What if you were really a goat

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eh? and what if "goats" were really people. what if goats have a name they have given themseves, like...craxaduck...or something..i dont know i'm ********....
 
This is frankly a waste of space but...

We could turn the thread into a "What animal would you be if you couldn't be human and why?"
 
I'd be a cat. In certain homes anyway, they get away with ANYTHING.... :D

Or an eagle, who can soar over beautiful landscapes looking for prey, and who has no threatening predators himself (except maybe some human poachers...).

Or a dolphin, which supposedly is the only animal besides humans who have sex strictly for fun!!! :D
 
Originally posted by allan

Or a dolphin, which supposedly is the only animal besides humans who have sex strictly for fun!!! :D

yes, i read that somewhere too. i would like to be a pig cross dolphin, coz, pigs have 30minute orgasmns... WAHOOO!
 
A dragon. As if you need to ask. :lol:

Failing that, a ferocious meat-eating dinosaur (TX would be nice). I'll eat all you puny humans who cross me.
 
I think I would be a bear...I don't know anyone else who has to work that little just stand at the river and wait until the salmons jump into your mouth . And there are no real threads except humans... really sounds like a perfect life :D
 
Lion.

21 hours of sleep,
1 hour of catching food and 2 hours of eating. :D
 
Originally posted by Achinz
This question has profound Buddhist significance, which may form the basis of a new thread!
The reincarnation stuff, eh? Hey I am supposedly a Buddhist. Officially at least. ;)
Anyway, it's when you do bad things in your present life, then you get to be reincarnated as an animal you know. The worse you do, the worse grade of animal type you get to become. On the other end of the scale, if you do good things in this life, you'll reach 'a higher stage of purity' in your next life - and so on till you reach the perfect stage of nirvana i.e. free of all human desires and temptations.
 
I wonder if one of those fruitflies I saw around here last summer was once Adolph Hitler? :D
 
Originally posted by S.P.Q.R.
I think I would be a bear...I don't know anyone else who has to work that little just stand at the river and wait until the salmons jump into your mouth . And there are no real threads except humans... really sounds like a perfect life :D

Thats the funniest spelling mistake I have seen for awhile :D There are no real threads...

Anyway its nice to see I saved this thread for at least a day from being closed.
 
Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
The reincarnation stuff, eh? Hey I am supposedly a Buddhist. Officially at least. ;)
Anyway, it's when you do bad things in your present life, then you get to be reincarnated as an animal you know. The worse you do, the worse grade of animal type you get to become. On the other end of the scale, if you do good things in this life, you'll reach 'a higher stage of purity' in your next life - and so on till you reach the perfect stage of nirvana i.e. free of all human desires and temptations.

EH, that is what the more modern of Buddhists say about their form of religion, no doubt from somewhat of influence by the western culture religions, i.e. behave in this life and get a trip up to Heaven, or, otherwise straight down the other way...

If i remember correctly, the goal of Buddhism was to, originally, "wake people up" or achieve enlightenment, cession of duhkah, therefore nirvana. And not this going to pray once every sunday to hope for a better future life crap.

Even though they did believe in reincarnation, or the next life, the concept was not put forth to regulate a believer's life by telling them "do this or you'll end up a cow after you die", because the choice of bodies for reincarnation was only the human body. And that you would be stuck there, in the endless cycle of pain and suffering -- which is life, unless taken upon yourself to achieve enlightenment, to be a Buddha; that afterwards rebirth would not occur.
 
a bird of course. an eagle maybe. fly over the fields and just be cool.:cool:
 
Like some other people have said, I'd be a lion.
 
I would be a Cow, not a ordinary cow i meen the first cow EVER to travel into space, but(is this but as in ass or but as in but?) on the mission i would capture the space craft and fly to a different galaxy and capture!! And live there till my
life ends! But(is this but as in ass or but as in but?) seriously i would like to be a eagle or maybe some kind of falcon.
 
Originally posted by WarandPeace


If i remember correctly, the goal of Buddhism was to, originally, "wake people up" or achieve enlightenment, cession of duhkah, therefore nirvana. And not this going to pray once every sunday to hope for a better future life crap.

Even though they did believe in reincarnation, or the next life, the concept was not put forth to regulate a believer's life by telling them "do this or you'll end up a cow after you die", because the choice of bodies for reincarnation was only the human body. And that you would be stuck there, in the endless cycle of pain and suffering -- which is life, unless taken upon yourself to achieve enlightenment, to be a Buddha; that afterwards rebirth would not occur.

I think it is important to point out the different schools of Buddhism which would give a better perspective of the disparities. Basically there are two major "Wheels", the older Hinayana and the newer Mahayana. The precepts of doing good in order to improve your Karma and therefore your level in the cycle of rebirth are more central to the concerns of Hinayana whereas the principles became a bit more abstract in the Mahayana which gave rise to extremes today like Zen.
 
I'd want to be a giant tortise because they can live for quite a few years, up to 200 or more. Barring that, I'd want to be a lion queen.
 
A lion that has 4 legs and 2 arms and a human brain (or better!)...and can sit on a chair etc in front of a computer and play games...

Plus the hands mean I could brush my teeth and comb my mane...I'd eat people who give me deadlines and don't feed me :D

The real question THEN is whether I mate with female lions or with human females ;) AND just think what I could do with 4 legs AND 2 hands and a mane :crazyeyes
 
AND a tail! :eek:

:D

:rolleyes:
 
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