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[–]RiceEel 247 points248 points ago

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[–]TheSeashellOfBuddha 78 points79 points ago

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Apparently she had experience with Reddit: http://humon.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4quc1h

[–]Sylvatica 28 points29 points ago

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I believe that comic was referring to the times she's posted random pictures like cows and they got to the front page of Deviant Art because of her massive fan base.

[–]Draghoul -1 points0 points ago

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Nope, the artist is a big time redditor. Forget the account name though.

[–]Draghoul 3 points4 points ago

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Sorry, I can't delete comments on my phone, you might be right with that one

[–]ZoidbergMD 6 points7 points ago

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You're thinking of the lesbian with the schizo wife.

[–]Narissis 6 points7 points ago

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corvuskorax.

I did notice the similarity in the art styles, but this artist seems fonder of elbows than corvuskorax does. XD

[–]mershed_perderders 0 points1 point ago

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hey hey hey. spaghetti elbows are awesome!

[–]Narissis 1 point2 points ago

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Oh, I love corvuskorax's drawings; there's a reason I tactfully described this artist as more fond of elbows rather than criticizing the spaghetti ones! :)

[–]tihssihtkcuf 1 point2 points ago

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Deviantart has a front page too o_O

[–]Lazorbadger 0 points1 point ago

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Reddit didn't invent it, you know.

[–]tihssihtkcuf 0 points1 point ago

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wow no shit

[–]Lazorbadger 0 points1 point ago

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Thanks, dick.

[–]Gabrielseifer[S] 18 points19 points ago

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Wish I could upvote more than once. Thanks for finding the source. I know I had seen it around a long time ago, but never linking to the actual creator.

[–]RiceEel 19 points20 points ago

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No probs :) BTW, Humon draws great webcomics (some are nsfw), I encourage you to check them out.

[–]Gabrielseifer[S] 0 points1 point ago

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I will. Thanks again. :)

[–]Draghoul 1 point2 points ago

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The artist is also a big time redditor, so you'll probably see her around on reddit if you pay attention ;)

[–]Gabrielseifer[S] 1 point2 points ago

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I hope so!! I'd really like to send her my appreciation for coming up with such great work, especially now that I've taken the time to look at her other pieces and webcomics. Although I could just go to DA and show my appreciation that way. :P

I hope she doesn't mind me posting her comic. I'd take it down if she does.

[–]ginemginem 1 point2 points ago

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[–]Gabrielseifer[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Mmmmm... I love sauce.

[–]mitigel 3 points4 points ago

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Google image search may also help.

[–]Gabrielseifer[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Good point. I'm still not used to being able to do the reverse image search.

[–]ginemginem 1 point2 points ago

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Both google image search and tineye have chrome/ffox extensions/addons. Makes the task a breeze.

[–]goofball_jones 35 points36 points ago

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well, true credit goes to George Carlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

[–]userlame 48 points49 points ago

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Yes, George Carlin is the first to ever espouse these ideas.

[–]Ingenium21 15 points16 points ago

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George carlin is the Alpha and the Omega.

[–]LanceCoolie 0 points1 point ago

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He was, till his soul was flung up on the roof back in 2008 and got stuck.

[–]Thjoth 1 point2 points ago

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So, what you're suggesting is that George Carlin is a frisbee.

[–]Spectacularity 2 points3 points ago

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Logic, bitches.

[–]Ioxvm 0 points1 point ago

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Frisbeetarians unite!

[–]Mr_wineman 0 points1 point ago*

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A song about that same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FFgVayrWjs

[–]goofball_jones 0 points1 point ago

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yes.

Well, at least the first one to espouse these ideas with style!

[–]tkltangent 0 points1 point ago

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Doubt it.

[–]qdp 7 points8 points ago

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I am pretty sure Michael Crichton in his book Jurassic Park said pretty much the same thing.

[–]catsclaw 7 points8 points ago

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And then he wrote State of Fear, arguing that global warming science was a hoax and we shouldn't worry about it.

