Frogsite: The Site

Introduction

Frogsite is a Christian Pantheistic web site which explores the wonder of the frog from the angle of view that frogs are much more than we humans normally think. I had no idea where this exploration would lead, but I am very happy that I have been shown, through my studies of the frog, that frogs are both intelligent and sensing little people with rich lives, which include an astonishing biological transformation from tadpole to frog, and an actual experience of feelings, moods, plans, situations, and all the other stuff that we associate with warm-blooded forms of life.

Frogsite is an inspired work. This means you should read Frogsite as a work that has been inspired by many revelations, revelations that may initially seem mere fantasy or even madness to you, but which, after lenghty contemplation, should turn out to be convincing reports of some of the lesser known attributes of the frog of Earth. Frogsite is not intended to be a scientific work but rather a spiritual work (perhaps the only spiritual frogsite on Earth). It is the belief of the author that Frogsite presents many unique, yet genuinely true views of the frog that mankind will come to confirm in the future -- if only mankind allow some frogs to survive somewhere on planet Earth.

To have a chance of fathoming Frogsite, you have to try to approach the site from the view that 1) frogs are intelligent, 2) frogs are a very advanced and developed form of life (something that especially Pantheists and like-minded people will be capable of appreciating) as frogs have been around for hundreds of millions of years, which means they have been tried and tested and refined by experience (whether you believe in Darwinism or Creationism). And frogs have the very unusual trait, compared to mankind, that frogs are capable of living on a planet for hundreds of millions of years, even billions of years, without bringing that planet to its knees - a feat that mankind seems very unlikely to be able to repeat because mankind is so intent on massively disrupting and ruining planet Earth even though planet Earth is the only home that mankind knows of. Seen in terms of longevity of forms of life, the frog is vastly superior to mankind. And after all, what is eternal life? I think "eternal life for your species", not "eternal life for your soul" (as the soul lives on eternally whether or not the species that currently house it survives). And in that respect, the frog, and pretty much all other forms of life on Earth, is mankind totally superior! Imagine that God measures "scores" for species in terms of how many years the tree of species that make up a particular family of life has survived in the universe. The frog thus already has a score of 200 million. Mankind has a score of 60,000 years. Wonder who's ahead and who's trailing behind? Even though the frog has no nuclear bomb - or likely exactly for that reason! And the frog is not busy eradicating himself - like humanity is - rather the frog seems ready to step in and take over Earth once mankind has raised the average temperature to such an extent that mankind can no longer survive on Earth.

