June 25, 2010: Kitty's 9th Life

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

No. No, they don't. That would be a sociopath.

this is you telling Flint he's wrong AND he's a sociopath.

Originally Posted by Flint

Bullshit. You've never seen a national geographic where the cheetah chases down the gazelle, bites its throat out, and then tears its raw flesh apart and eats it? You're telling me that only a "sociopath" could watch that program objectively??? BULLSHIT. You are dead wrong.

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I don't have a pet gazelle.

We're talking about household pets, not animals living in the wild.

edit: In My Opinion.... sorry... almost forgot that part!
And I am not wrong. I have a different opinion.

Flint is refuting that he is a sociopath here.

Originally Posted by BigV

Good point, Gravdigr. I especially like your correct distinction about your opinion.

On an unrelated note, this is BigV acting like a cunt as usual.

edit: In My Opinion! almost forgot that bit...

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

No, that would be vampires and muslims.

OOOH! New film genre! Vampire Muslims. We already have Nazi Zombies, so Vampire Muslims is the next logical step.

[SPUCK]

New movies coming out:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
(seriously!)

[stevecrm]

mi-OWWWWW

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by SPUCK

New movies coming out:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

This is one film that I expect to enjoy as much - if not more - than the book.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

This is one film that I expect to enjoy as much - if not more - than the book.

Agreed.

And by agreed, I mean an utterly self-evident gross understatement.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by dezireless

snip -- The predator prey relationship predates the concepts of good and evil.

This is one *funny* sentence!!!

[Gravdigr]

Lumberjim:

this is you telling Flint he's wrong AND he's a sociopath.

You are right. I stand corrected. I apologize Flint.<---This is me saying I was wrong.

Now. This ---> is me saying a person has got to be fucked up in the goddamned head to not be at least somewhat affected by a household pet being shown dead and dangling from the jaws of whatever killed it. Be the pet a cat, dog, or a parakeet (which I hate by the way, but I still will be at least somewhat affected when a pic of one dangling from the jaws of a warthog shows up.) I may not breakdown in tears or start a Save-The-Parakeets foundation, but I ain't gonna lie to myself and say "That's life."

[lumberjim]

but it IS life.

I wish it was the cat that is STILL eating my trash!

[Flint]

We can either try to shelter ourselves from the reality of life, or we can embrace it fully. And, after all, we really have no choice--this is the world we live in! The Native Americans worshipped the spirits of the animals they consumed...lazy modern man doesn't even stop to consider that this meat was ever part of a living creature. Life IS death, because to LIVE we must EAT. To EAT is to KILL (whether you hide this reality from yourself, or not). And, yes, vegetables are alive too. If you eat the ROOT of a plant you have taken its life in an irreparable way.

Snakes live, snakes eat, snakes kill. Cats live, cats eat, cats kill. Man lives, man eats, man kills. If this bothers you, you are literally having a schizophrenic break with REALITY.

You keep saying "household pet" as if that distinction exempts them from the reality of life. It doesn't! Nor are YOU exempt.

You keep saying what kind of reaction a person should have to a PICTURE of this situation. Well, let me tell you, the time that I found my dog (whom I had literally raised from birth, including bottle feedings and the whole nine yards) dead on the lawn, next to a dead snake, it pretty much cured me of ever having crybaby, Walt Disney type reactions to a ƒucking PHOTOGRAPH of a similar situation. Don't believe me? Look it up--I'm pretty sure I have posted about this before.

When I say "That's life" I MEAN IT goddamnit. THAT. IS. LIFE. If you don't want to accept that then you are choosing to be ignorant. The end.

[classicman]

Uh not to be a wet blanket or anything, but from the cats perspective .... thats death, not life. jussayin

[Gravdigr]

I deny your reality, and substitute my own. (I read that somewheres.)

[Adak]

No doubt that it is our reality, Flint. That reality's effect on us is definitely on a sliding scale, however. No one is going to be strongly shocked by a carrot or head of lettuce, hanging from a constrictor's tight coils.

When it's a pet, it's a lot more affecting, of course. If it were your child, or spouse, the effect would be incredibly strong.

It's a natural reaction to help us remember "snake's coils are deadly", and stay safe.

Inferences of mental health based on the person's sensitivity to that stimuli, are unfounded. As you've shown, that sensitivity will change, depending on their exposure to it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Awww, reality to harsh?
Is that's what's bothering you Bunkie?
Then have some nice mellow fantacy....

[SPUCK]

Um.. yeah.. That brings back fond memories of when that happened to me.