So, cloning dinosaurs bad, destroying the world through catastrophic climate change good.

[–]cntrstrk14 3 points4 points ago

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destroying humanity through catastrophic climate change good.

FTFY

[–]MadMageMC 0 points1 point ago

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That reminds me: I need to go watch Day After Tomorrow again. Seeing NYC get obliterated never gets old.

[–]Narissis 1 point2 points ago

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I have to admit, even though they shit all over science, I have a soft spot for Roland Emmerich movies. He likes to depict the catastrophic fall of cities in ways that are oddly compelling. Maybe I'm a closet sadist, but I love watching the alien ships fire their giant city-obliterating weapons in Independence Day.

[–]MadMageMC 0 points1 point ago*

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Agreed! I'm also rather fond of Deep Impact for the same reason. Oddly enough, though, I didn't really care for the city destruction depicted in 2012. Maybe it was just too unrealistic? I dunno. Hard to put my finger on it. I liked the super eerie post flood NYC shown in AI as well, even though the movie itself was a tad overboard.

Edit: de-duped a word.

[–]Narissis 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah, the whale and the container ship drifting amid the tall buildings were pretty cool.

[–]hyyep 0 points1 point ago

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you make the exact mistake that this cartoon is trying to point out....we may make the world uninhabitable for us....we will not destroy it.

[–]catsclaw 0 points1 point ago

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"The world" ≠ "The Earth". I was using the phrase colloquially, to describe humankind. Compare usage with "We Are the World" and "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".

[–]hyyep 0 points1 point ago

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......ok....my bad i guess, your original statement was super clear on that distinction.

[–]goofball_jones 0 points1 point ago

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Then right after that he wrote Next, which is one of the biggest fear-mongering things I've ever read.

State of Fear = Don't listen to fear mongering

Next = WE'RE ALL DOOMED!

[–]jjsocrates 2 points3 points ago

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But the movie captured it better:

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs... Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth...

[–]MadMageMC 0 points1 point ago

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She was so much better in JP than in Blue Velvet.

[–]yerffej112494 2 points3 points ago

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That dude exemplifies the word wisdom.

[–]Granite-M 1 point2 points ago

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[–]Bleezy79 0 points1 point ago

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George is one of the all time most coherent and logical comedians ever. I miss him greatly.

[–]RiceEel 0 points1 point ago

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TIL, thanks!

[–]richertai 0 points1 point ago

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Came here for this.

[–]Mr_wineman 0 points1 point ago

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The sad thing is that most people take George Carlin's message as global warming is propaganda..... I think George was a little too much for a lot of people.

[–]AtomicSamuraiCyborg 0 points1 point ago

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"The planet isn't going anywhere: WE ARE. Pack your shit folks, we're going away..."

[–]Jame-Jame 2 points3 points ago

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Even better than her DA, her own website: http://humoncomics.com/

Have fun wasting your time!

[–]mitigel 6 points7 points ago

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[–]Kurochihiro 0 points1 point ago

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Yup. Fuck yeah, Humon!!

[–]tickoftheclock 33 points34 points ago

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Yeah, well fuck you too Earth. We'll just move to the Moon or some shit, where the planet actually appreciates us.

[–]MadWombat 17 points18 points ago

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I think lack of air is a clear indication that we are not welcome :)

[–]CaptMayer 10 points11 points ago

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That's why we brought our own air! Because SCIENCE!

[–]gliscameria 4 points5 points ago

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Let's see how you feel when a space event happens and you need intelligent life to save your massive ass.

[–]LaterGatorPlayer 2 points3 points ago

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I like how 3 people have commented in response to you- but not one corrected that the Moon isn't a planet.

[–]Adeptfox 7 points8 points ago

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You are correct. It is a star, which explains why it produces light.

[–]MrTimmer 25 points26 points ago

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Think this goes here, http://youtu.be/EjmtSkl53h4

[–]bleakwood 8 points9 points ago

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Carlin was always years ahead of his time. RIP George...

