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#1 2007-07-26 1:57 pm
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Im In Ur Nursin Home, Watchin U Die
Cat is able to sense when people are about to die, may be taking their souls as well.
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#2 2007-07-26 3:06 pm
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Yeah - I saw something on that this morning.
Adds some credibility to where omen stories may have come from - as omens often were cats or dogs, no?
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#3 2007-07-26 3:29 pm
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Humans are pattern-seeking animals, but often the patterns do not exist anywhere except inside people's heads. While this is most often applied to visual phenomena, the term for this is pareidolia.
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#4 2007-07-26 3:56 pm
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Re: Im In Ur Nursin Home, Watchin U Die
Kitty likesssssss the smell of death......
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#5 2007-07-26 4:16 pm
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Oh, great. Now whenever the poor cat approaches someone, they'll drop dead from fear.
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#6 2007-07-26 4:17 pm
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Yeah, without actual data this is kind of a silly story. Not to mention you'd have to put healthy people into the mix since, lets face it, people in the nursing home are all on their way out.
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#7 2007-07-26 4:30 pm
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SEVEN DAYS
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Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#8 2007-07-26 4:36 pm
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I made a lolcat pic for this story, but I have nowhere to put it.
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#9 2007-07-26 4:41 pm
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There are tons of image hosting places on the net.
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#10 2007-07-26 4:58 pm
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Im In Ur Nursin Home, Watchin U Die
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#11 2007-07-26 5:04 pm
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NAG wrote:
There are tons of image hosting places on the net.
Weird. It seems I have a Flikr account and I didn't even know it.
Well, here it is.
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#13 2007-07-26 6:51 pm
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If you go to the bathroom during Phydeaux's 30,000th post, you'll be sorry.
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#14 2007-07-26 6:55 pm
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I'm sure that guy'll be really upset about how much bandwidth I'm using.
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#15 2007-07-26 6:59 pm
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Growing up around people die, I'm not surprised he's picked up on the signs of when they will die.
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#17 2007-07-27 12:32 am
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Oscar the cat is so cute, they should make a children's book about him, that way Kids can feel better when grandma goes off to a nursing home, the final page could have Oscar looking heavenward as grandma's spirit waves goodbye to Oscar, but then I also like the Addam's family, so maybe I'm just wierd 
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#19 2007-07-27 2:33 am
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I think the reason I like the book idea is because of the second to last paragraph in this article, it's basically what gave me the idea
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh … car127.xml
But I admit I'm still kinda kooky 
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#20 2007-07-27 3:09 am
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akb825 wrote:
Growing up around people die, I'm not surprised he's picked up on the signs of when they will die.
While this clearly isn't a scientific study - there is scientific basis.
There are dogs that can detect the chemical pre-cursors to epileptic seizures, for example. It would not at all surprise me if there are chemical things animals can pick up that take place as a human body is giving up.
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#21 2007-07-27 3:12 am
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Given that domestic cats are descendants of predators that often prey upon the weak and dying in a herd, there's evolutionary reason for them to develop this capability. A predator that goes after weak or dying prey is going to expend less energy per kill than one who doesn't.
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#22 2007-07-27 3:38 am
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resedit wrote:
Given that domestic cats are descendants of predators that often prey upon the weak and dying in a herd, there's evolutionary reason for them to develop this capability. A predator that goes after weak or dying prey is going to expend less energy per kill than one who doesn't.
Did I just see you post what I think you posted?
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#24 2007-07-27 9:19 am
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Chickenhawk wrote:
resedit wrote:
Given that domestic cats are descendants of predators that often prey upon the weak and dying in a herd, there's evolutionary reason for them to develop this capability. A predator that goes after weak or dying prey is going to expend less energy per kill than one who doesn't.
Did I just see you post what I think you posted?
M-m-m-m-m-m-microevolution!
You've completely zoned out when this gets stuff gets brought up now, I guess. But years of exposure to it makes that completely understandable.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#25 2007-07-27 9:21 am
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Too bad it just HAS to hit that God ceiling.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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