My cat has a vicariously addictive personality. She becomes panicky if I don't stay up computing until 3:00 a.m. so she can sit and watch me. In the evening, she sits on the floor in the bathroom and yells every time I walk past until I take a bubble bath. If I don't start cooking dinner at a certain time (mine, not hers), she tries to lead me to the kitchen until I go.
Is there such a thing as Feline Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
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 Jun 9 2001, 8:55 pm
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i like cats I prefer dogs to cats in general, though I've seen some good examples of each, and some screwed-up examples of each. But you know what would make a really neat pet? A polar bear. | |
I prefer dogs to cats in general, though I've seen some good examples of each, and some screwed-up examples of each. But you know what would make a really neat pet? A polar bear. I read somewhere that polar bears are the only mammals that will hunt and stalk humans without having any prior exposure to/experience with humans and without being in a dire situation (hurt, starving, etc.). I bet a trick like that would get you on Letterman. | |
This is completely natural. Cats are maniacal power freaks who enjoy exerting command over humans. In succumbing to its demands, you only add impetus to its drive to take over the world and enslave the human race.
...Unless cats have already enslaved the human race and installed us in a vast system of tubs filled with pink goo, linked into an artificial reality of their own design, in order to harvest our bodies' innate hair-producing properties. Hmm. Maybe I need to stop using The Matrix to cure insomnia. | |
That was one thing that I found implausible in the Matrix... why the computers would need humans. Human body heat and biochemistry, combined with a form of nuclear fusion, was how they got their powers. Why didn't they just use more nuclear fusion and get rid of the whole contrived, ridiculously complicated system of imprisoning, harvesting, and deluding humans? Did they still have some innate programmed desire/need to serve and protect the race that created them? Did the powers that be among the A.I.s fancy themselves better than humanity, and decide to prove it by being magnaminous and keep the humans around, in a humanocentric artificial universe?
For that matter, who in their right mind would fight to get out of the admittedly imperfect Matrix world and into the equally imperfect and thoroughly more scarred "real" world? Just because you learn that reality as you know it is supported by a computer program is no reason to freak out... in "real life", what you see as solid, continuous objects is actually a field of particles or waveforms or something suspended in space, none of them in contact with any other. Does knowing that make you want to get outside reality? What if you learned that "up" and "down" are imaginary concepts, that the world which appears to be flat is actually round, that the sun which appears to move in the sky isn't moving at all in relation to the earth, that the sky which appears, at various times, to be a huge blue or black object isn't even actually there and what you're seeing is just light being diffused through dust particles or the absence of light as you stare into infinity? Does knowing any of that make you want to leave reality? I wonder if Neo liberates humanity, and later learns that human beings were put into the supposedly "real" real world by a being who calls himself God... that the bodies they wear are just artificial constructs made by this God to house the true essence of people, so this God can give people Commandments and expose people to temptation and suffering and generally jerk them around. Matrix 4: Neo storms the gates of heaven! Hee. :) Don't get me wrong, I love The Matrix. And aside from the questions of motivation, I think it's absolutely plausible. Reality as we perceive it could be supported by ANYTHING. As a great philosopher once wrote in a little blue book, "I am sure there are many cases in which our own universe too is unrealistic because God couldn't resist a simpler way of implementing things here and there. The sky is a perfect example. I mean, it looks a bit fake sometimes, doesn't it?" (By the way, whoever happened to write that particular bit is absolutely right on both counts,IMAUHO.) On 6/10/01 11:51 am Leftley wrote: This is completely natural. Cats are maniacal power freaks who enjoy exerting command over humans. In succumbing to its demands, you only add impetus to its drive to take over the world and enslave the human race. | |
Okay now the coincidences are piling up here...
Living & Dead was created after I watched the Matrix. It has many other influences, of course, but that was what triggered the game. And the DDT has an upcoming game (next or after next) having to do with power-hungry cats. Stop talking, you people, or I will sue you all! | |
That always puzzled me too. The machines were actually very generous to human kind, with the exception of that one agent, but he obviosly needed to reinstall his operating system anyway... he was a bit unhinged.