I started out aiming to make yet another frog website with galleries and educational material, then I got side-tracked by revelations about the nature of the frog. It is my assessment that what Frogsite reveals is unique and priceless in comparison with what so many other websites about animals reveal. One of mankind's greatest spiritual challenges is to fathom that animals are as clever and intelligent as mankind: To fully comprehend that each animal form of life is as intelligent as mankind, yet in a different, much closer to God way. I never expected to find what I have found. I have, by the grace of God, stumpled into revelation after revelation, gradually uncovering the real frog: The real frog is a little person with dreams and hopes, a little person whose choices are largely determined by his form, that of a frog, but whose mind is not significantly less capable than the mind of a human. Try imagining yourself in a frog form. Obviously, the form would often dictate your choices. You wouldn't develop tools as your hands simply don't allow you the use of made tools. You'd do everything else that your form allows you to do. For example, I have seen a video footage of a tiny, very cute frog who made foam for his or her eggs, by secreting a fluid into water and stamping his or her feet in that mixture for half an hour, thereby making bubbles. The foam was used as protective wrapping around the eggs that he/she and friends laid afterwards. Ask yourself: Isn't it a very intelligent behavior to know that if you secrete a fluid into swamp water and stamp stamp the mixture 30 minutes, then you get foam which you can use to protect your eggs? Certainly it is! (I really love that frog!) It requires understanding of process, a process which yields something, it requires understanding of foam, the beneficial characteristics of foam, it requires understanding of eggs, the needs of eggs (to be protected), and it requires understanding of the mixture used to make the foam as nothing will happen without the magical secretion that the frog excretes himself or herself. Imagine that little cute fellow lying there, with his hands on the brink stamping his feet for 30 minutes, making a huge cloud of bubbles that he later uses to secure his eggs in! To me, the picture reminds me of a little child who innocently goes on building a den in the garden: Some simple, but reliable and efficient, methods are known and used without any hesitation. I really can't think of a more innocent picture than that of a little frog busy with some peaceful activity. If this example is not enough to convince you that frogs are highly intelligent little guys, then think of the African Bullfrog who digs canals for water to flow from a full pond to a pond that is drying up. Again we see, if we allow our eyes to be open, that the frogs comprehend process and therefore are capable of doing complex activities that further the chances of survival for their off-spring, without harm to Nature, and thereby further the chances of survival for their entire species. I personally loathe the cold, unfathoming "scientific" view that animals do this and that solely due to instincts. My belief is that animals comprehend what they are doing, that they don't solely act as small machines programmed by circumstance, but that they are intelligent, assessing, evaluating, deciding, planning, hoping, striving, dilligent little guys who do what they do because all their personal knowledge, from experience and from seeing other members of their species do what they do, tell them that the right course of action is to do so and so. Instincts can never ever explain how an African Bullfrog can assess the water situation of one pond and plot out a course of action, namely to dig a canal from pond A to pond B (something that I have on video!), and then progress to actually dig the canal. Such an African Bullfrog displays more intelligence than a 2-year or 3-year old human child. And the African Bullfrog probably only is about two to ten years old when he performs his feat. And he has no big sisters and no parents who show him what to do. He simply sits there and come to the realization that the water in the pond housing his tadpoles is running low. Then this intelligent, clever, patient guy thinks it over for a while - whether half an hour or six hours. Eventually he reaches the only intelligent solution available (considering the fact that he cannot possibly hope to pick up and carry away his hundreds of tadpoles to another pond): To dig a canal. And what is it the African Bullfrog does? Exactly that! Let me give another quick example of how intelligent the wild and untamed frog of Nature is: Reports on the Internet clearly say that a frog in captivity that is regularly taken out and petted will, over time, become used to this and act very relaxed when taken out and petted. The point here being that the frog is capable of learning from experience. The frog is not simply some blind, mechanic little biological robot that ticks according to preprogrammed instincts. No instincts could ever prepare the frog for being captured and forced to spend his or her life in captivity among humans (something I personally think is very, very sad to think of: A little free, wild guy who sits enclosed in glass walls all of his 30 year long life because some inconsiderate human has not considered that frogs are genuinely free and will beings, never made or adapted for captivity), and yet the frog learns that his slavelords, the humans, are not dangerous, if only the humans treat him nicely for a couple of years. Try to compare the frog to a wild lion or a wild shark: Would any of these be capable of learning to be relaxed and friendly after having been held in captivity for a few years? I genuinely doubt it, which in itself serves as a tiny "proof" of my claim that frogs are an intelligent and highly developed form of life. To me, the mere fact that no frog ever, that I know of, has been known to bite a human, despite this being quite easily for the frog with his or her gigantic mouth, also serves to show that the frog is basically a gentle, patient, harmless guy who, like all of us, has the condition in his life that he needs food now and then.

I genuinely believe that one of the greatest sins mankind has committed against God is to underevaluate and undervalue our brother and sister forms of life on Earth. Back in the ancient days, of natives and tribes and all that, people knew that animals were clever and intelligent - because they saw it when they spent their time observing and learning about the different forms of life. Then people began to learn from "Science" (Ignorance) and stopped studying the animals themselves. People only learned from books, teachers, and television. And with that "devolutionary" step, mankind stepped further away from God and Nature - and lost sight of the wonder of the millions of forms of life on Earth.

Frogsite is the work of a person who have taken the time to dive into the wonder of the frog, through meditation, and contemplated frogs from many angles: I have found that the wonder of the frog grows bigger as the dive gets deeper. Try it yourself: Imagine this "A little frog person (a Blue Poison Dart frog, Dendrobates azureus) goes for a walk to check on her tadpoles as they grow to froghood in various pools around the nearby trees..." Now let your imagination play with the cue up and see where it leads. Repeat the exercise for half an hour every few days for a few weeks or a month, and you should begin to see yourself how little you have previously known about the frog. God listens to all of us, and God answers our prayers, even if they take the form of contemplation of the frog (which is a silent prayer to know more about the frog). The little frog person, whose name we do not know, is about to perform her daily task of visiting her babies that she has deposited in pools around the trees: She actually walks to each and every little pool and ensures the baby has got enough food! To her, the trees are gigantic worlds on their own, each tree being thousands of times taller than herself, yet she undauntedly climbs up these trees to check up on her babies. This is not very far from the mother who drives to a kindergarten to pick up her baby. The point being that frogs have complex behaviors and thus are intelligent.

If you feel like it, you could try to contemplate a future where mankind of Earth had caused its own doom and the frogs of Earth took over and became the intelligent, controlling form of life on Earth. I am convinced that you would see patient, highly intelligent, wise frog men walking about in full concordance with Nature, forever living in a manner that would not harm or deplete Earth. The end of their era would not be their own doing but the doing of God, and would take the form of the Sun of Earth becoming a supernova. They would have eternal lives: Their species, that is.

Thank you, God (All), for the most gracious gift of Frogsite!