[–]medlish 4 points5 points ago

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This. I love nature and walking and biking in the forests and whatnot, but I can't stand people who think humanity is the cause of every evil in the world.

[–]Dreamwaltzer 2 points3 points ago

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well. without out humans... the concept of evil is gone from the world... so yeah. Humans are the source of all evil.

[–]Wallingford 1 point2 points ago

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That's assuming that nothing else in this world can perceive the idea evil.

[–]OscarMiguelRamirez 1 point2 points ago

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Well, they would have to create the idea of evil first, it doesn't exist on its own.

[–]Proditus -1 points0 points ago

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Tigers kill monkeys. Tigers are evil to the monkeys. Monkeys kill other monkeys, that means some monkeys are more evil than others.

Evil means nothing more than a threat to your way of life and your happiness. There is plenty of evil in the world, we just shrug it off because it's not always about us.

[–]CaptMayer 4 points5 points ago

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Tigers eating monkeys is not "evil." Evil implies malevolence. The tiger eats the monkey because the tiger has to eat. This, in turn, keeps the monkey poulation down, keeping the monkey population at a level supportable by the fruits, nuts, and berries the monkeys feed on.

The monkeys and tigers are also not self-aware. They cannot think "that tiger just killed MY friend," because "my" and "friend" denote that the monkey is capable of placing itself in its environment. Self-awareness exists in a surprising, but still very small, number of animals. Without self-awareness, the idea of malevolence does not exist. Without malevolence, there is no "evil."

[–]UnknownArchive 47 points48 points ago

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Anyone seeking more info might also check here:

title comnts points age /r/
Well, hadn't thought of it that way. 6coms 41pts 8mos pics
"You're fucking yourself big time and won't be missed." - Mother Gaia 2coms 10pts 9mos pics
This is what I think Mother Earth thinks about Humans. 214coms 660pts 7mos pics

source: karmadecay

[–]Rich_Cheese 53 points54 points ago

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Newest one is 7 months old? Acceptable repost.

[–]xnerdyxrealistx 6 points7 points ago

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I'll allow it.

[–]I_Will_Allow_This 9 points10 points ago

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ಠ╭╮ಠ damn foreignurrs takin ma job

[–]HurricaneHugo 2 points3 points ago

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THEY TOK OUR JEBS!!!

[–]SpiralSoul 0 points1 point ago

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It's okay guys, xnerdyxrealistx will allow it! Break up the angry mob!

[–]EntForgotHisPassword 0 points1 point ago

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Meh I don't think this bot detects everything, I'm pretty sure I've seen this pic on r/trees 2012... Maybe with a different resolution or something? EDIT oh hey this isn't r/trees, dunno why I thought so.

[–]UnknownArchive 1 point2 points ago

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Not a bot

[–]Gabrielseifer[S] 1 point2 points ago

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It's become sentient!!!

[–]dashoffset 0 points1 point ago

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[7]?

[–]wallychamp 0 points1 point ago

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EDIT oh hey this isn't r/trees, dunno why I thought so.

Might be the perfect edit.

[–]ShadyPear 4 points5 points ago

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Isn't it somewhat self centered for her to take the shape of a human?

[–]Deadmirth 3 points4 points ago

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That's the opposite of self-centred, it's considerate of the person she's conversing with.

[–]emptysuit221 19 points20 points ago

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So mother nature looks pretty hot and she hugged that guy pretty quick... Go on...

[–]MothaNature 17 points18 points ago

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Slowly unzips guy...

[–]Rawmin 5 points6 points ago

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THANK YOU FOR TRYING WINZIP!

[–]farceur318 7 points8 points ago

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It's not worth it. Mother nature, by definition, would carry every disease that any species of animal or plant-life has ever contracted.

[–]YourKismetEnd 8 points9 points ago

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But if she gets pregnant you'll be a god.

