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  • I just saw this poll on Microsoft Bing.

    "If you could have one of these abilities, which would it be?"

    The results floored me:

    58% would like to be able to speak all human languages
    42% would like to be able to "talk to animals"

    That poll was WAY too close. If it had been given to a all Traditional Catholics, the results should have been close to 100% for "human languages".

    1. Animals don't have much to say. Actually, they have nothing intelligent at all to say. They don't have speech. They aren't rational. We're not living in a stupid Disney cartoon!
    2. Note that a large portion of this country is emotional, SJW, leftist, against reality, against religion, against God, etc.

    42% of people think animals can talk; "we just don't understand them"!  I guess they talk about the weather, they talk about us, etc. but unfortunately we can't listen in because no one has decoded dog barking or cat meowing yet. Give me a break!

    Don't Protestants agree with Catholics on the role of animals? Don't they agree with Catholics that animals are lesser creatures, created by God, for our use, etc.? I guess it's a testament to the power of brainwashing (environmentalists, endless cartoons showing animals acting exactly like humans, etc.)

    If someone could build a translator, all animal words would translate into "OW! OW!" (pain) "OOO! OOO!" (wanting something) "EH! EH!" (menacing growl, get away), "AAH! AAH!" (excitement, danger), etc.

    Just picture the old (evolutionist-inspired) caveman stereotype: guys dressed in animal skins, with sloping foreheads, holding spears, they don't speak much, using words like "UGH!" and "OOGH!" and a lot of pointing and gesticulating. But even then, the primitive language, gesticulating and pointing implies rational intelligence which even the evolutionist's "cavemen" seemed to have to some budding degree. Animals don't even have that.
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    Re: Would you rather speak ALL languages, or be able to talk to animals?
    « Reply #1 on: October 11, 2018, 08:39:19 AM »
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  • Yep, minds clouded by too many Disney cartoons where people assume that if animals could only speak then they would carry on in human society just like people do.


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    Re: Would you rather speak ALL languages, or be able to talk to animals?
    « Reply #2 on: October 13, 2018, 12:14:15 PM »
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  • I like to give the benefit of the doubt and hope that a plurality of "speak to animal" voters assumed that "if animals could speak intelligently" was implied in the option - but these days you just don't know. Vegans seem to think animals are more clever and important than humans, especially seeing as half of them are "pro-choice". "Don't kill animals" they shreak, "kill your babies instead!". 

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    Re: Would you rather speak ALL languages, or be able to talk to animals?
    « Reply #3 on: October 13, 2018, 02:49:28 PM »
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  • 42% of people think animals can talk; "we just don't understand them"!  
    Aren't 42% of population Democrats?

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    Re: Would you rather speak ALL languages, or be able to talk to animals?
    « Reply #4 on: October 13, 2018, 02:57:03 PM »
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  • Yep, minds clouded by too many Disney cartoons where people assume that if animals could only speak then they would carry on in human society just like people do.
    Wait a minute!  Are you saying that when you hear dogs barking in the city, they're not using the Twilight Bark to send and receive news from distant places as shown in 101 Dalmations?  I guess that's only English dogs.


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    Re: Would you rather speak ALL languages, or be able to talk to animals?
    « Reply #5 on: October 13, 2018, 03:13:43 PM »
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  • I already spend most of my days talking to animals.  Since I already possess that skill, I choose the other.

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    Re: Would you rather speak ALL languages, or be able to talk to animals?
    « Reply #6 on: October 13, 2018, 03:51:46 PM »
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    Re: Would you rather speak ALL languages, or be able to talk to animals?
    « Reply #7 on: October 15, 2018, 08:00:09 AM »
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  • There was a story about someone who wanted to know all languages of the world. She sold her soul to the devil for this ability. The demon who possessed her made her mute.