Thursday, July 13, 2006

Best Introspection Invented By Me

At home in Chicago . . .


Today I looked at our cat, curled up in the basement, and wondered if he ever thinks to himself "I have done nothing with my life."

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  1. your cat has no sense of self.

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  2. are you criticizing him in particular, or just reminding us that animals d

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  3. i think animals have consciousness. how could they not? i think the whole universe is conscious of itself.

    also, your cat is the king of the world. here's what it got to do with its life: play and lie in sunbeams and take a nap and get fed. i wish i were your cat.

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  4. self-aware? either way, i too wish i was your cat.

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  5. For your information, our cat has kidney failure. Now do you all want to be him so bad?

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  6. well i did, until you made it apparent that his owner is negligent... an owner so lacking in sympathy that he wont spring for a kitty kidney transplant?

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  7. As a matter of fact, I gave him one of my own kidneys but his little kitty body rejected it.

    Cats are so capricious.

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