Mi-Shell
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Originally Posted by souljourney
Was really looking through this deck yesterday card by card, etc. I gotta say "cockroach" is not a critter I want to see in my world...
I like that this deck has other creatures not seen in animal decks usually. The book, for a little book it is quite good actually.
No 33, the Cockroach!
Now here I am of 2 minds: In my own culture this is just another bug, another of the many Shape-changers that live upon the broad and diverse back of Mother Earth. Soooo - a feeling of neutrality. In Siberia there are not many Cockroaches. It is too cold in the winter. Here in the Canadian bush I have never seen one....
BUT In Toronto???????
In Ottawa?????? In the cheap housing projects where I was first forced to live when we got here so I could go back to uni and "redo" my degrees and get them "canadianised"
Roaches were living in the walls and iffff it had not been winter I would have rather lived in my tiny motor home .....
So there I adopted the western view of this Shape-changer!
Humans and their ways of living and their dirt and refuse are the reason for the explosion of roaches in urban areas. And also of rats, whose staple food they are......
Are'nt we just the greatest!????
I am now confronted with these 2 viewpoints and a card showing several of these critters, a big Palmeto bug = the huuuuuge ones I know from Florida, where they are endangered and protected and several others of different size eating a rind of bread.... this is adaptability and survival in spite of being "animal non grata"
Cockroaches will be there when the human's reign of this planet is long over.
Originally Posted by souljourney
Was really looking through this deck yesterday card by card, etc. I gotta say "cockroach" is not a critter I want to see in my world...
I like that this deck has other creatures not seen in animal decks usually. The book, for a little book it is quite good actually.
No 33, the Cockroach!
Now here I am of 2 minds: In my own culture this is just another bug, another of the many Shape-changers that live upon the broad and diverse back of Mother Earth. Soooo - a feeling of neutrality. In Siberia there are not many Cockroaches. It is too cold in the winter. Here in the Canadian bush I have never seen one....
BUT In Toronto???????
In Ottawa?????? In the cheap housing projects where I was first forced to live when we got here so I could go back to uni and "redo" my degrees and get them "canadianised"
Roaches were living in the walls and iffff it had not been winter I would have rather lived in my tiny motor home .....
So there I adopted the western view of this Shape-changer!
Humans and their ways of living and their dirt and refuse are the reason for the explosion of roaches in urban areas. And also of rats, whose staple food they are......
Are'nt we just the greatest!????
I am now confronted with these 2 viewpoints and a card showing several of these critters, a big Palmeto bug = the huuuuuge ones I know from Florida, where they are endangered and protected and several others of different size eating a rind of bread.... this is adaptability and survival in spite of being "animal non grata"
Cockroaches will be there when the human's reign of this planet is long over.