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Pets have a special place in American’s hearts. They can be play partners for our children, guardians of our property and friends for the elderly. They open our eyes to the wonderful beauty of the natural world. They can teach our young the responsibilities of ownership and stewardship. And they can become an integral part of a family’s daily life. But is welcoming any beast into the sanctity and privacy of your home always a good idea? What are the health risks and moral implications of having an overly familiar relationship with an untrainable creature?
A “PURRFECT” STORM OF HEALTH WORRIES
Letting a wild animal loose in your home carries risks. For cat owners, there are many serious health issues that are too often overlooked. Unlike dogs, these animals are notoriously averse to being bathed in hot, fresh water. It should be no surprise, then, that they carry bacteria and germs. A short list of the diseases cats transmit to humans includes: Petzetakis’ Syndrome, Cat-Scratch-Oculoglandular Syndrome, Parinaud’s Syndrome, Adenitis, Debre’s Syndrome, Foshay-Mollaret Cat-Scratch Fever, Lymphadenitis and Lymphoreticulosis. Scientific studies have shown that cats cause sleep disorders and that housepets are behind thousands of human injuries every year (evidence here and here). A new danger on the horizon is MRSA, a life-threatening infection that is resistant to antibiotics and can kill you (see the fascinating article, “How I Got MRSA from Our Cat”). There is also widespread concern that these animals pose a threat to pregnant mothers and newborns, due to diseases such as Toxoplasmosis. Sadly, research has also shown that cat ownership causes eczema in children (see the report here).
Allergies are a significant problem in this country and a great deal of them are associated with cats. Despite expanding medical research and a host of new drugs, there is no absolute solution to the epidemic of cat allergies, asthma and breathing difficulties plaguing young people today. Many families are simply finding it easier to avoid these housepets altogether. Like rodents, felines have strong odors and can track in dangerous outdoor elements. Cat urination spots, particularly when they cannot be located no matter how hard you look, are a major concern for pet owners. Dried flakes of feline skin and hair, otherwise toxically known as dander, can contaminate every corner of a living space. Cruelly, dander is very hard to remove from fabrics. The germs can follow you and taunt the allergic amongst us even long after we’ve left a cat space.
The habit of letting cats soil themselves indoors using open-air litterboxes is another hygiene problem. The exposure of cat droppings to household air compounded by the fact that most possessors of felines keep their windows closed to prevent them from escaping only escalates the stale, offensive stench that hangs in a cat owner’s home and on their clothing when they venture out into public.
For women, there are additional psychological dangers in a close feline relationship. Research has shown that, “Single people are more attracted to cat ownership, while dog owners are married with children.” When this is taken to the extreme, we have cat “hoarding” by the type of people colloquially referred to as, “crazy cat ladies.” Psychologists are now labeling this as a mental disease, where the hoarder develops a profane savoir complex, seeing themselves as the Mother Theresa of the feline world. They rescue any feral creature they come across and are unwilling to get them fixed so they end up breeding into the hundreds, eventually dominating these poor women’s homes. Legislation in California is currently being written to limit the number of pets an individual can own. A truly frightening documentary about this phenomenon is about to be released, entitled “Cat Ladies”. Watch the disturbing clip below.
HISTORY GIVES “PAWS” FOR CONCERN
Unlike dogs, cats do not have ancestral roots in any kind of work or service. Dogs were domesticated to help man hunt, ward off farm predators and protect the home from intruders. From there, they grew to be even tamer, developing into great companions for children. Modern felines, on the other hand, are direct descendants of a cult worship that began in Ancient Egypt 3000 years ago. They were not bred for any specific attributes but were kept because people believed them to be incarnations of vengeful pagan gods. In that epoch, the penalty for killing a cat, even accidentally, was death!
Cats were so worshipped in this myth-obsessed and polytheistic time that great parties of indulgence were held to celebrate them. The Festival of Bastet in the town of Bubastis is one famous example where the occultism of cat worship reached heights of a very carnal nature. It has been described thusly:
When the Egyptians travel to Bubastis they do so in the following manner. Men and women sail together, and in each boat there are many persons of both sexes. Some of the women make a noise with rattles, and some of the men play pipes during the whole journey, while the other men and women sing and clap their hands. When they come to a town on the way, they lay to, and some of the women land and shout and mock the women of the place, while others dance and get up to mischief. They do this at every town lying on the Nile; but when they come to Bubastis they begin the festival with great offerings and sacrifices, during which more wine is consumed than during the whole of the rest of the year. The Egyptians say that some 700,000 men and women make this pilgrimage every year. –Herodotus, 5th Century BC
The Old and New Testaments describe this period in ancient Egypt’s history and the time directly afterward in Israel but nowhere in the Bible is a cat referred to in a positive light. In fact, amazingly not one of the Apostles ever owned a cat! (It goes without saying that Jesus never did.) In the Good Book, they are often referred to as “beasts,” something akin to Satan’s serpent. Notorious King Herod was a cat owner and these pets were likely present at his birthday party where John the Baptist was beheaded. Lions– a direct member of the feline species– were specifically chosen to murder early Christians in the coliseums of the pagan Roman Empire.
Then God said, Let us make man in our image, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground. –Genesis 1:26
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. –Romans 1:23-25
The Bible and modern law are both clear on the responsibility human beings have to protect and nurture the natural world. The concept, known as “stewardship,” means that we have been entrusted with dominion over our animals, that we are to be superior to them. People are to train animals and not let animals train them. This is a very important point as we have seen above with many contemporary women’s relationships with their cats. Worship of cats, a pagan ritual if there ever was one, is truly a sin. History teaches us that it is ethically wrong for us to live our lives in service of our lesser creatures. It puts our morality and humanity at risk.
A FANCY FEAST OF FERAL IMMORALITY
Cats are prowlers, uncanny creatures of the night. Cruelty and play are one for them. They live by and for fear, practicing being scared or spooking humans by sudden rushings and ambushes. Cats dwell in the occult, that is, the “hidden” The cat totally is in league with chthonian nature, Christianity’s mortal enemy. Compared to dogs, kindly eager to please, cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their “evil” look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it. –Camilla Paglia
The above statement made by lesbian professor Camilla Paglia is meant to be a sort of liberal celebration of the self-serving psyche of felines. Unfortunately, it is all too accurate when it comes to the moral implications of the cat lifestyle for modern society. These are ungrateful and unresponsive animals that spend their days lazing around the house from one spot of sunlight to the next. They contribute very little to family life and tend to shun your attempts at friendship and training. Many an individual has come home to find their last roll of toilet paper mockingly destroyed by these little monsters. They practice a loud and proud promiscuity while discouraging their owners from forming their own real human relationships. Let them in the door and they will run your life.
A new study has confirmed that cats are highly manipulative creatures that have learned to dominate their human masters. Exploiting our kindness is their unique specialty. Scientists have established, “similarities between a domestic cat’s cry and the cry of a human baby– a sound that humans are highly sensitive to.” With special purring tones, cats have learned to train the childless among you. They train you to fetch their food, scratch behind their ears and do whatever else they require, turning you into overworked servants in your own home.
The sad, almost perverse domination cats hold over their owner’s lives is celebrated all over the internet. One of the worst offenders and a website surely worthy of a mental health study is icanhascheezburger.com (“I Can Haz Cheez Burger”). This has become one of the most popular destinations online, a bizarre cult of cat worship that almost seems inspired by Bastet’s debauched festivals. Much like the ancient Egyptians, people today have anthropomorphized their pets to the extreme, giving them human emotions and an offbeat and deep-throated human language that they exchange in endless pictures and comment sections. In this inexplicable fantasy world, cats are obsessed with eating freshly-grilled cheeseburgers and command their human owners to do all sorts of odd tasks around the home. The photos on this website reveal the clumsy and unclean interiors that your average cat owner inhabits: open food containers, dirty laundry, gigantic television screens, old couches everywhere.
70,000 kittens are born every day in the United States. This is clearly an American problem. Most people assume pussies are easy to care for, but once they’ve come into possession of one they realize this is far from the truth. With the evident health and moral problems, can we really continue to believe that there is no harm in cat ownership?
8:40 pm
Are you serious? Are you serious? Are you putting a pet, a cat, on a religion about Jesus Christ? Are you really this stupid? Holy fuck, I don’t think I have ever been to a site, this filled with idiocy. In your post you mention how people are allergic to cats. Guess what? People are allergic to dogs as well. This is why I beleive idiot should not be allowed to have the right to free speech. Because idiocy is like a disease, it spreads, and when idiots such as yourself are allowed to speak their minds, well….more people will be idiots. I am sorry to say, that your future kids, if any woman is dumb enough to even considering sleeping with an ugly sin such as your self, I feel bad for those children. I feel bad for them, because they will be surrounded by bigotry, and idiocy.
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There is not a lot of merit to your comment. Basically, it is a personal attack with not one iota of factuality. I think it’s representative of the quality of thinking you find on the left wing– ready with the expletives when needed, no common sense and absolutely willing to ditch free speech when it hurts their beloved causes. You have to wake up to the fact that you people are a minority in America. The rest of us have a moral foundation and want to see this country on the right, righteous track again.
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“willing to ditch free speech”…excuse me, but wasnt it you who said youd had enough of the “tired old free speech cliche”? yea, that right it WAS you.
hypocrite.
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7:42 pm
Exactly, the liberals will manipulate anything part of our Constitution to serve their own short sighted purposes. I have presented a vast amount of peer-reviewed hardcore scientific proof which NONE OF YOU can refute. Instead you respond by saying I have no right to say these things.
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Stephenson Billings, I am not a liberal or a democat, I am a repulican tride and true. What I mean to say inmy post is that Idiots should not be allowed in government or be the boss of anything, let the intellectuals rule something. You did not give scientific facts, you gave Scientific Opinions, not Scientific Facts, now screw off.
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An existentialist Republican who hates morality and Christianity? What rock have you been living under during modern times? You are an utterly stunning fool.
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I disagree, just because someone does not support christianity does not mean that idon’t agree wit hthe republican’s way of running the government. The way you beleive is that the countr was founded by christians strictly for chrisians? Then why do we have seperation of Church and State? It was George Washinon our first president, and the general of the American army, that beat the english giving us our freedom that stated “The United States is in no sense founded upon the chritian religion.” So I disagree that you have to be a follower of the christian faith to be republican, I know plenty of people whom are not christian and re replican, and I know for surenot all republicans are as close minded, and are as much of religious fanatics such as the people of this website.
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3:51 pm
Some of the most liberal people in American history were Republicans, Lincoln being one of them. Even way out there Frank Zappa was one too! Punk Rocker Lee Ving is a Republican. There are gay and black Republicans. and a lot of Republicans OWN A CAT!
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12:48 am
web md is not a peer-reviewed source. there. i refuted your information. what now?
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6:14 pm
WRONG. The majority of Americans love their pets and a ton of those pets are cats. And it’s not a left-wing perspective. I know plenty of right wing cat owners. B.S.
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7:41 am
Would you be willing to explain something to me? (No pressure, as this is purely of entertainment value for me) If liberals/left wingers or whatever you’re calling it is in the minority then why did the recent election see the utter failure of McCain and, arguably the dumbest person I’ve ever seen, Sarah Palin? Palin especially seemed to have her core Christian values in place (though they didn’t seem to have rubbed off on her daughter) so why didn’t the ‘majority’ of America stand up for her?