[–]Deadmirth 2 points3 points ago

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Well, a god-father, at least.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Dude, that's your mother! Sick!

[–]mechy84 2 points3 points ago

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I think mother nature really has dreadlocks and works at my local coffee shop. She is hot, but smells like patchouli and cigarettes.

[–]I_Will_Allow_This 2 points3 points ago

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Mmm nothing more natural than a good cig in the morning.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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The next part goes a little somthing like this.

Guy: Mother nature your hugging me to tightly...

Guy: Mother nature it hurts!

Mother nature: ssssh ssssh it will all be over soon.... Just let the lack of oxygen sooth you....

[–]LtOin 2 points3 points ago

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Now I want a Mother Nature hug D:

[–]Khad 1 point2 points ago

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Her hair looks... so comfortable.

[–]Clockw0rk 0 points1 point ago

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They're pretty amazing.

[–]7kuroneko7 2 points3 points ago

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I find Gaia hot. Am I crazy?

[–]IanSlinger 2 points3 points ago

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This is great. I'm in the field of ecopsychology, and one of the things I try to emphasize is that the Earth is huge, and time is long. We can't actually destroy the Earth, or all life on it. There are unicellular bacteria buried deep within crevices we'll never get to, and even if we destroy everything else, then in another few billion years perhaps those bacteria will get their day.

The problem of climate change is not the problem of "destroying the Earth." Mother Gaia doesn't need us to be a bunch of White Knights for her. No, what we're going to do is turn our planet into a choking shithole for us, while the insects evolve to breathe the thick air and devour our bloated corpses.

[–]fervent_turtle 4 points5 points ago

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oh Humon!

[–]SaltFrog 3 points4 points ago

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Humon, amazing.

This is where it comes from.

[–]excommunicated 2 points3 points ago

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o_O the Scandinavia and the World guy makes tentacle woman porn?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Girl. And it's not porn, it's a touching love story!

[–]excommunicated 1 point2 points ago

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... I stand by my shock;

o_O the Scandinavia and the World girl makes tentacle woman love stories?!

[–]Gabrielseifer[S] 2 points3 points ago

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They're really good, though.

[–]excommunicated 1 point2 points ago

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Read them all just a minute ago actually, lol. I still stand by my shock :P

[–]SaltFrog 1 point2 points ago

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I really like Niels. Pretty good comic.

[–]thejalla 0 points1 point ago

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Thanks! Started reading Scandinavia and the World and I can't stop, so much Win! (norwegian :)

[–]SaltFrog 0 points1 point ago

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Jello! :( I love Norway...

[–]h0ncho 4 points5 points ago

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Brevity is the soul of wit

Political rants is its antithesis

[–]a2ram 1 point2 points ago

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A few months ago I saw this documentary 'BBC Earth - The Power of the Planet'. Amazing documentary, btw, and do see it if you get a chance.

The final scene of the 5 part documentary really hits home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI7MNInsKCg)

[–]dmbrown41 1 point2 points ago

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I think Carlin did a bit about this at one point - "save the earth?! fuck that, the earth will be fine, we are the ones who will need the saving"

[–]northbayray 0 points1 point ago

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He did. "The earth will shake us off like a bad case of the fleas!"

[–]jmun77 0 points1 point ago

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[–]robotinator 1 point2 points ago

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Wait, I think it is actually possible to fuck up the planet bad enough that life can never flourish there again. Not easy, but possible.

[–]Aehsxer 1 point2 points ago

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No matter what we do, the cockroaches will love it!

[–]robotinator 0 points1 point ago

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Not if we removed the atmosphere or piloted the Earth into the sun. Not likely, though.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Nature is getting all condescending. It won't be laughing when we destroy it (and 99.99% of the human population) and move to another planet.

[–]jeffha3 1 point2 points ago

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Reminds me of this

[–]Nukeman 0 points1 point ago

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damn you.

[–]Haisoj 1 point2 points ago

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I found this really easy to fap to.

