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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]I should think any one of my fish (even the really stupid ones) knows its own reflection, even if they can't blog about it.[/quote] Siamese fighting fish try to kill their reflections. Fish don't seem to have self-esteem, so I'm pretty sure they simply fail to recognize their own reflection. [quote]I know dogs easily pass the mirror test (far more often than cats, it seems)[/quote] From what I've heard, most dogs fail it. They may act nice to their reflections, but they usually fail to notice that their reflections are reflections. [quote]I don't think ants go out of their way to cause phobias (or creep people out) any more than people do. Phobias are irrational fears, and can be a fear of even the most harmless things. People are prone to fear a spider that's small, harmless and hairy more than a big, cuddly-looking dog that could quite easily rip their throat out and make a meal of their thigh muscles. Ants aren't creepy in any sense other than that they perceivably 'creep' on six legs (actually, I'd call it a complex sort of sprint, considering the ground they can cover) - the quality of 'being creepy' is an appellation applied by the observer, and wholly a matter of opinion.[/quote] As I stated, I have a bias. Interestingly, though, I seem to have overgeneralized the blame -- ants are one of the subjects of my phobia, but I'm fairly certain that it was a tick that caused the phobia in the first place. [quote]As for the beliefs themselves, who can say how much is lie, truth, misunderstood, misrepresented, or just plain old fantasy? I find it remarkable that thousands of years ago, several different cultures had stories of flying, flaming metal war chariots, weapons of such incredible destruction that the earth was scorched for miles, skies would blacken, and the land would remain lifeless and toxic for many years, or tales of invisible stars that orbited eachother... all before modern science and technology, nukes, telescopes, etc. I wonder of a time when men marvelled at things they had not adequate language or understanding to convey, and what secrets are held in our ancient past... ...but then, it could all just be incredible hogwash. It was written by humans after all...[/quote] Some of it could be rooted in observable phenomena -- eclipses, volcanic ash blocking out the sun, plagues, famines. Also, humans have had a historical obsession with fire, so maybe the ancients agree that Fire + Destructive Things = Awesome, if it's on your side. ---------------------- [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/30926][img]http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/268/cellu.gif[/img][/url][url=http://davidjcobb.deviantart.com/][img]http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/428/24464470.gif[/img][/url][url=http://getfirefox.com/][img]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6336/25338231.gif[/img][/url][img]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2163/end.gif[/img] Loading...
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