Subject: Re: cute bunny, kitty
From: a dontigny (a_dontigny@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2001 - 18:29:58 EDT
really don't think that "torture" can be applied to animals
feeding themselves.
--- sylvi macCormac <sylvi@istar.ca> wrote:
> true, but how did we go from recording trees to kitties
> eating bunnies and
> details of the horror? is it because he thought Wilco was
> from Australia? was it
> because Wilco used the word 'bleeding' and referred to
> cutting of tree branch.
> He was talking about how to bleed tree sap not
> torture/kill animals .... i asked
> my friend if she thought it would hurt a tree if i
> hammered a nail/spike and
> left it there to record the trees life through time as
> was suggested ...
>
> off line ... gone fishing ...
>
> macCormac / sylvi
>
>
> DG Malham wrote:
>
> > I thought Chris was actually making a serious point
> about the
> > (mis)perceptions we humans have about things around us.
> We persist in
> > thinking of things in our own terms - it looks nice and
> fluffy, so it must
> > be nice and fluffy (not). Cat people are particularly
> prone to this, most
> > dog owners know they have something which might, under
> the right
> > situations, become vicous, most cat people (no-one owns
> a cat - they might
> > own you, but...) turn a blind eye to the fact that the
> only thing that
> > will stop any cat being one of the nastiest killers
> around is being too
> > fat and lazy to do anything ( even sharks don't play
> with their prey like
> > a cat will). PLease don't think I am a cat hater, I am
> on the most
> > friendly terms with one of my neighbours cats, we
> always have a chat when
> > we meet (even tho' it's eaten all the fish in my pond)
> AND I do not own a
> > dog. Only by removing that sort of blinker from our
> mind's eye can artists
> > begin to truly understand and interpret the world.
> >
> > Dave
>
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