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#18752507 - 08/24/13 05:50 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I cant shake my suspicion of these creatures. Like people they have a strong emotional side and develop motives.
There are many odd things about cats like when they seem to be interacting with stuff we don't pick up on or when they go into that meditation they do. My one cat sits on my girl if shes in pain, she says he has taking the pain away from her intentionally. The other one affects my dreams in a messed up way if she sleeps next me.
I suspect some domestic cats of using there cuteness to lull us into false security while they leach our energy, i mean they have claws. These animals have adapted a strong mental awareness and seam to tape into brainwaves, energy fields using a feline ESP. Im not sure what it is but something is up with cats.
Sacred to ancient Egypt and common in the stories of witch craft. There's something to it, what is the magic they have and what is the potential power of the bond between us? Any good stories or insights?
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Idk but my dude cat thinks every time I have anything in my hands, that its food and he drives me nuts.
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Cats are fucking awesome.
My cat instantly knows when I am on something. It really does seem like she feeds off of my energy though. I think more people would notice those kinds of things, brain waves and such, if we weren't so de-conditioned to not notice them.
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Cats are weird dude, when I was having a bad trip the cat that was keeping me company get stuck in a loop it kept doing the EXACT same thing over and over and over again. He would walk into my laundry hamper scratch a couple times meow walk out, walk around it and walk back in. He did this upwards of 20 times. His fur was all standing on end too, its almost like he was having the bad trip with me 
I honestly felt really bad because I could tell he was trying to help me but i was just freaking him out
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
#18752581 - 08/24/13 06:13 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ballerium said: Cats are fucking awesome.
My cat instantly knows when I am on something. It really does seem like she feeds off of my energy though. I think more people would notice those kinds of things, brain waves and such, if we weren't so de-conditioned to not notice them.
Yeah they seem to have evolved to hold onto that mental side.
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Lizard Eyes said: Cats are weird dude, when I was having a bad trip the cat that was keeping me company get stuck in a loop it kept doing the EXACT same thing over and over and over again. He would walk into my laundry hamper scratch a couple times meow walk out, walk around it and walk back in. He did this upwards of 20 times. His fur was all standing on end too, its almost like he was having the bad trip with me 
I honestly felt really bad because I could tell he was trying to help me but i was just freaking him out 
Sorry man hopefully it all worked out by the end of the trip.
Yeah they can deff connect deeply with us. My last mushie trip my brother in laws cat followed me on a walk down the country road at night, I didn't know he followed me ether, but he was right there with me. All the noises and predatory threats at night didn't stop him. He ran up behind me on my way back, awesome timing on his part. Then he got real emotional all night howling out and wanting in my room.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium] 1
#18752608 - 08/24/13 06:26 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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My youngest cat tears around the house some times, full speed, ears folded back, chasing invisible pixies or some shit. She'll stop dead in her tracks, ears still flat on her head, tail twitchin' like crazy. Then she'll do that nervous 3 or 4 licks to the front paw, then she tears off in a different direction. One time she flew into the living room, jumped to the window ledge and crashed into the window. I'm surprised she didn't break it... . . .
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: vinsue]
#18752628 - 08/24/13 06:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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It sometimes seams like the entire species is afflicted with schizophrenia but there not
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thats the most relative disease anyways :P
i do believe that everyone is pyschic but not everyone is aware or acknowledges it.
cats are pretty psychic though, i think thats why they are so popular and in-fashion. because they have those huge eyes...the cat sees...
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: g00ru] 1
#18752657 - 08/24/13 06:49 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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g00ru said: because they have those huge eyes...the cat sees...
Or maybe their eyes are so big because they are permatripping

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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: g00ru]
#18752671 - 08/24/13 06:52 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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That last mushie trip the cats eyes where glowing red this was in the dark from across the room. We looked at each other for about a minute like What Are You, then he came up for some loving.
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just let the cat dominate you, his power is removed when you stop fighting it
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium] 1
#18752691 - 08/24/13 06:57 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ballerium said: Cats are fucking awesome.
that's what they want you to believe
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: g00ru]
#18752716 - 08/24/13 07:03 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Prisoner#1]
#18752780 - 08/24/13 07:20 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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one of my old cats could open doors
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
#18752817 - 08/24/13 07:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ballerium said: I think more people would notice those kinds of things, brain waves and such, if we weren't so de-conditioned to not notice them.
I don't know about you but I was never conditioned not to notice brain waves. We don't have sensory organs specialized to pick up on that sort of thing, and neither do cats.
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Ballerium said: I think more people would notice those kinds of things, brain waves and such, if we weren't so de-conditioned to not notice them.
