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I am very grateful to all those of CORNELL UNIVERSITY, and its ORNITHOLOGICAL STUDIES, and the audio-biologists who compiled the songsters and nightingales songs from the bird album:
"BIRDSONGS OF THE WORLD" 1984:

from the open college university's bookstore "THE CROW'S NEST"

The knowledge that came out of the bird songs and bird identities of this album was priceless.........

I regret the fact that this information that was on this particular birdsong album---is no longer accessible to the public and the album is permanently no
available after a few years of being on the open market.........

I am very grateful to be of the few who were able to experience first hand the knowledge offered in ageless song.

\\\ faith and prayers of gratitude be with those who allowed this knowledge and information to be freely shared with all intelligence levels of the public.........for the public service and discretion.

In thoughts to the spirit of freedom---of all nature knowledges---- and the joy of our creation in our faith to our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.


THE BROWN-BACKED SOLITAIRE

[Myodestes Occidentalis] AKA: "Clarin Jilaguero"

Location: Belize, Guatamala, Honduras, Mexico
 
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BACHMAN'S SPARROW

AIMOPHILA AESTVALIS

AKA: Pine Woods Sparrow or Piney Woods Sparrow

ENDANGERED IN TENNESSEE and THREATENED IN NORTH CAROLINA...........

THE GENUS NAME IS DERIVED FROM THE COMBINATION OF TWO GREEK WORDS :
AIMA---(BLOOD) and
PHILA ---(FOND OF)
THE REASON FOR THIS NAME IS UNKNOWN.

THE SPECIES NAME IS A LATIN WORD MEANING "SUMMARY."

FAMILY----EMBERIZIDAE



The sound of the Bachman's sparrow can go on to sound very soulful to me...as if I can hear the bawling crying of a woman in this bird's song.....
I think it the the bawling soulful sound of its song that makes this bird so precious to me........

I often wonder if the bird sang over the trenches of the men, during the civil war...as this trench war went on for quite a long time and during the spring and summer months of the civil war..........

I remember watching the TIME/LIFE CIVIL WAR HISTORY video tapes of this trench war battle, where each side---the north and then the south----would play the CIVIL WAR SONG---"SWEET LORENA" back and forth for weeks, in the summer months at a time.........I often wondered if the Bachman's Sparrow or Piney Woods Sparrow's song, if the birdsong, if the bird was in the background of this WARSONG battle, and played a major part in determining the victory of the battle of the trench wars of the south...........?????????

http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/aaestivalis.html

SONG:www.percevia.com/explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/668/target.aspx
 
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AFRICAN BUSH ROBINS, SCRUB ROBINS OR BUSH CHATS

SCRUB JAYS..........

note the white eye bar markings---some right above the eye, some in the middle and some right below each of these bird's eyes............
 
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"There is a fifth dimension beyond which is known to man. It is the dimension as vast as space and as timeless as Infinity. It is the middle ground between Light and Shadow, between Science and Superstition and it lies between the pits of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of the imagination.
It is the area we call......."The Twilight Zone."

R. Sterling


"NO PEACE AMONG THE NATIONS, WITHOUT PEACE AMONG THE RELIGIONS.
NO PEACE AMONG THE RELIGIONS WITHOUT DIALOGUE AMONG THE RELIGIONS.
NO DIALOGUE AMONG THE RELIGIONS WITHOUT INVESTIGATION OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE RELIGIONS."

Hans Kung
 
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"FAITH IS EXCITEMENT AND ENTHUSIASM---A CONDITION OF INTELLECTUAL MAGNIFICENCE, to which we must cling to as a treasure, AND NOT SQUANDER IN OUR WAY OF LIFE----in the small coin of empty words or in exacting priggish arguments......"

George Sands

"IF WE LONG TO BELIEVE THAT THE SUN AND THE STARS RISE AND SET FOR US---THAT WE ARE THE REASON THAT THERE IS A UNIVERSE------does SCIENCE do us an injustice---A DISSERVICE----- in deflating our conceits?"

