Detritivores are organisms who feed on dead things. They eat rotting plant matter; the soggy orange leaves that pile in drains, moldy bark and decay. They also eat animal waste and some eat dead animals. Vultures are not detritivores. They are just scavengers. Examples of detritivores are worms, fungi, bacteria and protists.
The root word, detrite, means worn out material.
In a bar I had a conversation with a stranger about memory.
"When I was a kid, I remembered everything," he said to me, glugging at his beer.
"Yeah, I definitely remembered more than I do now." We ordered shots and drank them without really tasting or thinking. The bar was dark and seedy.
"Do you have any memories that aren't real?"
"Well," he said, "I suppose none of them are real, in a sense. I mean, we can't touch them. They are intangible but they are all we have."
There was a great deal more to this conversation, but I do not remember it, and I cannot remember the stranger's name. It has been eaten away, or it blends with many other nights like this one, talking to a stranger in a bar.
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Conceptual thinking is something that I find to be far out. The thinking I am referring to is that which establishes scientific and ethical laws, it is the memories of people's lives, the awareness of feelings, and anything else that is an interpretation of a perception. When I say far out I mean entering the realms of folklore, the meaning of life, evolution, and ancestors. The latter is sometimes referred to as ghosts in Western culture.
There is a prompter that has brought me to find conceptual thinking to be so groovey. It is no surprise to me that the writings of Robert M. Pirsig are what have taken me to find this thinking to be far out. In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintainence Mr. Pirsig talks about whether or not ghosts are real(pg.s 39-44). Eventualy he states that he believes in these immaterial beings. Robert then goes on to explain how the laws of science and concepts in general are all forms of ghosts. Since reading these words I have found that I am exploring the Mr. Pirsig's conclusions on ghosts. These intangible folks are also known as ancestors in other cultures. Maybe our memories, insights, inspirations, and gut instincts are all somehow interconnected with our late family members. Perhaps even what motivates us is also related to our ancestors. If any of these maybes are true we are all living a Shakespearian tragicomedy.
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