying as something other than what they really are, maybe they will identify and live as cabbages and we can have a greener world.

          Bertrand Russell: 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.'

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            #6
            I suppose we had that little bit of hatred coming from you, Ron.
            "Thought he, it is a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
            ~Herman Melville

            2016 1200 Superlow
            1982 CB900f

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              #7
              Looks like Arizona's arid air has proven overwhelming, and now dry humour is two much. .
              Bertrand Russell: 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.'

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                #8
                Originally posted by argonsagas View Post
                Looks like Arizona's arid air has proven overwhelming, and now dry humour is two much. .
                Ron, are you suggesting that subtly implying that the evolution of humanity's application of sex and gender roles is wrong should be acceptable? That is a bad joke, if so.
                "Thought he, it is a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
                ~Herman Melville

                2016 1200 Superlow
                1982 CB900f

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                  #9
                  I am just happy that I can now compare apples to oranges.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by GS1150Pilot View Post

                    Ron, are you suggesting that subtly implying that the evolution of humanity's application of sex and gender roles is wrong should be acceptable? That is a bad joke, if so.
                    With regard to that choice of words, I believe this applies:

                    From the Free Dictionary:

                    INVIDIOUS: calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.​
                    Bertrand Russell: 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.'

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by argonsagas View Post

                      With regard to that choice of words, I believe this applies:

                      From the Free Dictionary:

                      INVIDIOUS: calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.​
                      To that ante, I will raise you a vocabulary word that applies to your "humor:" Insidious.

                      adjective
                      1. proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects
                      "Thought he, it is a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
                      ~Herman Melville

                      2016 1200 Superlow
                      1982 CB900f

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                        #12

                        A good word, and I did consider it, as it easily fits your posts in this thread, but subtlety diminished with your post progression even as you strayed farther from the thread topic itself, so it seemed clear that harm was explicitly intended, making invidious the more definitively accurate word..
                        Bertrand Russell: 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.'

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