As far as minorities go, it astounds me every time I listen to/speak with people who have your kind of viewpoints. What astounds me is that you seem to show absolutely zero awareness of the fact that around 90-97% of people think you’re crazy and, forgive me but I can’t think of another word, retarded to the point of delusion. And before you attribute that to your being persecuted and fashion yourself some kind of martyr who suffers in the name of Jesus Christ, try to realize that that just isn’t the case. People (and by ‘people’ I mean the majority of people in the world) think all radical extremists are weird, radical left included. Take a good look, my friend, and ask yourself if your ‘suffering in the name of Christ’ isn’t just the same sinful pride you condemn in others.
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8:43 pm
you are a moron. your entire premise is entirely flawed and skewed beyond belief. science does not come with an agenda, and your inaccurate superstitious clap trap is just hilarious. if you value peer reviewed scientific proof so much, where’s your scientific proof for the existence of your god?
ps – you look like a paedophile
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9:05 pm
Please get your brain repaired. It’s not functioning properly.
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9:10 pm
hi, god here,
actually, i love cats
hope that clears things up for you
everything you know is wrong
love
god
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2:54 pm
“You have to wake up to the fact that you people are a minority in America. The rest of us have a moral foundation and want to see this country on the right, righteous track again.”
You have to wake up to the fact that you people are a minority in the world. The rest of us have a moral foundation and want to see this planet on the right, righteous track again.
i.e. your argument is invalid, religious nutjob. lol
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4:06 pm
Are you serious? really? Come on, we don’t need more information to help haters be excused of their criminal acts towards animals, specially cats. When you write or do this kind of argument you are helping haters to be excused of their actions towards cats. Please, be more careful with your expressions or opinions…some people take for real what other say. This is so sad, how can you relate religion with cats, it is not fanaticism is just love for a pet, what is wrong with that?
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1:19 am
There’s a factual error here. Jesus actually owned three cats. Two of them, Andrew and Simon were part of the 12 apostles (the other 10 were all men).
Double check your facts next time!
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11:37 pm
This article and this website are ignorance at its best. For the sake of humanity, please get a proper education and read literature penned by intelligent and well-informed people. Please understand that to be Christian does NOT mean to be a bigot; it does not mean hate or defamation. Above all, do unto others as you would have done to you and recognize the humanity in each and every person, no matter how much their views differ from yours.
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2:08 pm
This article contains too many pieces of misinformation for me to tackle all at once, but I want to clarify to the world that cats were domesticated by human beings for a very practical reason. Cats were originally domesticated in the Ancient Middle East. Their main responsibility was to protect grain storage facilities from being infiltrated by mice and other pests.
Even today cats go after cockroaches and mice in ‘their’ territory.
I dare the author to live with a cat for a month. I bet his perspective will change entirely.
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10:33 pm
lots of animals have diseases, not just cats. i think it’s nonsense to single them out like this. and cats are very loving and good animals. i bet the author has never lived with one.
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4:56 pm
I wouldn’t want this guy to have a cat… Cruel and unusual punishment to the cat.
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11:57 pm
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU KNOW ABOUT CATS????
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12:13 am
I enjoyed your appreciation of scripture to address this issue. I used to have a cat and we loved her very much but I have to wonder about getting another one. They really do need a lot of attention.
The video of the cat women made me sad. There are problems with excess in any form, the Bible surely teaches us that.
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More prove that billnings never go outside of his basement.
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1:14 am
Stephen have you run out of people that you haven’t said hateful or bigoted things about and instead turn to animals. Where on earth do you come up with this rubbish your blog is getting even more bat shit crazy.
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10:03 am
Ah, but remember: Stephenson isn’t a blogger, he’s an “Investigative Journalist”, although he doesn’t investigate, read or consider any evidence he himself doesn’t invent.
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2:14 am
It is not really correct to use the word ownership. People do not own cats, that demeans them. You make them sound like a chair or a lamp. They have lives and hearts and brains. We care for them, we are their stewards maybe but ownership reminds me of slavery.
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3:48 am
You are telling a bunch of crap. What do you know about cats? NOTHING.
I hope a dog bites off your balls, moron.
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12:56 pm
Actually, I have lived in a cat house for several years so I speak from first hand experience. Please try and understand my writing before you throw out your wild accusations.
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12:02 pm
You lived in a cathouse?
I want to hear you talk about that experience, and all the nice ladies you met!
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6:24 am
Wow, you put this link in the comment field of my heartfelt post about my beloved cat who recently died. Are you fucking kidding me? Please die in a fire. I mean it.
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12:59 pm
Dawn, while I am sorry that anything in your life has passed I really don’t have time for your off base and meanspirited false accusations. I stand by my reporting. It’s straightforward, backed up by many, many sources and a clean exploration of my faith.
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Then, as a clean exploration of your faith, please kindly refrain from posting your religious crap on a website such as this, and try picking on another animal if you get sick of cats. How about birds? I hear they’re blasphemous in their ramblings. They also speak in tongues! Lions and tigers and bears, Oh My! Cats are very affectionate creatures, just as any animal is, if it’s treated properly. I don’t know what kind of people you lived with that had cats, but an animal is only as kind as it’s caregiver.
Long story short:
Shove it.
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11:54 pm
You are unbelievable. Your article is based on pure opinion and misinformation and you aren’t even ashamed. Religious fanatics like yourself cause more damage than any animal could.
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7:38 am
No really are you serious? Because many cat owners can bust every word of this article! Myself included!
1. Cats are far more clean the dogs. Do you know why? Because a cat will run away from a pool of filth, not run into it like most dogs do.
2. If a cat owner keep a close eye on the pet’s health, then they won’t transmit any infection in the family. I myself love to play with my cat, and she does scratches me, I have marks to prove it, but never had an infection. Sure, if someone knows that he is alergic to cat’s or dog’s hair, he should stay away from pets, but that’s another story.
3. “Like rodents, felines have strong odors and can track in dangerous outdoor elements. Cat urination spots, particularly when they cannot be located no matter how hard you look, are a major concern for pet owners.”
Ehm, no. The most dangerous thing my cat ever brought inside the house is a lizard. And have you ever heard of litter? You know, the box filled with sand or other natural stuff where cats are trained to urinate and defecate in? Apparently not.
Living with a pet, being it dog, cat, rodent or bird, it’s healty. Ever heard of pet therapy?
Oh, just a last thought. Dogs may have been trained to protect humans, but cats kill mice, and those are really dangerous! If people wouldn’t have killed cats, the Plague wouldn’t have been as destructive as it has been.
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8:01 am
You should be living in dark ages. Obviously you never got out of them. But then Christians persecute cats for years. Not a problem, do it again, rats come back – bring bubonic plague with them. You first to get it!
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12:54 pm
How medieval of you. Thankfully society has moved far beyond the dark ages.
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1:14 pm
Yeah, this coming from the one that never went outside his basement apartment door in 30 years. Cats hate you, cause you’re the only old lady that doesn’t Provide them milk at night……
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9:41 am
I read this with horror and disbelief.
Cats have served as noble companions and helpers to man since hunter-gatherer days. They kept rats and other rodents out of the wheat on farms, ships and in towns.
When cats were erroneously called “witches’ familiars” and slaughtered during the middle ages, the rat population exploded and, with it, the fleas that were vectors for bubonic plague.
Not sure where you get your information, but your piece is unnecessarily alarmist and mistaken. If you believe in God at all, how can you wantonly libel any of his creatures?
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10:32 am
Cats are inherently evil. Look at their role in the Egyptian culture; worshipped as false gods, idolized in sculptures. Think of all the Egyptians cats lead to hell.
Then they were in cahoots with witches and black cats are the pet of Satan himself. Look at how their demonic eyes glow in the gules of night! Cats need to be extinct. Dogs are a holy animal.
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11:02 am
In a christian view of the world, cats are creatures of God. Then why hate them?
Egyptians worshipped them…and then? It was a different culture! They had their traditions and gods!
Ah, wait a second…here there’s no respect for differences, for multicultural approach to life, everything that doesn’t respond to the WASP acronym is false and needs to be eradicated from the world. How fool I have been to believe that someone here would turn on his brain and write a meaningful reply to this nonsense article!
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11:14 am
*facepalm*
cats are among the creatures created by god (ie ALL creatures) and therefore cannot be inherently evil. god does not create evil.
“demonic eyes”? are you kidding me? this is the SCIENTIFIC reason why cats eyes – AND DOGS EYES – seem to glow at night: Cats, dogs, and many nocturnal creatures appear to have glowing eyes because the back of their eyeballs include a special reflective layer called the tapetum lucidum. This helps animals see better in low light by working like a mirror on the retina to reflect the light back through the eyes, giving them a second chance to absorb the light. The colors seem more visible at night because the pupils are dilated wider than during the day, allowing more of the tapetum lucidum to be visible.
im going to completely ignore the part about cats being in cahoots with witches, thats just pure idiocy and ignorance.
cattle are considered sacred to the Hindu religion and the hebrews idolized a golden calf, does this mean we shouldnt eat beef? *rolls eyes*
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10:28 pm
“Cats are inherently evil. Look at their role in the Egyptian culture; worshipped as false gods, idolized in sculptures.”
How is it the cats’ fault that the Egyptians took it upon themselves to worship them of their own free will? Did the cats somehow “speak” to the Egyptians and say “You WILL worship us!”? Puh-Lease! The Egyptians chose to worship the cat – the cat didn’t ask for it!
God made cats and gave man dominion over them. I love my cats, but I don’t worship them as Supreme beings. They’re just cats. I love dogs, too, and rabbits, and horses, and ducks, and kangaroos, and lemurs, and elephants…
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10:57 am
Oh Adam, Adam, yikes, Adam….YOU CRAZY! Frighteningly CRAZY.
There must be a world for you…just not sure which one and where.
Alternate no doubt.
This one has passed you by. Ugh, poor Adam.
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How funny that stephenson billings changed his name in order to post comments. Is it because you needed support but nobody was willing to give it to you so you created a second self?
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I was going to explore the Cat-Witch association but I thought it too controversial for this crowd.
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As a Christian who has 3 cats I have to weep at how Stephenson Billings misrepresents me, and every true follower of Christ I know. being a Christian is about studying the Word of God and following the instructions given in in the bible, and the BIBLE is full of references to how much God loves the anilmals he put on the earth before he put man here.. the same God who hears the lioness cry out for meat,is the same God who counts every feather on every sparrow. Just because there is no mention of cats in the bible does not mean that cats are evil, or less to be loved than dogs. Having a cat is not anymore evil than having a car, or a bank account, or satelite TV so you can watch your favorite football or basketball team, and definitly less idolitrous. Having a credit card is far more dangerous to one’s soul than having a cat.
Having a pet has many health benefits, but I don’t think Mr. Billings wanted to mention them in his stream of easily debunked lies. He seems to want people to believe HIS version of truth is more to believed than the Gospel. I would hope that people who read this will pray for the Lord of ALL CREATION to enlighten Mr Billings, that he may know the hope to which he is called to, and stop publishing nonsense that would strip anyone who professes to know Christ of thier credibility, When someone writes this type of trash and calls it “Christian” that person is guilty of putting thier opinions above truth and loving thier own ego more than God
Stephenson Billings, you give God a BAD name.
Renae
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1:14 pm
If these are a “steam of lies” then why am I not alone in my beliefs? Many other Christians share these worries, concerns and beliefs. I have researched this carefully and my writing is backed up by solid medical research. I know you might think you love your animals, but that’s no excuse. I have actually lived in a house with two cats and I know first hand the dangers and unpleasantness of it all so please don’t question my authority on the subject.
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I have decided that I am going to be a major asshole all day, and post as many lolcats as I can……which explains, billings….
