I just read this article on whether or not pets and animals in general have emotions and consciousness. Is it just me or is that not absurd? not the fact that animals have awareness of themselves and others around them, but that some people find it so hard to imagine that humans might not such a separate entity after all. I think it's just something that I've always taken for granted - that animals have just as acute understanding of pain, loss, confusion, love and communication, but it's obviously not in a form that humans totally understand - it doesn't make it any less valid, it's just different. I don't see why humans have such a monopoly on being any more complex than anything else on this planet.
It kind Reminds me of an incident a few years back when a friend of mine got stopped and was asked why he was vegetarian - my friend didn't really know what to say until a barrage of 'You know animals don't have spirits, they don't understand or feel anything' only humans have souls and Jesus and can yours...'.
Humans eh? think they're god's special children with a right to selfishly command over all that we think we own. I can't wait until the shit hits the fan and everyone no matter which version of god they believe in, no matter if they're the good guys or the baddies - everything finally gets put into perspective and our insignificance in the grand scheme of things smacks humanity into a paradigm shift that turns all the blinkered minds into a delicious neuron smoothie.
Please excuse me, I've been canning the beechams powders all week. I may have become a little unhinged.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Idiots
I've been off school with a flu type thing all week, and so have rarely ventured out of the house. Yesterday, I popped to Abdul's (the corner shop by our house) to pick up some washing up liquid only to walk into a crime scene... A Policeman, Abdul, his wife and one shopper who witnessed the event - Some twat stole the charity box you see. We all watched the CCTV footage and saw the criminal distracting Abdul's wife so he could half-inch the tower of change. Idiot.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Fight
Over the weekend I travelled down to Bracknell (between Reading and Slough) to take photos of a Kickboxing Tournament called "Armageddon". I went down with the Widelode boys as they were making a DVD of the event and needed a photographer, So I donned my photographers pants and had a quick round of Streetfighter2 on my gameboy before leaving the house.
It was an interesting and fascinating day out, and I was suprised how into it I got - not necissarily the fighting, but the aesthetics of the fighters and their moves. The children fights suprise me, as did the 'Mai Tai' no holds barred full contact with elbows and knees fights. the ringside seats were litterally blood splattered by the end of the night.
I've put some pics up on my Flickr Account, and might add some more over the next few days.
It was an interesting and fascinating day out, and I was suprised how into it I got - not necissarily the fighting, but the aesthetics of the fighters and their moves. The children fights suprise me, as did the 'Mai Tai' no holds barred full contact with elbows and knees fights. the ringside seats were litterally blood splattered by the end of the night.
I've put some pics up on my Flickr Account, and might add some more over the next few days.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
me and the doctor!
Well well. For some bizzaro reason I recieved an invite to the torchwoood premiere in Cardiff Bay last night. It was quite a funny scenario with a whole host of fellow reprobates I know huddled about drinking far too much free wine and eating mini food off trays - the mini fist-sized chipolata bangers and mash was crazy like.
The actual showing of the first episode was interesting - the actors who play the 'torchwood' team were sat in the row behind me whooping and giggling like over-excited kerayzees and the GLC sat to my right (Egsy told me he had a jazz cigarette beforhand to get him in the best zone possible).
Torchwood was much better than I thought it would be - I'd seen a trailer on TV and to be honest it looked a bit too try hard and overly overtly 'set in Cardiff'. A fact which it has no shame in (and quite rightly) but the constant self refrencing and the line 'so why are you in Cardiff' and cardiff this and that all gets a bit embarressing at times, but in the excitment of watching it for the first time in the same room as David Tenant and Billie Piper I didn't mind too much, siting at home on the sofa however I might start getting shouty. there's blood, running, it's funny, there's a bit of swearing and it does look really good.
So, right now I reckon Torchwood might be worth a watch, and besides I got to meet the doctor!
The actual showing of the first episode was interesting - the actors who play the 'torchwood' team were sat in the row behind me whooping and giggling like over-excited kerayzees and the GLC sat to my right (Egsy told me he had a jazz cigarette beforhand to get him in the best zone possible).
Torchwood was much better than I thought it would be - I'd seen a trailer on TV and to be honest it looked a bit too try hard and overly overtly 'set in Cardiff'. A fact which it has no shame in (and quite rightly) but the constant self refrencing and the line 'so why are you in Cardiff' and cardiff this and that all gets a bit embarressing at times, but in the excitment of watching it for the first time in the same room as David Tenant and Billie Piper I didn't mind too much, siting at home on the sofa however I might start getting shouty. there's blood, running, it's funny, there's a bit of swearing and it does look really good.
So, right now I reckon Torchwood might be worth a watch, and besides I got to meet the doctor!
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