If You Think Your Neighbor is a Slimeball, Consider This....

Some years ago, a college biology major was amazed at how her grandmother's houseplants thrived. Her grandmother claimed that she didn't do anything particular with the houseplants other than sweet-talk them. At school, our biology major wanted to prove or disprove the validity of the impact of human interaction with life forms that didn't have a brain or nervous system. She placed petrie dishes of slime mold in optimal growing conditions of climate, temperature, and humidity to get a "control group." Then she placed identical slime mold in identical conditions in the "experimental group."

She and her friends sweet-talked the experimental slime mold group at regular intervals for one week. They would praise the mold and compliment it for doing such a fine job of growing and proliferating. Sure enough, the slime grew and proliferated at an accelerated rate over the control group slime mold. Another student wondered if sweet-talking plants helped them grow, what would cursing and yelling at the plants do? So another experimental group was formed, again with optimal climate, temperature and humidity conditions. Only this group was exposed to regular intervals of students shouting obscenities, condeming, and cursing the slime mold. This went on for a week, until the slime mold shriveled and died---even under optimal growing conditions.

If our words and intentions have this impact on plants that have no brains, just think of what impact our words and intentions have on someone or something we care about. If you want to have a peaceful neighborhood, begin cleaning up your words and intentions about and towards your own family members and neighbors. Even if you think they don't have a brain, they get it.