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1:27 pm
There you have it, folks, a penetrating look into the failure life of Defiant Soldier. Cute toy collection, I’m surprised your Mom didn’t make you throw it all out when you turned 40.
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I know. Wasn’t she so nice? She got it at your garage sale. You know, the one you had so you could take out all those young men to the forest and rape them? I have had fun with these toys, but mine do not vibrate like yours.
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7:47 pm
Your credibility on this website has just reached ZERO, defiant.
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um, and your credibility is shooting straight up to heaven? i think not. you should be ashamed of yourself.
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9:04 am
“I know you might think you love your animals, but that’s no excuse.”
We don’t THINK we love them, we DO love them, you fat piece of shit.
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You not alone in your beliefs because an awful lot of people believe really stupid things.
That’s the worst thing about religion, really. It falsely satisfies the need for knowledge and allows so many people to become intellectually lazy about the real world.
Religion, in the way you are using it, is potato chips for the mind. Let your religion inform your morals, but use science for your understanding.
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You and those cat hating IGNORANT christians should be neutered/spayed to make you stop polluting the gene pool.
Ignatius J. Reilly from Confederacy of Dunces makes more sense than you.
Poor ignorant, this is what your government does to you people. You are all sheep.
pffft.
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why didn’t you just state that you hate and despise cats and be done with it. it would have saved us all a lot of time and trouble.
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Seriously? You realize that you’re an idiot right? You’ve offended SO many people with this, as far as their pet choice AND religion! You call yourself a christian, this is the reason why I am NOT a christian, or a catholic, because people like YOU who, when you don’t like something it automatically becomes evil. I have a cat (have ALWAYS have cats) and they’ve been in my life since I was single, to when I had children, got married and moved from home. I’m happily married with 3 children and we have dogs AND cats so there goes your theory!
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OMG!!! BILLINGS HAS BEEN BLOCKED FORM MAKING A VALID POINT!!
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7:49 pm
First off, since you’re not a Christian you don’t know any better and your argument with me is futile. Secondly, this article is a wake up call for the cat obsessed Americans. It was not meant to offend but to enlighten. I realize my faith may be too much for the hedonists of this world but by putting it out there maybe I have changed a few minds above Satanism.
Saving just one soul from hell is worth a life’s work.
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ok first off lolcats are awsome.
Second, yes, cats were worshiped. But so were dogs, eagles, and cows, so by your logic, we should not have anything to do with these animals?
Third. The egyption religion existed over a thousand years before jesus was born so it’s kinda impossible for them to be christian.
Fourth. How the hell do you come up with this stuff?
Fifth. There is no fifth
Sixth. Same as fifth.
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6:53 pm
You’re not Christian and so don’t know any better? Surely you’re taking the piss?
Christian teachings rarely make sense but always think they do. For example, think of all knowledge as a pizza. Science gives you half the pizza and does it’s best to give you the other half. Religion gives you half a pizza and gives you a cardboard cutout of the other half labelled “Pizza”, then insists that it is, in fact, a pizza.
Science may not always have the answer, but it doesn’t mean you should make up anything you want and claim it as truth. Same goes for this article. Don’t make up shit.
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“Saving just one soul from hell is worth a life’s work.”
I think you put more people off christianity with this silly article than “saving” them. You are the reason more people willgo to hell now.
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Cats are just demented animals, the only thing worse being a snake for obvious reasons. Even outside the spiritual context of this discussion, cats are vile and dirty for some many more reasons.
They are not very clean animals. It is not uncommon for people in proxy to cats to develop ring worms and severe respiratory problems. I advise all patients I see to stay away from foul animals such as cats, if they want a healthy life.
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WTF?
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6:50 pm
You say cats are not clean animals? HAHAHAHA!!!
I guess that means that dogs don’t eat their own shit.
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7:13 pm
Bwahahaha!!! Good point! Notice how Stephenson chooses the word “pussies” at the end of the article. Is that a Freudian slip? Is Stephenson afraid of actual cats or could it be something else???
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7:45 pm
I used the word “pussy” as a short form for “pussycat.” Honestly, I got sick of typing cat cat CAT all over the place so I did something literary. That may be hard for you numb skulls to comprehend, but it’s what writers do.
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I think its because you never got any.
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2:43 am
You…a writer…thats a joke. Your literacy is limited to spell and grammer check.
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11:41 am
Sorry Adam, cats are an incredibly clean animal compared to most, I mean, dogs eat there own shit and get ticks all the time.
Do cats? Cats hardly get fleas and wash themselves all the time.
And no, snakes arn’t evil, snakes are amazing creatures, and went trained and taught, and allow them to know you, they become friendly creatures, as do most creatures.
They hunt, they kill, and constrictors often kill their prey with less suffering than, lets say a fox tearing apart a rabbit.
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But oh no! The bible tells him to hate snakes because they are evil! And I’m sure it was the voices that told him to hate cats…
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12:24 am
ADAM NELSON IS STEPHENSON BILLINGS and claims to be a doctor now ahaha.
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Ron, I would immediately seek out a mental health expert because you are delusional. Mr. Billings lives in Tennessee and Dr. Nelson lives in California. Please check your facts or at the very least seek mental therapy for your delusion about Stephenson being “everybody” who you disagree with.
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I think it is really funny that you Americans still have people with these kind of opinions in the 21st century. Really. Grow up. Why would you hate a breed of animal so much that you would write such an article, what could they have possibly done to you, and as for religion Christians like you are the least tolerant of all!
Don’t bother responding, i got this link through facebook where you are being publicly lampooned as a complete moron by the entire planet. well done you cat hating misogynist.
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99% of we Americans would think this is a bunch of crap.
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Thankfully, I do not use facebook. It has the highest concentration of perverts and life failures in the world. I take it as a badge of honor that these non-entities feel something at all about my article.
As for your anti-Americanism Jules (with that name I have to surmise you’re German), it does not astonish me. America is a wondrous threat to the hollow corrupt soul that is Germany. I have read many articles about the vile homosex outrages that your youth engage in nightly, the leather clad orgies, the public spanking, the uniforms. It is all very offensive and I wish Europe would just grow up. And yes, you’re welcome for my ray of reason.
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“I do not use facebook. It has the highest concentration of perverts and life failures in the world.”
Really? I thought it was christwire authors.
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Just FYI, the only 2 people called Jules that I’ve met are American.
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6:46 pm
“I have read many articles about the vile homosex outrages that your youth engage in nightly, the leather clad orgies, the public spanking, the uniforms.”
I have no doubt about that, mate.
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001040363642
LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR!!!
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Did you ever stop to use your brain and think that “Jules” just MIGHT be short for Julie? Or is your brain too full of bigotry and hate? Which, according to my research and time spent in church, is the exact OPPOSITE of what a good christian is supposed to feel? So much for “Love Thy Neighbour”… You are the worst example of a Christian I have EVER seen.
Hypocrite.
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Hey Stephenson, thanks for the good spank the other day. You look good in your leather pants and rubber mask. Mwah.
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I’ve dissected this post in my blog here > http://jendiaz.com/2009/10/19/the-furry-warm-underside-of-cat-ownership/
I really can’t wrap my brain around this post.
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Jen, thank you for telling the world about how briefly and rarely you shower. Your blog post was offensive, mean and fact-deprived. I pray that no one visits your site, they will surely find their eyes aching as mine are right now. I will leave you a longer reply on your website once I have cleansed the liberal, hedonistic stink of your commentary off my body.
For those of you who really want a look at how painfully wrong our foes are today, click on:
http://jendiaz.com/2009/10/19/the-furry-warm-underside-of-cat-ownership/
Warning: NSFW!!!! AND NOT SAFE FOR THOSE UNDER 21.
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so…you pray no one visits her site…and then you post the link? right, that makes sense
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Nice try, but you can’t twist my words against me.
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Actually stevy, It is not difficult. We say something smart, you “nuh uh!”, and call it intelligence. I have a news flash for you…..you will now shutup cause……
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5:26 pm
she didn’t have to twist your words you did that yourself
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Defiant Soldier, i think i love you a little bit
lol!
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3:45 pm
Well mr. Billings doesn’t know that……..
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4:41 pm
Wow, just reading some of people’s comments, I think there are some people who definitely took it to the extreme. It’s just an article; people need to learn how to shrug off someone’s opinions. Not only that, I definitely do think you should have left religion out of it. That is definitely taking it too far.
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6:10 pm
Bwahahaha!!! This article is hilarious!! The first part about medical concerns was so stupid that I couldn’t even make it through the absurd religious part!! Oh man, I can’t wait to share this. People are gonna love this.
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7:51 pm
Fascintating that you find hardcore medical research so humorous. I bet you’re a riot of laughter at your local health clinic.
I cry for your children.
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What you call hardcore medical research or any research I call pulling random things out of you ass because thats the only place this stuff can come from
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My problem with this isn’t so much about the medical research as it is with your conclusions. The article you reference regarding the eczema issue clearly states in the very first paragraph that a higher risk of eczema may be due to a combination of a genetic mutation (FLG) as well as the presence of a cat. The article goes on to state that the genetic mutation PREDISPOSES people to eczema. Logically, it follows that the primary cause would likely be the genetic mutation; I would like to see a similar study of children who do not possess the genetic mutation, but are in proximity to a cat. If those children were shown to have a higher risk of developing eczema, I might be inclined to consider it. However, my point is that the research you cited does not definitively conclude that “cat ownership causes eczema in children.”
As for your claim regarding toxoplasmosis, yes, of course it is a concern for pregnant women. However, as my OB explained to me when I was pregnant with my son, as long as you don’t clean the litter box yourself, or at least wear gloves and wash your hands thoroughly as soon as your done, it shouldn’t be a problem. We had 5 cats in the home while I was pregnant. My husband took on the job of cleaning the litter boxes and guess what, I never got toxoplasmosis!
Steps can be taken to minimize the risk of getting sick from your cat. The number one way? Keep the cat indoors. Most rescue organizations and humane societies recommend that anyway. (BTW, the MRSA article you referenced clearly states that you can get that from dogs as well as cats.)
With regard to the cat hoarding issue, hoarding anything is a mental disorder that unfortunately many people possess. A recent case in a Detroit suburb revealed a MAN who had more than 200 DOGS, both alive and dead, in his home and garage. My own grandmother, God bless her, hoarded newspapers for over 30 years. It’s a mental health issue that has nothing to do with whatever is actually being hoarded. It’s rather disingenous of you to imply that some women risk becoming hoarders simply because they live with cats. Those women would probably end up hoarding something else even if they never had a cat.
Modern housecats are no more evil or “wild” as you assert they are than any other domesticated animal. And, yes, the modern housecat is domesticated, not like wolf hybrid dog breeds or ferrets. Are they harder to train than dogs? Of course they are. Anyone who’s ever lived with a cat knows that. Does that mean they CAN’T be trained at all? Of course not! It just takes a lot more time, patience and perhaps some different tactics. Then again, so does a hyperactive child. You wouldn’t call a hyperactive child “wild” or evil, would you?
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1:45 am
And I pray for yours, Stephenson Billings.
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“In fact, amazingly not one of the Apostles ever owned a cat! (It goes without saying that Jesus never did.)”
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand you know this… how? Just because the Bible doesn’t state “Peter had a cat” doesn’t mean that Peter didn’t have a cat. I don’t seem to recall the Bible saying that any of them ever owned a hair brush, either…
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Lisa, I know this because I am deeply familiar with the Bible and Jesus’s teachings. Also, from my research Jews didn’t own cats at the time. it was the pagan Egyptians which the Jews made a huge effort to escape from. After all that work building the pharoah’s temples to cats, why would they then go to Israel and keep these creatures in their sunny homes?
