Solar eclipse on Monday

asciighost wrote:

2seaoat wrote:When I experienced a full eclipse as a child it was one of those moments in your life which is seared into your memory.  You think about what ancient people thought when these events happened.

Amazing how people love to think about a world without Jesus. As if he is guilty for all the failures of men/women organizing religions for power.

bigdog wrote:I wonder what dogs and cats will think tomorrow during the eclipse?
I wonder what they think about even when there is no eclipse?

bigdog wrote:I wonder what dogs and cats will think tomorrow during the eclipse?
I wonder what they think about even when there is no eclipse?

RealLindaL wrote:

bigdog wrote:I wonder what dogs and cats will think tomorrow during the eclipse?
I wonder what they think about even when there is no eclipse?

How can they actually think, in our sense of the word, with no language?  Think about it.  lol

2seaoat wrote:language is not a prerequisite of thought......we have plenty of examples.

RealLindaL wrote:

2seaoat wrote:language is not a prerequisite of thought......we have plenty of examples.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/03/scientists-think-that-animals-think/

For some people, such research will not provide a satisfactory answer to the question: Do animals really think? These people define thinking as having a sense of self, beliefs that go beyond raw perceptions, emotions such as empathy, and the ability to imagine a situation remote in time and place and predict an outcome.

“Those capabilities cannot be illuminated by brain scanning,” Hauser admits. “But experiments using other techniques are beginning to shed light on what kinds of perceptual and computation skills animals bring to analyzing the world, and in what ways these skills are different from our own.”

zsomething wrote:Well, we've just been informed that the eclipse... IS THE WORK OF SATAN!

COOL!  Now I'm even more interested!  

Telstar wrote:



Imagine that. With all the time satan spends working with president death, he still has time to spend on the eclipse.

zsomething wrote:

Telstar wrote:



Imagine that. With all the time satan spends working with president death, he still has time to spend on the eclipse.

And between all that time he spends hiding dinosaur bones to test people's faith!  He's a busy fella.   He's done a lot in the 6,000 years since the universe was created!