Posted on 09/18/2019 10:23:23 AM PDT by Gamecock
Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.
What do you confess to the plants in your life?
“I remember the plants that sensed things back in the early 1970s.”
Was that before or after you stuffed their skinny little leaves into your bong?
A mockery of ancient aboriginal cultures where the knowledge of plants can mean the difference between life and death.
Sheldon Cooper is sitting in the back.
Bonhoeffer was similarly dismayed by the students at Union Theological Seminary. The students “are completely clueless with respect to what dogmatics is really about. They are not familiar with even the most basic questions. They become intoxicated with liberal and humanistic phrases, are amused at the fundamentalists, and yet basically are not even up to their level.... In contrast to our own [German] liberalism, which in its better representatives doubtless was a genuinely vigorous phenomenon, here all that has been frightfully sentimentalised, and with an almost naive know-it-all attitude” (pp. 265-66). Again, referring to Union Seminary: “A seminary in which numerous students openly laugh during a public lecture because they find it amusing when a passage on sin and forgiveness from Luther’s de servo arbitrio is cited has obviously, despite its many advantages, forgotten what Christian theology in its very essence stands for” (pp. 309-10).
To make it even worse, some idiot thought it was a good idea to bring potted plants additional loose dirt to stand in. Should have brought some water for the half dead plant.
Some one back in the late 1960s got the idea that if you hooked up a lie detector to a plant you could get an electrical reaction.
If you went into a room and destroyed a plant, the other plants would go into measurable stress.
If several other people walked into the room, the plants would go into extreme stress when the person who destroyed the plant walked in. They wondered what would happen to the plants if a murder had taken place. No one tried it.
Measurable plant stress was quite the rage back around 1970 in popular scientific magazines. Mother Earth News even picked up on it.
And I have NEVER smoked anything.
“And I have NEVER smoked anything.”
Good for you!
As for the rest...I learn something new everyday at FR.
Did the plants grant absolution? Or is that only for Catholic plants?
Wheres the weed killer?
I ran a biofeedback lab back then. I want into the lab to try it out and they discovered I could control my heart rate, brain waves, and everything else very easily so they hired me. They asked me what I did to control those things, and I said I just talked to the machines and told them what I wanted the readings to be.
Just for fun, I tried killing my philodendron to see what other plants did. Didn’t work, they survived just fine.
“Just for fun, I tried killing my philodendron to see what other plants did. Didn’t work, they survived just fine.”
Could be they are just pursuing a very long-term revenge plot. Plants might just be very, very patient.
That looks more like a seminarian from Mundelein, lol.
Frankfurt School. Long March.
God’s Creation is a miraculous thing. One does not have to be a leftist to consider that it is far greater and deeper a mystery than we suspect.
And I have NEVER smoked anything.
From Wikipedia
“Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (UTS) is a non-denominational Christian seminary[2] in New York City. It is affiliated with neighboring Columbia University. Since 1928, the seminary has served as Columbia’s constituent faculty of theology. In 1964, UTS also established an affiliation with the neighboring Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
UTS is the oldest independent seminary in the United States and has long been known as a bastion of progressive Christian scholarship, with a number of prominent thinkers among its faculty or alumni. It was founded in 1836 by members of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.,[3] but was open to students of all denominations. In 1893, UTS rescinded the right of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to veto faculty appointments, thus becoming fully independent. In the 20th century, Union became a center of liberal Christianity. It served as the birthplace of the Black theology, womanist theology, and other theological movements. Union houses the Columbia University Burke Library, one of the largest theological libraries in the Western Hemisphere.”
Columbia University. Mr. O’Bama’s alma mater.
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