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Animals make art
Maths sets us apart from the animals!
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Peej, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:05,
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What about counting horses?
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:09,
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That would be a boring job.
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Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:10,
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I bet you'd get a lot of sleep though.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:15,
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Counting isn't maths
My Daughter can count but she can't do multiplications
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Peej, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:11,
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Yes but when you say to the horse "what's 2 X 2"
It taps it's hoof 4 times. I've seem it, it was dead impressive.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:12,
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Trained to do it I bet
Like when that bloke in that film taught his kid to spell really long words but she couldn't spell cat. I bet the horse couldn't spell cat either!
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Peej, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:26,
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but we are all trained to do Maths
it's not like it's innate.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:29,
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Of course he couldn't.
He's a mathmatician, not Mr Ed.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:29,
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No they don't.
Name me one animal that makes art.
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girlinthehole, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:11,
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Apes
Oh and Elephants
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Peej, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:12,
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POIDH
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girlinthehole, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:13,
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Clever fucker eh?
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Peej, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:15,
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Pics
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:15,
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Ok then....................show me a pic of an animal that isn't a human that has produced art without being aided by a human.
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girlinthehole, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:17,
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My dog once did a shit
that looked like The Virgin Mary.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:19,
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:19,
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A lot of human artists are aided by humans
and apes have been knows to use white clay to paint in the wild
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Peej, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:23,
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Also along this line
I cannot do art, does this make me not human?
It's not that I doubt the importance of art, I just don't think it's essential to being human.
Same goes for Maths BTW.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:31,
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Can you re-phrase?
I cannot make sense of that sentence.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:24,
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Humans.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 14:13,
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