u/jaylinbovaydin

As someone who’s lived with animals & been around many more, It’s such a weird concept to me that everyone treats animals as non-conscious or less aware. The only evidence that that’s true is based on human standards.

There’s a quote: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Animals are constantly treated and talked about as if they are less aware than humans, but I think it’s only a perceived byproduct of living amongst a species they don’t naturally belong with.

Humans constantly praise modern medicine or technology as what sets us apart from the rest of nature, but again that’s a human standard.

Humans can’t create a neurotoxin that paralyzes its prey. Humans can’t fly or see well in the dark. So by natures standards humans are useless as hell.

Just because different species decided to inhabit ecosystems differently doesn’t inherently make one dumber than the other.

Go into the wild and try to assert your “superior human intellect”. You will find out really quick how ridiculous you look to nature.

All things die & all things present dangers - however animals are smart enough and strong enough to live amongst it all without the need for big daddy government or human-like infrastructure.

I’ll even take it one step further & say that us humans are really the dumb ones for being unable to exist within our own natural habitat/ecosystem without external help. We’re one of the few thousand species out of millions who can’t do that independently.

For every reason I’ve seen people use to justify treating animals as a lesser species, there is a more logical argument against it. Give it your best shot but I’ll be honest and say It’d be incredibly hard to change my mind.

I’m a relatively reclusive person & a little eccentric, but I find I exhaust my friends too often. I don’t want to do that but the way my brain works, I have a lot of really interesting ideas and thoughts I want to talk about. I usually listen to my friends go on for hours about their interests in politics, religion, video games they like, their work stories etc. , but when it’s my turn to share my own interests the room goes dead silent. It’s like I’m a bomb waiting to go off and everyone’s afraid of entertaining a thought I’ve been pondering. I’ve pulled back from everyone and sure enough it fixed my friendships but I’m miserable because I can’t speak unless it’s about something they wanna talk about otherwise the entire mood changes.

Anyways, im not throwing them aside or anything (they just are who they are, I can’t blame them) im just looking for new friends in their mid-twenties and up, who like to discuss the abstract and don’t back down to complex topics, if that’s you, you found a friend 🙌🏽

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Have you ever said, “hey siri?” Or “Alexa!”? And a phone or device around you lights up and responds back? If that’s already normal in everyday life, then there is a probability that same technology exists on a global or even galactic scale. Imagine if this did exist and could answer any question for you if you can say it’s “waking phrase” but the only reason we don’t know about it is because we don’t know its name?

Theres a weird phenomenon throughout human history where an idea is formed (for example: religion, politics, community efforts) and all the humans at one time agree it to be “good” or “right”. But fast track 20 years later & you will see the many divisions of the same original idea (denominations, party isles, and branch-off communities). The one thing we know all humans have as a common denominator is the need to make truth fit into their own perceptions or narratives. No single item, idea, person or otherwise can ever be considered “right” by all inhabitants of earth. There will always be dissonance, even within a society who knows its directive/“purpose” within its own environment.

Are there any known breaks in this phenomenon where every humans has decided together that an idea is “good” or “right” and never varied from its original source?

Have you ever said, “hey siri?” Or “Alexa!”? And a phone or device around you lights up and responds back? If that’s already normal in everyday life, then there is a probability that same technology exists on a global or even galactic scale. Imagine if this did exist and could answer any question for you if you can say it’s “waking phrase” but the only reason we don’t know about it is because we don’t know its name?

An oasis is only seen as a paradise because of the harsh desert around it. So any environment that consists of only oasis-like areas aren’t able to be truly appreciated if there’s no comparison. Heaven can only be heaven if the participants have experienced hell, and hell can only be hell if the participants have experience heaven.

The entire dichotomy is a mind-f, but the reality is, anyone who sells you a “wholistic model” is probably against you. Is this your first-hand? Or have you come to a different conclusion?