Comments on: Feline Friday http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:14:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kim http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196681 Kim Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:57:51 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196681 Heh. Here you go! <img src="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b271/comicstriphero/270909738_db91ccd992.jpg" Heh.

Here you go!

<img src="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b271/comicstriphero/270909738_db91ccd992.jpg&quot;

]]> By: comicstriphero http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196680 comicstriphero Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:51:15 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196680 Geez I wish I could upload images into my comments. I beg of you to click this <a href="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b271/comicstriphero/270909738_db91ccd992.jpg" rel="nofollow">link</a> though. Best. Cat. Ever. Geez I wish I could upload images into my comments.

I beg of you to click this link though.

Best.

Cat.

Ever.

]]> By: tigtog http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196679 tigtog Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:13:41 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196679 <blockquote><em>Yeah but the SCA is just a nerd dating agency and an excuse to frock up, hit stuff and get drunk. </em></blockquote> You're saying that like it's a bad thing! Sorry, couldn't resist. You're quite right, a harmless excuse for drunken rollicking is quite different from the mystical fabrications which just decide to create their own mythology around ancient deities because they like the look of them but not the existing mythos. Not that there isn't an awfully long tradition of religions being rebadged in exactly this way. ObFeline: oldie but goodie - <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060613-cat-bear.html" rel="nofollow">Cat Chases Bear Up Tree</a>

Yeah but the SCA is just a nerd dating agency and an excuse to frock up, hit stuff and get drunk.

You’re saying that like it’s a bad thing!

Sorry, couldn’t resist. You’re quite right, a harmless excuse for drunken rollicking is quite different from the mystical fabrications which just decide to create their own mythology around ancient deities because they like the look of them but not the existing mythos.

Not that there isn’t an awfully long tradition of religions being rebadged in exactly this way.

ObFeline: oldie but goodie – Cat Chases Bear Up Tree

]]> By: Amanda http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196678 Amanda Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:47:30 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196678 Yeah but the SCA is just a nerd dating agency and an excuse to frock up, hit stuff and get drunk. Whereas the touchy feely we're all the universes children cosmic harmony you-are-some-one-special ethos is central to the New Age thing -- believe me, you are nobody special at all to Isis. Isis does not give a shit about you. Yeah but the SCA is just a nerd dating agency and an excuse to frock up, hit stuff and get drunk. Whereas the touchy feely we’re all the universes children cosmic harmony you-are-some-one-special ethos is central to the New Age thing — believe me, you are nobody special at all to Isis. Isis does not give a shit about you.

]]> By: tigtog http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196677 tigtog Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:51:37 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196677 <blockquote><em>It always amazes/amuses me the popularity of ancient egyptian religion in new age circles since it has to be one of the absolute least democratic, least egalitarian, least touchy feeling world views going round.</em></blockquote> You could say much the same thing about the popularity of Knightly and Chivalric costumes/recreations at Ren Fairs and SCA meets. The attraction seems to be imagining oneself to be part fo the mover/shaker elite, surrounded by all this tradition and aesthetically pleasing accoutrements, without needing to reenact the misery of the peasants/serfs/slaves that underlay the whole system. At least SCA types have the excuse that waving around big swords is just damned cool. The ritual mysticism of the neo-Egyptians isn't very exciting by comparison.

It always amazes/amuses me the popularity of ancient egyptian religion in new age circles since it has to be one of the absolute least democratic, least egalitarian, least touchy feeling world views going round.

You could say much the same thing about the popularity of Knightly and Chivalric costumes/recreations at Ren Fairs and SCA meets. The attraction seems to be imagining oneself to be part fo the mover/shaker elite, surrounded by all this tradition and aesthetically pleasing accoutrements, without needing to reenact the misery of the peasants/serfs/slaves that underlay the whole system.

At least SCA types have the excuse that waving around big swords is just damned cool. The ritual mysticism of the neo-Egyptians isn’t very exciting by comparison.

]]> By: suze http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196676 suze Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:03:22 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196676 Not seen my cat chase and kill a wallaby yet. Can't say the same for the local (non-feral) dogs. Not seen my cat chase and kill a wallaby yet. Can’t say the same for the local (non-feral) dogs.

]]> By: lang mack http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196675 lang mack Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:57:12 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196675 Around my place if a cat and a fox are spotted at the same time, the cat goes first closely followed by the fox. The damage done by wild cats has to be seen to be believed . Around my place if a cat and a fox are spotted at the same time, the cat goes first closely followed by the fox. The damage done by wild cats has to be seen to be believed .

]]> By: Amanda http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196674 Amanda Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:35:39 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196674 Thanks Kim. I had done various google images searches buit not that one. I found the site. It always amazes/amuses me the popularity of ancient egyptian religion in new age circles since it has to be one of the absolute least democratic, least egalitarian, least touchy feeling world views going round. Thanks Kim. I had done various google images searches buit not that one. I found the site.

It always amazes/amuses me the popularity of ancient egyptian religion in new age circles since it has to be one of the absolute least democratic, least egalitarian, least touchy feeling world views going round.

]]> By: FDB http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196673 FDB Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:25:11 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196673 My Tina does try, LSP, but I don't think she quite gets that we don't like eating rats. I mean, good on her for killing them, but not on the carpet thanks luv. My Tina does try, LSP, but I don’t think she quite gets that we don’t like eating rats. I mean, good on her for killing them, but not on the carpet thanks luv.

]]> By: leftist sock puppet http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196672 leftist sock puppet Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:16:05 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/09/feline-friday/#comment-196672 I've tried to get my cat to feed the family but he feigns ignorance at the sight of the can opener. Then again, he doesn't have opposable thumbs, so it would be hard for the widdle iddle boy. I’ve tried to get my cat to feed the family but he feigns ignorance at the sight of the can opener. Then again, he doesn’t have opposable thumbs, so it would be hard for the widdle iddle boy.

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