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Speed Of Time
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I think the spped of time is relative. Time is going slow if your brain is acting faster than everything around it. Slow animals like snails see everythig going fast, but animals with faster metabolis... |
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"Animals are my friends. I don't eat my friends" George Benard Shaw |
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Vegetarian or No?
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I value life in general. People suffer, animals suffer because that is life.
I see how people treat animals because we want to snack on them or what not.
The way they are raised and slaughtered si... |
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GovernmentGaaaahhhhh!
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I was listening to a radio show with a name I will not mention for certain reasons, but this is the conversation. The woman is a proclaimed liberal while the man is a proclaimed conservative.
Her-I... |
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Zootastic!
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I think neuterdbynature's idea of a 'human zoo' is already a reality.
Metaphorically speaking; What is society/culture (the world at large?) if not a zoo? We have the endangered animals (rare... |
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BiologyScience versus Instinct
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For instance before the tsunami struck Sri Lanka and other near by areas the animals instinctively knew to get to higher ground.
I read somewhere that animals follow the magnetic waves that surroun... |
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For a Million $, Would You...
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Humans are animals
we are mammals...the problem comes in that we have free will or that what we call it...maybe it's a flaw of some kind maybe we should never have ended up with minds that can discer... |
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God in ReligionThe God Thread
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Nice reply dumbteen! Animals communicate with each other, alot of their communication may be at levels which we may not realize; pack animals (wolfs, lions, etc) have social structure and pecking orde... |
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GodOBVIOUS EXISTANCE OF GOD
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Personally, I find it harder to believe that everything that is is just coincidence than God exists. There are numerous physic constants that are infinitally precise that allow life to occur. It has b... |
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Vegetarian or No?
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personally i think that the issue is not necessarily with the killing of the animal, but with how they are treated prior to death. i don't think there is anything morally wrong with killing for f... |
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Vegetarian or No?
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the way i've best heard it put is this
if we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat
meat is one of the best sources of the nutrients we need to survive, there are... |
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About You / IntroductionsIntroductions
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I am new to this and have found it to be great fun. I have learned alot and also have been able to express my own opinions openly.
I am originally from Arizona but now live in Wyoming. I have seen... |
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God in ReligionDoes GOD Not Existed?
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dont take this personally!
One of the problems in this life - find ourselves in is the fact that we are divorcing ourselves from the well-spring of human rights. "We are endowed by our Creato... |
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God in ReligionDoes GOD Not Existed?
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Dumbteen
There is no reason to believe consciousness came from an intelligent being, any more then it came from the particular structure of our brains.
I suspect what makes us conscious and ani... |
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AnimalsRescued Cats
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I'll admit, I have a special place in my heart for cats, probably because of the cats that I have bonded with in my life, and because I don't fully understand why these creatures garner such... |
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Why live if you're just going to die?
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I think that in a sense, we all do have some sort of purpose, including animals. And your right, just because we have our own intrepretation of purpose doesn't mean it's the ultimate purpose... |
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God in ReligionThe God Thread
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I think I'm being picked on here.:p
Us and the other animals are different, in our own way however we are all amazing.
The subject was not about evolution, it was about us being different... |
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War & Terrorism"Terrorism": Does Anyone Really Understa
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My pleasure... it's rare and deserves a mention.
Here's something totally off topic... regarding vegetarianism. I'm not trying to start a debate about "right" or "wron... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
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If Noah's ark were true, the amount of inbreeding that would have to occur with the majority of animal species would result in very unhealthy animals and plants.
We certainly wouldn't have... |
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Life & DeathCircle of Life
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Do you know how many different animals masturbate? I don't but I do know primates do and that dogs hump innanimate objects.
To say an animal does not recieve pleasure through sex, would seem t... |
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People hate vegetarians
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I don't really have a problem with Vegans, per say, it's the 'Extremist Vegans' that bug the hell out of me. Just for an example, a few years ago, PETA tried to take a local town, Hamburg, to court to... |
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Vegetarian or No?
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i would have to agree that over-worrying about animals when there are so many people suffering is confusing ones priorities. the problem i see is that the suffering we cause animals does nothing reall... |
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SpiritualityWhat happens after we die?
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"to those of you who believe evolution. what happens after we die?"
I don't know, from a purely scientific point of view, nobody knows. Probably what happens is the same as what happen... |
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HistoryAquatic Ape Hypothesis
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Humans may have once been semi-aquatic. here is some stuff to go with this theory:
- humans are the only primate that takes pleasure in swimming
- humans have fat attached under the skin like aquati... |
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BiologyScience versus Instinct
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You have to understand that the instinctive traits of other animals are unique to their specific evolved state, and their environmental context. Every species evolves to adapt to their environment in... |
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