Wednesday 26 January 2011

Beeemergency!


Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground - everything that has the breath of life in it - I give every green plant for food."And it was so. - Genesis 1, 29-30.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein.

Beeemergency!

Some say Einstein didn't say
What others say he said
About the bees so I will say
It in his stead and that is this
That when the bees are gone
It won't be long
Till man is also gone from here
God's message couldn't be more clear
Mind the bees
And nature's law
There's no place else
For bees to go.
gw2011

26 comments:

  1. Excellent Gwilym...and the Einstein quote :)

    Wonder how many times "this" universe faced this Beeemergency :)

    wishes,
    devika

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  2. My husband says i'm stupid to love this world...and I agree I'm that stupid...But it IS a lovable world, i guess,

    just thought of sharing :)

    wishes,
    devika

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  3. Thanks Devika. The poem is prompted by yesterday's debate in EU Parliament aboout the serious decline in bee numbers. They've as you know been in decline for many years, especially in the USA, for various environmental reasons to do with man's misconduct on the planet.

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  4. Well said. This needs printing off and posting to world leaders - also to people like the man from Saudi Arabia (King, Sheik or something) who has flown back today from America needing three large planes on which to carry his wives, staff and all the things he has bought while he has beem there.
    I do not believe there is a God, but if there were and he was looking down on us and our behaviour with this world, then I am sure he would be in despair.

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  5. Okay...I remember reading a report on BBC online sometime last year...Yes, man often do not act conscientiously, and Nature retaliates as natural calamities,

    ‘Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.’
    William Ruckelshaus,

    and mankind better realise...we are just on of those species meant to live on earth...and we must take care to provide a sustainable development environment...

    lot of talks in the area, nationally here too and internationally...but deeds....what to say!

    wishes,
    devika

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  6. after reading Weaver of Grass' comment,

    the Gods I guess will take care of themselves, we too better do it ourselves,

    we seem to worry too much about the existence of Gods...but not fellow beings, :)


    wishes,
    devika

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  7. Thank you Pat
    and Devika,
    and the amazing news about the 3 aeroplanes needed for the wives and all their shopping etc. And from Saudi Arabia you say? Isn't that the place that dictator chappie from Tunisia is living now in luxurious Idi Amin style? These boys certainly appear to know where to go don't they?
    Apropos "the Gods" I would only point out the basic fact that those who invented them were living in pre-Freudean times.

    ps - Is the so-called Universal Declaration of Human Rights saying that every person is entitled to follow the theological mass control system of his choice, theoretically? If so, perhaps it's time it was re-examined. Just a passing thought.

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  8. Okay Gwilym...I agree and disagree on the latter part... Because I believe in God, more than i believe in Freud....And My God/religion is my choice...

    But no nobdy can or should impose any sytem on another, let alone beliefs...But sharing theology from a knowledge point is good, i THINK...as it only expands one's thinking,

    wishes,
    devika

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  9. Again I agree, what we think should be, is not what the world follows...looking at many religions,

    Hinduism is not concerned of who is a devotee and who is not...even Bhagavad Gita doesn't call for it....But the Hindutva --the political ideologists --are trying their bit,

    wishes,
    devika

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  10. Yes Devika, it's good to have an open discussion. Each one must choose for himself or herself. And I now choose not to choose. That's also a choice. Tomorrow I may change my mind. That's a choice too. And when I think of it I may even invent my own personal religion - one just for me. That's also a choice. Perhaps the best one for me as it happens. But it wasn't always so. When I was born I had no religion and like everyone another's religion was imposed upon me, because I couldn't think for myself. I got rid of it when I discovered I could think for myself for it was then that I discovered it was riddled with hypocrisy.

    Here's a theory. The original gods hitched a ride on a comet. They've left a secret thing here which nobody has found yet. They live in a black hole at the centre of the galaxy. You see, we can build a whole new religion in quick time here. Oh yes, the motto, It shall be UT TIBI SIC ALIS. That's called the golden rule. Maybe we should print it on all the world's money. It was on the breast pocket of my school blazer where I kept my pet mouse and my fountain pens.

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  11. DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU

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  12. Yes very much agree, Gwylim....Every religion was meant for the betterment of man, perhaps...But finally it began to be used as a pretext for other things,

    to give a bit of a background, my father is a athiest, my mother an orthodoxly religious woman...but neither religion nor atheism was was not thrust upon us ---I grew up to be a believer,

    DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU --

    I PERFECTLY agree,

    and to make other know that...perhaps we have should take love and forgiveness as the route...all things/thoughts/deeds are not easily understand...nor explainable, I think Gwilym,

    wishes,
    devika

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  13. And I don't believe GOD can be anywhere else, other than with you...so be the Satan,

    Human beings are a single package of God and Satan...and we are destined to find our way through, I think

    wishes,
    devika

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  14. And I don't believe GOD can be anywhere else, other than "within" you...so be the Satan,

    Okay when the micro-macro extrapolation is done....May be God should be somewhere in the universe...just a thought,

    wishes,
    devika

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  15. Devika, I think what bothers me is the thought of the intermediary, the priest, guru, or any so-called holy man on the path connecting me and my maker. I see this as interference in the business I have directly with my maker and that he has directly with me.

    The material making up our bodies is as old as the earth, perhaps even older.

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  16. I should say 'energy' for there is really no such thing as 'material'.

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  17. Yes, Gwilym...I think I can relate there...But one has to find one's way,

    I would like to quote Gandhiji here...

    “We are of the earth earthy. If earth is not, we are not. I feel nearer God by feeling Him through the Earth. In bowing to the Earth, I at once realise my indebtedness to Him; and if I am a worthy child of that Mother, I shall at once reduce myself to dust and rejoice in establishing kinship with not only with the lowliest of human beings, but also with the lowest forms of creation whose fate-reduction to dust ~ I have to share with them.”

    ~ Mahatma Gandhi

    And that is relevant to the "Bee" post :)

    wishes,
    devika

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  18. Okay, those intermediaries will go as our relation with God deepens...thats what i've seen,

    wishes,
    devika

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  19. But by Indian tradition...we are used to Guru idea...and my Guru is my God...He lived in the 1800s...He is deep within me, as much the same place as God,

    If there's no such light within it becomes difficult for me,

    Okay, God, religion and guru has not much been so much of extensive discussion...

    wishes,
    devika

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  20. "those intermediaries will go as our relation with God deepens...thats what i've seen,"

    that i meant for the present day clerics/priests...where money rules churches/temples et al,

    wishes,
    devika

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  21. Devika, A lovely quote and very apt to the current Beeemergency!

    I think the intermediaries are basically fighting for their survival. The world's established religions seem to be in crisis. They've been seriously questioned and have been found wanting.

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  22. The light within. Now that's the real light.

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  23. Yes, Gwilym...felt everywhere...and possibly that deficiency will bring the goodness back, we hope,

    wishes,

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  24. "The light within. Now that's the real light"

    Yes thanks Gwilym...i've really felt it,

    wishes,
    devika

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  25. Truly. Without bees, we would not be.

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  26. Thanks Mike, and hope the monster winter storm the weather people are predicting for US is not too monstrous

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