It's an Omen!!

Originally Posted by flippant

Now that's just crazy talk. It's obviously the mystical white deer of great fortune and anyone lucky enough to see it will inherit the earth after the rapture, or be given the choice of amazing sex forever.(duh)

So what do I have to see to BOTH inherit the earth after rapture AND have amazing sex forever? Do hallucinations count? How about figments of the imagination? Drug induced visions?

[flippant]

Originally Posted by marichiko

So what do I have to see to BOTH inherit the earth after rapture AND have amazing sex forever? Do hallucinations count? How about figments of the imagination? Drug induced visions?

Obviously the 2-headed white deer of great fortune must be seen.
Not accounting for self-induced hallucinations.(very bad luck)

Originally Posted by flippant

Obviously the 2-headed white deer of great fortune must be seen.
Not accounting for self-induced hallucinations.(very bad luck)

I saw a two headed salamander once, does that count?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Only if it was white.
The whitetail deer in these parts a different than western deer. They're smaller in most places here because of the intense competition for food and minerals. They tend to be larger in farm country.
My buddy had a pair of albino fawns in his Lancaster County junkyard about 6 years ago. He told everyone they were off limits but once they wandered off the property they went who knows where.

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

They had a better handle on survival because they had to..........or not survive.

I want to thank you for that Bruce. I thought I was the only other person who realized that the only reason the native americans still lived in tents was because they couldn't do any better.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm not sure "they couldn't do any better" doesn't imply more than at least I intended. Living a nomadic lifestyle before the invention of Winnebagos didn't leave many options.

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'm not sure "they couldn't do any better" doesn't imply more than at least I intended. Living a nomadic lifestyle before the invention of Winnebagos didn't leave many options.

I was only semi-serious. There is some belief in the anthropological world that the only reason that the native americans hadn't exploited the resources more fully and settled down to strip the land properly was because they lacked the technology. Same as any other aboriginal culture.

They were forced to live in harmony or starve.

[Undertoad]

Yes, I've seen some dissent in passing that says the native americans stripped the land bare in several instances.

Today we have the technology to get resources without doing so much damage. Except for the fossil fuels, in a lot of cases it seems we've come full circle -- getting productive enough to strip the hell out of the land, and then getting productive enough to get those resources without messing things up so much.

I read where a great deal of the forest land in the NE US was cut away at some point and now it is back because it is managed well, even with cities encroaching.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I read where a great deal of the forest land in the NE US was cut away at some point and now it is back because it is managed well, even with cities encroaching.

The East Coast was the first part of this country to be settled. The forests were cut down so people could farm the land. Through much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, you can walk through the woods and come to old stone walls that used to mark the edges of farmers' fields.

Now the farms are in the South, the Midwest, and California.

It has nothing to do with good forest management. The weather in those other regions just allows a longer growing season. When the farmers left, the trees grew back.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The forests in the Northeast belonged to the King and he had them cut and carried off wholesale. The locals were paid to cut and ship them and then left to farm the cleared land.
Trouble is the hilly, rockey, NE was ok for pasture but almost impossible to grow profitable crops. The ones that stayed had dairy farms and several acres of garden to feed the family. The ones that wanted to grow grains went west.
When firewood went out of vogue, the forests came back.