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It occurs to me that war perpetuates because human beings are transfixed by their own memory of the past and prediction of the future, capabilities unique to them and fundamental to the great intelligence that they hold with such pride. This is how war can continue for decades and generations, because memory inspires vengeance and vengeance inspires retribution, but there is no memory of conflict for the wolf or the bear. Is the natural world a more peaceful one or does nature respond to the absence of prediction by engaging in war perpetual, an ongoing and endless conflict which mankind can and has elevated itself from?
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i hope a dolphin rapes u
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Jul 12, 2014 02:03
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man is a part of nature. what the one is the other must be.
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Jul 12, 2014 02:04
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i think if aliens came and started blasting our poo poo we'd stop killing each other long enough to fight the aliens and the aliens would eventually win but we'd gently caress them up real bad
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Jul 12, 2014 02:05
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war is the pinnicle of human endevor. humans, the lords of the earth. War is the purest expression of nature itself, war is god
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Jul 12, 2014 02:06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTseSi0Qgow
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Jul 12, 2014 02:52
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nature is really really fuckin violent hope that helps op
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Jul 12, 2014 02:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhld_PI2zg
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Jul 12, 2014 02:57
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War is necessary for people to realize not to use their world ending weapons when somebody invents them.
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Jul 12, 2014 02:57
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ya nature is v peaceful *watches wolf eat baby caribou alive as it screams in agony*
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Jul 12, 2014 02:58
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wolfs only eat as much as they need the burden of humans is the knowledge of their own mortality and it makes them act out in hosed up ways
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Jul 12, 2014 03:00
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Nature strives for balance OP
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Jul 12, 2014 03:00
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Corey Plumper posted:Nature strives for balance OP this is a loving lie! nature knows no reason its all a gently caress death orgy
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Jul 12, 2014 03:02
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SniperWoreConverse posted:this is a loving lie! nature knows no reason its all a gently caress death orgy It finds balance through death
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Jul 12, 2014 03:03
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Corey Plumper posted:Nature strives for balance OP yep which is why there's going to be a pretty horrific die-off of humans just like any other species that gets too big for it's britches population-wise
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Jul 12, 2014 03:05
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I, too, am smoking a bowl and marathoning GoT.
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Jul 12, 2014 03:09
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Kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day
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Jul 12, 2014 03:12
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OBEY THE ORDERS OF NATURE
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Jul 12, 2014 03:14
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Many animals eat their young and it ain't no thang
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Jul 12, 2014 03:30
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Jul 12, 2014 03:57
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animcals (excepting chimps and such) dont concieve of the world in terms of spatially arraigned objects and symbols, but rather respond to sense inputs without cognitive filtering.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:14
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- hi
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Ocean Book posted:animcals (excepting chimps and such) dont concieve of the world in terms of spatially arraigned objects and symbols, but rather respond to sense inputs without cognitive filtering. So their murder dances are less elaborate and sophisticated
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Jul 12, 2014 04:17
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i know nature is nothing but predation and random destruction, but irl im quite upbeat about stuff
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Jul 12, 2014 04:19
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anmals are my friends
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Jul 12, 2014 04:20
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"Infanticide is a common practice in most mammals. Male lions use infanticide to get rid of offspring in a newly acquired pride that are not genetically related to the male coalition." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZRw0IYdf3g
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Jul 12, 2014 04:21
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Whilst recently in Japan ... 
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Jul 12, 2014 04:23
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no op
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Jul 12, 2014 04:25
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im pooping! posted:i think if aliens came and started blasting our poo poo we'd stop killing each other long enough to fight the aliens and the aliens would eventually win but we'd gently caress them up real bad on the other hand you're an idiot if you think this, it'd be like me schooling my bitch rear end high school friends at LAN parties in rise of nations oh wow, knights with lances? get your poo poo strafed by a jet wait why are you quitting no you can come back
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Jul 12, 2014 04:26
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i dont even know what to think about plants anymore. personally i figure they want to gently caress us up more than anything. i'm a scientist.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:27
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also if you've ever played a video game its shameful as hell you don't need to say it
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Jul 12, 2014 04:27
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Ocean Book posted:animcals (excepting chimps and such) dont concieve of the world in terms of spatially arraigned objects and symbols, but rather respond to sense inputs without cognitive filtering. most animals are basically automatons that obey their evolutionary code and thats it there are some exceptions like dolphins and elephants but they are only exceptional if you grade them on a curve
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Jul 12, 2014 04:30
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OP the only difference between man and pleasure are its goals. Man seeks pleasure and nature seeks only survival. When we've extinguished our raison d'etre and scoured the earth, nature will continue on and survive around the scars we've left behind. Both are violent as poo poo, though, 2/5 for naturalistic fallacy.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:33
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nature is lifeforms brutally devouring other lifeforms constantly. it isn't peaceful at all. it may be peaceful to you but in truth it is a quite violent thing.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:34
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Tsinava posted:nature is lifeforms brutally devouring other lifeforms constantly. it isn't peaceful at all. it may be peaceful to you but in truth it is a quite violent thing. Its cool to murder and consume creatures weaker than you
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Jul 12, 2014 04:59
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the cool thing about being human is that we can examine how nature works as a whole and come to the conclusion that a system that mimics evolution or "the strongest survive" is ineffecient and the fact that it generated sentient beings such as us that became so relatively powerful is uncanny. despite how nature actually works, we have projected our own psychotic ideas onto the universe. some of them work pretty well.
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Jul 12, 2014 05:02
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to be fair there are some better examples in nature that come closer to collectivism/socialism when you examine trees and plants. plants and trees in cultivated or old forests communicate with each other through complex systems of fungus called mycorrhiza. trees will even aid plants that are beneficial to them but are of another species through the mycorrhiza in the soil. they will do the same thing, but to a greater effect to their own saplings which don't get enough sunlight. nature isn't a balance. it's a dynamic equilibrium. a system of constantly fluctuating, but ultimately cyclical and reversible patterns.
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Jul 12, 2014 05:07
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I have it on good authority that chaos reigns.
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Jul 12, 2014 05:16
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surprisingly, this and the dynamics of homosexual sex was already figured out by a fictional Gorilla named Ishmael. Basically there are 'Givers' and there are 'Takers', I highly recommend you read this book OP. it will change the way you look not only about the 'nature' of man but also the nature of your own hole and dick
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carrion kit posted:surprisingly, this and the dynamics of homosexual sex was already figured out by a fictional Gorilla named Ishmael. Basically there are 'Givers' and there are 'Takers', I highly recommend you read this book OP. it will change the way you look not only about the 'nature' of man but also the nature of your own hole and dick I don't have a dick or hole.
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Fojar38 posted:most animals are basically automatons that obey their evolutionary code and thats it humans are the same
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