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| The Monarch caterpillar dines on greens, but still gets fat. The racing stripes are cool. |
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| Bloated from all those milkweed leaves, the Monarch caterpillar decides to become a slender, flying butterfly, using golden nails accessories to enhance its outfit. Those mysterious gold nails look real when examined. |
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| They say Monarchs are quite bitter from devouring so many milkweeds. Birds avoid them. |
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| Viceroys fool people in Arizona into thinking they are bitter tasting Monarchs. Nota bene - the black horizontal bar at the bottom is the clever device to prove its viceroyalist standards. Arizonans may get bitter about this trickery when it is pointed out. |
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My mother pointed out the milkweed plants in downtown New Ulm, instructing me to gather some hanging pods to develop in a big jar. I was in charge of adding leaves for them to eat while working on their metamorphosis. They grew enormously fat, hooked onto the branch with silken rope, and slowly changed.
I did not grow up with a SmartPhone, so I had to learn from science classes, my mother, and various books on insects and birds. My father was more interested in bewailing the sorry state of Cubs baseball, always winning until the end of the season.
I cannot understand how people can abandon Creation, based on butterflies alone, and kneel before Evolution.
Doctrine is similar. Lutheran leaders today are viceroys with grand costumes, impressive looking though empty degrees.
Didja know about Viceroy Lutheran Leaders? -
- All of them are conservative;
- All of them are orthodox;
- All of them are simply packed with grace;
- All of them quote perhaps one or two Luther statements;
- Some of them have actually read parts of the Augsburg Confession and a bit of the latest Bible.
