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"Hail Hydra" qazplm135 Sep 2018 #1
I read the tale of Forbidden Fruit as the moment that humans rejected the role of pets. Girard442 Sep 2018 #2
I read it as the authors, ie priests, telling everyone they should obey unconditionally muriel_volestrangler Sep 2018 #47
Were Adam and Eve real people? trotsky Sep 2018 #3
Personally, I don't care. I don't read any scripture as divinely inspired or as a history book... TreasonousBastard Sep 2018 #6
Probably the best way to look at it marylandblue Sep 2018 #7
The OP speaks as if they were. trotsky Sep 2018 #22
Ancient argument-- can there be good without evil to compare it to? TreasonousBastard Sep 2018 #4
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Zoroasterism all acknowledge the essential role what we call "evil" plays Nitram Sep 2018 #9
Yes, I'm aware of that, and when I first heard it, a lot of things became clearer... TreasonousBastard Sep 2018 #13
Well put. I lived 21 years in Japan, and married a Japanese woman. Nitram Sep 2018 #15
Just curious, where are you located? masmdu Sep 2018 #27
Charlottesville, Virginia. Nitram Sep 2018 #43
Such a sweet fairy tale, filled with love, understanding, relationship building... Ferrets are Cool Sep 2018 #5
Reality is not sweet, it is filled with love, understanding, relationship building... Nitram Sep 2018 #10
To be fair, the bald man didn't actually send any bears Mariana Sep 2018 #21
Thank you for the correction. Ferrets are Cool Sep 2018 #30
Exactly. God could have told Elisha to get a grip. Mariana Sep 2018 #31
Why is love and hate dependent on good and evil? marylandblue Sep 2018 #8
I rather doubt that animals feel hate, as we know it. I suspect what they feel is directly Nitram Sep 2018 #11
I have seen it in dogs marylandblue Sep 2018 #12
Dogs are pack animals, and their behavior reflects that. Nitram Sep 2018 #14
Our notions of good and evil may be no more than sophisticated pack behavior marylandblue Sep 2018 #16
Yes, I'm certain we are hard wired for some pack behavior. But as cultural-anthropologists Nitram Sep 2018 #17
Chimpanzees fight wars and are worse than us marylandblue Sep 2018 #18
Chimpanzees are not pack animals. Nitram Sep 2018 #19
The differences between pack animals and animals MineralMan Sep 2018 #35
A troop of Chimpanzees engages in social behavior that is exponentially more complex than Nitram Sep 2018 #42
As are people Major Nikon Sep 2018 #46
hate is too strong qazplm135 Sep 2018 #39
From your posts Voltaire2 Sep 2018 #41
Voltaire, I'm not sure to whom you were addressing your comment above, but... Nitram Sep 2018 #44
It was you. Voltaire2 Sep 2018 #45
Do animals experience those emotions, guillaumeb Sep 2018 #29
Research shows other mammals seem to experience the same basic emotions we do marylandblue Sep 2018 #32
The key word is, of course, "seem". guillaumeb Sep 2018 #34
No matter the qualifier or lack thereof I put, you would have argued the point marylandblue Sep 2018 #36
I have read a little. guillaumeb Sep 2018 #37
Read more then, and think a little too marylandblue Sep 2018 #38
Well, now, what research have you read on that subject, guillaumeb? MineralMan Sep 2018 #33
I'll ask Zeus and get back to you. SamKnause Sep 2018 #20
It's just a story. A story told around campfires by MineralMan Sep 2018 #23
Ooga Booga. Iggo Sep 2018 #24
I think cavemen knew right and wrong. LakeArenal Sep 2018 #25
Pure fantasy and fiction. masmdu Sep 2018 #26
I prefer the Santa Claus myth. Corvo Bianco Sep 2018 #28
Hail Santa! nt uriel1972 Sep 2018 #40
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