animals
October 2008 
What have you learned from other animals?
Posted on Jul 21st, 2008
by 
Shameslaya
Shameslaya
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 21, 2008:
They inform me with the utmost sincerity that Dr Doolittle is having you all on...the guy doesn't even know any of the gorilla swear words.
I used to dislike Tam's first dog Rosie...she was just a lump of moving biomass that got in the way and turned meat into dogcrap.....then after a time I got to grok her humanness...or more precisely, the qualities of warmth, forgiving and generosity-to-younger-mammals which she evidenced.....
And this is not her humanness as such....when we show these qualities, we are manifesting our sentience.
I have learned to watch animals patiently....the heron at our river can stand stock still for hours watching the flow for sight of a refracted fish then galvanise into action like a coiled spring....cats will do more things in a five minute timeslice than dogs do in an hour....snakes having rumpy-pumpy resemble DNA strands in an amphetaminous petrie dish......
Thanx for the question Siona.
Jon x
I used to dislike Tam's first dog Rosie...she was just a lump of moving biomass that got in the way and turned meat into dogcrap.....then after a time I got to grok her humanness...or more precisely, the qualities of warmth, forgiving and generosity-to-younger-mammals which she evidenced.....
And this is not her humanness as such....when we show these qualities, we are manifesting our sentience.
I have learned to watch animals patiently....the heron at our river can stand stock still for hours watching the flow for sight of a refracted fish then galvanise into action like a coiled spring....cats will do more things in a five minute timeslice than dogs do in an hour....snakes having rumpy-pumpy resemble DNA strands in an amphetaminous petrie dish......
Thanx for the question Siona.
Jon x
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Is that what those heron are doing? I thought they were just standing there. that was funny about dr. dolittle.
Animals have been some of my greatest teachers too Jon…its amazing the things you can learn about yourself and the world from them if you open up to their messages. Lovely that you have been able to do that…which doesnt surprise me in the least about you! :-)
hugs
Dog-gone it Jon…you took the words/ woof right out of my mouth!
Thanx folks….
You know, when they were teaching Guy the Gorilla sign language and he got angered by one of the keepers, he signed “You dirty bad toilet”…..excrement stuff may be a universal theme of profanity….
J x
When my son was tiny I used to give him scrap bits of paper to scribble on, the back sides of junk mail and stuff. And then one day he got pissed at me and sputtered “you…you're just a PIECE OF PAPER TO WRITE ON” which was the worst thing he could think of. I'm guessing that whatever we cast off is automatically a terrible thing. Junk mail could be a swear word just as much as shit I think.