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Anthropomorphism
anthropomorphism |ˌanTHrəpəˈmôrˌfizəm| noun the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. People oftentimes dismiss some interpretations of animal behavior as anthropomorphism. Why do they assume that the feelings and motives that humans have are so different from those of other animals? Why assume it’s projection when it could be empathy?
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New Years 2015
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Eaten Alive! Anaconda!
I can’t believe all the fuss over the Discovery Channel’s show about a man being intentionally eaten alive by an anaconda. The “victim” (Paul Rosolie) tapped out after his arm came close to breaking from the anaconda’s squeeze, so the show was anticlimactic. What did people expect? That someone would actually get eaten by the…
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13.0.1.13.9 (September 11, 2014)
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The Movie “Excalibur”
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Winter is Coming
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13.0.1.12.17 (August 30, 2014)
1 What sort of veiled threat is this? “You see how they (jihadists) carry out beheadings and make children show the severed heads in the street,” he said, condemning the “cruelty” of such acts. Why is the word cruelty in quotation marks? More importantly, fuck you Abdullah. You piece of shit hypocrite. You have the…
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13.0.1.12.11 – Feeding the birds
I wasn’t sure what to do with the raccoon carcass. My first thought was to leave it hanging in the coop. It would attract flies and the maggots would drop from the carcass, providing protein for the chickens. But then I worried about raccoon roundworms infecting the chickens, which might infect the eggs. My second…
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Christianity
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Lottery Lugs
Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but every time there’s someone at the register playing the lottery (whether scratch-offs or something else) they take at least twice as long as any other transaction. Tonight was no exception. There was a woman at the counter, cashing in her lotto tickets and picking new scratch-offs. She was there when…