Read in Walden about the ants and their war - they fight on a massive scale. Ants also enslave and "milk" aphids. And, oddly enough, ants are aware of themselves when they look in a mirror.

@Beowulfsfriend do you have a reference for the ants self-awareness? That's interesting.

@Metahuman, yes, they say: “Hello, self!”

@Metahuman here is a quicky [scinapse.io]. It is an ongoing argument as to whether or not recognition of self is actual self-awareness. I just grabbed a quick, yes there are studies. It is definitely being argued over - much as animal linguistics continues to be.

Brilliant. Collective consciousness at work. What generates this type of activity, or is it impulses externally.

@Geoffrey51 I don't believe in a collective consciousness, but chemical signals is how ants communicate their activity.

@FatherOfNyx Okay. what do you think is creating the parameters that the chemical signals react within?

@Geoffrey51 The ant brain.

@FatherOfNyx Is that a collective brain?

@Geoffrey51 No, it's individuals brains working together.

@FatherOfNyx @Geoffery51 Ants communicate with more than pheromones. [cell.com]

Does the usa now qualify with our actions on the southern border?

@Buddha The U.S. does not steal babies for adoption or steal, period. There are wild and desperate accusations by immigrants and the special industry built around it at the Southern border. The only thing they do NOT talk about is that the immigrants are illegal and they are entering the United States unlawfully which is a crime.

@OwlInASack

1. The United States is not a refugee camp of central and South American or other countries
2. It is illegal to enter the United States without permission
3. The United States welcomes legal immigrants. Millions of aspiring immigrants are following the law and rules and waiting in lines outside the United States for months and years. Get in the line if you want to apply for a legal immigrants status and don't break the law.

@OwlInASack
I was desperate but never ever ever... even once thought about breaking the law. I waited in line, made meager living while waiting, obeyed all rules and waited for my turn. The United States rewarded me for my obeying the law and granted a visa. I worked hard and did not break the law, not depended on any social assistance - not food stamps, not unemployment, not a single visit to hospital emergency rooms on a public dime. No sir, don't compare me with illegal immigrants. That is not in my DNA.

There are millions of desperate people around the world. Many of them cannot talk. You know who they? I would like to talk about them and how you would airlift them here immediately because they are really desperate. They are little children who are starving and will die if we do not bring them here. Some of them will go to Harvard and maybe win Nobel and other awards. Can you please consider? I can give you 150 million from India, 300 million from Africa alone.

So drop your advocating for illegal, law breaking immigrants and their rights. All illegal immigrants including the DACA must be deported back. They can get back in the line outside the U.S. and they will be screened just like others are to see if they are qualified to enter.

@OwlInASack You have all doors open to the U.S., the opportunities and everything you want - that door is a legal entry. You do not want to do that but just want to rant and blame others for not allowing illegal? Just try blaming a traffic cop next time and see if you can get away with the arguments you have. Blame the rich, blame the heartless and see where you will get. You are taking advantage of the compassion and empathy of the American people. People do not work hard and pay their taxes, obey laws to support illegal causes.

@OwlInASack Do you sleep at night with these statistics? I bet you sleep every night. Please enlighten us on why and how.

PEOPLE CURRENTLY INCARCERATED IN THE UNITED STATES = 2,298,300

Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around $74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. At the end of 2016, the Prison Policy Initiative estimated that in the United States, about 2,298,300 people were incarcerated out of a population of 324.2 million.

Remember, the estimated population of illegal immigrants in the United States is currently at 11 million - thanks to activists like you.. That is outrageous and an insult to the compassion and empathy to good hard working American people.

@OwlInASack Undocumented = Illegal

That is the only immigrant type I am talking about.

@OwlInASack That is your interpretation. Desperation is not the same definition as you have which is - just break the law. People go to death for their principles. They do not do what you want to advocate.

@OwlInASack Ruuning out of valid arguments? What is new? First it was advocating illegal immigrants, Next it was ranting against the rich, wealthy people, next was if you don't break the law, you are not desperate enough.... You should have been a lawyer defending criminals.

@OwlInASack That is your observation of the behavior of immigrants who want to break the law and push their way through the U.S. Southern border. There are human beings around the world who do not fit your definition and they would rather wait in line outside embassies and consulates. The world is not really as you see. There are law abiding people and prefer to be that way all their lives. They want to sneak their way in over heads of others who are waiting in lines. You know why? They had parents and teachers who taught them that while growing up. If you have important lessons about the right and wrong, you will not break the law. But go on... continue your work of supporting who want are taught differently.

Why do you think the people in the United States support Trump highly and his efforts to curb illegal immigration menace. It is because exactly that. It is a menace that we do not need.

@OwlInASack We are both ashamed - you are because I want follow the law. I am of you because you want to break the law.. I will go to bed happily with that.

@OwlInASack
Yes just like I watch PBS, CNN, MSNBC, BBC and listen to NPR and BBC. Do you only watch CNN?

@OwlInASack I engaged but I run out interest when someone starts advocating illegal immigration and not following the law.

@OwlInASack You are doing the same thing again. Blame others when you do not follow the law

@OwlInASack If you do not support breaking the law and unlawful immigrants, we do not have any disagreement, do we? Why did you argue all along and waste my time that I could use to criticize Bernie Sanders?

@OwlInASack
I am only saying:

1. All illegal immigrants must be deported back.
2. It is wrong to enter a country illegally

What is wrong here?

@OwlInASack Now you are against the law?

@OwlInASack So you are for not supporting or breaking the law? That is for supporting illegal activities. The recourse for it is not - supporting others and encouraging them to break the laws. The recourse is challenge the laws in court. We do not come to your house and throw in jails just because you oppose a law or criticize the government like in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela etc..

@OwlInASack I have been talking to you but you are not reading. Desperate people do not break the law. They try harder in many places through legal ways.

@OwlInASack We disagree big time on the sense of right and wrong. Yours is very different than mine.

@OwlInASack I did some but let us restart tomorrow. I have to be on the road. Did you realize we have hijacked someone else's post? lol

@VictoriaNotes I think this is the one: [britannica.com]

You mean the black ants are the helpless working class?

@Auty89 , right.

Damn bro..

@FatherOfNyx its a joke