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Old November 17th 13, 10:48 PM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:40:18 -0800, Goo wrote:
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On 11/14/2013 11:36 PM, Rupert wrote:
On Friday, November 15, 2013 8:05:16 AM UTC+1, Mr.Smartypants wrote:
On Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:44:21 PM UTC-7, Rupert wrote:
The fact that nonhuman animals have conscious awareness is surely old news. It's part of common sense; we don't need scientists to tell us that.

We don't but that idiot Goo does.


His claim is more that they lack sophisticated mental states such as anticipation, pride, and so forth.


And that is correct - they do lack those. They can experience at most a
few basic emotions: fear, aggression, contentment.


Anticipation and pride are no more dificult to experience than the few
things you can comprehend that they experience Goob. It's no harder to
experience anticipation than fear, than it is to experience being hungry than
being cold Goober. In fact fear REQUIRES a being to experience anticipation,
Goo.

As I showed, they
cannot experience the emotion of anticipation, either positively -
usually just called anticipation - or negatively, usually called dread.


You haven't shown that and in fact by saying they experience fear you have
said they experience dread, Goo.

****wit and his waterboy Douchebag Hamilton have to equivocate on the
meaning of anticipate, reducing it to mere expectation in the immediate
future, in order to try to claim, fatuously, that animals "anticipate".
Mere expectation, as I have shown, is not the *emotion* of
anticipation.


Anticipation isn't an emotion Goob. It's a mental condition that CAUSES
emotions, Goo.
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Old November 17th 13, 10:56 PM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On 11/17/2013 1:48 PM, ****wit David Harrison - *Gloo* - stupid,
illiterate cracker and convicted felon, defeated entirely in 1999 and
doing nothing but wasting time ever since, lied:


On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:40:18 -0800, Rudy Canoza wrote:
.
On 11/14/2013 11:36 PM, Rupert wrote:
On Friday, November 15, 2013 8:05:16 AM UTC+1, Mr.Smartypants wrote:
On Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:44:21 PM UTC-7, Rupert wrote:
The fact that nonhuman animals have conscious awareness is surely old news. It's part of common sense; we don't need scientists to tell us that.

We don't but that idiot Goo does.

His claim is more that they lack sophisticated mental states such as anticipation, pride, and so forth.


And that is correct - they do lack those. They can experience at most a
few basic emotions: fear, aggression, contentment.


Anticipation and pride are no more dificult to experience than


Animals can't experience them. They don't have the capacity.


As I showed, they
cannot experience the emotion of anticipation, either positively -
usually just called anticipation - or negatively, usually called dread.


You haven't shown that and


Shown - multiple times. The emotion of anticipation requires an
awareness of time that animals lack.


****wit and his waterboy Douchebag Hamilton have to equivocate on the
meaning of anticipate, reducing it to mere expectation in the immediate
future, in order to try to claim, fatuously, that animals "anticipate".
Mere expectation, as I have shown, is not the *emotion* of
anticipation.


Anticipation isn't an emotion


It is, of course.

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Old November 23rd 13, 03:59 PM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 13:56:36 -0800, Goo wrote:

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:48:41 -0500, dh@. wrote:

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:40:18 -0800, Goo wrote:
.
On 11/14/2013 11:36 PM, Rupert wrote:
On Friday, November 15, 2013 8:05:16 AM UTC+1, Mr.Smartypants wrote:
On Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:44:21 PM UTC-7, Rupert wrote:
The fact that nonhuman animals have conscious awareness is surely old news. It's part of common sense; we don't need scientists to tell us that.

We don't but that idiot Goo does.

His claim is more that they lack sophisticated mental states such as anticipation, pride, and so forth.

And that is correct - they do lack those. They can experience at most a
few basic emotions: fear, aggression, contentment.


Anticipation and pride are no more dificult to experience than the few
things you can comprehend that they experience Goob. It's no harder to
experience anticipation than fear, than it is to experience being hungry than
being cold Goober. In fact fear REQUIRES a being to experience anticipation,
Goo.


Animals can't experience them. They don't have the capacity.


Predatory animals would starve to death if they didn't anticipate, Goo.

