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Livia · 14-11-2013, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Simple Minds

It does in one way but yet when a family member dies I'm sad but I find it hard to grieve. That's just me being f'kd up though probably.

Everyone copes with stuff differently.

Niamh. · 14-11-2013, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu

Animals also tend to establish an equilibrium with their environment and give something back to it. We don't. We just ravage and plunder an area of it's resources then pack up and move on. We're a virus with culture as our operating system at that base biosphere level.

If you're talking about the one thing that separates us from animals when it comes to nature it's obviously industry.

I love spiders. I used to be afraid of them but I got more and more exposed to them and now I find them really, really cool. They're one of evolutions greatest success stories. I was reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami the other other and he was comparing an assassin character in the book to a spider.

A spider is programmed biologically to just stay still for ages in it's web and kill whatever gets trapped in it's vicinity. They don't chose to kill. They don't have a sense of time passing so they don't gauge patience to kill. They just ... sit and wait and kill.

Thought it was kinda neat.

Oh I read that book too

Livia · 14-11-2013, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu

Animals also tend to establish an equilibrium with their environment and give something back to it. We don't. We just ravage and plunder an area of it's resources then pack up and move on. We're a virus with culture as our operating system at that base biosphere level.

If you're talking about the one thing that separates us from animals when it comes to nature it's obviously industry.

I love spiders. I used to be afraid of them but I got more and more exposed to them and now I find them really, really cool. They're one of evolutions greatest success stories. I was reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami the other other and he was comparing an assassin character in the book to a spider.

A spider is programmed biologically to just stay still for ages in it's web and kill whatever gets trapped in it's vicinity. They don't chose to kill. They don't have a sense of time passing so they don't gauge patience to kill. They just ... sit and wait and kill.

Thought it was kinda neat.

I feel I must insist that in future Stu is asked to wear some kind of robe, and that the rest of the forum will be required set up some kind of shrine to him in their homes. I'm off to buy some joss sticks.

Kyle · 14-11-2013, 03:22 PM

I like the concept H.G Wells talks about in the War of the Worlds, if we were to be invaded by aliens would we really have a cause to complain? We have wiped off the earth thousands of indigenous species and people's as a race. We'd just be the inferior species this time.

Kazanne · 14-11-2013, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia

And now we torture, trap, shoot, gas, poison... we stuff tubes into geese and force-feed them so that rich people can eat their livers, we cut the fins off sharks for soup and throw them back into the sea still alive, we club, poison and gas animals and skin them, sometimes still alive, so some rich tart can wear a fur coat, we chase stags on horseback until they're so exhausted they collapse and we watch while they live on for minutes while dogs tear them apart. It's a little more serious than tossing a mouse around for an hour.

I've not even started on the napalm and mustard gas yet... and the gassing of six million people because another group of people didn't like them.

And we 'dress up' to do it,and celebrate.