The ant culture

[Classik]

The ant culture

I was told ( that during the good days of our grand parents and our parents) people used to greet one another, especially your seniors and elderly ones with maximum respect and near-worship. There was real communion and fellowship with everyone. They greeted everyone that came their way and they also received responces full of respect.

You don't say hi or hello to an adult. You use the polite and formal language. Not just these: you don't greet and hurriedly walk away and/or continue with whatever you were doing. "If there are thirty men coming your way - you must greet all of them or if they are together already, your greeting must be in the plural sense.

This situation was illustrated to us using the ants system of movement. An ant would stop to greet a fellow ant - and would shake the hands of all the ants coming his/her way and say some good things to each of the ants. This is repeated through the journey until there are no more ants. This is the ant culture

I was told our parents were like the ants. However the youth of these days have lost the ant culture - and some socalled parents of our day.

Everyone is in a haste, dad says. No one pauses to greet another fellow or friend or an elder.

 

[Willie T]

Are you REAL sure ants talk?

 

[th1b.taylor]

You're right and the world becomes more and more violent for the loss. When I grew up in the south we said yes sir and no mam. They did not do so in the north and with the invasion of the Yankees moving south, our children have become just as rude and just as violent. If we would study the ants we would learn much.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Are you REAL sure ants talk?

Their language or form of communication is with touch and the emission of chemicals.

 

[Willie T]

And some of us also seem to have even lost our sense of humor.

 

[Gary]

And some of us also seem to have even lost our sense of humor.

It's those darn Yankees, they just wreak everything.

.

 

[Kathi]

What communication?

 

[Willie T]

What communication?

Last weekend, my wife and I were at Hardee's (a fast food joint) when a couple almost as old as us came in. They sat down at a table across from each other, and for the entire time we remained there, both of them were bent over their cell phones... texting, I guess. They never spoke a word to one another.

 

[Kathi]

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Last weekend, my wife and I were at Hardee's (a fast food joint) when a couple almost as old as us came in. They sat down at a table across from each other, and for the entire time we remained there, both of them were bent over their cell phones... texting, I guess. They never spoke a word to one another.

Hmmm...sad.

 

[Classik]

Are you REAL sure ants talk?

LOL. That was an illustration. I think there is a bible verse that describes something about ants

 

[Classik]

Dad also told us it was forbidden to address the elderly ones by their names.

 

[Kathi]

Dad also told us it was forbidden to address the elderly ones by their names.

I was always taught to say Mrs...Mr. and then their last name when I was young.

 

[Classik]

And who amongst us younger ones can release our seats for a standing elderly man or our seniors.

 

[Gary]

LOL. That was an illustration. I think there is a bible verse that describes something about ants

Proverbs 30
24 There are four things which are little on the earth,
But they are exceedingly wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong,
Yet they prepare their food in the summer;
26 The rock badgers are a feeble folk,
Yet they make their homes in the crags;
27 The locusts have no king,
Yet they all advance in ranks;
28 The spider skillfully grasps with its hands,
And it is in kings’ palaces.
.

 

[Kathi]

Ever had one?