I don't know about you but I was never conditioned not to notice brain waves. We don't have sensory organs specialized to pick up on that sort of thing, and neither do cats. 
its just with all the billboards and commercials, ads, even most music, it overloads you and makes it harder to pick up on subtle energies.
when was the last time you went a day without staring at a screen for longer than ten seconds?
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: g00ru]
#18752824 - 08/24/13 07:36 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ballerium said: I think more people would notice those kinds of things, brain waves and such, if we weren't so de-conditioned to not notice them.
I don't know about you but I was never conditioned not to notice brain waves. We don't have sensory organs specialized to pick up on that sort of thing, and neither do cats. 
its just with all the billboards and commercials, ads, even most music, it overloads you and makes it harder to pick up on subtle energies.
when was the last time you went a day without staring at a screen for longer than ten seconds?
Shoot it would have to be about a year for me if you count cellphones
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: g00ru]
#18752832 - 08/24/13 07:38 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ballerium said: I think more people would notice those kinds of things, brain waves and such, if we weren't so de-conditioned to not notice them.
I don't know about you but I was never conditioned not to notice brain waves. We don't have sensory organs specialized to pick up on that sort of thing, and neither do cats. 
its just with all the billboards and commercials, ads, even most music, it overloads you and makes it harder to pick up on subtle energies.
when was the last time you went a day without staring at a screen for longer than ten seconds?
Thank you, you said it better than I did. I was also on my phone when I made that post so I was being a bit lazy in explaining what I meant.
If we depended on being more alert and aware for survival, like a animal out in the wild, I feel that we'd pick up on so many more things going on around us that we tend to tune out.
I've sat outside many times with my cat, watching her look around and fixate on random things. Watching her ears perk up at a noise or movement I didn't even notice. And when I am high, I always have no problem noticing every little thing that she notices. Things that I normally tune out. Wouldn't it be nice to notice that kind of stuff without the help of drugs? Cats and other animals can do it, so who is to say that we don't have the ability to do it but just never tap into it and lose it, in a sense?
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: g00ru]
#18752859 - 08/24/13 07:46 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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its just with all the billboards and commercials, ads, even most music, it overloads you and makes it harder to pick up on subtle energies.
when was the last time you went a day without staring at a screen for longer than ten seconds?
What does being on a computer have anything to do with picking up on brainwaves?
Being able to pick on subtleties has literally no correlation with how often you go on the computer. Ads, billboards, commercials and music also do not detract from the ability to pick up on subtle details or changes in one's environment or the people around you. People love to act like today's technologies or "overload" of stimuli detract from some ability, but that's simply unfounded IMO. It sounds nice but what's the basis for saying that? Do you think ancient people who were ignorant of most things were more likely to be able to "pick up on subtle energies" or brainwaves? There's really nothing to suggest that is true.
And "subtle energies" =/= brain waves. Our brains are evolved to be excellent at picking up on small changes in facial muscles and body posture that generally correlate to emotion, which is pretty much all we can pick up on as far as "subtle energies" or knowledge of someone else's inner thoughts goes.
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YES ancient people probably could pick up on certain energies more so than we can. And yes I really do think being on a computer numbs you to certain things. It's just one of those things you wont notice it until you try it
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Joie, I didn't mean for you to get stuck on the word brainwaves. I shouldn't have even used that word at all, but like I said earlier, I was on my phone, lazy, in a hurry, and didn't put much thought into my wording. If you read my other post I think you'll better understand what I was trying to convey when I said that.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
#18752877 - 08/24/13 07:53 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Why are you assuming I haven't tried it?
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g00ru said: YES ancient people probably could pick up on certain energies more so than we can.
Why do you think that? Is there a rational basis here? Most people who say things like this just think ancient people had mystical powers, technology is bad, and other new age unfounded claims.
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Ballerium said: Joie, I didn't mean for you to get stuck on the word brainwaves. I shouldn't have even used that word at all, but like I said earlier, I was on my phone, lazy, in a hurry, and didn't put much thought into my wording. If you read my other post I think you'll better understand what I was trying to convey when I said that.
I'm not stuck on the word, I disagree with the premise entirely.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
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Ballerium said: I think more people would notice those kinds of things, brain waves and such, if we weren't so de-conditioned to not notice them.
I don't know about you but I was never conditioned not to notice brain waves. We don't have sensory organs specialized to pick up on that sort of thing, and neither do cats. 
its just with all the billboards and commercials, ads, even most music, it overloads you and makes it harder to pick up on subtle energies.
when was the last time you went a day without staring at a screen for longer than ten seconds?
Thank you, you said it better than I did. I was also on my phone when I made that post so I was being a bit lazy in explaining what I meant.
If we depended on being more alert and aware for survival, like a animal out in the wild, I feel that we'd pick up on so many more things going on around us that we tend to tune out.
