Having a cat with a long hair is great for
taking a tuft that has settled on the porch
and blowing it back up from the palm of the hand
to drift, showing the currents of air before
settling back down in the same place again.
What Do You Need A Meditating Frog For?
February 4th, 2013 | Posted by in Questions | Religion - (1 Comments)Pier1 stores across the United States are selling mass-produced statues of frogs, cats, and turtles that appear to be meditating, holding postures typically associated with Hindu or Buddhist sages. Who would buy one of these statues? Where would they put the statue, and for what purpose?
I recently ran across an advertisement for a kind of pet called the Savannah Cat, a mix between domestic cats, and the serval, an African wildcat that’s considerably larger, but was kept as a pet by the ancient Egyptians. There’s something that unnerves me about the idea of keeping these cats as pets, but I can’t put my finger on it.
What’s wrong with keeping this interspecies hybrid for a pet, given that we already keep domesticated cats?
“The Savannah Cat – known to few, but soon to be the most popular domestic cat ever. Crossing the wild African Serval with a domestic cat has resulted in the world’s largest domesticated house cat with the intelligence to rival any dog and the athleticism to surmount any other. Loving, loyal and stunningly beautiful, the Savannahs are the perfect pet to bring a piece of wild into your home. With graduate degrees in Genetics and Animal Science, Select Exotics has the knowledge and experience to produce the ultimate pet companion. Visit their website and experience a piece of the wild. Kittens range in price from $1,000 to $20,000.”
Killing Cats To Defend Us From Satan?
March 31st, 2010 | Posted by in Irregular Ideas | Religion - (5 Comments)The newest word about the bizarre Christian militia that called itself Hutaree: One member is purported to have killed his own pet cat in order to prove to himself that he was ready to fight against Satan’s armies in the name of God.
An undercover FBI agent who had infiltrated the Hutarees reports that group member Kris Sickles said that he shot his cat in order to “see if I could do it, to see if I could kill something I had a feeling for.”
Let’s think this through, now. If you’re preparing to fight against a satanic horde, why would you want to know if you could kill something you have a feeling for? Why, unless you have a feeling for Satan’s hordes?
It doesn’t make sense, but then, a person is already beyond sense when they agree that killing a police officer’s family would spark a civil war and make the kingdom of Jesus come that much faster. Kris Sickles appears to have had an obsession with murder. The Hutaree militia is looking more and more like the Christian version of the Manson Family…
…allegedly. None of this has been proven in court yet. The Hutarees are allegedly as mad as a March hare.
Military Initiates Project Synthetic Cat Brain. Squeek.
August 26th, 2008 | Posted by in Science | War and Peace - (0 Comments)
If someone told you that a laboratory was initiating a project with the purpose of building a synthetic brain with the “function, size, and power consumption” of a cat, would you say that was cool? Well, if someone told you that the laboratory was pursuing that project on behalf of the U.S. military, would that change how you feel? Would that make you nervous?
Believe it or not, both statements are true. The U.S. military is pursuing just such a project. Imagine the military applications of a synthetic cat brain under the control of the generals. Then imagine the outcome of a synthetic cat brain attached to some weapons system not under the control of the generals. I mean, we know what they do to the mice.
Squeek. Scurry.