[–]kingsumo_1 1 point2 points ago

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An upvote for anything that Humon does. Her Scandinavia and the World series is what started my love of the Nordic countries a few years ago.

[–]Numb3r_6 1 point2 points ago

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Wasn't this a famous rant by this guy?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Why does this comic make me super horny

[–]JoeBloggins 1 point2 points ago

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Surely if we fucked the atmosphere enough with greenhouse gases and turned the planet into Venus mark 2 and nuked everything to dust for good measure, MOST of life would be dead, and it would sure look like the planet was dead in every way that counts?

I know prokaryotes are technically life, but I don't feel guilty killing them so I don't count them myself.

[–]cbpickl 0 points1 point ago

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Carbon-based life, yeah. Might be other kinds.

[–]JoeBloggins 0 points1 point ago

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Surely we can discount life forms that may exist, but we have no direct evidence for?

[–]johoyouknow 7 points8 points ago

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[–]Ryusko 38 points39 points ago

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That one minute opening sequence sure showed us.

And anyway, the point of the comic is that we'll kill ourselves off before we totally destroy cellular life on earth. Life will find a way, no matter how bad we fuck things up. The planet is always going to be fine; it's an immense chunk of stone, we couldn't destroy it if we tried.

[–]SSWarrior 14 points15 points ago

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Sounds like a challenge...

[–]imoffthegrid 0 points1 point ago

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Meh, I hate being a grizzly old man that likes to argue:

Life will find a way, no matter how bad we fuck things up. The planet is always going to be fine; it's an immense chunk of stone, we couldn't destroy it if we tried.

Look. I'm with you man. I'm a hippy at heart... but trust me, if you don't think we could destroy this place if we tried then you really really are underestimating a.) how inventive our species is, b.) how fucking dangerous our species is, c.) how stupid our species is.

We might not be able to yet... and that's only if Tesla was wrong about the whole "I can split the Earth in half using it as a superconductor thing."

If our technology continues at the same pace then we will have the ability to destroy this planet (many times over) long before this planet has adapted to the point where it is no longer for human life.

[–]Ryusko 17 points18 points ago

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I'm not a hippie, I'm a microbiologist. I'm not talking about Jurassic Park here. I mean to say there's hundreds of thousands of species of protozoa and bacteria that survive in any number of bizarre ways. When a generation lasts for a few hours a species can adapt to however we're trying to kill it pretty damned fast. There's plenty of germs out there we're spending millions of dollars trying to kill and we still can't. And that's just one species at a time we're trying to kill on purpose.

I'm not arguing that one day we might be able to kill everything. But one day some hyper intelligent plant species might be our cruel, unforgiving overlords as well. I'm not overly found of far off, hypothetical projections.

[–]OscarMiguelRamirez 0 points1 point ago

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Ah, hubris. It will be our downfall.

But life will continue. Even if we applied ourselves, we couldn't destroy all life on the planet. We would be some of the first creatures to die out, and even if we designed robots to carry on our life-extinguishing mission, they wouldn't get everything.

[–]imoffthegrid 0 points1 point ago

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I really think you're underestimating how destructive of a species we are, but hubris is amusing.

[–]FeierInMeinHose -1 points0 points ago

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Nuclear winter.

[–]Ryusko 8 points9 points ago

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What of it? There have been major extinction events in the past on the scale of a nuclear winter. All it did was encourage new species to thrive in the wake of it. We would never have evolved without the predators of our ancestors freezing off. Short of intentionally bathing the entire planet (surface, caves, ocean depths) with incredibly intense radiation-- something we're not capable of doing-- it would matter approximately fuckall in the scheme of things.

Now, there's plenty of things floating around in space that could just snuff us out in heartbeat. But humans? Thinking we're capable of such a thing is arrogant. Just because we can kill ourselves doesn't meant we can kill everything.

[–]dasstupid -1 points0 points ago

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Insofar as reducing life to the cellular level is 'fine'...

