What's your favorite animal and why?

**Original Poster** · 07-06-2012 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Caenis

I might misunderstand, but I believe this is the connection: the impatience to read another's opinion reveals how little value people put in others' opinions, and how highly they think of their own thoughts. 'My thoughts are more important and original than yours, your opinion will bore me, so I'm not going to read about your ideas.' The lack of desire to spend time reading and considering others opinions implies that people are not truly accepting of others' ideas, and thus not open minded.

If my interpretation is correct, then I do not entirely agree with the point Omnis Dei is making. People are adjusting to absorbing information in short and concise paragraphs, and like skimming to pick out the main points. That does not imply a closed mind, but merely a change in how people read and absorb information.

I feel Omnis Dei would be happier if I had posted my favorite animal instead of responding to a portion of his wall of text. As such, my favorite animal is a hippo. It's fat and aggressive. It is beautifully round and powerful.

Try to skim manly p hall for the raw information. I understand perfectly well how people attempt to pull information out and that's mainly what I have a problem with, this way we regard information as essentially separate from the format it is presented. Pulling the raw information out, you may as well ignore that gibberish that is the body of text and answer the thread's title question. Everything is taken at face value.

There is a connection we have grown accustomed to utterly ignoring, and this is the connection between the information we receive and the process through which we receive it. There is something to be said about finding trustworthy voices to absorb information, but there is also something to be said about our own filters on information, which dramatically change the shape of the information we are receiving and can unfairly discredit particular sources while unjustly substantiating others. For instance we know well to trust information from a textbook, even though they repeat obvious misconceptions to such an extent we may as well be reading about phrenology sometimes. We also know well enough to ignore the babbling street preacher, and of course everyone knew at the time to ignore that nigger Martin Luther King Jr. Even though he has since been regarded as saying some of the most profoundly enlightening things to come out of someone's lips in the last 50 years. We know Stephen Hawking is worth listening to, but his Holiness the Dalai Lama is simply the spokesperson for another one of those dreadful religions.

So bias does effect information. One of the worst biases that emerges from "scanning" for raw information is the distaste for anything that might come off slightly repetitive. We think once we obtain information once, we've got it forever. But there is a connection between the process of learning and the information itself. For instance, the quality through which you learn something is directly related to the amount of neurons participating in the learning. This means writing something down by hand is much more effective than typing it, because so many more neurons are involved. It's not merely a matter of remembering information, either, but being able to utilize it because you expand the information's role in the neural network. When information is learned by swallowing the entire process through which the information is presented, you are mapping out whole networks with which to utilize it, and strengthening every level of practical intelligence in a synergistic way rather than merely storing information.

**Seroquel** · 07-06-2012 08:30 PM

I didn't even read the OP.

Lol.

**littlezoe** · 07-06-2012 08:34 PM

There's no power that would force me to read that long post about giraffes that is probably just related to some stupid sexual pun, because omnis is desperate.

Cats.

Dogs too, but not that much as cats. Then there are bunnies and turtles. They are cute.

**Carrot** · 07-06-2012 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by littlezoe

There's no power that would force me to read that long post about giraffes that is probably just related to some stupid sexual pun, because omnis is desperate.

Cats.

Dogs too, but not that much as cats. Then there are bunnies and turtles. They are cute.

You'll be surprised to find out how much "giraffe" his post contains.

**Burke** · 07-06-2012 08:43 PM

I hope you understood my first post Omnis

**Carrot** · 07-06-2012 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by Burke

I hope you understood my first post Omnis

You sly guy. I think it was your post that made me curious about giraffes.

**Burke** · 07-06-2012 08:52 PM

It helps to answer someone in the same format they presented the question. If others got caught up in the crossfire then oh well

**Original Poster** · 07-07-2012 08:37 PM

Giraffes are pretty cool.

**SnowyCat** · 07-08-2012 06:25 PM

Norwegian forest cats. Why?

Your argument is invalid.

**Crashyy** · 07-08-2012 06:32 PM

LLAMAS! Who doesn't like em?

**Chicken** · 07-08-2012 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by Crashyy

LLAMAS! Who doesn't like em?

That is one big lama! I don't like lama's, they are mean.

I like alpaca's more, if I see one I always try to find out what is wrong with their anatomy. They are just not right.

I also like capybara's, it's like a guinea pig for grown ups.

**Ilumirath** · 07-09-2012 07:50 AM

So many people have not read the whole thing... Damn. Why have I?

**AURON** · 07-09-2012 08:37 AM

Well I like insects more than animals because they help keep the world moving more than the average person knows. As for animals, I would have to say orcas. They're majestic beautiful creatures who are all about familily. They also happen to be the fastest most fearsome dolphin. Sharks in general are over rated; heartbeat sensors and all.

**Ilumirath** · 07-09-2012 10:54 AM

Also, I like goats, they are epic. Probably because of this

<Chinese zodiac sign: Metal Goat

**Carrot** · 07-09-2012 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Ilumirath

Also, I like goats, they are epic. Probably because of this

<Chinese zodiac sign: Metal Goat

Goat God reminds me of Loki.

**Ilumirath** · 07-10-2012 06:17 AM

Originally Posted by Carrot

Goat God reminds me of Loki.

Loki reminds me of the Gaot God

**khh** · 07-10-2012 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Crashyy

LLAMAS! Who doesn't like em?

There is only one thing to say to that.

**~~DeletePlease~~** · 07-10-2012 10:32 AM

**Flycat** · 06-12-2013 02:29 AM

Bats. Cmon, they look cool, they can cause rabies, their teeth are like spikes, and they can hang on the ceiling.

**AURON** · 06-12-2013 03:04 AM

Orca. If this planet was underwater, they'd have as pets sitting airquariums. Seriously, they're powerful, majestic, and I just feel calm looking at them. I might have to cop some sea world tickets. Number two has to be crows, because they're so damn smart.

**ParadoxOwl** · 06-12-2013 03:31 AM

Alpacas, because they look fabulous

**dolphin** · 06-12-2013 04:43 AM

Dolphins because they're beautiful, playful and smart.

**♥Mark** · 06-12-2013 09:13 AM

After reading your whole first post you have convinced me that I should have gone with my first instinct and skipped it. ╮(｡❛﹏❛)╭

I like humans*.

PS I skipped most of the replies in this thread.

*But not enough to read every damn post they make.

**Arra** · 06-14-2013 02:58 AM

Pretty much any large wild cat, tigers and snow leopards being on the top of the list. I know that's a pretty popular answer. I almost wish that I didn't find them so majestic and fierce because 'cats' is such a typical chocie. But I can't help it. They're the most beautiful creatures I can possibly imagine. No person, animal, plant, scene or object could compare to how profound I find them. Their beauty literally seems impossible, like they must be fairy tale creatures or something. And it helps that they're wild and elusive, that they'd never come up to me and let me admire them unless they'd been raised with people or something. The fact that they're unattainable makes them more attractive.

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