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Ferrets are Cool

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30. Thank you for the correction.
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 01:33 PM
Sep 2018

All he did was curse them. God did the tearing apart of the children using the bears as his pawns.

In this setting, as Elisha approached Bethel, no less than 42 “little children” came “out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head” (verse 23).

Elisha “turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord.” Then “there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them” (verse 24).

"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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