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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

James, when you start talking Deepak Chpopra and Ayurvedic thinking you 
venture into areas beyond by beliefs, not to say mine are correct; I just 
don't believe in such things .  I guess maybe results are proof, who knows.  
Lots of people think Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Baker cured them ; maybe they 
were cured, and Baker and Swaggart were incidental to the process; I don't 
know.

But, I am curious about the black thread experiment.  Your results are your 
proof.  Unless this was a made-up example; why do you think it worked ?  I've 
always been taught that crows were not only more intelligernt than most 
birds, but also had better eyesight and hearing than most birds.  But, if 
that is the case, why wouldn't they better be able to see that it is just a 
piece of black thread?

I have heard of placing pieces of black hose-pipe (to look like snakes); is 
this what you had in mind? ................bobford


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--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> 
> 
> As an example different enough from the topic to serve as
> an example:  For  years crows pulling up the newly sprouted corn diminished 
> my corn yield to an  annoying level.  I came upon the idea of strining 
> black thread over the sprouting corn under the notion that there was 
> something obout it that crows could not and would not abide.  After 
> everything else gave mediocre results or failed  entirely,  the black 
> thread worked 100% and has worked every year of the ten years that I have 
> used it.  No crow has pulled up even one corn seedling in that  time.
> 
> In an another homesead forum, someone who did not want that
> to be true ('I gave up growing corn because there is NOTHING you can do
> about the crows!!!') asked "Well, where is the study that shows this is
> true??"   As far as I know, there isn't one.  But due to our several ways 
> ofapproaching reality and truth, I have good corn fields every year and he 
> has none.
>