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our parasite puppet masters will bend you to their evolutionary will

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Xavier Onnasis

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Feb 10, 2012, 6:58:23 PM2/10/12
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I dunno...cats make you crazy? maybe not...after all, this
guy got his ideas from that noted atheist Richard Dawkins...

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1969/12/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/

(FYI, this is very much an on-topic article for this group)


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XO

Kalkidas

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Feb 11, 2012, 11:33:35 AM2/11/12
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Don't mean to ruin it for you, but in the end Pinocchio becomes a real boy.

AGWFacts

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Feb 11, 2012, 12:11:53 PM2/11/12
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On 10 Feb 2012 23:58:23 GMT, Xavier Onnasis
_Toxoplasma_gondii_ made me climb the bell tower and use my Army
training to punish all of the people who were laughing at me.


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"I am not ignorant simply because I choose to believe one
theory over another." -- Madison Murphy

chris thompson

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Feb 11, 2012, 12:45:49 PM2/11/12
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On Feb 11, 11:33 am, Kalkidas <e...@joes.pub> wrote:
> On 2/10/2012 4:58 PM, Xavier Onnasis wrote:
>
> > I dunno...cats make you crazy?  maybe not...after all, this
> > guy got his ideas from that noted atheist Richard Dawkins...
>
> >http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1969/12/how-your-cat-is-makin...
>
> > (FYI, this is very much an on-topic article for this group)
>
> Don't mean to ruin it for you, but in the end Pinocchio becomes a real boy.

I take this to mean you believe the article to be some kind of fairy
tale.

This just tells me you are blissfully ignorant of the scientific
literature about parasites altering the behaviors of the host. In
another thread I directed you to Zimmer's _Parasite Rex_. I do so
again. There is scads of information in there about parasites doing
all sorts of weird things to hosts, such as rendering hosts sterile
but engaging in parenting behavior toward the _parasite's_ offspring,
to making fish swim near the surface in the presence of a predator
(hmmm....suicidal behavior, a sign of mental illness, wouldn't you
say?)

Do some reading, please.

Chris

David Hare-Scott

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Feb 11, 2012, 4:39:38 PM2/11/12
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You can't ping Kalki like that. Ambiguous jabs are his thing, by avoiding
being explicit about just what he is saying he avoids the possibility of
being caught out as ignorant, or so he thinks.

D

Kalkidas

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Feb 11, 2012, 8:56:48 PM2/11/12
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Now, now, just because my comment went over your heads doesn't mean it's
not "explicit".

If you think about what I was commenting on, i.e. to what I referred,
you might get a clue.

But you guys aren't exactly famous for having senses of humor.

Ernest Major

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Feb 12, 2012, 4:56:08 AM2/12/12
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In message <jh64vn$ree$2...@dont-email.me>, Kalkidas <e...@joes.pub> writes
How many cats are there in your household?
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alias Ernest Major

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