So I'm at the U2 concert last night and started thinking about the development of our civilization

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RESmonkey

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Originally posted by: xSauronx
Originally posted by: Arcadio
I was at the U2 concert last night at Giants Stadium in New Jersey and seeing the thousands of people gathered to enjoy a performance by a group of talented musicians made me think about the evolution of our species as part of this Earth. I mean, when you look at our world from the point of view of a neutral, non-biological observer, the fact that there is a group of 80,000 individuals gathered together in an orderly manner with the sole purpose of achieving a biological function which brings pleasure to their nervous system is an extremely remarkable achievement when you consider the level of intelligence needed for a species to use technology to create such an incredible show of sound and light.

Am I the only person who looks at our world from the point of view of a non-biological entity and analyzes its development?

BTW, I don't actually like U2.

i hope you get leprosy and your fingers rot off. nobody wants to hear your drivel anymore, its as annoying as the thing you did without the letter "h"

Arcadio is bringing up a decent topic (with mild contradiction of him being non-bio), and you just post that. What crawled up your ass, do tell.
 

BeauJangles

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Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Dogs are the only other species on the planet besides us to understand what a pointed finger means.

Is that true? Source? I didn't know that.

No it isn't, domesticated foxes can do it too.

Not according to Time magazine, but hey what do they know?
 

0roo0roo

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Sep 21, 2002
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more like suckers. no remarkable achievement when you hand bono more money to be a douchbag.
 

Born2bwire

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Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Dogs are the only other species on the planet besides us to understand what a pointed finger means.

Is that true? Source? I didn't know that.

No it isn't, domesticated foxes can do it too.

Not according to Time magazine, but hey what do they know?

Then you didn't read.
 

rhino56

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Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Dogs are the only other species on the planet besides us to understand what a pointed finger means.

Is that true? Source? I didn't know that.

No it isn't, domesticated foxes can do it too.

Not according to Time magazine, but hey what do they know?

Then you didn't read.

what does it mean anyways?:confused:
 

BeauJangles

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Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Dogs are the only other species on the planet besides us to understand what a pointed finger means.

Is that true? Source? I didn't know that.

No it isn't, domesticated foxes can do it too.

Not according to Time magazine, but hey what do they know?

Then you didn't read.

Are you dense? Foxes only exhibited the behavior after 40 generations of selective breeding.
 

BeauJangles

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Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Dogs are the only other species on the planet besides us to understand what a pointed finger means.

Is that true? Source? I didn't know that.

http://www.time.com/time/magaz...9171,1921614-1,00.html

What about monkeys?

Again, according to the article apes are able to follow someone's gaze, but aren't really able to follow pointing gestures.
 

Born2bwire

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Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Dogs are the only other species on the planet besides us to understand what a pointed finger means.

Is that true? Source? I didn't know that.

No it isn't, domesticated foxes can do it too.

Not according to Time magazine, but hey what do they know?

Then you didn't read.

Are you dense? Foxes only exhibited the behavior after 40 generations of selective breeding.

Then you didn't read. I said domesticated foxes.
 

spaceman

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Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Dogs are the only other species on the planet besides us to understand what a pointed finger means.

Is that true? Source? I didn't know that.

No it isn't, domesticated foxes can do it too.

Not according to Time magazine, but hey what do they know?

Then you didn't read.

Are you dense? Foxes only exhibited the behavior after 40 generations of selective breeding.

Then you didn't read. I said domesticated foxes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiuimDNlyuQ
 

BeauJangles

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Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Dogs are the only other species on the planet besides us to understand what a pointed finger means.

Is that true? Source? I didn't know that.

No it isn't, domesticated foxes can do it too.

Not according to Time magazine, but hey what do they know?

Then you didn't read.

Are you dense? Foxes only exhibited the behavior after 40 generations of selective breeding.

Then you didn't read. I said domesticated foxes.

Touche
 

mrrman

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BTW, I don't actually like U2.

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Neither do i but i am going next month to see them...with the wife
 

BeauJangles

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Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Touche

Engarde!

The videos of the domesticated foxes are absolutely adorable.

This is one (I found it on another site originally) that shows the domesticated fox's response to a personality test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTcmE-pMLU

Compare it to the aggressive group's response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fC7l6gW05k

Seriously, i'm sorry for being retarded. My excuse is that I was sick as a dog yesterday and could barely read, but regardless I apologize.

Thanks for the video :)
 

Terzo

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An off topic question, wasn't arcadio revealed to be a second acount of some other poster a month or so back?
I swear I read a thread where someone made an arcadio post and was pointed out....but it could have been trolling or my horrible memory or just skimming the thread.