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Thought germs (Original Post) Major Nikon Mar 2015 OP
Interesting about thoughts being like germs. fasttense Mar 2015 #1
Yes but butterflies do it with style. zeemike Mar 2015 #4
Language is a Virus Mika Mar 2015 #2
That was absolutely brilliant. zeemike Mar 2015 #3
 

fasttense

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1. Interesting about thoughts being like germs.
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:57 PM
Mar 2015

But he bugged me when he used butterflies pollinating as an analogy. It's odd. Most people use bees as a common pollinator not butterflies. Is this due to the die off of bees? Our grandchildren will not be talking about bees because Monsanto had to sell more pesticide for profit and inadvertently killed off our bees. How sad.

From the US Forest Service: "Butterflies are very active during the day and visit a variety of wildflowers. Butterflies are less efficient than bees at moving pollen between plants. Highly perched on their long thin legs, they do not pick up much pollen on their bodies and lack specialized structures for collecting it."

http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/butterflies.shtml

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