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I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally
#14583995 - 06/09/11 08:06 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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...The Whale... If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
I'm sure they were just anthropomorphizing all of that.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584022 - 06/09/11 08:13 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Whales have also been shown to navigate using the stars, and they have changing songs that evolve over time like human music.
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: xFrockx]
#14584077 - 06/09/11 08:24 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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this was an awesome story
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584115 - 06/09/11 08:32 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Icelander said: I'm sure they were just anthropomorphizing all of that.
And you think that is invalid? Why?
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: DieCommie]
#14584146 - 06/09/11 08:36 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I never said that. I'm sure they were. It's the only way we can relate to another species.
Unless of course we want to see them only as a material object which is how most people relate to other animals imo.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584379 - 06/09/11 09:19 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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So are you being sarcastic with your thread title then?
I don't think all other animals are inferior to us, besides the fact that we rule the world.
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Fink Ployd]
#14584417 - 06/09/11 09:26 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yes muy sartcastical.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584618 - 06/09/11 10:10 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah, it was pretty obvious but sometimes it can be hard without tone.
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584796 - 06/09/11 10:46 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have always wondered about this...you hear with certain species of animals that the mother must hide the offspring from the male...or they will be killed.
Then you hear the news how some guy killed his family.......
...do we share something with them?
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: SirTripAlot]
#14584803 - 06/09/11 10:48 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hey, guess what? We're animals.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584820 - 06/09/11 10:52 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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So what do you think why the whale came back to each of them ? To look if she could eat them ?
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: BlueCoyote]
#14584824 - 06/09/11 10:53 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Zactly.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584838 - 06/09/11 10:54 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Or just to watch closer what fuck**g ass species has caused her all that trouble
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584844 - 06/09/11 10:56 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I though we are mammals
-------------------- “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584855 - 06/09/11 10:59 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yes, just another part of the animal kingdom. Just because we used technology and intelligence to rule the world doesn't mean we are any less of an animal.
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584860 - 06/09/11 11:00 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome story. That made me real happy. I loved the stories about the dolphins who saved shipwrecked sailors during WWII.
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: SirTripAlot] 2
#14584873 - 06/09/11 11:03 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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SirTripAlot said: I though we are mammals
What school did you go to. Mammals are animals.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander] 1
#14584876 - 06/09/11 11:04 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Maybe we're manimals.
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: Icelander]
#14584896 - 06/09/11 11:08 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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not all animals are mammals...what school did you go to?
i went to East Kentwood
-------------------- “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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Re: I'm pretty sure other animals are inferior to us emotionally [Re: SirTripAlot]
#14584923 - 06/09/11 11:12 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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all mammals are animals.Mammals are one of the 6 main classes of animals.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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