[–]TheSchwartz83 14 points15 points ago

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Why not?

What universal rule is there that life HAS to exist as multicellular or complex? Furthermore, if a giant asteroid or comet hits Earth and obliterates all life except for some species of bacteria, what does it matter?

I'm not being fatalistic: I'm saying that the universe doesn't give a shit.

Life only matters within the human context because of the human context. Take out humanity, and all of a sudden you are left with the same universe that shit on the dinosaurs. It didn't matter then, it won't matter next time.

[–]Ryusko 1 point2 points ago

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Life, the environment, ecosystems, and the planet are all very different things. We can destroy the environment and any ecosystems as we know them, but life and the planet itself will continue as if we were never here.

[–]butterscotchripple 1 point2 points ago

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Your stupid link showed us nothing. Put in a little more effort asshole.

[–]johoyouknow 0 points1 point ago

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If you took the time to read all the comments then you would of found my original reply to Ryusko.

"I saw an opportunity to share I really interesting documentary, It was not my intention to try and disprove the comic. I linked the trailer to give you an idea of what it's about not to prove a point. If you are interested in the documentary you can find it here."

There you go you lazy cunt.

[–]mywan 1 point2 points ago

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Have an upvote. http://www.amazon.com/Balance-Nature-Ecologys-Enduring-Myth/dp/0691138982

Fundamentally all life, both predator and prey, consume enthalpy for survival. Yet once consumed there is nothing left for life to feed on and dies. Luckily Earth gets a constant replenishment of enthalpy from solar radiation (sunlight). If the system was "balanced" it simply couldn't survive.

[–]fanboat 0 points1 point ago

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Species fall into niches and develop ecological status-quos though, which I think is what most ecological worry is about. It is very interesting though to realize that the system isn't self-contained. I like those ecosphere things, but I always found them a little misleading. They seem to represent a self-contained system, a circle of life that is a complex perpetual motion machine, but in reality it only works because of a constant influx of energy.

As far as conservation goes, I don't know if I would have cared if I got to see do-dos, but I'd feel like a dick if I deprived future generations of some of the cool stuff this planet has to offer. I'd feel worse if I contributed toward the particular undoing of humanity.

[–]mywan 0 points1 point ago

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The fact that ecology does not fundamentally represent an equilibrium system does not lessen legitimate conservation concerns. We are presently driving habitat variation at a far faster rate than evolution can keep up on average. Hence, in spite ecological policies driven by a myth of equilibrium, the present rate of change is excessive enough that I'm not too concerned about it in general.

[–]devoutchristian 0 points1 point ago

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Well, most often different species in an ecosystem tend to balance eachother out, so nature does seek balance. But when taking things into perspective, especially in geological time, that balance is continually disrupted and reestablished. Nature is a reflection of the environment and thus a reflection of itself.

For example, when an invasive species with no natural predators is introduced into an ecosystem, the balance in that ecosystem is disrupted, but eventually some other species will figure out how to eat the invasive species and balance will be restored, and then disrupted again by various factors, and restored again etc.

Humans may make the planet uninhabitable for human life, but various other organisms will eventually find ways how to utilize what's available and adapt to new circumstances, while we go extinct, because we're not physically adapting to the changing natural environment, we're creating an artificial environment for ourselves through fossil fuels and technology and adapting to that. Earth + plastic, as George Carlin said.

[–]erratic_thought 2 points3 points ago

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Nature is a whore.

[–]blastovore 3 points4 points ago

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That's why everyone likes to look at her, but few respect her.

[–]samassaroni 1 point2 points ago

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The best visual explanation of this concept.

[–]primusperegrinus 1 point2 points ago

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Why is the kid naked? ಠ_ಠ

[–]blastovore 10 points11 points ago

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For the same reason that nature is a person.

[–]rjung 0 points1 point ago

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Human ego.

[–]KhamanV 2 points3 points ago

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Garden of Eden shit; you're always naked before God or Nature, etc etc.

