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pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 16, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
If so, I think I'm going to change my name to SOUL SLAYER

I just wiped out about a million of those little suckers. (a mere pittance, given the estimated world ant population of 10,000 trillion).

There goes another one !

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
I'm going genocidal on a yellow jacket's nest this very afternoon.

No judgement. No hate. Just business.

I heart outdoor BBQs.

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 16, 2014 - 02:44pm PT
Of course they have a soul.

The Hague will be contacting you soon.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 02:51pm PT
They'll certainly have a Hell come 5:00 today.
MH2

climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:01am PT
Are they white?

http://archive.org/details/TheSoulOfTheWhiteAnt_158
Sam E

Boulder climber
Malibu
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:16am PT
I think they may have a collective soul. At least that's what I tell myself when they violate our treaty and I kill them.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:23am PT
They quite possibly do which would make them different from humans.
PhilG

Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:38am PT
The Hopi's believed that the ants took humans underground to save them from cataclysmic events.
Like humans, if someone believes they have a soul than I guess they do.
SicMic

climber
across the street from Marshall
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:40am PT
My aunt does not have a soul.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:55am PT
I'm all about endemic species which is why I'm down on the aggressive
Peronist Argentines which have totally colonized the whole West Coast.
pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2014 - 08:24am PT
PETA just sent me a letter stating that if I don't cease and desist the massacre they are going to protest in front of my house.

The CBD is filing a lawsuit trying to close nearby Malibu Creek to climbing in order to protect the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile).
It seems there are less than 735,000,000,000 of these creatures left roaming this SoCal climbing area.

They are concerned that climbers are peeing in ant holes for sport and wiping out hundreds of colonies (over the last 65 years).

http://www.askpedia.com/q/37F10/peeing_on_an_ant_hill_will_that_kill_them
MH2

climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 08:27am PT
That would be quite a few souls if all those zeros mean something.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 17, 2014 - 10:03am PT
A Fire Ant FANTASY.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Sep 17, 2014 - 10:50am PT
"ants crawl my drunken arms"

C.Bukowski.
Barbarian

climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 12:26pm PT
I don't know if ants have a soul, but you can play it safe by being kind to them

Too late...they should have stayed outside. The cat stays inside, so the lines are clear. When they came inside to eat the cat's food, he became very upset. They died. Sucks to be them...or at least it used to.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 17, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
They are concerned that climbers are peeing in ant holes for sport and wiping out hundreds of colonies (over the last 65 years).


Does that make them pissants?
son of stan

Boulder climber
San Jose CA
Sep 17, 2014 - 12:49pm PT
Interesting question. Anyone know of a link to buy
Soul Detector Kits? Thought they would be sold near
the pregnancy test kits but no luck.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 17, 2014 - 01:05pm PT
SB, since I always try to err on the side of swift justice when dealing
with six-legged hegemonists I'm OK, aren't I?
son of stan

Boulder climber
San Jose CA
Sep 17, 2014 - 01:20pm PT
If the sign of having a soul is being nice, its safe to
say ants are soulless.

Restless and ravenous, army ant colonies are nature's Mongol hordes. They
kill and eat anything in their way, digesting it even as they tear it apart!

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/worlds-deadliest-ngs/deadliest-army-ants

TrundleBum

Trad climber
Las Vegas
Sep 17, 2014 - 01:37pm PT
Begs the question:
"Are you a Chinese or Tibetan Buddhist?"
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