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Mr. Billings,
I have to quite honestly say that your entire article appalls me. Since I do not have a great deal of time, I will not specifically respond to every one of your points, but I will cover many of them, especially in regards to your Biblical arguments.
1. In regards to said diseases/sicknesses (as others have pointed out) there are easy ways to keep a cat from getting its family sick–i.e. keeping it indoors, de-clawing the animal, neutering/spaying it, etc. Since I am not an expert regarding these diseases, I won’t get into that area, but I will point out that I have personally had cats in my home since I was first born, and NO ONE in my family or otherwise has ever gotten sick from one.
I did have one friend who was slightly allergic to one of my cats, but it wasn’t anything that couldn’t be taken care of by simply rinsing his eyes every few hours. And if we are going to speak about allergies as a reason cats are bad/evil, we could say the same about dogs too. Or dust. Or milk. Or wheat. Or chicken. The list could go on and on.
2. The whole issue of cats defecating/urinating indoors is not that big of an issue. Sure, there can be a pretty nasty scent coming from the litter box, but that’s why we are supposed to clean them out. Once that’s done, the scent is much nicer.
3. As someone else pointed out, hoarding, while certainly seen with said “cat ladies,” it is not only a cat thing. It can take place with dogs, rabbits, birds, or any type of “stuff.” My wife’s grandmother holds onto stuff so much that the only way she’ll get rid of it is to send it to her daughter. I’ve known people who have never thrown away anything they’ve done in school. Are either of these cat owners? Nope.
4. Cats may have not necessarily been “trained” to do anything as dogs have–but consider your examples of all the things dogs have been trained to do: “help man hunt, ward off farm predators and protect the home from intruders.” Hmm. Seems to me that small animals like cats would have an awfully hard time doing any of those things.
5. It is absolutely true that cats were worshiped by the Egyptians–but so were cows. In fact, if we look back at in Exodus at what idol the Israelites made, we see that it was a golden calf (Ex. 32). If you were to study Egyptian culture more thoroughly, you’d find that they had a number of deities, many of which resembled cows and bulls, as well as dogs (wolves/jackals), frogs, rams, and flies (hence some of the plagues upon Egypt).
To this day the culture of the Alaska Natives consider the raven to be sacred and one can actually be arrested here in Alaska for killing one.
Needless to say, there are many animals that have been (and still are) worshiped today by different cultures. By your reasoning, we cannot have anything to do with any of those animals.
6. Now in regards to the absence of cats being mentioned in the Bible, that is an argument from silence–the Bible is silent on the topic of house cats, making them neither good nor bad according to Scripture. Understanding the culture of that time period of course makes it clear that most people did not have pets as we do today. Dogs in those days were never referred to in a positive light, but rather a negative one. Why? Because in those days they were filthy animals that certainly were not pets. Paul did not have a cat and neither did Jesus. Does that somehow mean that he considered them evil? I see no scriptural basis for such an argument. Of course there were negative references to cats–particularly lions–such as when Satan is referred to as “…a roaring lion…seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pt. 5:8b,d KJV). But Jesus Himself is ALSO referred to as a lion: “And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDA, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof” (Rev. 5:5, KJV, emphasis mine). If Jesus Himself is referred to as a Lion, doesn’t that already disprove that cats are evil?
7. To say that having a cat and taking care of it is worshiping the cat is honestly a rather silly argument. I mean, seriously: how is choosing to care for an animal and love it worship? Apparently, that means we worship dogs, birds, fish, turtles, or any other kind of household pets as well. True, some cats are more “stuck up” and not very loving. But that isn’t necessarily a matter of being “evil” or anything like that. Also, if cats are not made in God’s image as we are (which we both would certainly agree they are NOT), are they able to be evil or good on a moral level? Don’t they live on instinct just as any and every other non-human creature does? It is only sentient beings (man, angels, demons, & Satan) that are capable of making moral decisions.
8. I have a cat who is just as loving as any dog I’ve had. He even rushes to greet me when I get home from work or come out of my room after I get up and then snuggles with me or my wife. Yet he doesn’t steal food or get into things he shouldn’t be (as dogs I have had did). While I would say many cats are not like that, I have known (and known of) many that are friendly and loving as he is.
It makes me sad that someone who says he is a student of the Word of God would make such statements about one of God’s creations. Scripture makes it absolutely clear that sentient beings are the only ones capable of moral decisions, whether good or evil. Cats are no worse than any other animal. Every pet takes time to care for. Every pet takes love to respond. And while they aren’t made in God’s image as we are, they are still valuable to us as humans.
In Christ’s Name,
A Servant of Christ
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You need to open your copy of the Bible and learn some facts. The Egyptians were a people who worshipped false gods. They did magic. Their pharaohs dared defy the servants of God when they told them the great I AM said “Let my people go!”
And you know what happened to the Egyptians. God cast plagues of locusts upon their sin-soaked lands. He caused great famine and droughe to befall their feline loving bodies!
He caused great sickness and death to fall upon their firstborn because the Egyptians were dark and defiant to morality! You cannot be a cat loving people and expected to get off the hook!
Cats are evil. Nowhere are they mentioend as good and if you know history, you know the Egyptians were a cat people. They were the premiere cat society and look at their lands now. Pathetic!
They once could build great pyramids from good sources of labor. They once used to be smart but now they are just common AFricans. Poor and dependent on our power to keep them afloat!
Cats will be the downfall of all and they are evil. I wish this was 300 years ago, because I would drown as many cats and witches as possible! They are the devil!
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What a load of CRAP you urgently need to ask your psychiatrist for stronger medication
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You know, the Bible never told you of the internet either. Best eschew what doesn’t appear in the Bible. Get the hell off the internet NOW you blasphemer!
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Yes, the internet is Satan’s CAT5e cable into your soul! Disconnect it at once, and go live in the woods, and eat only twigs and berries. And you can’t bathe either.
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8:45 pm
Wow…. I think reading this killed off a few of my brain cells. I hope stupidity isn’t contagious. If it is you may have just infected me and everyone else who read this piece of garbage.
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Cats were worshiped as “fake” gods. Well, so are humans. So therefor all humans are spawns of the devil.
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i love kitties…. hehehe you said “pussy”….. freudian slip….?
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…Dude, you are such a fucking moron. Yes, that was a barb at you. It was an insult. I’m not even a big cat person, and I feel like stabbing you in the eyes.
And guess what? So what if more than just yourself thinks or believes something? There will ALWAYS be others who believe the same thing someone else does. Does that make it true? No, no it does not. You’re entirely biased. You are ONE person out of millions who own or have owned cats. Your opinion ALONE means absolutely NOTHING. I cannot believe you used religion to back up your ‘scientific’ facts when it is quite well-known that religion and science do not coexist. Seriously, are you retarded?
And you singled out women. What the fuck! You sexist asshole. There are dog hoarders too, you know. Bird hoarders exist as well. Rodent hoarders also exist. Watch Animal Planet sometime, and you might get an eye opener.
What animal cannot transmit diseases? Dogs, cats, birds, turtles, mice, everything can transmit diseases to humans. Vaccines and visits to the vet for De-worming prevent such things from happening. I guess you’ve never heard of it? I wouldn’t be surprised since you lock yourself in your basement of a home and never venture out into the real world.
And humans nowadays can be allergic to everything. Surprising isn’t it?
Geez, get your head out of your ass.
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Why are you cat supporters such violent people? I’ve always noticed dog owners tend to be more laid back and loving, like their pets. Cat people are always angry and ready to pounce. I guess that’s what happens when you let Satanic creatures roam your home.
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I was both a dog owner and a cat owner. I was enslaved to cleaning up after my dog, whether it was his fecal matter or when he tore up pillows or chewed wood, or vomited, begged for food and stole food. Actually, BOTH dogs my foster mother owned did that. I love dogs, but I cannot deal with their maintenance. It’s beyond disgusting sometimes.
I should just say, it’s better to own a horse. They dont vomit, the poop is good for the earth, they are good transportation, and are just good animals all around.
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You wouldn’t survive a night alone with her, Stevie boy!
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1:35 am
Very funny Claire.
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That wasn’t me, dumbass.
In case you’re too thick-headed to realize, I’m not the only person on here who hates you.
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First thing’s first: If I ever meet you in real life, Billings, let’s just say you’ll be in the ICU for quite some time.
Now I will proceed to tear apart your “article”:
“Letting a wild animal loose in your home carries risks.”
There’s a difference between a wild animal and a domesticated animal. Look up the word domesticated in the dictionary.
“Unlike dogs, these animals are notoriously averse to being bathed in hot, fresh water.”
Um…never in my life have I known a dog who liked being bathed. In fact, here at school on Friday I gave my project beagle a bath. Let’s just say that he did not take too kindly to it.
“It should be no surprise, then, that they carry bacteria and germs.”
Cats have a natural deodorizer and cleaning agent in their saliva. Cats are actually much cleaner animals than dogs (it should be pretty obvious, considering the fact that cat’s don’t smell and dogs do…)
“A new danger on the horizon is MRSA, a life-threatening infection that is resistant to antibiotics and can kill you”
Um…there is nothing “new” about MRSA. As a CNA, I have taken care of many people with MRSA—it’s nothing new. Oh, and in every single one of those cases the affected person contracted MRSA from another person.
“There is also widespread concern that these animals pose a threat to pregnant mothers and newborns, due to diseases such as Toxoplasmosis.”
There is no “widespread concern” about Toxoplasmosis. All pregnant women have to do is avoid the cat’s feces.
“Like rodents, felines have strong odors and can track in dangerous outdoor elements.”
Um…I don’t know what planet you’ve been living on, but cat’s don’t have an odor. Cats are virtually odorless unless they’re sick. Perhaps you’ve been smelling your upper lip too often?
“The exposure of cat droppings to household air compounded by the fact that most possessors of felines keep their windows closed to prevent them from escaping”
Ah yes, because in the 21st century, nobody has screens…
“only escalates the stale, offensive stench that hangs in a cat owner’s home and on their clothing when they venture out into public.”
You are aware that good cat owners CLEAN the litterboxes, right?
“Unlike dogs, cats do not have ancestral roots in any kind of work or service. Dogs were domesticated to help man hunt, ward off farm predators and protect the home from intruders. From there, they grew to be even tamer, developing into great companions for children.”
Oh, I see, so because cats have never served humankind, they’re not worthy of breathing earth’s air?
Seriously Billings, I love my cats dearly, as do my parents. If anything were to happen to them, we would be inconsolable. So please stop belittling the love that people have for their cats.
And just for good measure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc1UVEL8qNU
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Hopefully one day we can have a regional meetup in Massachusetts. Make sure to bring the cat.
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Adam, don’t even start with me.
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Too bad you guys aren’t here in Florida. I try to go to the conventions here. Tsk tsk for not spreading your hate further.
I hope that some day, the Satanists that own this site truly see God’s light and love, and accept Christ into their hearts.
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Claire, I felt I had to take time out of my busy schedule to respond to your thoughtless commentary on my investigative piece. You have once again come out of the closet with your imperialist socialist beliefs and I believe all invigorated Christians should fear precisely this sort of Al Gore rhetoric.
