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Offline CC27

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America is Ecotone taverner
« on: September 13, 2011, 05:41:03 PM »
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Sep-13-11 06:13 PM
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America is Ecotone
   
An ecotone is a transition area between two adjacent but different patches of landscape, such as forest and grassland...

The word ecotone was coined from a combination of eco(logy) plus -tone, from the Greek tonos or tension – in other words, a place where ecologies are in tension.

This is America. A place where there are the rational ("Global warming is a reality") and the irrational ("Global warming is a myth.")

There are those who place reason, science and evidence as the ultimate authority ("The mountains of evidence prove the theory of evolution") and there are those who place a bronze age book, modified, as the ultimate authority ("We were created from dust/blood clot/nothing from a god, to whom we should submit to unconditionally.")


There are those who see us all as passengers on the same planet, hurtling through time and space, together. There are those who see themselves as the only manifestation of sentience.

This is ecotone - the "DMZ" if you will, between habitats. Between cultures.

A common ecotone is the reed bed, which forms on the banks of rivers, living off of nutrients from the river, and helping the trees further inland.

Another common ecotone is the beach, a lifeless patch of sand, dividing the sea life from the life inland.

Must have snorted a great line this afternoon.

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Re: America is Ecotone taverner
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2011, 06:35:09 PM »
DUmmy taverner is rock-solid evidence that our drug interdiction efforts are failing.
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Re: America is Ecotone taverner
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2011, 06:53:14 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 13, 2011, 06:35:09 PM
DUmmy taverner is rock-solid evidence that our drug interdiction efforts are failing.

Wow.  I didn't know that.  I live in an ecotone, where the black dirt farmland slowly changes into the Sandhills ranchland.

Thanks to the Taverner primitive, I now know a word I hadn't known before.

Has nadin gotten all the primitives to nadin words, or what?

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Re: America is Ecotone taverner
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2011, 07:18:33 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on September 13, 2011, 06:53:14 PM
Wow.  I didn't know that.  I live in an ecotone, where the black dirt farmland slowly changes into the Sandhills ranchland.

Thanks to the Taverner primitive, I now know a word I hadn't known before.

Has nadin gotten all the primitives to nadin words, or what?
Yeah. She's turned  them on to thesaurus.com, but, like nadin, they usually come up with words they can't use properly.
It's sort of parenteral, you know?
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Re: America is Ecotone taverner
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2011, 10:19:23 AM »
Well, that was deep, man.   :stoner:

But ultimately the analogy failed, even if he tried to use big words...."manifestation of sentience."   ::) 

How exactly is America an ecotone?  It makes no sense.  Go back to bed, Taverner. 
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Re: America is Ecotone taverner
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2011, 10:26:37 AM »
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There are those who place reason, science and evidence as the ultimate authority ("The mountains of evidence prove the theory of evolution") and there are those who place a bronze age book, modified, as the ultimate authority ("We were created from dust/blood clot/nothing from a god, to whom we should submit to unconditionally.")

First, look up the word "prove".  You aren't using it correctly, ESPECIALLY in a scientific context, genius.  You're simply wrong here.
Second, talk to a paleontologist.  They'll tell you the fossil record has an abysmal track record for supporting evolution as it is currently foisted onto society.

Third, that bronze age book has more truth in it than all the writings of every marxist or leftist that has ever written, combined.  But, granting that there is no ultimate authority, as you would say, then there logically is no right or wrong, there is only might makes right.  Just to point out that since there is no right or wrong, all such liberal arguments that portray politics as having a moral component are null and void, logically.  As such, I'm glad to be in the part of society that values its rights to own guns, because if we keep electing marxists, blood will run deep in the streets.  This has happened in every single marxist takeover or attempted takeover in history.  Only this time, the right side has the firepower.

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Re: America is Ecotone taverner
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2011, 01:41:34 PM »
I see the Nadiease is spreading.......  :panic:
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Re: America is Ecotone taverner
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2011, 01:43:19 PM »
Good grief, did Tavernturd pass out in the ladies room, again? :mental:
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