Gobbling [Archive] - Divine Cosmos Discussions

Tarzan

03-18-2002, 01:58 AM

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>rod,
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>thank you very much for your excellent turkey analogy--benjamin franklin is smiling, big-time, no doubt! i gobbled up your metaphor.
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>yes, that is the secret to the whole number of people keeping their eternal vigilance up--by taking turns watching closely what is going on. that's the key! the internet can make the job so much easier.
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>as coincidences go, while i was taking a break today doing my forest ecology work, buried deep in the woods on a steep hill, i watched a small group of turkeys (five of them) and the plants on the ground were just enough to keep them hidden when the fed on the ground, but short enough to allow me to see them everytime they popped up their heads. sure enough...every time nearly all of them were feeding, there was always one head popped up, looking while others fed and i remarked to myself--"there's eternal vigilance at work--only if we turkey humans could do that." ;-)
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>perhaps if we had gone ahead and chosen the turkey as the national bird, as suggested by 'ol benjamin franklin, we would have kept up some more eternal vigilance, eh?
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>gummint "intities", lol, i love that one.
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>seth