{"id":633,"date":"2008-02-05T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:05:51","slug":"the-birds-and-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-birds-and-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birds and the Bees","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 310px; height: 215px\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Bee.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OF<\/strong> significant note in the media is the alarming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/27\/business\/27bees.html?ex=1330232400&amp;en=3aaa0148837b8977&amp;ei=5088\" title=\"\">disappearance of honeybees<\/a> (a harbinger of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=507\" title=\"\">famine<\/a>?). But there is another story that&#8217;s been brewing as well: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/national\/blog\/video\/environmentscience\/bye_bye_birdies_1.html\" title=\"\">sudden disappearance<\/a> of tens of millions of birds. <\/p>\n<p>Nature is intimately tied to man insofar as he is its steward. When man no longer abides by God&#8217;s laws, this impacts nature as well, perhaps in ways we do not fully understand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So that said, the disappearance of the birds and the bees may indeed be a reflection of man&#8217;s disregard for&#8230; well, &quot;<em>the birds and the bees.<\/em>&quot; The past forty years have been an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=562\" title=\"\">unprecedented experiment<\/a> with human sexuality which has led to an explosion of STD&#8217;s, abortion, and pornography. <\/p>\n<p>We have destroyed the fundamental truths of &quot;the birds and the bees.&quot; Is nature telling us something?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; OF significant note in the media is the alarming disappearance of honeybees (a harbinger of famine?). But there is another story that&#8217;s been brewing as well: the sudden disappearance of tens of millions of birds. Nature is intimately tied to man insofar as he is its steward. When man no longer abides by God&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","category-signs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Birds and the Bees - The Now Word<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-birds-and-the-bees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Birds and the Bees - The Now Word\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; OF significant note in the media is the alarming disappearance of honeybees (a harbinger of famine?). 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