Comments on: Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/ Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Sat, 02 May 2026 21:44:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60879 CherryPie Sat, 03 Aug 2019 22:16:14 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60879 Welcome to my blog, I am glad you enjoyed my photograph and the words I chose to accompany it. I hope you have a great weekend too. Thank you :-) Welcome to my blog, I am glad you enjoyed my photograph and the words I chose to accompany it.

I hope you have a great weekend too.

Thank you :-)

]]> By: lowcarbdiabeticJan http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60875 lowcarbdiabeticJan Sat, 03 Aug 2019 16:58:36 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60875 Hello Cherie, I'm visiting your blog from Baili's … This is such a lovely photograph and I enjoyed the words too. Hope you are having a good weekend. All the best Jan https://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.com/ Hello Cherie, I’m visiting your blog from Baili’s …
This is such a lovely photograph and I enjoyed the words too.

Hope you are having a good weekend.

All the best Jan

https://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.com/

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60866 CherryPie Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:44:31 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60866 I think you are already in 'heaven' :-) I think you are already in ‘heaven’ :-)

]]> By: Andrew http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60858 Andrew Thu, 01 Aug 2019 08:46:39 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60858 I have read too, and have been unimpressed. A plant is cut, there is a physical reaction that spreads through the system, unsurprisingly, and some human decides to call it "pain". A human talks to a plant, all the time breathing out carbon dioxide and water vapour - its food - all over it, and the cells respond in a way some human decides is a response to the talking rather than to the carbon dioxide and the water vapour. Chemicals released by plants have chemical influences on others, unsurprisingly, but some human decides they are communicating as if "aware" of each other. But of course we must all kill something to survive, until we evolve to photosynthesise for ourselves. As for geese and ducks and lambs and cattle and kindness, however, I do know that our modern mass production methods of meat and dairy production treats most animals, in ways that are far removed from "kindness", which was my point. I still eat meat though, occasionally, and dairy, often. I will never reach that "heaven". I have read too, and have been unimpressed. A plant is cut, there is a physical reaction that spreads through the system, unsurprisingly, and some human decides to call it “pain”. A human talks to a plant, all the time breathing out carbon dioxide and water vapour – its food – all over it, and the cells respond in a way some human decides is a response to the talking rather than to the carbon dioxide and the water vapour. Chemicals released by plants have chemical influences on others, unsurprisingly, but some human decides they are communicating as if “aware” of each other. But of course we must all kill something to survive, until we evolve to photosynthesise for ourselves. As for geese and ducks and lambs and cattle and kindness, however, I do know that our modern mass production methods of meat and dairy production treats most animals, in ways that are far removed from “kindness”, which was my point. I still eat meat though, occasionally, and dairy, often. I will never reach that “heaven”.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60855 CherryPie Thu, 01 Aug 2019 01:37:21 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60855 I have not heard of the Backster effect, you will have to explain that to me. I have read some interesting books on plant life. Two in particular spring to mind. I have not heard of the Backster effect, you will have to explain that to me.

I have read some interesting books on plant life. Two in particular spring to mind.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60854 Andrew Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:33:23 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60854 Oh... the old Backster effect? I quote you "In the ensuing years, several legitimate plant scientists tried to reproduce the Backster effect without success. Much of the science in “The Secret Life of Plants” has been discredited"... There is an awful lot of utter tosh claimed in the name of supposed science (even if my cut flowers are glaring at me as I write and screaming I am a murderer). Oh… the old Backster effect? I quote you “In the ensuing years, several legitimate plant scientists tried to reproduce the Backster effect without success. Much of the science in “The Secret Life of Plants” has been discredited”… There is an awful lot of utter tosh claimed in the name of supposed science (even if my cut flowers are glaring at me as I write and screaming I am a murderer).

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60853 CherryPie Wed, 31 Jul 2019 23:03:39 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60853 And don't forget plants and vegetables... There are experiments that show that they feel pain and react to negative thoughts and actions directed at them. With thoughts like that, man would soon be extinct ;-) Birds also kill to eat: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-49070562 Animals should be treated kindly even when they are part of the food chain. And don’t forget plants and vegetables… There are experiments that show that they feel pain and react to negative thoughts and actions directed at them.

With thoughts like that, man would soon be extinct ;-)

Birds also kill to eat:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-49070562

Animals should be treated kindly even when they are part of the food chain.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60849 Andrew Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:21:55 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60849 Nice geese. Lovely photo. No more goose at the festive season then. Eating them seems unkind to the little creatures. Nice geese. Lovely photo. No more goose at the festive season then. Eating them seems unkind to the little creatures.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60842 CherryPie Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:20:42 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60842 Thank you :-) Thank you :-)

]]> By: Mike@Bitaboutbritain http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2019/07/29/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-513/comment-page-1/#comment-60840 Mike@Bitaboutbritain Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:22:33 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=22208#comment-60840 Lovely thought, CP. Lovely thought, CP.

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