
Into the Furry-Verse
Binchtopia
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The Healing Power of Animals
Many times talked about your cats being emotional teachers to you like so many people have that experience with animals. Humans really think of ourselves as unique above every other species and it's a very modern way of thinking of ourselves. We can't even conceptualize the way in which they experience the world according to Rilke. There is so much to learn from animals there's all these poems called the jaguar i believe or the panther where he's like looking back at him and realizing things about his humanity from watching the panther pace in this cage. The boundaries between terms such as human animal and machine are so nebulous that maintaining that terminology doesn't really make any sense right now.
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