Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:16:15PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote:
> >
> Heidegger, not Kant is the one with the answer here.
> 'Dasein', - Man, the being for whom being is a question.
> With all due respect to cats and dogs.
Have you ever seen the "Intelligence" episode of "Trials of Life" ?
Have you ever seen a dog play with a mouse by torturing it?
I saw this dog snag a mouse. At first it would run away, so he'd grab
it and shake it. After a while its back was broken, and couldn't run
much. So when it would try a bit it would knock it with its paw to make
it look like it was trying to run, at which point it would pick it up
and shake it some more. He gave up when it was dead.
How about the "Hunting and Killing" episode of trials of life?
And on a more spirtual note: have you ever heard the trees talking to
you? They wonder why we run around so much...
I think "being a soul" is a contiuum. I certainly slide up and down it
all the time -- sometimes I'm an angel, sometimes I'm dog, sometimes I'm
green slime. I think what separates us from animals is our "range" ::
animals inhabit a narrower spectrum of the states of consciousness which
are common to ours.
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