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Scarab74
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
#18753031 - 08/24/13 08:49 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ballerium said: It would suck to be the person in charge of watching the security cameras all day long.
Worst. Job. Ever.
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JoieDeVivre
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Ballerium said: Yeah, exactly. If we were living in the wild and not in the society that we live in today, we'd be a lot better at noticing body language, etc. because it would be necessary for us to do so, which is what I was trying to say all along.
Well what I have been trying to say is that noticing body language is an evolved function that a lot of our brain power is dedicated to. So, just because in the past few hundred years we haven't been living in the wild doesn't mean that we have evolved out of that functionality. Evolution takes an incredibly long time so I think we're likely still just as good at that as we were a few hundred years ago. Now, many people today definitely have adapted out of relying on that but for a lot of people it's still really important. I think in today's world it depends largely on your profession. In many careers, you're constantly interacting with people and pretty much every in person interaction requires some level of sensitivity to body language and facial gestures.
Interesting subject, to say the least.
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Repertoire89 said:
Huh, I was thinking more like going a whole day without looking at a screen for 10 seconds. I hope theres no one on the planet who has to look at screens literally all day
That's what I was thinking too, I guess I just worded that poorly. However, there are plenty of people who have to look at a screen for most of their day at their jobs.
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MrBlueYoMind
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
#18753053 - 08/24/13 08:55 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I used to work with a girl from Africa. She said in Africa they don't keep cats as pets because they believe that cats are the spirits of witches. To have a pet cat would be to bring bad luck/curses to yourself. She also said something about a woman she knew who thought she was pregnant, and looked pregnant(not fat) for several years but didn't have a baby inside her. Claimed she was cursed.
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kr0nik0
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Where in Africa?
I have a friend in Kenya that loves her pet cats.
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Beside the Garden


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I totally agree with the non verbal cue side of things and yes it is BIG part of it. All animals do this and body language translates across species. We are still in a jungle but with less in the moment survival demands and can get along with little interpersonal involvement.
But I want to direct attention the moments when no cue is physically given and we pic up on it. The most easily relatable one is like when we know we are being stared at. Pets tap in when the sense there owners (companion) coming home regardless of time or rout taken. Both of these phenomenon have been lab tested with substantial results indicating these things are happening and not just coincidental. Cats seam to have adapted and live connected to this type of mental awareness.
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Beside the Garden


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MrBlueYoMind said: I used to work with a girl from Africa. She said in Africa they don't keep cats as pets because they believe that cats are the spirits of witches. To have a pet cat would be to bring bad luck/curses to yourself. She also said something about a woman she knew who thought she was pregnant, and looked pregnant(not fat) for several years but didn't have a baby inside her. Claimed she was cursed. 
Some of them are for sure spooky
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Ballerium
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I always wondered what my cats think when they see me get into a big rolling hunk of metal and disappear for most of the day? They're always right there waiting expectantly for me as soon as I get home again and get out of the car.
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Edited by Ballerium (08/24/13 09:15 PM)
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MrBlueYoMind
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: kr0nik0]
#18753170 - 08/24/13 09:23 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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kr0nik0 said: Where in Africa?
I have a friend in Kenya that loves her pet cats.
I believe it was either Niger or Nigeria, I can't really remember. It was 10 years ago.
Every time I get home, as I open the door my cat comes walking up to greet me. My painted turtle does the same, only he is in a tank. He has lots of personality (for a turtle lol)
I kind of want to make a turtle-tank backpack so I can take him places and he can see the world.
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Beside the Garden


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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
#18753189 - 08/24/13 09:27 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I moved out of my girls place and she kept my cat with her. I raised him from about a week old, well when i come to visit he is at the door before i get there anticipating.
Edit: Just talked to her and she told me that he also does this when i just pop in unannounced and has tipped her off in the past so its not just her anticipation hes queuing into.
Edited by Beside the Garden (08/24/13 09:38 PM)
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mindapparatus
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I went into my cats dream in an elf village and messed around and inquired with too much there and a cat started attacking me subconscious inception style and I woke up.
Sounds weird but dreams are weird to begin with.
cats have some deep meditation/ dream mapping shit going on
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Repertoire89
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MrBlueYoMind said:
Every time I get home, as I open the door my cat comes walking up to greet me. My painted turtle does the same, only he is in a tank. He has lots of personality (for a turtle lol)
I kind of want to make a turtle-tank backpack so I can take him places and he can see the world.
Im going to make a leather jacket for my cat, its going to be like armor during the winter time, can't do it for summer cause he'll overheat
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Repertoire89
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Beside the Garden said: I moved out of my girls place and she kept my cat with her. I raised him from about a week old
Nother good reason not to be in a relationship, will add that to my 400 page list
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kr0nik0
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MrBlueYoMind said:
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kr0nik0 said: Where in Africa?
I have a friend in Kenya that loves her pet cats.
I believe it was either Niger or Nigeria, I can't really remember. It was 10 years ago.
Every time I get home, as I open the door my cat comes walking up to greet me. My painted turtle does the same, only he is in a tank. He has lots of personality (for a turtle lol)
I kind of want to make a turtle-tank backpack so I can take him places and he can see the world.
That's awesome man. 
That turtle backpack sounds like a great idea. You could cut up a regular backpack and hot glue gun a plexiglass tank in there. If you ever do this, please send me a picture lol.
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Beside the Garden


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Repertoire89 said:
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Beside the Garden said: I moved out of my girls place and she kept my cat with her. I raised him from about a week old
Nother good reason not to be in a relationship, will add that to my 400 page list
 Well there are two other cats there and her son to consider. Its the environment my kitty grew up and even though he is most bonded to me it felt like less disruption on a whole, plus she would have raised holy hell 
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Into The Woods
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My cats always seem to know when I'm tripping. Last time, one of them who is always calm and relaxed and purring became extremely mischievous and playful, then he got really nasty and started attacking the other cats, and when I tried to pick him up to calm him down (he loves cuddles), he did that arched back, showing teeth hissing thing and it really freaked me out. He looked like a frill necked lizard.
Edited by Into The Woods (08/24/13 10:49 PM)
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nicechrisman
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I've had some interesting interactions with cats while on LSD before. I swear that they know and fuck with you on purpose.
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g00ru
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yeah i can vouch for that. cats take advantage of lsd users. they will literally walk all over you.
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Repertoire89
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: g00ru]
#18753534 - 08/24/13 11:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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g00ru said: yeah i can vouch for that. cats take advantage of lsd users. they will literally walk all over you.
and they never pay for drugs, not once
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Repertoire89
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thizzlemaniac said: Here is an article with a theory that cats are descendants of an alien species....
http://www.psychedelicadventure.net/2012/06/lion-people-feline-humanoid-et-race.html
Lovin this shit
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