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Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 28, 2015 at 5:53 pm
Christopher Hitchens (I just happen to be reading his work. No particular reason. Didn't have anything else to do.) tells us that if you give a dog food, water, shelter and affection, it will think that you are god. If you give a cat food, water, shelter and affection, it will think that it is god.
How do you respond when others provide things for you? Are you grateful like a dog? Indifferent like a cat? Think about it. We all know what the anser should be but when you take an honest look at yourself, how do you tend to respond?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 28, 2015 at 5:59 pm
Children begin as dogs and become cats during adolescence.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 28, 2015 at 6:01 pm
I'm a bear. Wake me while I'm sleeping and I'mma FUCK YOU UP.
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 28, 2015 at 6:09 pm
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(August 28, 2015 at 5:53 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Christopher Hitchens (I just happen to be reading his work. No particular reason. Didn't have anything else to do.) tells us that if you give a dog food, water, shelter and affection, it will think that you are god. If you give a cat food, water, shelter and affection, it will think that it is god.
That myth predates Hitchens by at least centuries.
I would be neither, since I wouldn't think someone giving me all of the above to be a god. At the same time I wouldn't be under the delusion of being a god.
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 28, 2015 at 6:12 pm
Quote:Christopher Hitchens tells us that if you give a dog food, water, shelter and affection, it will think that you are god. If you give a cat food, water, shelter and affection, it will think that it is god.
Sounds suspiciously like a Twain quote: 'Every man who has a dog to worship him should have a cat to ignore him.'
I don't fit into either category, really. I've always though of myself as a slightly disheveled hedgehog. Not overly neat, pretty quiet, but I can be prickly of handed incorrectly.
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 28, 2015 at 7:38 pm
(August 28, 2015 at 6:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quote:Christopher Hitchens tells us that if you give a dog food, water, shelter and affection, it will think that you are god. If you give a cat food, water, shelter and affection, it will think that it is god.
Sounds suspiciously like a Twain quote: 'Every man who has a dog to worship him should have a cat to ignore him.'
I don't fit into either category, really. I've always though of myself as a slightly disheveled hedgehog. Not overly neat, pretty quiet, but I can be prickly of handed incorrectly.
Boru Twain, yes. Now there's a master.
I've seen you get prickly with some of out more insipid theist around here. You are a master, too. A subtle one.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 29, 2015 at 3:48 am
Ooooh can I be a platypus??
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 29, 2015 at 3:52 am
I suppose I am more like a dog than a cat. When people treat me well I am grateful, rather than assuming that I simply deserve such treatment.
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 29, 2015 at 3:56 am
No, we don't know what the answer should be - I'm assuming you mean we should be like dogs. I think neither is "the right answer" - there is no such thing.
I'm a cat. Definitely.
I've heard Hitchens talk about this in one of his talks, I think. Humorous thing, really.
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RE: Personality Test: Are you a Cat or a Dog?
August 29, 2015 at 4:20 am
I think it comes down to how you were raised.
Personally I'm overly grateful whenever someone helps me.
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