I guess they wanted to get out because of that irrational human quality that makes us resist barriers we encounter. It doesn't seem to matter why the barrier is in place, or if things will be better with or without it. People just don't like to feel limited. People want to do what they can't. | |
And the DDT has an upcoming game (next or after next) having to do with power-hungry cats. There's a major-motion picture out right now (or soon to be out, I'm not sure) about just this very thing. | |
On 6/10/01 12:47 pm Deadron wrote:
Okay now the coincidences are piling up here... Heh, I know how you feel Deadron. Believe it or not, I developed the hand equipable system for Darke Dungeon long before Castlevania:SotN existed, or even PSX for that matter. I give them credit though, since they are the big boys. Besides, they made a fantastic game :) I used to get so upset when I would run a Shadowrun adventure, only to have FASA print my ideas later on. (No, I'm not saying they stole them. Unless they planted a bug in my SR rulebook before I bought it, they couldn't have. I prefer to think of it as "Great minds think alike." :) ) I wrote an RPG system once (well, most of one) only to have someone tell me I had blatantly ripped off a series of novels I had never even read. (I read them after that. I admit there were striking similarities :P) In "How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Orson Scott Card, (another coincidence?) he wrote that he gets that sort of thing all the time. He'll write something fantastic and groundbreaking in his opinion, only to have someone say "Oh yeah, that's just like such and such book by whatsisname." | |
On 6/9/01 11:55 pm LexyBitch wrote:
My cat has a vicariously addictive personality. She becomes panicky if I don't stay up computing until 3:00 a.m. so she can sit and watch me. In the evening, she sits on the floor in the bathroom and yells every time I walk past until I take a bubble bath. If I don't start cooking dinner at a certain time (mine, not hers), she tries to lead me to the kitchen until I go. did you know that the cat's (house cat.. not big cats) DNA is more related to the DNA of that found on the mars rock than that of any of the big cats? and another thing about them. they first appeared in egipt at the time of the pyrimids. and there are pyrimids on marz that (durring the time of the egiption pyrimids) lined up exactly with the one in egipt.. and durring the begining of the mayin empire lined up with the tallest mayin pyrimids. is this a conincidence? or are cats really from mars? if so they could have an agenda we do not know about... | |
On 6/10/01 12:54 pm LexyBitch wrote:
And the DDT has an upcoming game (next or after next) having to do with power-hungry cats. Trust me when I say their idea won't be nearly as wacky as ours. | |
On 6/10/01 12:50 pm Shadowdarke wrote:
That always puzzled me too. Face it, the Matrix is a badly written movie with a plot just FILLED with holes, that happens to be fun to watch because of the enthusiastic energy of the creators. | |
Face it, the Matrix is a badly written movie with a plot just FILLED with holes, that happens to be fun to watch because of the enthusiastic energy of the creators. Yep, that about sums up my own thoughts on it too. The head agent (Smith, if memory serves) was actually my favorite character; despite the fact that I'm a human, I had to sympathize with him a little when he started ranting to Morpheus. Hope they find a way to put him in the sequels! | |
I'm curious about how exactly the pyramids "lined up" with the ones on earth. You mean the sets of pyramids pointed at each other? If so, it could only have been for a split second... earth and mars are both constantly moving both around the sun, and around on their own axes. Also, if so, only a single pyramid could've lined up with a single other pyramid, point-to-point, since all the pyramids are projecting outwards from the surface of a spherical object, they're all pointing in a slightly different direction. Slight differences, carried out over interplanetary distances, makes for big changes.
From what I understand of Crazy Hippy Esoteric Energy Physics, a total of three sets of pyramids they'd have to be in perfect alignment with one another for at least a Lemurian moon-cycle to generate enough Positive Pyramid Power to defeat the negative thought radiation the Venusians were clearly aiming at us during the times of Egyptian and Mayan dominance. Also, because of my thirst for pure knowledge, I'm interested in reading whatever source you're relying on for your information about the Mars rock and its DNA. Could you please refer me to the site or magazine? On 6/10/01 1:13 pm jobe wrote: On 6/9/01 11:55 pm LexyBitch wrote: | |
I believe he is signed. Not a terrific plot-hole... Smith is a program. It was only the instance of him loaded into the Matrix at the moment that was destroyed.
On 6/10/01 1:48 pm Gughunter wrote: Face it, the Matrix is a badly written movie with a plot just FILLED with holes, that happens to be fun to watch because of the enthusiastic energy of the creators. | |
On 6/10/01 1:54 pm LexyBitch wrote:
Could you please refer me to the site or magazine? It's filed away in a top secret government archive with Jobe's 9th dimensional thesis. | |
On 6/10/01 1:37 pm Deadron wrote:
On 6/10/01 12:50 pm Shadowdarke wrote: You just described every single movie that's worth watching at all. | |
On 6/10/01 2:11 pm Shadowdarke wrote:
On 6/10/01 1:54 pm LexyBitch wrote: Is that a thesis about the 9th dimension, or a thesis which exists in or consists of the 9th dimension? | |
I read somewhere that polar bears are the only mammals that will hunt and stalk humans without having any prior exposure to/experience with humans and without being in a dire situation (hurt, starving, etc.). I bet a trick like that would get you on Letterman. They're considered the most powerful carnivorous animal on the planet, so I should think so! [edit] Actually, they're omnivorous, but they prefer meat. Not to mention the word 'polar' tends to mean 'no plants'. | |
i wish i had a cat
seriously
i like cats
i hate dogs for that matter
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