your fave zoo animal

Chula Vista · 07-15-2015, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

agreed

especially siberian tigers

Reminds me:

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I come now to the last question in our discussion of Cosmic Purpose, namely: is what has happened hitherto evidence of the good intentions of the universe? The alleged ground for believing this, as we have seen, is that the universe has produced US. I cannot deny it. But are we really so splendid as to justify such a long prologue? The philosophers lay stress on values: they say that we think certain things good, we must be very good to think them so. But this is a circular argument. A being with other values might think ours so atrocious as to be proof that we were inspired by Satan.

Is there not something a trifle absurd in the spectacle of human beings holding a mirror before themselves, and thinking that what they behold so excellent as to prove that a Cosmic Purpose must have been aiming at it all along? Why, in any case, this glorification of Man?

How about lions and tigers? They destroy fewer animal or human lives than we do, and they are much more beautiful than we are. How about ants? They manage the Corporate State much better than any Fascist. Would not a world of nightingales and larks and deer be better than our human world of cruelty and injustice and war? The believers in Cosmic Purpose make much of our supposed intelligence, but their writings make one doubt it. If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

Man, as a curious accident in a backwater, is intelligible: his mixture of virtues and vices is such as might be expected to result from a fortuitous origin. But only abysmal self-complacency can see in Man a reason which Omniscience could consider adequate as a motive for the Creator. The Copernican revolution will not have done its work until is has taught men more modesty than is to be found among those who think Man sufficient evidence of Cosmic Purpose.

- Bertrand Russell 1935

~~Cuthbert~~ · 07-15-2015, 09:33 AM

@JWB they are amazing. Love their coats. I'm a big fan of leopards as well for the same reason.

On the topic of lions, this is pretty cool. I may have posted this before but it's worth seeing twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBpu4DAvwI8

DwnWthVwls · 07-15-2015, 12:35 PM

Them dudes are crazy.

Also, fuck a tiger and lion.

but here's my favorite animal:

grindy · 07-15-2015, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Them dudes are crazy.

Also, fuck a tiger and lion.

but here's my favorite animal:

Russian women?

DwnWthVwls · 07-15-2015, 12:44 PM

Close second. I hear they are kinky. Would try.

Chula Vista · 07-15-2015, 12:46 PM

Is that Emma Stone???

grindy · 07-15-2015, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Close second. I hear they are kinky. Would try.

They are as different between them as any other nationality, but they somewhat tend to be more on the conservative, more boring side.

The Batlord · 07-15-2015, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

why? because those aint my kids bitch. plus the females wont mate when they have a current batch of cubs to raise. thus infanticide is standard lion procedure.

All you tree huggers should remember that next time you're claiming that humans are somehow the most evil species on Earth and all the other ones are majestic models of evolutionary harmony.

Don't forget, chimps are known to kill other chimps from different groups, methodically taking out the competition, one-by-one, until the other group is weak enough that the first can move in and take their territory and females. That's pretty much primitive warfare, so we didn't necessarily invent that either.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 07-15-2015, 01:20 PM

strategic infanticide is also standard procedure for bears and mountain gorillas, btw

and who here is not surprised that vwls loves bears? eh?

DwnWthVwls · 07-15-2015, 01:21 PM

Is that a gay joke? I sense a gay joke.

07-15-2015, 12:46 PM	#16 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Is that Emma Stone??? __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	@JWB they are amazing. Love their coats. I'm a big fan of leopards as well for the same reason. On the topic of lions, this is pretty cool. I may have posted this before but it's worth seeing twice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBpu4DAvwI8

07-15-2015, 01:20 PM	#19 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	strategic infanticide is also standard procedure for bears and mountain gorillas, btw and who here is not surprised that vwls loves bears? eh?