AND

'HOW RIGOROUS THE STANDARDS OF EVIDENCE MUST BE IF WE REALLY ARE TO KNOW SOMETHING IS TRUE;---------
HOW MANY FALSE STARTS AND DEAD ENDS HAVE PLAGUED HUMAN THINKING-
HOW MANY BIASES COLOR OUR INTERPRETATION OF EVIDENCE--------
HOW BELIEF SYSTEMS WIDELY HELD AND SUPPORTED BY THE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND ACADEMIC HIERARCHIES OFTEN TURN OUT TO BE----NOT JUST SLIGHTLY IN ERROR---BUT GROTESQUELY WRONG....on so important a question.......the evidence must be airtight.








{of ghosttrains, nighthawks, birdclouds and flying ladies}
 
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MORE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not a bond of love---let it rather be a moving sea between the souls of your souls."

"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."

"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."

Kahil Gibran
 

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"THE BATTLE OF GOD" Karen Armstrong

"One of the most startling developments of the late twentiest century has been the emergence within every major religious tradition of a militant piety known as "fundamentalism. Its manifestations are sometimes shocking."

"Fundamentalists have no time for democracy, religious tolerance.........."

{ respect for the spirit and truth in the life of others, respect for spiritual values, for basic moral insight and integrity in the life of others, good information gathering, information sharing, rationalism, freedom-loving values, good question-asking and problem solving and decision-making skills} for Holy Spirit*,

"................for peacekeeping, freedom of speech, or the separation of church and state. Christian fundamentalists reject the discoveries of biology and physics.".........

[ they reject science for pseudo-science ]

[they deny the bridge of ethics, of humanistic values and faith, between science and the emotional intelligence of the people, and ethical decision-making powers in the market---with their kind of market fervor]


"..............and insist that the Book of Genesis is scientifically sound in every detail."

".............Jewish fundamentalists observe their revealed Law more stringently than before.........Muslim women, repudiating the freedoms of Western women, shroud themselves in veils and candors.........Fundamentalism, moreover, is not confined to the great monotheisms.............There are even Buddhist, Hindu and Confucian fundamentalists..........."

[bible]1 Thessalonians 4:8[/bible]

[bible]Hebrews 4:12-13[/bible]


ON PSEUDOSCIENCE:

"I worry that as the Millennium"....edges over in time...... "pseudoscience and superstition will seem more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

Where have we heard it before?

Whenever our ethnic ot national prejudices are aroused;
in times of scarcity;
During challenges to national self-esteem or nerve,
When we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose;
or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us--------
then----
the habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.....

The candle flame gutters........

Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers.

The demons begin to stir."


Carl Sagan
Ch. 2 "Science and Hope"
"The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"



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later.......
 
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Revelation 2:12-13
 
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[bible]Leviticus 14:49-53[/bible]
 
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"NON-VIOLENT DIRECT ACTION SEEKS TO CREATE SUCH A CRISIS AND ESTABLISH SUCH A CREATIVE TENSION THAT A COMMUNITY THAT HAS REFUSED TO NEGOTIATE IS FORCED TO CONFRONT THE ISSUE. IT SEEKS SO TO DRAMATIZE THE ISSUE THAT IT CAN NO LONGER BE IGNORED. I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE WORD "TENSION". I HAVE EARNESTLY PREACHED AGAINST "VIOLENT TENSION", AND THERE IS A TYPE OF "CONSTRUCTIVE [CREATIVE] TENSION" THAT IS NECESSARY FOR GROWTH."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
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"Vicious men can exploit the impulse , but it is a disaster to treat the impulse as vicious."

Jacob Bronowski

1 Thessalonians 4:8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

"Science without religion is lame,
Religion without science is blind."

The sense of the mysterious stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

Albert Einstein

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound sense of spirituality."

The weapons scientists, the politicians and the religious leaders have made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble."

Carl Sagan

"RESEARCH INVOLVING OVER SEVENTEEN HUNDRED EXPERIMENTS, DEMOSTRATES THAT THE DNA IN LIVING CELLS CAN COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER NEARBY CELLS THROUGH THE TRANMISSION OF ENERGY IN THE FORM OF LIGHT.........
THESE RESULTS INDICATE THAT CELLS CAN ALSO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER INDEPENDETLY OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND OF ORGAN SYSTEMS SUCH AS THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, NERVOUS SYSTEM OR IMMUNE SYSTEM.":

Leonard Laskow "Healing With Love"
 
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