I am both personally and professionally familiar with cats. In the 1980s I lived in a cat house, where there were not just one but TWO felines present. Princess and the other one whose name I forget. They were barbaric animals who frequently urinated in mysterious places in my bedroom. The odor was so strong it made me confused and medically upset. It was not pleasant. The owner of these four-legged threats to my sanity would do nothing about it, no matter how much I complained. She let their littlebox overflow all over the kitchen floor and those little pebbles would track into my room. Needless to say, it was not the most ideal living situation but it was a long time ago and I was young. (I was not co-habitating carnally with that cat woman, for your information.) Also, the cats would chomp on the toilet paper and when I returned home from work there would be nothing left, just a parade of confetti on the bath mat. These two monsters would then perch their awful little selves on the arm of a nearby couch to watch the marching band of my emotions. I do not doubt for a second these nasty tabbys did it intentionally and felt some cruel feline glee in my intense lack of comfort in those moments. It was around the pee-happy Princess and the other one that I developed a lifelong and crippling dander allergy problem. And Claritin doesn’t help, it just makes me shaky and weird.
Anyhow, you’ve deflected me here somewhere. I’m sidetracked (and despondent). I do want to respond to your crazed accusations but need to rest now.
I am, as always,
Stephenson
ps. Thanks Claire for the video links. I used them throughout the article to display the dangerous “catitudes” you people adore.
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“They were barbaric animals who frequently urinated in mysterious places in my bedroom.”
Inappropriate elimination can be a sign of many things, whether they be behavioral problems, medical problems, or simply an unclean litterbox.
“She let their littlebox overflow all over the kitchen floor”
Well, there you have it. The cats would urinate in your room because the litterbox was not being properly cleaned. Cats are very clean, finicky creatures. If they don’t have a clean place to go to the bathroom, they’ll take their business elsewhere.
“Also, the cats would chomp on the toilet paper and when I returned home from work there would be nothing left, just a parade of confetti on the bath mat.”
So shut the freakin’ bathroom door, genius.
“Thanks Claire for the video links. I used them throughout the article to display the dangerous “catitudes” you people adore.”
Well, looks like I’ll be getting some more views on those videos.
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I’m sorry, but the overflowing litterbox in the KITCHEN should have been a clue, genius! It would’ve been my cue to move out, or better yet, to not move in in the first place.
Like Claire said, close the door to any room you don’t want them in. (While the first cat I ever had occasionally was able to open the bathroom door from the inside, he was greatly aided by the countertop next to the door. All he had to do was jump down and hit the doorknob with his forepaws on the way down. Never saw him open any other doors, though, or even that one from the other side.)
Oh, and don’t leave clothes laying around where they can urinate on them. Closets and dressers work well.
And somehow, I don’t think it was the Claritin.
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“imperialist socialist beliefs”?? isn’t that a contradiction in terms?
And while I’m at it…
The vast majority of cats I’ve met don’t need to be trained to use the litter tray – and that includes some young kittens. If they’re old enough to get into it they can figure out what it’s for. PROVIDED it’s cleaned out often enough, which the one in the place you lived obviously wasn’t.
Yes, a lot of cats like to shred paper. So do a lot of dogs and small kids. It didn’t take me long to twig that I needed to hide any paper that I didn’t want to have shredded.
People like your landlady are not typical cat people (and why on earth did you ever move in there?!) Perhaps you should accept one of the invitations here from people who know how to look after cats (I’d be quite happy to let you come and smell my apartment )
Rosie
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It sounds like you had a really bad relationship with this woman, and like the environment that she turned your house into was a bad experience for you. Were you ever able to stand up to her? Do you think that you might be demonizing the cats by association?
Have you ever had a positive experience with a cat?
–concerned
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Steve,
I beg of you…spend that energy on collecting those awesome bottles. How much fun is that? Cool. Bet you have some collection.
I can’t believe you have time for these articles….do you look around the house and try to decide what other everyday item is out to get you (of course the ever powerful gays, ha, and anyone else who doesn’t have your mindset is behind it!) “Why this fork, one could stab oneself with it?” “And why?” “Because gays eat with forks.” “Darn, gay-forks!”
I love that you exercise that amazing writing muscle. I wish we all used our brains as much as you seem to. I just marvel at the lack of motivation to use it for good. Instead you are intrigued with dead-end, ridiculous, hilarious subject matter. I personally would like to see a book written about the origins of your bottle collection. Perhaps a folksy journey into a collector’s mind and the exciting adventure of finding the history of each….even hearing about the quest for the next hard to find bottle! Truly. Enjoyable and interesting.
Take care…and promise to use that incredible energy wisely, for your sake most of all.
Ben
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“I do not doubt for a second these nasty tabbys did it intentionally and felt some cruel feline glee in my intense lack of comfort in those moments.”
Those cats deserve a medal and cheezburgers.
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4:03 am
Overzealous religious nuts with obvious mental shortcomings and psycho-sexual neurosis shouldn’t be allowed out of your fucking hovels to spew such bile.
Both you and Adam Nelson should have your own little regional meetup, suck each other silly, and choke on dick cheese.
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Also, the cats would chomp on the toilet paper and when I returned home from work there would be nothing left, just a parade of confetti on the bath mat. These two monsters would then perch their awful little selves on the arm of a nearby couch to watch the marching band of my emotions. I do not doubt for a second these nasty tabbys did it intentionally and felt some cruel feline glee in my intense lack of comfort in those moments.
Is this outpouring of ill-informed rubbish all because a cat stole the last piece of toilet roll over 20 years ago? Get over it.
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Don’t be ridiculous. I have put those terribly annoying incidents behind me. I will say, however, they did it on purpose because the cats and their own hated me (her particularly, she seemed so nice at first and then accused me of not buying new orange juice when it was out). In revenge, she and her cats plotted to steal the toilet paper. And it’s no laughing matter. When you have had a very long day at work and come home to the privacy of your bathroom and you are unable to perform the sorts of things biologically necessary to perform in such facilities and your colon health is put at risk because a bung of paw-licking rodents named Princess (and the other one) have been given free reign of the apartment by some hippie liberal woman who had loud intercourse with her ethnic boyfriend at all hours and on Sundays and then he’d march around wrapped up in nothing more than a facecloth and I have to say there are certain ethnicities that have an abundance of chest hair, I’m surprised the cats didn’t curl up on him passed out on our couch as he did some afternoons thinking it was a shag rug and I was working very hard at my career and to better myself and there i come home and Pablo in all his hairiness would be shirtless loafing around or those cruel cats laughing at me because I could use the toilet of course they all did it on purpose and when I moved out a year later they seemed particularly thrilled, even Princess who pissed one last time on my favorite sweater as a special send off gift. If they had to pee, why use my room? You know nothing or Christianity, so don’t even try to go down that road with me.
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“In revenge, she and her cats plotted to steal the toilet paper.”
It’s time to slap the straightjacket on Billings. He’s officially gone off the deep end.
“When you have had a very long day at work and come home to the privacy of your bathroom and you are unable to perform the sorts of things biologically necessary to perform in such facilities and your colon health is put at risk”
We don’t need to hear about your colon, okay? Thanks.
“because a bung of paw-licking rodents named Princess”
Cats are not rodents. They are felines. That should be pretty obvious.
“When you have had a very long day at work and come home to the privacy of your bathroom and you are unable to perform the sorts of things biologically necessary to perform in such facilities and your colon health is put at risk because a bung of paw-licking rodents named Princess (and the other one) have been given free reign of the apartment by some hippie liberal woman who had loud intercourse with her ethnic boyfriend at all hours and on Sundays and then he’d march around wrapped up in nothing more than a facecloth and I have to say there are certain ethnicities that have an abundance of chest hair, I’m surprised the cats didn’t curl up on him passed out on our couch as he did some afternoons thinking it was a shag rug and I was working very hard at my career and to better myself and there i come home and Pablo in all his hairiness would be shirtless loafing around or those cruel cats laughing at me because I could use the toilet of course they all did it on purpose and when I moved out a year later they seemed particularly thrilled, even Princess who pissed one last time on my favorite sweater as a special send off gift.”
Wow…just…wow. I don’t see one period in that entire paragraph. Do you have some sand in your vagina, Billings?
“You know nothing or Christianity, so don’t even try to go down that road with me.”
So after that long tangent about how two sweet little cats ruined your life…you tell someone that they know nothing about Christianity? Christ on a stick, take your fucking meds.
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Claire you’re missing my point it was the whole lot of them– a overly coddled cats, a shirtless latino, a hippie woman who didn’t wear a bra– they all were on a mission to drive me to utter insanity. Each and every day they conspired to threaten my peace of mind with their wild antics, from the cat pee to the shirtlessness to the loud thumping of their copulation. All day! And the little cats were just sprinkles on this liberal ice cream dessert of depravity. They were always shoving their debased Jimmy Carter-style values in my face, talking about peace marches and Donna Summers and how Ronald Reagan was a jerk. And then they man and woman would leave the house and I thought I had some peace, but the cats would creep out of wherever they were hiding to take their turn beating me up. They cat peed on all my favorite clothes and it was not because of that stenchy litter box, even if it was clean they preferred by wool sweaters to do their business. And they clawed my favorite victorian armchair that I was hoping to sit alone in my room on and read classical literature. But it was torn in places and got me mad. I don’t even know when they did these things those monsters. Why did they hate me? I never did anything to them. I even tried to train them with little treats but they loved to claw me instead, the scratches I haven’t even mentioned those. On my face, too, on a few different occassions. And once the housemate went away for a weekend to some cabin so she and the latin could fornicate endlessly and I had to feed the cats but they wanted to get fed forty times a day and would MEOW MEOW MEOW at me constantly and I could not watch my tv shows. It was like being locked in prison with the Hell’s Angels, Hermann Goebbels and Barbra Steisand all at once.
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Oh grow the fuck up, Billings.
“overly coddled cats”
What’s wrong with that?
“a shirtless latino”
He had every right to go shirtless since the house belonged to his girlfriend.
“woman who didn’t wear a bra”
You can’t force a woman to wear a bra. In fact, you shouldn’t even care about it unless her breasts were so saggy that they trailed behind her on the floor and caused you to trip.
“Each and every day they conspired to threaten my peace of mind”
Ever considered seeing a psychiatrist? That’s called paranoia.
“They were always shoving their debased Jimmy Carter-style values in my face, talking about peace marches and Donna Summers and how Ronald Reagan was a jerk.”
Then you should have been a big boy and either:
a) moved out sooner
b) told them that you didn’t appreciate them forcing their views on you
c) avoided them as much as possible
“They cat peed on all my favorite clothes”
“cat peed”? Is that a verb? Is it possible for a human to “cat pee”? Oh, and perhaps if you had actually put your clothes in DRAWERS the cats wouldn’t have peed on them, eh Billings? Of course, cats have a knack for pulling drawers open (my little Tasha does the cutest thing in the world—she pulls open my mom’s bottom sock drawer, throws all of the socks out, and then crawls in and goes to sleep) so you might have considered SHUTTING THE DOOR TO YOUR DAMN ROOM.
“and it was not because of that stenchy litter box, even if it was clean they preferred by wool sweaters to do their business.”
Just because a litter box is clean according to human standards does not mean it’s clean to a cat’s standards. Contrary to what you think, cats are incredibly clean creatures and will not use their box if they deem it to be unclean. Another reason for litterbox avoidance is the location of the litterbox. You mentioned that the litterbox was in the kitchen. Well, cats do not like to relieve themselves in areas that have heavy traffic. Like humans, cats like to do their business in private, in an area with little to no noise. And I’m assuming that the food dishes were also in the kitchen? Cats do not like to eliminate too close to where they eat, because they know how unhygienic it is. Most likely they chose your wool sweaters because they were clean, soft, and were lying in the quiet of your room. You should be flattered, Billings, that the cats deemed your sweaters clean enough to pee on.