[–]primusperegrinus 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah, I know. I just wanted an excuse to use the ಠ_ಠ button in Reddit Enhancement Suite

[–]I_Will_Allow_This 1 point2 points ago

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ಠ_ಠ

[–]blastovore 1 point2 points ago

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Humanity has been successful enough to do what hyper-successful species tend to do, kill itself off. Many species don't get the luxury of killing themselves off in any way they please.

[–]cycophuk 0 points1 point ago

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Her art style reminds me of Phil Foglio's earlier work.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Take a class (or just read on) the History of Life on Earth to be truly humbled (I took it in my 2nd year of college). With all the geological cataclysms that happened throughout epochs, the fact that life remains is extraordinary (for us at least).

[–]a55hol3 1 point2 points ago

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the fact that life can evolve and adapt the way it does is extraordinary

FTFY

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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It goes both ways. The fact that life evolves and adapts while having an essence unique to it (which separates organisms from inorganic materials like stone or mud, being unable to become anything other than what it is) is extraordinary.

[–]evolsdrawkcab 0 points1 point ago

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Anyone else read Eaarth by Bill McKibben? This is not the best argument to use in saying the planet will still survive...

[–]thatguy1717 0 points1 point ago

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This is true, though. I've had similar conversations about the end of the world. Most people will count anything killing mankind as the "end of the world." In actuality, nuclear winter or a meteor hitting the Earth could kill every person in the world, but the planet will still exist and most-likely form new life. It would, in no way, be the end of the world.

[–]seinzumtode 1 point2 points ago

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It would be the end of the world, because the world is a human construct, a network of meaning. The earth will indeed survive.

[–]thatguy1717 0 points1 point ago

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Just a ticky-tack response with your own definition of world. In order on MacMillan's dictionary, your definition doesn't come in until 3...mine is the top definition. So, yes, I'm still correct. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/world

[–]Filiforme 0 points1 point ago

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Daniel Bélanger wrote: "La fin de l'homme ne sera pas la fin du monde". This translates to : "The end of man will not be the end of the world".

He is right.

[–]civildefense 0 points1 point ago

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Generations come and generations go, but the Earth abides forever

[–]Ecto_1 0 points1 point ago

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Don't hug her! She unleashed Typhon on the world!

[–]lorax108 0 points1 point ago

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so fucking true.

[–]Heimlick 0 points1 point ago

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What mother nature really thinks, I'M A TREE!'

[–]Cuttlefeesh 0 points1 point ago

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Sorry to be a downer but it's a much bigger issue than this.

[–]Nathannlax 0 points1 point ago

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Milf

[–]EmilyamI 0 points1 point ago

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I have had so many rages trying to explain this concept to people.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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So....um...Rule 34 on Mother Gaia?

[–]dantheman999 0 points1 point ago

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It's pretty much like George Carlin said. People say we are killing the Earth. The earth is fine, been here a long time, couldn't be better. It's us who are fucked.

[–]kamishizuka 0 points1 point ago

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Remember kids, Nature is so big and adaptable that we can't kill it (and indeed we won't).

But humans? We can't adapt worth anything, and certainly not on the exact same timescale that "the rest of" Nature (classic "humans aren't natural" problem) will survive. Nope, we're dead.

[–]preske 0 points1 point ago

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My friend said something very similar against one of those poor saps Greenpeace uses to con money from people.

The guy eventually gave up.

[–]burningsok 0 points1 point ago*

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Reminds me of what good old George Carlin once said.

[–]M0b1u5 0 points1 point ago

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Retarded anthropomorphism at its very fucking worst.

Nature doesn't think. That's simple moronic.

[–]AbyssalStalker 0 points1 point ago

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[–]random314 0 points1 point ago

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This is true, there's really nothing we can do that will destroy life on earth.

[–]TurtsMcGerts 0 points1 point ago

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Intellect will be a failed experiment of evolution.