Yeah man we have specialized feelers and a built in broadcast system. Just because neuroscience hasn't locked on yet doesn't mean its not there. We have outsourced so much of our brainpower into technology and the this society.
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you ever seen a pyramid? that shit is insane. i think if you have any intuition about history or anthropology you have to give the ancients some credit for being advanced in ways that we are not (or at least, are only just now approaching).
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g00ru said: you ever seen a pyramid? that shit is insane. i think if you have any intuition about history or anthropology you have to give the ancients some credit for being advanced in ways that we are not (or at least, are only just now approaching).
In what ways were the ancients more advanced than we are?
A pyramid is just a bunch of blocks. It's impressive for the time it was built in due to lack of current technology but it isn't difficult to make nor is it more advanced than what we can do today.
Also, to address an earlier point I frequently go without looking at a screen for longer than ten seconds. I don't have a smartphone so the only time I'm ever really looking at a screen is when I'm on my laptop at home. Just because the current stereotype of your average young adult is someone desperately attached to their smartphone doesn't mean everyone is that way. Are you projecting or are do you buy into that stereotype?
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Yeah man we have specialized feelers and a built in broadcast system. Just because neuroscience hasn't locked on yet doesn't mean its not there. We have outsourced so much of our brainpower into technology and the this society.
Specialized feelers and a built in broadcast system? What makes you think that?
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I actually think technologies can enhance this awareness if its not used as a distraction. Its an incredible way to connect and communicate, we sometimes feel the other person on the other side of text in real time.
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Lizard Eyes said: Cats are weird dude, when I was having a bad trip the cat that was keeping me company get stuck in a loop it kept doing the EXACT same thing over and over and over again. He would walk into my laundry hamper scratch a couple times meow walk out, walk around it and walk back in. He did this upwards of 20 times. His fur was all standing on end too, its almost like he was having the bad trip with me 
I honestly felt really bad because I could tell he was trying to help me but i was just freaking him out 
That cat probably had OCD. It's some funny shit. A friend of mine had a cat that had OCD and it would trip me the fuck out when I used to blaze over at her house.
The cat would take two steps forward, then two steps back, run around the coffee table, then come back to the original spot doing the weird walking forward/backward again. He would do this for 15 minutes or so. Sounds like the same kind of deal with the cat you're talking about.
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im just agreeing that society is overstimulated...and that it makes us less aware of other aspects of reality. So its good to try and detach from things sometimes.
And yeah the pyramids are just a bunch of blocks but still...we would have a hard ass time making a pyramid like that in this modern society. Same goes for Stonehenge...we have theories how they made that but as for how and more importantly why, it's very mysterious.
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g00ru said: you ever seen a pyramid? that shit is insane. i think if you have any intuition about history or anthropology you have to give the ancients some credit for being advanced in ways that we are not (or at least, are only just now approaching).
In what ways were the ancients more advanced than we are?
A pyramid is just a bunch of blocks. It's impressive for the time it was built in due to lack of current technology but it isn't difficult to make nor is it more advanced than what we can do today.
Also, to address an earlier point I frequently go without looking at a screen for longer than ten seconds. I don't have a smartphone so the only time I'm ever really looking at a screen is when I'm on my laptop at home. Just because the current stereotype of your average young adult is someone desperately attached to their smartphone doesn't mean everyone is that way. Are you projecting or are do you buy into that stereotype?
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Yeah man we have specialized feelers and a built in broadcast system. Just because neuroscience hasn't locked on yet doesn't mean its not there. We have outsourced so much of our brainpower into technology and the this society.
Specialized feelers and a built in broadcast system? What makes you think that?
I think ancients where just about the same as us now but with different environmental social conditions.
And the feeler thing. Because i feelz it brother.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: vinsue]
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Exactly the same with mine!! Runs around with its ears folded back when it is in its "tripping mode" well i call it that because that's what comes in my mind straight away, and i don't know if this goes to anyone elses cats but out of random mine starts to stare at the air like something is there, most the times it gets scared and goes for a run to a hiding spot it is really wierd but i believe a guardian spirit is watching me.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Psychotria]
#18752964 - 08/24/13 08:21 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Most if not all do this some more than others. Sometimes i think its something unseen to us but sometimes i think they are just staring at a speck of dust or something small like a spider web string with there keen predator eyes just really focused in and intent.
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JoieDeVivre said: I'm not stuck on the word, I disagree with the premise entirely. 
After a lot of thought, I think I figured out a better way to make sense of my premise in the first place. 
What about things like non-verbal cues and communication that so many people seem to not notice anymore? We don't depend as much on that type of communication anymore because we have verbal and written communication to get our points across. But other animals are more in-tune with that kind of communication and I think we would be too, if it was necessary for us to be. That's where I was going with my whole "de-conditioned" rant. It isn't so much brainwaves, but just paying attention to little things that you normally wouldn't notice that other animals do notice. 
