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MacGlaspyn

Date:

February 2nd, 2007 2:36 PM

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Groundhogs vs. Global Warming

Bulletin:

Okay, I will be the first to admit, this isn't that much of a thinker for a bulletin. I give you that. However, for ages most higher primates (humans included) have looked at the world with an eye towards the cause an effect mindset. Sure, it wasn't always grounded in the strictest of science as in the case of Groundhog Day... At some point, someone took the pagan festival of Imbolc (the midpoint between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox - or winter and spring) and said "hey, if that rodent comes out of his hole and freaks out about seeing his shadow, 'X' will happen". Fine. I can buy that. I don't walk under ladders. I have lucky socks for important football games. Sure, weather forecasting rodents. I am down with that.

What happens though when mankind messes with the planet enough that the belief systems, even the weird ones like Groundhog Day aren't enough to keep things going? When the day comes when that Pennsylvanina rat crawls out on a 60 degree day? Who cares if spring is coming? It's already here, isn't it? I hear often that science errodes belief. That by proving something, you no longer have to have faith in something. That's true, and I am all for my science, don't get me wrong. I am just saying, there should be room for groundhogs too.

Those are my mad ramblings for today anyway...

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