“And they clawed my favorite victorian armchair that I was hoping to sit alone in my room on and read classical literature.”
Once again, a situation that could have been prevented by shutting your door.
“Why did they hate me? I never did anything to them.”
They didn’t hate you, they were just being cats. Cats scratch shit and they pee where they’re most comfortable.
“the scratches I haven’t even mentioned those. On my face, too, on a few different occassions.”
Seriously dude, grow a pair. We all get animal scratches.
“I had to feed the cats but they wanted to get fed forty times a day and would MEOW MEOW MEOW at me”
Did you make sure that they always had dry food in their bowls? Cats are “nibblers”, which means that they basically have a snack and then go back to sleep. You’re not supposed to simply throw away the remaining dry food once you deem that breakfast or lunch is over; they’re supposed to have a constant supply, or else they will cry all day.
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I really don’t need cat training lessons from a maniac.
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You need cat lessons from people who live with cats and know what they are actually talking about
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All that time alone in your room reading and you couldn’t pick up a fucking history book? It was Hermann GOERING and JOSEPH Goebbels. Put down the Archie comics now and read something useful.
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I do know about Christianity and I also know about cats. You need help if you seriously think that these two cats were deliberately trying to ruin your life. Animals do not think rationally like most humans (I belive you are proof that not all humans are capable of rational thought),their behaviour is governed by instinct. As someone else pointed out you could have just shut the door to your room. Might have been a good idea to keep a spare roll of toilet paper in there too.
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You really do seem quite paranoid. You can’t really believe that this woman was out to make your life hell, rather than getting on with her own life, in her own house, with her own boyfriend and her own cats? For heaven’s sake, if she was that much of a trial for you why not just move?
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Die cats!
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This is the most ridiculous piece of crap I’ve ever read. “Moral implications” of owning a cat? Are you serious? You need some serious psychotherapy, dude! Yeesh.
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“I really don’t need cat training lessons from a maniac.”
A maniac? Exactly what about me is maniacal? And those weren’t lessons on how to train a cat, they were lessons on how to take care of a cat.
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I thought you were my friend, Claire, and here you go taking the side of some anonymous critter over your friend! It’s sad what loyalty the young generation today shows toward their America and their buddies. I assumed you’d be the one who appreciates the wisdom of this article, all the peer-reviewed medical research, quotes from important people– Jesus, Paglia, Herodotus. But no, that’s not even good enough for you. You’ve become quite the snob. The liberal elitist snob. Well, I’m sorry but I’m fighting for traditional American working families. I guess you’re too much of an elite to care about them.
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Your friend? Didn’t you just call me a maniac a few posts up? Oh, and I don’t make friends with pedophiles. You could go die in a fire and I could care less. And yes, I am taking the side of some “anonymous critter” over you, because in case you hadn’t gathered from my other posts on this site, I love cats and I hate conservative christian pedophiles.
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Snob.
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That’s your retort? You’re becoming more and more pathetic by the hour, Billings.
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At this rate, You’ll be the site’s new Shameful for sure!
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I’m pretty sure he will be the next to have his ass kicked out anyway a lot of people already confirmed is pedophilia view
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My cat literally saved my life and I love him. He is in fact MY BEST FRIEND. Oh and did you hear about the cat that put a CHILD RAPIST in jail. Cat’s aren’t stupid and they’re not just SOME animal…they are in most homes-considered part of the family.
I hope a cat claws at your cojones until they bleed and blister and you’re in agonizing pain.
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5:45 pm
Aww, that’s so sweet! How’d your cat save your life? And I didn’t hear about the cat who put a child rapist behind bars, that’s really cool. Perhaps Billings didn’t like those cats he lived with because he knew that they were ready to do the same thing to him (just to fill you in, because you seem new here, Billings is a “children’s party entertainer”, aka, a clown, he has on numerous occasions invited the young males who frequent this site to go camping in the woods with no other adult supervision, and he wrote an entire article drooling over the bodies of high school jocks). And I’m not the only one who thinks that he not only bears an uncanny resemblance to John Wayne Gacey, but the fact that they share(d) the same profession is spooky.
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My cat saved my life by just being there…I’m not exactly happy with my life and haven’t been for a long time and I was extremely lonely when I moved into my apartment and I was able to have a cat so I went out and picked out my little guy (who’s now almost 4) and I was a little less lonely and depressed.
You’re on the NCIS site aren’t you? I see that Adam is following you around like a stalker that he is.
HE’S A CLOWN…. I HATE CLOWNS-clowns freak me out-well Billings freaks me out. So, MR.PARTY PEDOPHELIAC entertainer-have you confessed your sick sin yet? How are your cojones? Have they blistered up yet? Oh, I used a word you probably don’t know-’cojones’ ask Cote de Pablo she’ll tell you or I can-it means in lamens terms-balls, testicles,the boys,gonads-surely you know one of those terms.
Thank you Claire for filling me in on this dirtbag.
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Aww, I’m sure that he thinks that you saved his life too!
And no, I’m actually not on the NCIS site, but now that you mention that Adam is being stalkerish, I might have to check it out to piss him off.
I’m glad that you share my views on clowns. I was never afraid of clowns until I saw Stephen King’s “It” when I was 11. Let’s just say that I wasn’t able to sleep with the lights off until just three years ago…and I’m now 19.
p.s. what’s the link to the NCIS site?
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7:33 pm
That’s what did it for me too….’IT’ i was freaked out of the dark for YEARS and had nightmares for months after that.
Just so you know-his views on NCIS(not sure if you watch the show) he said it was demeaning to men/women in uniform-yet those in uniform told him where to shove it being the fact that alot of them watch it. Oh, and 14 is too young to watch the show and the character of Abby is a lesbian and McGee should work on Walmart stocking hostess cupcakes and Gibbs is from the ‘SOUTH’ (he’s from PA) and Kate and Ziva aren’t inticting….a whole bunch of bogus BULL SHIT!
http://christwire.org/2009/10/is-ncis-the-worst-television-show-ever-made/
That’s the link!
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Entertaining children is an old and noble profession. We in the business take great satisfaction in our acts and how pleased children are to see us. We bring a little light into their lives. Personally, I also add teachings from the Bible to my performances and can include certain parables from the good book at a parent’s request. It gives me a wonderful opportunity to get close to the children who are America’s future. Anyway, you should all be ashamed of yourselves making fun of clowns the way you do. And what do clowns have to do with cats anyway?
By the way, I think she means the NCIS article (not site). She’s a bit confused by the big bad internets (no surprise there).
http://christwire.org/2009/10/is-ncis-the-worst-television-show-ever-made/
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GO FUCK YOURSELF….I’m scared of the internet? I would be if I had kids with pedophiles like you on the loose!
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I said confused, not scared you half-wit.
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Listen you homophobic ass half-wit you still made INTERNET plural-so who is the half wit? I think you should look at yourself in the mirror because to call people names-it’s obvious your parents dropped you numerous times on your head, that you feel you have to do what you do to make yourself feel good.
I seriously hope a cat bites you and that you get cat-scatch fever and die. My cat is way to friendly and I wouldn’t let a pedaphile touch him anyways.
PLEASE PLEASE may you be sterile for life and not be able to breed!
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See Claire and I got to talking and we figured my cat and her cat could definitely get together and bite your clown ass…that’s what cats have to do with clowns.
Oh, INTERNET is not plural and you say you went to school…ha! ha! ha! What a joke!
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“Many other Christians share these worries, concerns and beliefs. ”
So, your stand is that since other people share your belief that cats are evil, unclean animals makes it a true fact and justifies your writing on this subject?
Well, guess what, Mr billings, many people — Christians and otherwise — believe you are a child-molesting, ignorant, sexist, secretly homosexual maniac in deep need of psychotherapy and medication. Many also believe that you should be shot, stabbed, hung, tied to a tree, set on fire and thrown off a cliff with jagged rocks at the bottom. So according to YOUR OWN WORDS, since this is a belief held by many other people, it is a true statement of fact, and you deserve to have all of these things done to you, because many people believe it should be done. Somehow, I do not think you will stand by and let that happen.
Do you eat Bacon, Mr. billings? How about Pork chops? Pork sausage, perhaps? Many cultures and faiths find Pigs to be unclean animals. And since many people believe this, it must be true. Have you ever eaten beef, my friend? Then according to those many people who hold the cow as a sacred animal, you have committed a terrible sin. Have you eaten the flesh of any animals at all? Many Vegetarians and Vegans would hold those actions to be one of the most abhorrent acts you could perform, the same as committing an act of murder.
And the people who let their houses smell horribly, become disgusting cesspools of filth and disease? They are just as mentally diseased as you are. I currently own five cats. Not one or two, Mr. Billings. FIVE. And my house has NO odor of felines at all. My house is never in shambles the way you would portray. I have been in houses with only one dog that have had far worse odors than a house with cats. I have been in homes with NO PETS AT ALL that have been far more disgusting and disease-producing than my home. It is all a matter of the STEWARDSHIP you choose to maintain over your companions. STEWARDSHIP, Mr Billings, meaning to take proper care of your animals, not let them live in unhealthy environments and that if they have a health problem, you take the appropriate action to get them medical attention before it spreads. If a child were to come to one of your “parties” infested with head lice, and having difficulty urinating due to a bladder infection, I would hope you would get this child medical attention, rather than just labeling them as “unclean spawn of Satan”.
And, before you even get the chance to call me a cat Hoarder, let me tell you something. I have been married for years now to a true hero, a US Army Soldier who is currently overseas fighting so that people like YOU can get on the internet and spew your ignorance out there for all the world to laugh at. I had none of these cats until AFTER I was married. ALL of my animals have been Spayed and Neutered, and have had shots to prevent them from contracting or spreading disease. I clean the litter box daily. There is NO smell. There is NO problem with inappropriate urination or defecation. There is NO issue of disease transference. I am even attaching a photo of my living room as it is RIGHT NOW.
If your God had found these “vile creatures” so objectionable, I dare to say he would not have placed them on the Ark with Noah. If ever there was an indication in the Bible of how much God loved cats, it would be there. If your God can love you, a person who condemns one of His creations, I daresay He could love a purring, fluffy cat.
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Megan, please calm yourself down before typing out your blather. I referenced the fact that other learned Christians have questioned the sanctity of felines because I wanted you to understand that I am not alone in this thinking. This is not some crazy theory I concocted in my basement, but a Biblical discussion based on medical research, moral teachings and generations of Christian theory.
I would not call you a cat hoarder, but I find it a little unbelievable that your home is as clean as you claim. Maybe you’ve just grown accustomed to the layer of cat fur covering every corner of your rooms. Maybe you’ve grown immune to the stench. But believe me, if I were to walk into your house I would know right away it is a cat house.
More importantly, the intense offense you have taken to my article makes me wonder how honorable your devotion to your cats is. Do you care for them more than your children? Do you spend more time with them than your husband? Do you worry about them more than your own soul? I suggest you take a long, hard look at yourself.
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Obviously. Billings, you did not bother to look at the pictures of my home. If you had you would see absolutely no evidence of filth. Also, Yes, I DO happen to spend more time with my cats than my husband right now, because as you FAILED to read, HE IS DEPLOYED and getting shot at, as you sit and type your rubbish about felines being “Da debbil”. Here’s the link again, since you seem to have overlooked it.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=131954270&albumId=1588686
And for your information, I would like for you to walk into my home and see if you could tell by smell alone it was a “cat home”. Many many MANY others have spent time in my home and been amazed when one of my kitties walked in. They usually say “You have cats? I couldn’t tell!”
