[ExI] you can walk a cat, if he lets you

[William Flynn Wallace]

re cats and leaves - Surely the cat knows that a leaf is not some animal.
Ergo, it is proved that cats have a fantasy life and are creative.  bill w

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 9:59 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
> Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat
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> >...I had a black cat whom I suspected of some Siamese ancestry, because
> of his long legs and distinctive voice.  He brought home animal prey just
> once (a little snake) but often brought home leaves.
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> *\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  www.bendwavy.org
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> Anton there ya go, evidence of your cat's Siamese ancestry.  Reasoning:
> Siam is now called Thailand, which is predominantly Buddhist.  Buddhists
> have that hold sanctity of life thing going.  Your cat brought home a
> snake, then just couldn't devour it: his conscience bothered him.
>
> It is easy to imagine: solid Presbyterian stock all the way back, exotic
> long-legged Siamese cat arrives in the neighborhood spreading Buddhism, the
> teenage tabbies are taken with him, convert, he takes advantage, leaves his
> DNA everywhere, skips town.  No point in blaming him really: they are just
> that way by nature, which is where we get the old saying about having the
> morals of an alley cat.
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> Buddhism has a strong version of the old Thou shalt not kill, while they
> kinda look the other way with the whole shalt not commit adultery
> business.  It's sorta the opposite of several other major religions which
> have it the other way around.  So your cat, being descended from that
> exotic seductively-peaceful vegan Siamese cat, repented after having slain
> the helpless little serpent, found his inner leaf-eater.
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> spike
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