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06 Feb 2013, 10:51 am

Nanu nanu



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06 Feb 2013, 11:32 pm

Drone wrote:
In the flesh, we are animals. But we have the mental ability to transcend from our animal ways through through morality, rationality, and philosophy. Animals do not have those characteristics.


Very well put, though I would say that it's less that animals lack those things and more that they are not as developed in them than they are in us.



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06 Feb 2013, 11:41 pm

NT's dont have those characteristics
nearly as much as aspies.....
we are the missing link and science is wrong

The Smithsonian Institute has falsely altered history and omitted pre war hemp farming from their museum....