As I showed, they
cannot experience the emotion of anticipation, either positively -
usually just called anticipation - or negatively, usually called dread.


You haven't shown that and in fact by saying they experience fear you have
said they experience dread, Goo.


Shown - multiple times. The emotion of anticipation requires an
awareness of time that animals lack.


It doesn't require any awareness of time and you can't even present anything
that pretends it does, Goo.

****wit and his waterboy Douchebag Hamilton have to equivocate on the
meaning of anticipate, reducing it to mere expectation in the immediate
future, in order to try to claim, fatuously, that animals "anticipate".
Mere expectation, as I have shown, is not the *emotion* of
anticipation.


Anticipation isn't an emotion Goob. It's a mental condition that CAUSES
emotions, Goo.


It is, of course.


It's a mental condition that can and does cause different types of emotions,
sometimes positive and sometimes negative, Goo.





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Old November 23rd 13, 07:43 PM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On 11/23/2013 6:59 AM, ****wit David Harrison - *Gloo* - stupid,
illiterate cracker and convicted felon, defeated entirely in 1999 and
doing nothing but wasting time ever since, lied:

On 11/17/2013 1:56 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
On 11/17/2013 1:48 PM, ****wit David Harrison - *Gloo* - stupid,
illiterate cracker and convicted felon, defeated entirely in 1999 and
doing nothing but wasting time ever since, lied:


On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:40:18 -0800, Rudy Canoza wrote:
.
On 11/14/2013 11:36 PM, Rupert wrote:
On Friday, November 15, 2013 8:05:16 AM UTC+1, Mr.Smartypants wrote:
On Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:44:21 PM UTC-7, Rupert wrote:
The fact that nonhuman animals have conscious awareness is surely
old news. It's part of common sense; we don't need scientists to
tell us that.

We don't but that idiot Goo does.

His claim is more that they lack sophisticated mental states such as
anticipation, pride, and so forth.

And that is correct - they do lack those. They can experience at most a
few basic emotions: fear, aggression, contentment.

Anticipation and pride are no more dificult to experience than


Animals can't experience them. They don't have the capacity.


Predatory animals would starve to death if they didn't anticipate


****wit, I have already dismissed your attempted equivocation on the
meaning of anticipation. Predatory animals do not experience the
emotion of anticipation, ****wit. They "anticipate" only in the much
more limited meaning of immediate expectation. That is not the emotion
of anticipation, ****wit - your equivocation is rejected.

A child anticipates Christmas, ****wit. That's an emotion. No
non-human animal can experience that emotion. This is proved. You
conceded defeat already.


As I showed, they
cannot experience the emotion of anticipation, either positively -
usually just called anticipation - or negatively, usually called dread.

You haven't shown that and in fact by saying they experience fear you have
said they experience dread, Goo.


Shown - multiple times. The emotion of anticipation requires an
awareness of time that animals lack.


It doesn't require any awareness of time and


It does, as I have proved.


****wit and his waterboy Douchebag Hamilton have to equivocate on the
meaning of anticipate, reducing it to mere expectation in the immediate
future, in order to try to claim, fatuously, that animals "anticipate".
Mere expectation, as I have shown, is not the *emotion* of
anticipation.

Anticipation isn't an emotion


It is, of course.


It's a mental condition that


It's an emotion - one that animals cannot and do not experience,
****wit. Proved.

"I am not a man." - ****wit David Harrison

You sure aren't, *Gloo* - you sure aren't.

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Old November 24th 13, 08:50 AM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:43:32 -0800, Rudy Canoza
wrote:

A child anticipates Christmas, ****wit. That's an emotion.


Good lord, are you still banging on about this? You've been on this
hobby horse for at least ten years. Your obsessive references to
"child", "Christmas", and "anticipation" are sad. They could be
symptomatic of childhood abuse or trauma. Were you molested as a kid
by someone in a Santa suit? Or maybe you "saw Daddy kissing Santa
Claus underneath the mistletoe last night"?
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Old November 24th 13, 05:36 PM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On 11/23/2013 11:50 PM, Bob O'Dyne wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:43:32 -0800, Rudy Canoza
wrote:

A child anticipates Christmas, ****wit. That's an emotion.


Good lord, are you still banging on about this?


