Day 29: Crazy Days...

Well it's March. What do they say about March... In like a lion, out like a lamb? That seems sort of appropriate. The sick bug has hit the Scott house. First me, then Z. on Sunday. He couldn't go to a friend's birthday party. Then N. on Monday. I had to go to school to get her early. Also on Monday, I had to go and take Sammy, my doggy, to the vet. He too, is sick. He spent overnight at the vet last night. It's strange to walk in your house and not have your little greeter. The Vet wants to keep him overnight again tonight. Depending on my total bill, I'll make that decision. So, its about time we all get better!

The weather is even lion-ish. Today is crappy. Thunderstorms, and they are even saying there will be damaging hail tonight. Man, I just want spring to get here. I miss the flowers. The singing birds. Everything green... And new...

Speaking of new.. There is a new study conducted that claims that Moses was high on drugs when he was on Mount Sinai, and received the ten commandments. Moses was a druggy?! Sure puts a new spin on the idea of miracles in the Bible doesn't it? I'd like to see the study about the parting of the Red Sea...Here's the Story for you to read:

JERUSALEM (AFP) - High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.
"As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics," Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday. Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the "burning bush," suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.
"The Bible says people see sounds, and that is a clasic phenomenon," he said citing the example of religious ceremonies in the Amazon in which drugs are used that induce people to "see music." He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil's Amazon forest in 1991. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," Shanon said.
He said the psychedelic effects of ayahuasca were comparable to those produced by concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible.

Also there was a study done that talks about Spiders that play dead for more sex. Yes, you read that right. Here, look at the story for yourself:

PARIS (AFP) - Advice on how to score with the ladies would probably never include the strategy that works best for at least one species of male spider: playing dead. Not all male nursery web spiders looking for a little arachnid sex adopt this technique, but those that do more than double their chances of hitting the jackpot, according to new study in Behavioral Ecology, reported Wednesday in the British magazine New Scientist. In experiments designed by
Trine Bilde of the University of Aaarhus in Denmark, researchers set up date-and-mate opportunities for Pisaura mirabilis, a species native to Europe. All the males sought to attract partners by offering a gift of food, held in the mouth. But the ones that lay flat and motionless -- even if meant getting dragged about by a female that had latched onto the victuals -- wound up in a much better position, as it were, to engage in sexual activity. The hapless males that tried the direct approach wound up keeping the free meal but not getting what they were really after. Males that played dead were also allowed to copulate longer than males that did not, ensuring more eggs could fertilized, the researchers reported. Playing dead is a well-known defence mechanism in nature, but this is apparently the first time such behaviour has been observed as a strategy for obtaining sexual favours.

Which leads me to the next series of questions: 1) Who thinks up this stuff? 2) Who pays for this? And... 3)Who the heck cares?

So, they think that Moses had a thing for the bark of a tree, and a spider has more sex if it plays dead. Yippie-Skippie. Couldn't this money have been better spent? Starving, homeless, and destitute people in the world and we worry about this stuff. Like I said...

.....Crazy Days