[–]OldTrailmix 0 points1 point ago

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"The planet is fine, the PEOPLE are fucked!" -George Carlin

[–]dorian283 0 points1 point ago

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That was super homo.

[–]Silverbug 0 points1 point ago

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Doesn't matter, had sex.

[–]StumpHarvey 0 points1 point ago

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Nature: never holding back since forever.

[–]Omfoltz 0 points1 point ago

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Pretty sure mother nature wants to murder everything. The amount of suffering and bloodshed required to sustain life in all its forms is unimaginable.

[–]moccajoghurt 0 points1 point ago

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Yep that comic explains really well what most people haven't realized yet. Saying we are destroying the nature is stupid.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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We have/will also be responsible for the death of many animal and plant species...so..

[–]excommunicated 1 point2 points ago

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Life started from a few self-replicating molecules... we're not going to end all life. We could kill all the animals, all the fish, all the plants... in a short time (on the geological scale) life would be back and better than ever.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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That's true, however in the picture, mother earth says "you are only killing yourself." But that's not true. We ARE also killing other species. Nvm. I'm looking too much into it.

[–]seinzumtode 0 points1 point ago

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YES! This is why climate change is really a human rights issue. People will suffer from shifts in climate, nature will recover when we're all gone.

[–]ivebeenhereallsummer 0 points1 point ago

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Self hating humans are so cliche.

[–]fizdup 0 points1 point ago

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Do you really believe this nonsense? The world is getting cleaner. There are billions of people alive now who would not be if we all lived in hippy communes and were "self sufficient".

Humans get better as more of us don't have to live knee deep in mud growing crops. THe more of us who have the ability to waste 5 years going to medical/engineering/dentistry school the better off we all become. The more wealth you create, and the better you make people's living conditions, the fewer kids we have.

We are not fucking up the world. We are making it better. We are allowing people to hope where there was no hope before.

Also, mother nature does not exist (apart from the one in SuperTed)

[–]TheSchwartz83 -2 points-1 points ago

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All of this "Mother Earth" and "Gaia" bullshit is just replacing God with Goddess. It's interesting how humans have anthropomorphized the concept of "nature" as a being with feelings and concerns. Nature is nothing more than the sum total of life and processes on Earth.

The fact is, nature doesn't matter to humans outside of the human experience. I couldn't care less if life continues on after humans go extinct, because it has no meaning to the universe. The universe doesn't care. Earth doesn't care. There is no "caring." It just is.

We should care about the quality of life on the planet because it matters to people. Not because some microbe might survive in the Antarctic.

[–]hacksoncode 2 points3 points ago

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Slightly ironic in that the cartoon said pretty much exactly what you just said.

[–]TheSchwartz83 0 points1 point ago

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To some degree, yeah. But it still sort of plays to that modern "Gaia" construct that so many people love in the West these days.

But yeah, I'm probably not too far removed.

[–]coylter 1 point2 points ago

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You are nothing more than the sum of your cells and processes in your body.

[–]TheSchwartz83 1 point2 points ago

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Yes and no. The notion of the mind-body difference is interesting, but ultimately, memories and personalities are all just chemical pathways in the brain, so on some level, yes.

On the other hand, as a human being, I have added value to the lives of others, so there is something to be said, from the human experience, about my being more than just a complex organism with impressive thinking machinery.

However, the fact remains that if one removes the religious or quasi-religious (Mother Earth is a convenient stand-in for the Western notion of God) aspects of human thought, "meaning" is difficult to define or quantify. Why does it "matter" that dinosaurs went extinct? Does it even matter?

Does it matter that the dodo went extinct? Within the context of its ecosystem, probably. But given that thousands of species of birds went extinct before and will go extinct after, what meaning can we assign to it?

[–]Osmodius -1 points0 points ago

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THANK YOU FOR THIS. I've been looking for it.

[–]GoLightLady -1 points0 points ago

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Actually beautiful. Nature does have a sense of humor and it's true. We're doing to ourselves.