Yes, of course. It's pertinent.


You've been on this hobby horse for at least ten years.


No, not quite that long.


Your obsessive references to "child", "Christmas", and "anticipation" are sad.


No, they're not.


They could be symptomatic of childhood abuse or trauma.


No.


Were you molested as a kid by someone in a Santa suit?



Or maybe you "saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night"?


No.

A child's anticipation of Christmas - an emotion - is just the example I
chose to differentiate the emotion from the mere immediate expectation
that ****wit is confusing with it.

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Old November 28th 13, 04:45 PM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:50:55 +0200, Bob O'Dyne
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:43:32 -0800, Goo wrote:

A child anticipates Christmas, ****wit. That's an emotion.


Good lord, are you still banging on about this? You've been on this
hobby horse for at least ten years.


Those people want to create the impression that life is not worth living for
any domestic animals, because appreciating that it is works against the
elimination objective which is the true objective of people who dishonestly
refer to what they want to accomplish as "animal rights". In case anyone reads
this who isn't already well familiar with the fact, those people don't want
better conditions, longer lives, rights, or anything at all for domestic
animals. They want to ELIMINATE domestic animals and for them not to exist, not
for them to exist with better lives and "rights". Animal welfare people want to
see domestic animals provided with decent lives, while supposed "animal rights"
people better known as eliminationists want them not to exist at all. What
eliminationists want works AGAINST decent animal welfare, so anyone who is in
favor of decent AW should be very much against the gross misnomer "animal
rights" and the eliminationists who try to support it. People in favor of AW
should not contribute to any organizations that promote veganism, but instead to
arganizations aimed at better AW like organizations that enourage people to buy
cage free eggs and grass raised meat and dairy products. No one who is in favor
of decent AW should contribute to PeTA, for example.

Your obsessive references to
"child", "Christmas", and "anticipation" are sad. They could be
symptomatic of childhood abuse or trauma. Were you molested as a kid
by someone in a Santa suit? Or maybe you "saw Daddy kissing Santa
Claus underneath the mistletoe last night"?


Goo's effort to create the false impression that animals can't anticipate is
just another part of those people's attempt to create the impression that no
domestic animals benefit from living. Goo has taken it to the extreme that he
insists nothing has ever benefitted from its life regardless of quality. The
Goober has even claimed that the son he claims to have does not benefit from
still being alive. Goo's insistence that animals can't anticipate if not based
entirely on the stupid idea that they really can't, is because he doesn't want
people to understand that animals benefit from anticipating things that they
enjoy like food, or spending time with their owners and other animals. I've
pointed out to him that predatory animals would starve to death if they didn't
aniticipate catching food when they hunt, but Goob claims to be too stupid to
comprehend that. Even as stupid as Goo has proven to be I still can't believe
he's THAT stupid, and if he's really not then he's being deliberately dishonest
about it. I've also pointed out that anticipation is not an emotion but a mental
condition which PRODUCES emotions and those emotions can be positive or they can
be negative, but Goo acts like he's to stupid to comprehend that fact as well.
Could the Goober really be as stupid as he acts like he is? Maybe, but so far I
don't believe he truly is.
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Old November 28th 13, 04:58 PM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 08:36:09 -0800, Goo wrote:

On 11/23/2013 11:50 PM, Bob O'Dyne wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:43:32 -0800, Goo wrote:

A child anticipates Christmas, ****wit. That's an emotion.


Good lord, are you still banging on about this?


Yes, of course. It's pertinent.


You don't want people to think that anticipation of being fed etc helps to
make life of positive value for any animals Goob. You especially don't want them
to think it helps make life of positive value for any domestic animals and
particularly especially not for any livestock animals, Goo.

You've been on this hobby horse for at least ten years.


No, not quite that long.


When do you think you began this particular line of idiocy, Goo?

Your obsessive references to "child", "Christmas", and "anticipation" are sad.


No, they're not.


Whether they are or not there's no reason to think animals don't get
positive feelings from anticipating things the enjoy Goob. In fact Goober, for
anyone who has been around animals it's stupid to think they don't. My finches
get excited when they see me preparing to give them meal worms, and I told you
about the fish that would show excitement when he/she saw me preparing to give
them food, and there are many examples of dogs getting excited when they
aniticpate things. Anticipation can also produce negative feelings/emotions in
non-human animals as I've pointed out for you a number of times in the past,
Goo.

