Firearms

[Paul]

did you see one of the dying ants passing a love letter for his gal back home to one of his army pals?

THAT would have been cool.

and so continues the night of the useless posts.

[ingallsj]

I have a 50% chance of being allergic to wasps (my mom might die if she gets stung by one again), so I kill all waps and bees that I can (without posing a threat to myself).

[Robotbeat]

Yeah, most other insects I can see a point in them existing, but for mosquitos, I hate them! I'm glad they aren't as tough as the bees we used to have at my house... Gosh, you could hit those wasps like 3 or 4 times with a big roll of newspaper against the wall about as hard as you can, but they'd still be able to fly!

I don't find it sad at all with those workers carrying the dead/dieing warrior ants back to the hill. I don't think they have enough brain cells to experience pain. If they did feel pain, it'd probably be a waste of brain cells since their little puny bodies can't really "take it easy" on a leg or something until it heals. Their legs probably can't heal. They probably just breed more ants. At least, that's what I did in SimAnt! I liked to just plug up the other side's ant hill with a couple of rocks. Then they'd starve to death .

Then again, I was one of those kids who'd try to fry ants with a magnifying glass .

[Warren]

Ants can feel pain, why do you think they run around wildly when they get stepped on? Because they like being stepped on? No, because it hurts to have one of your limps ripped off. Ants, and most other animals can take pain a lot better than humans, we're pathetic.

[T3_Racer]

[HowlingBears]

[T3_Racer]

F this thread, I'll come back when it's interesting.

[randall]

[HowlingBears]

[Robotbeat]

I actually find it pretty surprising that the 1:30 meat:grain ratio is even that high! I thought it was more like 1:50 or 1:70.

Well, HowlingBears, I am pretty sure that a very large percentage of the waste from at least American cattle goes to crop fertilization purposes. In fact, my family just put more top-soil on our garden and guess what our soil was. It was processed manure! I am pretty sure that you have already thought about this, but I just wanted to bring it up.

I am reading an add right now, here at PocketMatrix.com, that says the following:

"America

Home of 116 Brands of Cereal.
And 12 million children who are fighting hunger."

Now, I don't mean to belittle the fact, but I am usually one of those 12 Million children since I am usually hungry, being a teen-age male!

BTW, I am a Christian, and it is stated in the Bible (Genesis) that us as humans are stewards of the earth, or masters. That means that we need to take care of it, since the earth is a gift. But it says that we should "fill the earth and subdue it" which I take to mean that we should diversify our cultures and even encourage world-wide population growth (there is still plenty of unused land, especially in places like Canada and Alaska) and take advantage of all the resources available to us on the earth. Now, personally I think that all of this zero-population-growth stuff is a bunch of crap. If we ever do run out of room, we might as well live on Mars or someplace like that. I mean, why not? Because NASA isn't getting any attention? The colonization of space is the ultimate stated goal of the Soviet/Russian space program and also goal of NASA. OK... I am getting a little bit off topic, here, along with everybody else.

I do think that eating meat is probably not very efficient and is very often times quite unhealthy. I still like it, though!

[ingallsj]

[Paul]

does anyone remember the debate on whether animals have 'souls'? i think i started it based on my godfather's family's (they're religious) reactions to bullfighting and how the bull is killed and stuff. actually their whole treatment of animals is terrible.

oh well... reminded me of that.

[HowlingBears]

[HowlingBears]

[Village_Ideot]

Hey warren, about the ant war, ever read the once and future king? the ants have a big war over an imaginary boundery. Only ants, 2 species of termites, and humans have war, however.