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Shucks,
I thought we were already devolving, but I agree that we can certainly learn a lot from children and dogs. It is a dog eat dog life after all, for the moment anyway.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on July 21, 2008 at 5:21 AM
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i think
that dogs are cool - but i'm no fan of loose pit bulls. Some weeds yet must be pulled
posted by
Smittenheimer
on July 19, 2008 at 10:38 AM
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Re: Dogs and children
Zenster,
I always enjoy hearing from you and reading what you write. As you say, we could all gain from certain traits that our children and dogs share and we adults outgrow, but not EVERY trait would be desirable. I don't want to go around sniffing everyone's butt or stealing someone else's toys, but if we could band together, recognizing our commonality, we would have a chance to forge ahead. Dogs look SO different from each other to us, because humans have bred hundreds of disparate looking breeds of dogs. A dog can take one look at another dog and recognize that what they are seeing is a dog. If humans saw only another human, regardless of how different they appear or act or sound, like babies do, we might have a chance to evolve further. We see a strange looking or acting human and automatically see an enemy. I wonder why this happens, and this tendency is what will probably doom us to become the next dinosaurs.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on July 19, 2008 at 9:09 AM
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I know what you mean here..........you wish we could hang on to the innocence of childhood and possess the devoted nature of dogs. But, only if we get to keep ONLY the POSITIVE traits. I'd rather not live in a world where we walk around with our binkys and babbas .........or worse.........where we lift our leg to pee on someone when they stop to say hello.
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ZenMom
on July 19, 2008 at 5:54 AM
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