This was funny to me when it happened. I can tell she was barely interested in it beyond making sure I did not eat it. In my mind when she said it, I was thinking obviously I know it’s a mushroom.
An hour ago I told her I would call her in five minutes and then went down a ganoderma rabbit hole. These things have changed around quite a bit in the last few years from subspecies to different species and vice versa. Sometimes makes it difficult to narrow down on a species. Especially since I forgot to get pictures of the host tree and then forgot them in a bag for three weeks and have no spore print.
I’m case anyone is wondering multiple people has said it’s most likely Ganoderma curtisii. In some books that’s the same as G. meredithiae.
How odd. Found a topsider (deck) shoe that I want. The price is hefty. It’s advertised as: Quantity. 1.
I got paranoid: what if the online company actually sells one shoe for a hefty price, but to get a left shoe for a left foot AND a right shoe for a right foot, I have to order Quantity 2???
So I asked. (Sigh), that was a relief. Quantity 1 means one pair of shoes, one for the left foot and one for the right foot. That part of the world is still normal.
Thought this was a bit amusing. The guy is more of an friend of an acquaintance but me and the other guy had been talking about better ways to interpret theology. Despite being some form of Catholicism in Slovakia it seems they are heavily influenced by YEC including the others I met through him. Anyways his friend , that I don’t really know, has been going on about how he feels god putting it on his heart to snow me the truth and that evolution is a lie and ect… somehow the discussion got around to the giant sea serpents like Levithan from the Bible and while praying he said he came across a secular link to that creature and knows god wants him to share it to me. He said that he even had a dream of how ferocious this animal is. He wanted me to see how giant it was and that even the picture shows it.
For a second I was thinking, that’s really cool and yeah it’s big but I’m not sure how that is supposed to change anything I believe. Then I realized pretty quickly in like a second that it was most likely really small and that yellow line is the size snd larger picture is not to scale. So I went to the page and it outright says it’s a small snake with hind legs.
So I asked him if he was just joking or if he was aware of the creatures size. That it’s small. So he checked and came back and seriously said he was misunderstanding the groaning of the spirit and that this is evidence for the snake in the garden and that it used its body to wrap around the tree and it’s feet to hand a fruit to Eve. He’s not even joking. He’s dead serious that he believes this lol.
I was just like…… what about the vision of the giant snake……
That indirectly reminds me of the YEC (after I had said that truth comes from the reality of the data in nature and the reality of the data in the Bible, and if there’s an apparent conflict, our interpretation of one or the other or both is flawed) who wanted chapter and verse where the Bible said that truth comes from reality.
That’s pretty funny – the older we get, the funnier it is. Both of my parents did, and both my wife and myself have (barring any terribly mutilating accident or necessary autopsy, in which cases the Anatomical Board doesn’t want them).
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