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CockneyRebel
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19 Jul 2005, 11:56 pm

I find that animals are better to get along with. Since I got Chico, two years ago, I've been spending more time with him, than I have been spending with people. The more people I meet, the more I love my Dog.



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20 Jul 2005, 9:46 pm

I love my cats and they love me it seems. But I don't hold my mice too much because they're high-strung creatures and I'm sure a lot happier with me simply as their food/water deliverer and cage cleaner. My cats socially depend a lot on me. My mice don't care about me really either way. So, I let them live their lives to themselves in mousy peace and tranquility, away from the bellies of snakes, so that they can grow fat and one day old and I'll then bury them when they've finally passed. They seem more content that way. I don't really consider them pets or friends I guess. Perhaps just roommates. I'm content with that.


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21 Jul 2005, 1:24 pm

I enjoy human suffering, in all its forms. I mean, i enjoy all of the good things too. But all of the best comedy is based on SOME kind of human suffering. I think the fact that humans nature is responsible for their entire species suffering to be f****n' hilarious.
I can't immediately logic BS my way out of seeing humans causing suffering to animals to just be cruel.
Not to say that animals don't occasionally suffer in amusing ways. But usually it is s**t they do to themselves through curiosity and idiocy. Humans work differently.

So i kind of consider animals to be neutral bystanders to humans gigantic self-fuck agenda.


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22 Jul 2005, 8:29 pm

I think in part I feel much closer to animals because I was an outcast when young and had the company of animals and nature more often than people.

I am more angered when animals suffer probably because I feel very grateful to them, the only friends I had. And hence, a lot of anger towards humans who have often been the cause of frequent animal suffering.


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24 Feb 2013, 8:40 am

Animals don't judge you in the way human beings do. They are not sneaky like human beings. So I feel very comfortable with them in some way. Although verbal communication with animals is very hard, I feel I can establish some kind of connection with some of them.



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24 Feb 2013, 10:26 am

Me too, a documentary I think you might like is called Grizzly Man. The n***a just decided to go live with bears because people weren't his crock of stew. He was awesome, but then he got eaten.



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24 Feb 2013, 3:25 pm

I like animals more than people but I'm not indifferent to people.

I think a bit part of why is that you have to learn how to read them. Animals being simpler to get along with are easier to read. People don't cut you much slack if you don't tune into their emotions.



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24 Feb 2013, 3:26 pm

I allways liked mroe animals than people,is not like I hate people per see,but I like a lot to go to things like zoos and the like and being close to a animal is always interesting to me while others dont seem it as a big deal or repel like in cases like being near a reptile or other "ugly" animal



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24 Feb 2013, 3:30 pm

I definately care more about animals than people. Put me in a room with a group of people and a dog and guess where I'll be. I think it's because animals are not as complicated, they're not hypocritical, they don't bully you. And they're cute, of course.


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24 Feb 2013, 5:39 pm

I find dogs and cats (if they're friendly) to be very comforting. Sometimes I do with that socializing with people was as easy as playing with a cat. I also tend to notice animals everywhere, sometimes more than I notice the people in my surroundings.



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24 Feb 2013, 7:38 pm

Nomaken wrote:
But all of the best comedy is based on SOME kind of human suffering.

Nietzsche said, "A joke is an epitaph of the death of a feeling."


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24 Feb 2013, 7:41 pm

Dog like me much more than people do.


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