They could be symptomatic of childhood abuse or trauma.


No.


That's a blatant lie since they certainly could Goots. The fact that you did
lie about it is enough to make a person suspect that it may well apply to you,
Goo.

Were you molested as a kid by someone in a Santa suit?



Or maybe you "saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night"?


No.


When was it if not then, Goo?

A child's anticipation of Christmas - an emotion - is just the example I
chose to differentiate the emotion from the mere immediate expectation
that ****wit is confusing with it.


Anticipation is a mental condition also known as expectation, and it can
produce both positive and negative emotions, Goo.
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Old November 28th 13, 05:39 PM posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,alt.cats,uk.business.agriculture,alt.philosophy
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On 11/28/2013 7:58 AM, ****wit David Harrison - *Gloo* - stupid,
illiterate cracker and convicted felon, defeated entirely in 1999 and
doing nothing but wasting time ever since, lied:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 08:36:09 -0800, Rudy Canoza wrote:

On 11/23/2013 11:50 PM, Bob O'Dyne wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:43:32 -0800, Rudy Canoza wrote:

A child anticipates Christmas, ****wit. That's an emotion.

Good lord, are you still banging on about this?


Yes, of course. It's pertinent.


You don't want people to think that anticipation of being fed


Not the same thing, *Gloo*. An animal only expects anything in
*immediate* response to a signal, *Gloo*. The child - and any human -
can experience the emotion of anticipation, which is different from mere
expectation, even without any signal.


You've been on this hobby horse for at least ten years.


No, not quite that long.


When do you think you began this


Whenever you started bullshitting ignorantly about the fantasy emotions
you stupidly believe animals can experience, ****wit.


Your obsessive references to "child", "Christmas", and "anticipation" are sad.


No, they're not.


Whether they are or not there's no reason to think animals don't get
positive feelings from anticipating things the enjoy


They don't experience the emotion of anticipation, *Gloo*. That's settled.


They could be symptomatic of childhood abuse or trauma.


No.


That's a blatant lie since


No.


Were you molested as a kid by someone in a Santa suit?



Or maybe you "saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night"?


No.


When was it if not then


Never.


A child's anticipation of Christmas - an emotion - is just the example I
chose to differentiate the emotion from the mere immediate expectation
that ****wit is confusing with it.


Anticipation is a mental condition also known as expectation


No. There is a *different*, deeper meaning of anticipation that
includes an emotional state that animals don't experience, *Gloo*. They
don't experience it because they don't have the required awareness of
time, *Gloo*. Anticipation, the emotion, *requires* a sense of time
including symbolic time, *Gloo*, and animals just don't have that.

This is all proved.

Also proved is that you are not a man.

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On 11/28/2013 7:45 AM, ****wit David Harrison - *Gloo* - stupid,
illiterate cracker and convicted felon, defeated entirely in 1999 and
doing nothing but wasting time ever since, lied:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:50:55 +0200, Bob O'Dyne
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:43:32 -0800, Goo wrote:

A child anticipates Christmas, ****wit. That's an emotion.


Good lord, are you still banging on about this? You've been on this
hobby horse for at least ten years.


Those people want to create the impression that life is not worth living for
any domestic animals,


"Those people" believe that live is not worth living for any domestic
livestock animals, *Gloo*, and you have done nothing to persuade them
otherwise - because you're incapable of persuasion. Stupid people are
never persuasive, *Gloo*, especially when they're gutless liars.


because appreciating that


You don't "appreciate" anything about animals *except* the products,
****wit. You have said so many times.


Your obsessive references to
"child", "Christmas", and "anticipation" are sad. They could be
symptomatic of childhood abuse or trauma. Were you molested as a kid
by someone in a Santa suit? Or maybe you "saw Daddy kissing Santa
Claus underneath the mistletoe last night"?


His effort to create the false impression that animals can't anticipate


Animals cannot experience the emotion of anticipation, *Gloo*, which is
something entirely different from mere immediate expectation.

 




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