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mixed_biscuits

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sufi said:
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Harlequin Day
Hundreds of them are climbing up the walls of our building 🐞
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Easy to spot.
 
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catalog

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Amen brother

Another direct quote from Snyder: "Interrelatedness is a common-sense observation. We should remind ourselves that ordinary working people, traditional people ... notice that things are connected. What's not common is the mind-body dualism that begins to come in with monotheism. And the alliance of monotheism with the formation of centralized governance and the national state, that's what's unnatural, and statistically in a minority on earth. The [most common] human experience has been an experience of Animism. Only a small proportion of people on earth have been monotheists... Everybody else in the world is a multifaceted polytheist, animist, or Buddhist who sees things in the world [as alive]."
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catalog

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Bron Taylor

The American biologist-ethologist Marc Bekoff is a well-known contemporary proponent of Naturalistic Animism. He argues that cognitive ethology and everyday observation of animals prove they have rich affective lives and can communicate with humans in many ways, including by expressing their desires, pleasures, aversions, pain, and grief. He also believes they have traits that resemble morality, if not also spiritual experiences or precursors to them. Bekoff draws on both anecdotal reports from scientists as well as methodologically rigorous research in making such assertions. While acknowledging that interpretation can be difficult, Bekoff claims that the pathway to communication with animals is through their eyes. Here, his animistic perception becomes clear: 'Eyes are magnificently complex organs that provide a window into an individual's emotional world. As in humans, in many species eyes reflect feelings, whether wide open in glee or sunken in despair. Eyes are mysterious, evocative, and immediate communicators... Personal interpretation or intuition plays a role, and yet there is no more direct animal-to-animal communication than staring deeply into another's eyes.'
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0bleak

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we're having a deep freeze here in the deep south, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 60s, or depending how bad it gets, before the 1900s
 
DLaurent

DLaurent

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I had a job the other day and a long haired cat followed me into the block of flats.

The most playful and friendly cat I've seen in my life, but had never seen a Cat like it before, so Googled it and it came up with Persian Cat.

Anyone have one?
 
william_kent

william_kent

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same temple as the dying sakura

I thought I was pretty shit hot for snapping a shot of a turtle in a temple

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but when I returned two weeks later:

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wtf?
 
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