Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 142
[email protected]
In a message dated 1/20/2002 2:37:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
hard to sort out reality from fantasy and where there are PLENTY of people
who really want to believe in the fantasy, for many reasons.
If I was vacuuming my living room and thought I saw a fairy, I'd SURE hope to
be capable of "second-guessing" myself and considering the possibility that
it was, in fact, a glint of sunlight reflecting off the vacuum cleaner.
20 years ago, my husband saw, with his own eyes and up close and personal, a
HUGE rat - like the size of a dog and NOT a little-bitty dog. It was in our
backyard. He told people about this GIANT rat for weeks. People in the
neighborhood started getting weirded out by the idea of these GIANT rats
running around in our backyards. Some of them saw it too. People were keeping
their kids out of their backyards and calling the county animal control
people and demanding that they do something about the invasion of giant rats.
Then, finally, I saw it too. It was a HUGE....possum.
My husband comes from Iran - they don't have the same wildlife we do. They
don't have possums.
--pam
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[email protected] writes:
> It teaches us to constantly second guess ourselves and ignoreIt teaches us to be skeptical. Not a bad thing to be in a world where it is
> our intuition (the existance of which is also apparently in debate
> <g>)
hard to sort out reality from fantasy and where there are PLENTY of people
who really want to believe in the fantasy, for many reasons.
If I was vacuuming my living room and thought I saw a fairy, I'd SURE hope to
be capable of "second-guessing" myself and considering the possibility that
it was, in fact, a glint of sunlight reflecting off the vacuum cleaner.
20 years ago, my husband saw, with his own eyes and up close and personal, a
HUGE rat - like the size of a dog and NOT a little-bitty dog. It was in our
backyard. He told people about this GIANT rat for weeks. People in the
neighborhood started getting weirded out by the idea of these GIANT rats
running around in our backyards. Some of them saw it too. People were keeping
their kids out of their backyards and calling the county animal control
people and demanding that they do something about the invasion of giant rats.
Then, finally, I saw it too. It was a HUGE....possum.
My husband comes from Iran - they don't have the same wildlife we do. They
don't have possums.
--pam
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Jorgen & Ann
<<My husband comes from Iran - they don't have the same wildlife we do. They
don't have possums.>>
My bil comes from a very rural area in northern California and knows all kinds of wildlife--foxes, bears, mountain lions, etc. After he moved to town he called Fish and Game to tell them he had spotted either a new species of animal or some strange mutant creature.
Yes, it was a possum.
Ann
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don't have possums.>>
My bil comes from a very rural area in northern California and knows all kinds of wildlife--foxes, bears, mountain lions, etc. After he moved to town he called Fish and Game to tell them he had spotted either a new species of animal or some strange mutant creature.
Yes, it was a possum.
Ann
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Jorgen & Ann
I forgot to say, my father later gave him a copy of Possum Come A-Knockin, to give him insight into the nature of possums, I think. It's a great book. We have a very dog-eared copy ourselves!
Ann
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: Jorgen & Ann
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 142
<<My husband comes from Iran - they don't have the same wildlife we do. They
don't have possums.>>
My bil comes from a very rural area in northern California and knows all kinds of wildlife--foxes, bears, mountain lions, etc. After he moved to town he called Fish and Game to tell them he had spotted either a new species of animal or some strange mutant creature.
Yes, it was a possum.
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