You have had very unfortunate experiences with cats in your past, which I sincerely regret for you. But the problems of those cats were brought about by the PERSON that had them, that should have been caring for them but did not. If you were not so cripplingly terrified of these harmless animals, then you would be able to spend time with a cat that has been properly cared for, and learn that they are not as “evil” as you seem to think. A well cared for cat can be one of the most fulfilling and affectionate pets a person can share their life with. And I have heard absolutely no tales of Cats grabbing a baby by the head and running into the woods with them, killing the child. But I do think that this is what this comes down to. I feel you are afraid, Mr Billings.
As far as them being unsanitary, I still have to say that cats are cleaner than dogs. They make litter pans for dogs now too, Billings. And my cats prefer to be let out to use the bathroom unless it is storming. So your argument on this point is invalid.
I also found it amusing that the most you could say to my post was “Calm down before typing your blather” which is what your Mommy should have said to you before you posted this idiocy, and then question my devotion to my cats. Yes, I do like my cats immensely. But if I had to choose between my husband and my cats, I would choose my Husband. And I will not ever have children. It is not possible for my husband and I.
And as far as your comment “I referenced the fact that other learned Christians have questioned the sanctity of felines because I wanted you to understand that I am not alone in this thinking.” Well, I referenced other people’s opinions of you because I wanted you to understand that I am not alone in my love for my cats. Nor am I alone in my abhorrence of your opinion as well as your character. In fact, I’d have to say that you would be far far outnumbered if we were to draw a line and pick sides.
You are missing a huge portion of your life, a mass of experiences and joys, because you are afraid, and because you are ignorant. Before you claim you are not ignorant, Let me make clear that I refer to your ignorance of the well maintained and socialized cat. If you want to truly claim that your stance is correct, then I want to make you this challenge.
Find a nursing home, or other institution that makes use of a Therapy cat. Contact this person and request to be allowed to spend a half hour to an hour with this cat every day for a week. That’s only 3 and 1/2 to 7 hours of your righteous life. Find someone who has well maintained pets, and get invited to their home, spend just an hour or so there. And after these experiences, if you can still tell me that Cats are pure satanic evil, then so be it. If cats are truly so terrible, then you have no fear of being proven wrong. But I think you are too afraid of past experiences. Too scared to be proven wrong. Too frightened to move past a sad experience THIRTY years ago.
Want to prove me wrong? Accept my challenge. Otherwise prove to the world that your negativity to cats is all based on your personal fears, justified by passages twisted to suit your meaning.
If you try hard enough, you can make the bible say anything you want it to.
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You’re correct, I could not see your photos because I’m not a member of MySpace. I find these social sties full of perverts and sex addicts and I’d rather not join in with the orgy, thank you.
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Ah, I see, so you are also too terrified that your own morals cannot stand on their own against the onslaught of this “Orgy” long enough for you to create a profile long enough to view my photos?
Or are you afraid of being proven wrong?
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You cat people so quick to judge but what do you really know about Scripture? You claim to be an expert on so many things and then Stephenson has some great things and you just attack him as a person. Well thats not to moral in my book and bad tatse. You people have nothing better to do then attack the good reputation of a good man.
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Oh delightful hypocrisy. You personally attack me and call me a worshiper of Satan because I express doubt, and yet you’d judge others who do the same? I’d not fear the words of others as temptation, I’d fear your own pride and hubris.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
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I know that the Bible, although perhaps Divinely inspired, was still written by the Hand of Man. Therefore it is inherently flawed. Throughout all the various translations from one language to another, it has been edited and mistranslated, so that no matter what version you happen to be reading, it is still NOT the original Word of God. By your own faith, it is said that you will never hear the true word of god until you die, and then only if you have lived a good life and are allowed into His presence.
I do not claim to have much knowledge of God, my friend. Personally, I’ve never met Him. But my argument is that no matter how much scripture you read, that still does not give you the right to condemn one of His creations. I don’t feel that the caution to “not judge others” applies only to your fellow man, but to all creatures on this earth, which according to your own faith, were created and placed here by God. If you want a creation to attack, attack a creation of Man, such as Weapons and Bio-weapons, or if you must attack one of His creations, attack something that truly causes pain suffering and death: Mosquitoes, Hookworms, Tapeworms.
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http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=131954270&albumId=1588686
Go here for pictures of my apartment and pictures of one particular “Satanic animal” wreaking havoc in my life and leading me down to hell one purr at a time.
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“Anyway, you should all be ashamed of yourselves making fun of clowns the way you do.”
I have every right to make fun of something that scares me to death. Ever heard of John Wayne Gacey? I’m sure you have, considering your uncanny resemblance to him. The only good clown is a dead clown.
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I agree with Claire. I use to like clowns and then I saw ‘IT’ and you have a strong strong resemblance to ‘IT’. My mother, my brother and I ALL hate clowns,mimes anything of that sort.
Why should we be ashamed? where is there a written DOCTRINE/LAW that we have to fucking like clowns? Should I be ashamed that I am paranoid of the dark if I’m in a house with windows that don’t have blinds or curtains? Give me a break.
You SIR are a cross between Chucky and IT. STEPHEN STEPHEN STEPHEN STEPHEN-ha! ha! ha! You need help. You come on here and call people names and you’re on the NCIS article site calling the actors names and things they’re not and you keep quoting the FRIGGIN bible like you wrote the damn thing.
Who the heck did Jesus make fun of? Do you remember that he died for a stupid SOB like you? You are lower than pond scum and i’ve met some real douche bags in my life but you’re lower than they are. Oh, and please don’t come back throwing your bible thumping in my face because I don’t give a rats patootie what you think or feel. You are the half-wit, you are a homophobic and extremely anti-semetic(your comments on the NCIS article regarding the character of Ziva)…maybe you’re forgetting that Jesus was a Jew? You need to think before you speak and avoid any over-thinking when replying because you’re destroying about 10,000 brain cells every minute you open your mouth to say something pukish.
I don’t really care if my reply has to do with cats or not and I don’t see how someone like you holds a damn job when there are people with great people skills and HARD EARNED education that are struggling everyday. Must be nice to be paid for writing slander on a show you never watch and a pet you don’t actually own(living in a house with cats doesn’t mean didley if you weren’t the actual owner). Cats are wonderful animals and I’ve had my first cat ever(had dogs my entire life) for almost 4 yrs. I adopted him-I suppose that’s wrong to rescue a kitten right? Oh, and he’s clean too. I have two litter boxes for him-one in my room and one in the bathroom and he had one accident when he was younger(but not his fault). Cat’s don’t like if their ‘bathroom’ is near food or so I’ve read….I live in a small apartment and do the best i can with him. He also spends time at my mom’s house if I have to pet sit for someone or whatever and she’s learned to love him (never was really a cat person) and he also loves my mom’s dog who’s a 80+lb golden retriever and they get along wonderfully.
You are just a horrible and extremely mean person and I think I speak for pretty much everyone but ADAM (let me know if I’m wrong everyone) when I say we don’t like you and we would never hire you to be around our children or children that we know. I know my 6 yr old niece would kick you in the COJONES with ease if you ever laid a finger on her. So, please go seek the help that you need and make sure you register as sex offender.
BYE STEPHENSON (what a moronic name).
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3:45 pm
John Wayne Gacy was one little blip on the illustrious tradition of clowning. Don’t let his terrible mistakes sour you on the whole profession. Plus, I hear he was terrible at balloon animals.
STEPHENSONisaPEDAPHILE: I feel sorry for you. Your reply was full of unfounded rage and sexual confusion. It’s your little cry for help. You need some attention. I am sorry your parent aren’t involved in your life enough to help you. Someone needs to be. Do you have a local church? I think you want a pastor in your life. Sunday can be such a wonderful day to connect with the faithful in your community, to sing Psalms and listen to good, old fashioned Bible teaching. Please try it out for me. it just may open your eyes to the goodness available in your soul.
With my profound love,
Stephenson
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Excuse me? What now you have a crystal fucking ball? I see my parents all the time and they are very much a part of my life. I don’t need relgious non-sense in my life…I don’t believe in organized religion I do however believe in GOD. I am Christian however I do not practice the religion in which i was brought up because I do not believe in the teachings and find them to be not true. You have NO right to tell me what I need in my life. I am not the sexual predator.
I am sorry your parent aren’t involved in your life enough to help you. I have 2 parents…..so that would be PLURAL-meaning more than one. How the FUCK do you know if my parents are involved in my life or not?
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10:22 pm
Please watch your language.
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No, I won’t watch my language shit head. You don’t own me, you are not my father (THANK GOD for that because I would have killed myself ending up with someone like you as a father) and you have no right to tell me what to do. You will not speak for me.
You’re a sick sick man-may God forgive your sins and what you’ve done with your life.
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I’m going to do my best to be reasonable, and avoid any unnecessary personal attacks, though I will admit that I find myself taken aback by the content of your article.
“Unlike dogs, cats do not have ancestral roots in any kind of work or service.”
Actually, Mr. Billings, this is quite inaccurate. Domesticated Felines were often prized for their tenacity in hunting and killing various vermin harmful to agriculture. This where many anthropologist believe that the Egyptian tradition of cat worship came from. Felines (successfully) hunted venomous creatures such as snakes and cobras which humans would not be able to dispose of safely.
Additionally, your queer fixation with dogs is rather troubling, considering canines pose a sizable risk to infants and toddlers given their occasionally violent and territorial behavior. While many domesticated dogs are trained to avoid such behavior, many cats are similarly trained to avoid creating the aforementioned ‘hidden urination spots’.
Furthermore, your theory that God finds cats immoral or evil creatures is grounded solely in conjecture. “The Egyptians worshiped cats, and look what happened to them!” is not a reasonable piece of evidence. More reasonable would be the Egyptians practices of /slavery/, as well as the freedom of sexual expression their culture is characterized by. Such sexual freedom is often cited as unholy and profane in the religious text you yourself claim to have studied extensively.
I’d like to conclude this rather brief comment by addressing a remark you made to a previous commenter. “You have to wake up to the fact that you people are a minority in America. The rest of us have a moral foundation and want to see this country on the right, righteous track again.”
Recent elections indicate otherwise, Mr. Billings. Given that the United States of America is a republic, you and your fellow ‘morally inspired Americans’ should have been able to elect the conservative candidates you imply best enforce your faith. If you truly are the majority, the only explaination for the Democratic majority in America’s Congress, as well as President Obama’s election is that you and your peers neglected to vote, a rather foolish decision if it is true. Additionally, given that America’s Constitution defends the practices of Free Speech and Seperation of Church and State that you seem loath to embrace personally, perhaps your country is the the shining paragon of Christianity you believed it to be?
That is all I can comment on, to be honest I find your article and affront to reason, and your use of cherry picked “evidence” supported by conjecture and opinion is disturbing. Lastly, I’d like to say that living in a house with two cats does not make you an expert on feline behavior, no more than me reading this article makes me an expert on you and your peers, Mr. Billings.
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Yes, we are a Republic. We are the greatest Republican nation on Earth, or any nation for that matter.
It still does not change the fact that Barack Hussein Obama used reverse racism to steal votes from McCain. He used sexism to make Sarah Palin look inferior to him, based on her gender. His campaign dared called the brilliant former Alaskan governor a ‘pit bull with lipstick’.