And I guess if you think about it that way, it doesn't seem so mysterious. When I'm high, I probably talk differently to my cat. I probably pet her differently, or maybe my grip is firmer or softer. Maybe she doesn't really know that I'm on something like I seem to think that she does, but is just reacting to the different way that I am treating her.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Psychotria]
#18752968 - 08/24/13 08:25 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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My husband's late cat used to hate when my husband was tripping, even though my three, geriatric boys don't seem to care. His would behave suspiciousy, as if the scrambled signals were uncomfortable for him, and mine usually try to cuddle and purr. After his passed, my husband got a calico, and she is a wackadoodle but more agreeable to a tripping mind.
I've always been a cat person. I would love to have a dog in the house, but the self-sufficiency of cats is amazing and appealing.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Scarab74]
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
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Ballerium said: After a lot of thought, I think I figured out a better way to make sense of my premise in the first place. 
What about things like non-verbal cues and communication that so many people seem to not notice anymore? We don't depend as much on that type of communication anymore because we have verbal and written communication to get our points across. But other animals are more in-tune with that kind of communication and I think we would be too, if it was necessary for us to be. That's where I was going with my whole "de-conditioned" rant. It isn't so much brainwaves, but just paying attention to little things that you normally wouldn't notice that other animals do notice. 
I don't think it's true that "so many people seem not to notice" non-verbal cues. It's hard wired into our brains to notice those things, our survival has depended upon it since the dawn of man and we have evolved to be able to pick up on these cues.
Cats definitely aren't in tune with human facial cues, which is where most emotional expression comes from. However, they are pretty in tune with body language and I think that's an evolutionary thing.
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And I guess if you think about it that way, it doesn't seem so mysterious. When I'm high, I probably talk differently to my cat. I probably pet her differently, or maybe my grip is firmer or softer. Maybe she doesn't really know that I'm on something like I seem to think that she does, but is just reacting to the different way that I am treating her.
I think this might be a lot more likely. But all that is part of your non-verbal communication and body language, so it is true that cats rely heavily on that. I mean, in the wild understanding body language from other animals would be the difference between survival and death in many cases.
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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.
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Also, to address an earlier point I frequently go without looking at a screen for longer than ten seconds. I don't have a smartphone so the only time I'm ever really looking at a screen is when I'm on my laptop at home. Just because the current stereotype of your average young adult is someone desperately attached to their smartphone doesn't mean everyone is that way. Are you projecting or are do you buy into that stereotype?
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
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It would suck to be the person in charge of watching the security cameras all day long.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
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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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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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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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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
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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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Where in Africa?
I have a friend in Kenya that loves her pet cats.
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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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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. 
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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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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: kr0nik0]
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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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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Ballerium]
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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.
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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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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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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 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 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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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.
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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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yeah i can vouch for that. cats take advantage of lsd users. they will literally walk all over you.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: g00ru]
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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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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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Glad you liked it, I never read the whole thing. I got my first shroomery harlem shake experience it was awesome
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OP, you should probably watch this movie:

It's all completely true.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: ganjfather]
#18753857 - 08/25/13 02:09 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cats originated as desert creatures hence why they like being dry and they hunt at night. They also have advanced hearing better then most other animals, my cat will notice people a few seconds before I can even hear their footsteps. Cats can be survivors and loners, but they are a social animal and maintain groups, obviously after reproducing one cat can be the generations that leads to 10-15-20 cats, their rate increases exponentially over the course of five or six years and their spread to other locations places estimate populations in the hundreds if not thousands.
Sitting a cat down in front of a t.v. will have an effect on the cat, it will have slower reaction time and usually become stupider. The changing lights and scenery probably has an effect on their eyes, as human eyes take 15 minutes to adjust to a different lighting. Cats or any other animal will never evolve to avoid headlights, they will get stuck because it is not a part of their survival instinct. The car is pretty much one of their main predators with dirty claws as well that cats can use to infect each other for defense. There are also dust in the feces that can alter the way your brain develops in a pretty identifiable way. Also pregnant women should avoid cat feces all together as it can cause miscarriage.
Sit a small child in front of the more recent Spongebob and the same exact thing will happen, the randomness of the show and the flashing lights will take your child down a few notches in development.
Also speaking from experience, brain waves and collective conscious are very real and tangible things, but some people will limit them to only certain areas of the brain, but the fact is other people or rituals activate them, such as singing or praying.(or taking shrooms!)
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Its become something thats "cool" like enjoying tacos because theyre so delicious. Not everyone but trust me what I just said is true.
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Re: WTF is up with cats [Re: Chowder963]
#18754563 - 08/25/13 09:34 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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