tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12134875.post3617012592998518729..comments2023-12-10T14:15:41.351-07:00Comments on [scratchYpost]: On Engineers and the Stewardship of Earthshaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12134875.post-13236535597648212352013-12-02T10:28:34.904-07:002013-12-02T10:28:34.904-07:00And so a direction is revealed towards which these...And so a direction is revealed towards which these clues all line up to point towards, while man whispers "the bees are the Engineers", and in turn the bees hiss "the ants are the Engineers", we may yet guess correctly what the ants whisper, but soon enough we will come to the end of our chain of speculation as we approach the space in between the plancks. . . that very same space lit a guttering orange within the carved out pumpkins on a hallowed eve . . . thornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12134875.post-34511531793227778852007-10-13T17:06:00.000-06:002007-10-13T17:06:00.000-06:00may the jack'o'lantern's whispers gutter out, kyle...may the jack'o'lantern's whispers gutter out, kyle ;|shaunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12134875.post-67446539882772873882007-10-11T11:40:00.000-06:002007-10-11T11:40:00.000-06:00The jack-o-lantern light is still telling me to do...The jack-o-lantern light is still telling me to do things...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12134875.post-67782815686961120162007-08-14T22:34:00.000-06:002007-08-14T22:34:00.000-06:00excellent question, Q ~ Ants too must wage their w...excellent question, Q ~ <BR/>Ants too must wage their wars to maintain strange alliances, then. <BR/> <BR/>Insofar as scale goes, perhaps the bees feel about the ants in a fashion analogous to what we feel about the bees - i.e, how small the ants are compared to us gigantic honeybees, "the ants must be the Engineers..."shaunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12134875.post-9664174596281496262007-05-29T01:12:00.000-06:002007-05-29T01:12:00.000-06:00What an intriguing idea, full of potency, the secr...What an intriguing idea, full of potency, the secret history of honey bees. If honey bees are the stewards of the earth, then I wonder where the ants, whose society, according to folks like sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, is the only one in animal kingdom that approximates (surpasses?) the complexity of human societies, fit in this scheme. Ants wage war, colonize each other, even are capable of building strategic alliances against a common enemy. They practice politics without ideology, implement policies without justifications. They are like a more efficient and rationalization-free version of human beings.<BR/><BR/>How would the bees feel about this?<BR/><BR/>Would they consider ants just as alien as human beings are from them?<BR/><BR/>QAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com