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Have a great vacation, don't eat lead paint, and do be sure to bring back some souvenirs made in America. Haven’t seen much of that around lately.
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Alanzo
Bardo Tulpa
That piano-playing cat is fantastic!
If that isn't a sign of intelligence and music-loving aesthetics, I don't know what is!
But, while the cat is playing the piano so beautifully, she is not out hunting and catching small rodents and reptiles. Nor is she mating with other cats to forward her species.
She's just playing the piano while humans watch her.
If I crawled around on the ground hunting mice to impress cats, would I be considered very intelligent?
Our minds have developed to excel in the niche into which we have evolved from our biological pasts. And to say that a human mind is "superior" to an animal's is to delete or change the correct context for the question, and to apply false standards to those minds.
Hubbard was simply, oversimply, appealing to anthropomorphic urges to make a sale.
The statement is completely out of proper context, without consideration for the proper standards, and totally unanswerable.
Very poopy.
Royal Prince Xenu
Trust the Psi Corps.
Your cute fuzzy koalas spend most of their time stoned on eucalyptus.
The preying mantis and notably the black widow spider kill their spouses during mating.
Honey badgers kill for sport more often than for food.
Tribal warfare amongst animals? Not too sure about that one.
Completely common; kill the men and kids, keep the wimmens and territory. It's even common among herbivores.
Not to mention the rapist ducks...
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