tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295314400335672773.post2209243314157039834..comments2023-09-06T03:08:57.094-07:00Comments on House of Carnivores: Why I Love Animals - Reason #4,429House of Carnivoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860492929556303670noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295314400335672773.post-291448390845413842012-05-23T20:51:27.687-07:002012-05-23T20:51:27.687-07:00Yes, Melanie, I like your point. I like the expre...Yes, Melanie, I like your point. I like the expression: "Life is not for sissies." It can be very, very rough, support or no, just as you say. And those who don't think about that are condemned to revisit the roughness, in themselves and on others. Bleh. Give me our anipals any day. Plus a few choice humans -- and let the rest move on through.Nadbugshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17882871494759678242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295314400335672773.post-53175999786813502802012-05-23T17:06:56.856-07:002012-05-23T17:06:56.856-07:00I am always glad to hear your .02 worth! Consider...I am always glad to hear your .02 worth! Considering it, I think you may be right, though... maybe it's not a character flaw, just an on-going struggle to fit your own (my own as well) complexity in with others, and for one reason or another not being equipped for it. I think it sounds like I got more support than you did, but ... sometimes life is harsh even WITH support, and a young bookish introvert with lots of idealism just wasn't able to "roll with the punches" and figure everything/everyone out. <br /><br />I am now an older bookish introvert, and am STILL trying to figure it out.House of Carnivoreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02860492929556303670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295314400335672773.post-48848333248480435232012-05-23T17:06:41.997-07:002012-05-23T17:06:41.997-07:00I am always glad to hear your .02 worth! Consider...I am always glad to hear your .02 worth! Considering it, I think you may be right, though... maybe it's not a character flaw, just an on-going struggle to fit your own (my own as well) complexity in with others, and for one reason or another not being equipped for it. I think it sounds like I got more support than you did, but ... sometimes life is harsh even WITH support, and a young bookish introvert with lots of idealism just wasn't able to "roll with the punches" and figure everything/everyone out. <br /><br />I am now an older bookish introvert, and am STILL trying to figure it out.House of Carnivoreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02860492929556303670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295314400335672773.post-30333215790508456312012-05-23T06:59:56.772-07:002012-05-23T06:59:56.772-07:00I am with you in everything you say here, dear Mel...I am with you in everything you say here, dear Melanie -- except that incomprehension might be a character flaw. I prefer to think of this, in my own case, as: When I was too young to do anything about it, I never got the support I needed that would have helped me stand my ground, and advocate for what I needed to make sense of the human world around me. The world seemed filled with coldness and cruelty, and I could not understand it, and I could not possibly have known, at that time, how to find something different that would have been reliable enough for me to depend on. The bafflement really took hold in me, then, as a default posture -- and it's taken me a lifetime of trying, and I still have blank spots in many areas. That's not a character flaw -- that's me struggling to fit my own complexity with others,' in a way that makes sense, when I missed the guidance I needed when I needed it. So -- as ever, with the greatest respect and gratitude to you for musing about this important subject -- that's my .02 worth. Wondering how it feels to you, to hear this?Nadbugshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17882871494759678242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295314400335672773.post-24041447979021130502012-05-20T16:34:20.006-07:002012-05-20T16:34:20.006-07:00I'm very much like you. For the most part, I d...I'm very much like you. For the most part, I don't really "get" humans. And many times I am just so disappointed in the awful, evil things humans do and I cannot fathom why anyone would do those things. Animals have their puzzling moments, to be sure, but (in general) I find them to be so much purer of heart than a great many humans are.Julia Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10980459754456404608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295314400335672773.post-28304000255358701482012-05-18T06:52:01.855-07:002012-05-18T06:52:01.855-07:00Relationships with animals sure does seem to happe...Relationships with animals sure does seem to happen in a different spot in my brain than those with humans. What they want from you and give you in return is more straight forward and hits me in a different spot emotionally.jcphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634965215700887428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295314400335672773.post-727435776930754492012-05-15T20:02:35.879-07:002012-05-15T20:02:35.879-07:00I am SO with you on this! Hubby agrees as well.I am SO with you on this! Hubby agrees as well.Katnip Loungehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15276522333751867680noreply@blogger.com