whales and mantis...

[graffitirun]

during mating, the female praying mantis devours the male-

perhaps the earth is mating and being devoured by a female manits

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cruise ships, the kind that take old folks on tours, float wayward across the ocean.
sometimes, to save time, they take shortcuts.
these shortcuts may happen to be through schools of whales who sense something coming,
yet, unaware just what it is, become hypnotized by it all-- at which point they get run over by the passing ship.

[Caprinardo Delirio]

nice thoughts! :)

[daniel]

i prefer the caterpillar-to-butterfly metaphor, the new organism eating through the cocoon before it is released into the air.

[sidecross]

i prefer the caterpillar-to-butterfly metaphor, the new organism eating through the cocoon before it is released into the air.

Yes, that description fits nicely with Chaos Theory.

"In mathematics and physics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that under certain conditions exhibit a phenomenon known as chaos. Among the characteristics of chaotic systems, described below, is the sensitivity to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, the behavior of systems that exhibit chaos appears to be random, exhibiting an exponential error dispersion, even though the system is deterministic in the sense that it is well defined and contains no random parameters. Examples of such systems include the atmosphere, the solar system, plate tectonics, turbulent fluids, economics, population growth and the vast variety of dissipative structures."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

[graffitirun]

oh yes-
a much better image indeed

yet ive felt the need of late, to meta-for-eyes some of this horror-chaos
in the best possible light. or at least bathed in the light of a different stream..

the mantis is rather ruthless
and perhaps on second thought, the earth is the female in this scenario
devouring the dominator.

and the whales; peaceful, singing, swimming- embraced by the ocean, caterpillars of something.
yet it is these careless ways, the shortcuts & time is a factor... that hypnotizes and destroys

not necessarily my cup of tea, this dark pessimism (if it is)
but it's just what the dragonfly had shown me...


http://graffitirun.net/graffitirun-caterpillar-001.jpg

[drew hempel]

Nice photo --is that a Genetically engineered bumblebee-land mine? haha.

An administrator at the U of Minnesota told Monsanto: "For enough money we can make tomatos as big as basketballs!"

I think that Mantis Metaphor is quite apropos -- the Earth is Definitely Devouring Civilization!

Chaos science is Freemasonry whose motto is "Order out of Chaos."

There is no "irrational number" in Nature and She knows well enough when it's time to plow under her little monsters.

Monster! RRRAAAWW! haha.

[graffitirun]

I was never able to find the exact scientific or given name of this caterpillar, and it may be a woolly bear, which becomes a (tiger?) moth-

but this entity looks to me as made of two dark worlds pulled apart, revealing a glowing center, an inner light shining through, piercing through the darkness- while surrounded by the life of the plants, its whole moves, crawls, races towards another light, the light and warmth of the sun, the promise of a cocoon and renewal.

this and many other caterpillars emerged on an island that had, in days previous, been ravaged by a flood. In the weeks that followed, a warm, humid climate and a great deal of water and regenerative processes had grown perhaps millions of butterflies. Everywhere I went I encountered awesome flocks of butterflies. Riding my bicycle through a park one afternoon, hundreds, maybe thousands of butterflies flew out from the distance, out from an an amphitheatre, from trees and water- a holographic, kaleidoscopic shimmering fluttering stream of butterflies.