"Lucid" wrote:
"DigitalVinyl" wrote in message
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wrote:
You have to remember than companion planting is mostly a practitioner
concept-not a scientific one.
Scientific proofs are overrated. Give me a time-tested practitioner concept,
any day.
There are a gazillion "time-tested" ideas that no one should believe.
Black cats, walking under ladders, the number 13, women are
subservient to men, and *MANY* many others that have survived
hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. Doesn't make them any more
real than Santy Claus, Easter Bunny, Thor the Thundergod, or many
others. Urban legends passed around the internet prove how gullible
people are--they will believe anything as long as someone says it or
writes it.
In an age of corporate 'science' that changes with every new
mass-media-released 'study', people need to rely somewhat more upon their
own observations and common sense.
True, but the average person believes he's really really gonna win
Lotto because "someone has to". Or that gambling casinos and betting
are a way to make fast money. Or that there is no harm in alcohol. We
"see" whatever we can make fit our own conclusions. The rest doesn't
get noticed.
I learned 20 years ago whenever someone said "tell me the truth" they
are asking to be lied to, nod along with what they say, or sit in
silent "agreement" with them and "listen". People have no appetite for
digging up the truth or facts in a situation. It's all too messy to
figure out.
Luc
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
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