Barack Obama used ageism on McCain and it’s questionable how ACORN was known to cheat, game votes as well in several key voting regions. You know as well as I do that Obama’s people committed fraud, both technically and morally.
They committed technical fraud by forcing non-informed people to vote as well as altering chads and obstructing voting locations. They morally cheated by using ageism, sexism and reverse racism against the right president’s, noble Arizona Senator John McCain (R.), campaign to continue the road to peace, security and freedom — not just for us, but our friends across the world — as started by President George W. Bush.
Obama has taken us off that road and has us on the fast track to oppressive socialism and third world status.
I guess at least he had the decency to buy his daughters a proper pet.
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“He used sexism to make Sarah Palin look inferior to him, based on her gender.”
You have no right to talk about sexism. On numerous occasions, you have proven that you regard women as inferior to men, less important than men, and as baby-machines. You have stated that you think women belong in the home, that women should be subjugated by men and should be silent. You even accused me of plagiarism simply because of my gender, yet you failed to provide any evidence of your accusations. You think that women shouldn’t be allowed to drive, you think that we cannot grasp complex concepts. You think that women are better suited as secretaries than as bosses, and as nurses instead of doctors. Need I go on?
You don’t deserve to breath the oxygen of this earth; I would be more than happy to put a bullet between your eyes.
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What a wonderful response, Adam! This poor girl is clearly too deep in the liberal conspiracy theory world to see any reason. Well Dinlek, I feel sorry for you. Medical proof is not enough for you, eh? What will convince you? The cat scratches on my face thirty years ago? Did you want blood? I find your opinions and demands offensive and outrageous. You don’t know much about the wondrous Christian backbone of America.
And just because cats like to feast on rats doesn’t make them domesticated or helpful. When dog’s scare off intruders and wolves, when they retrieve ducks (or even a beer from the fridge!) , it’s not done for them, but for their human masters. They’re not feeding on these things they capture. That meat doesn’t satisfy their hunger. So the difference between cat habits and dog training is immense. I don’t buy you shallow arguments for a second.
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Mr. Billings, I did nothing to debate your so called “medical proof”, I debated your slanderous description of feline’s role in history.
Furthermore, your idea that cats feed upon the prey they capture is not entirely accurate. There are multiple reports of cats slaying creatures such as birds, rats and other pests, and displaying them to their owners as a way of a “gift”. Whilst it may be misguided (most people do not enjoy the carcasses of dead carrion) the message is clear; it’s a presentation of respect.
All the tasks you cited dogs performing are not natural behaviors, they are trained. If you breed a dog and release it into the wild, it will not respond to a masters command. It sounds as though were the victim of a poorly trained feline. That is not the failing of the cats, or their nature; it is the failing of men and women who raised and trained the cats.
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“And just because cats like to feast on rats doesn’t make them domesticated or helpful.”
Cats are very much domesticated. There’s a video on YouTube of a stray kitten in India who was taken in by a kind tourist and brought to his hotel room. The adorable little kitten then cries for food and jumps up on the tourist while some food is being prepared for her. One commenter said that it just goes to show how domesticated animals are becoming; they instantly know to come to humans for food and are not afraid of us. The video is freakin adorable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC4eEuURH8c
“When dog’s scare off intruders and wolves, when they retrieve ducks (or even a beer from the fridge!) , it’s not done for them, but for their human masters. They’re not feeding on these things they capture. That meat doesn’t satisfy their hunger. So the difference between cat habits and dog training is immense.”
Do you have any idea how you train dogs to do those “selfless” acts? It’s called positive reinforcement. Bringing beer from fridge = treat = will do it again. Anyone who has their dog fetch them a beer from the fridge and not give the dog a reward is being cruel.
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You are just plain absurd. The day a cat can bring me a beer from the fridge I will forgive all the cat pee on my sweaters.
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On that note, I’d like to see a 3 pound chihuahua bring you a can of beer from the fridge or retrieve you a duck.
Or does your hatred spill over into animals that only happen to be the size of cats?
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That video made my day.
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Billings, if you need a dog to fetch you a beer from the fridge then you have a huge problem. It’s called laziness.
If you can’t train a cat to use the litter box, then you have another huge problem, because a cat, after it is put in the litter box for a minute or two, will instantly know how to use it.
Cats are clean, they clean themself many times a day (my cat cleans herself pretty much from 5 to 10 times a day), never stinks, doesn’t need baths even if she doesn’t disdain them, eats her own food, never begs for ours, has her own place to sleep in and never urinates on anything beside her litterbox. She’s more educated than many humans I know.
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I just played that video of the little kitten meowing and both of my adult male cats came running out all concerned. I have to agree with all of the people speaking of cats in a positive fashion. I’ve had cats throughout my life. I’ve never gotten sick from being around them and they do not smell. When I’m sad, my kitties know it and they come and snuggle up to me, even pawing softly at me in concern. They loved my dog (whom I just recently lost to cancer). They snuggled and slept with him and shared food with him. I do not worship my cats, but I do love them. My cats come when they’re called, they leave things alone when they are told to and they use their litter box avidly. Cats are regal creatures. I’ve met a lot more evil people by far than I have cats, in fact, I don’t think I have ever met an evil cat. I’ve met happy, well adjusted cats and I’ve met frightened cats. Evil exists in this world, but it is in human form. The news isn’t filled with reports on evil things that cats have done, it’s filled with evil performed by humans on other humans and on other creatures of the earth. Cats are simply cats, they put up no falsehoods.
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“Arizona Senator John McCain (R.), campaign to continue the road to peace, security and freedom — not just for us, but our friends across the world — as started by President George W. Bush.”
The United States of America does not fight for peace and security across the globe, it fights for peace and security for it’s citizens. Such can be seen in the situation in Iraq in the recent decades. America was responsible for freely providing arms to Sadam Hussein in the hopes that he’d succeed in his war against Iran. As a result of providing those arms, tens of thousands of innocent civilians were killed. Furthermore, America’s intervention in Iraq has done nothing to provide peace or security for the region. Saddam Hussein, though a bastard, did a far better job of maintaining order between rival religious factions. The “Greatest Republic on Earth” decided that a far better system would be to try to overthrow a theorcracy in a nation who’s culture is FOUNDED upon such systems.
The United States policies are self serving. Is it shameful to protect your own citizens? No. Were the methods used efficient, or prudent? Debatable. But don’t attempt to sugar coat the issue, the United States has done no good for the people of Iraq.
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11:50 pm
“You are just plain absurd. The day a cat can bring me a beer from the fridge I will forgive all the cat pee on my sweaters.”
Nowhere did I imply that a cat would bring someone a beer.
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First you write a hateful article about NCIS and now cats. Don’t you have something better to do with your life?
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I hate dogs, they can go die but cats are wonderful!
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I agree with your assessment of cats. I own one, but he stays in the garage or out in the yard. He follows me around a bit like a dog when I go outside. I pet him when he’s at his food bowl, but beyond adding more food and water, there isn’t much maintenance.
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So then why do you own a cat in the first place? Do you live on a farm and need the rodent control? Or do you just like keeping something in a garage so you can say “I own one”?
My father just moved onto a large farmland, and he and his wife found 2 feral cats living on the property. He is going to look after them, as a proper Christian would, provide hay bales for them to sleep in for the winter and food when it is scarce (they will not be coming in the house, they are feral cats, after all) so they will stick around and perform rodent duty. Cats DO have a purpose. I’d like to see a dog catch a mouse. Dogs aren’t nearly as good at being mousers as cats are.
Disprove that.
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What a wonderfully delicious piece of satire. Totally A Grade. 1000+ internets to you Mr Billings, I have never seen a person able to troll such a ridiculous idea so convincingly.
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2:01 am
Stephenson,
While you offer advice to many, calling them your “child” or “son”, you fail to realize the damage you are placing on today’s society, especially its youth. The Bible has become not so much a holy book today, but rather a instrument used to manipulate society. By taking it way out of its denotation, one can influence society by labling them as ‘sinners’. This label is unwanted, and therefore one attempts to remove it from ones self, through more ‘pure’ elements. This tactic is very evident in your articles, especially ones dealing with youth, or sexual orientations. Isn’t the Christian faith concerned with uniting people rather than banishng them? I’m not here to argue with you, as somehow you will find a way to create the alllusive image of your supreme being. Billings, you are not God, Jesus, or anyone ‘holy’. You are not a political leader, or a father. You are a common man, in this context an writer of a conservative “Christian webpage”.
I await your enlightenment. I await you to break free from the bonds your arrogance restricts you to.
Personally I am an Atheist, beleiver in no faith. I have made this decision based on the fact religion is the root of many wars. It can’t be denied that this counrty was founded to escape religious persecution! It’s in our 1st Amendment, “Father Billings”. I beleive Jesus once walked, and his teachings are incredible, and noteworthy in ANY lifestyle. However only if they remain unaltered and in original context.
Billings, while you may state, and sadly beleive your “children” and “good friends” are wrongdoers and immature, perhaps your illusive self image is the prop at fault.
“Holy father Billings”: I don’t expect to see your reply, as you disreguard posts of significant content.
Billings, If the good die young, when can we plan on seeing you croak?
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At first, I wanted to congratulate the author for an excellent satire… Then I read the comments.
So I did a little rapid Bible-digging (because merely saying “wow, this is funny” just isn’t as amusing) and came up with some nice results. Firstly, the author is correct in saying that cats are not mentioned in any benevolent way. Nor does it say that anyone had owned a cat. In fact, according to some superficial searches in online concordances, cats are not mentioned at all.not once. Not ever. Not by any word. Neither in the Hebrew nor the Greek.
Oops.
Not even in the context of Egypt and Egypt’s gods are cats a factor. Sheep get a nice cameo featuring as the deity of Egypt and (on the opposite end) a Passover sacrifice. Calves get a tarnished reputation forever as part of an idolatry ritual…. but no cats. If you want to pick an animal to pick upon with good bibleic basis(not that I would advise it) try cows, snakes or people.
Dogs, on the other hand, are mentioned, and how:
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Result of search for “dog”:
3611 keleb keh’-leb from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute:–dog.
5024 nabach naw-bakh’ a primitive root; to bark (as a dog):–bark.[/quote]
Doesn’t seem too favourable, does it?
Not to mention that, as far as I recall (and my recall ability with the Bible is pretty good, considering the sheer number of times I read through it) dogs are never mentioned as “man’s best friend” or “useful hunting animals”. No, the dog’s only job seems to involve licking the blood of smitten evildoers and non-Davidian kings. I have to concur that that puts them as a sort of instrument of god’s judgment, but not, in my eyes, particularly beneficial as a pet.
As for this:
“After all that work building the pharoah’s temples to cats, why would they then go to Israel and keep these creatures in their sunny homes?”
Well… they would do so for the same reasons why I keep cats in my sunny home. These reasons are known as the common Israeli viper, the common Israeli scorpion (black and yellow), the common Israeli spider, not to mention the common Israeli lizard and the common Israeli freakin’ cockroach.
On the whole, Judaism isn’t too keen on pets in general, be they cats or dogs. That’s because these are treif (non-kosher) animals. As well as because they tended to have (and still tend to have) many children, leaving very little room for pets, monetarily and spatially. You would have more cause, and come across as much more Bibleic, if you’d come out against pets in general. But you do claim pets are wholesome and healthy. Not a very old-style Bibleic thing to say.
I’m not even going into the medical evidence you presented, or into emotional waxing, but, honestly…
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Nowhere in that article do you properly compare dogs to cats, I understand that your article was designed to put people off having a pet cat, but you do not mention that dog poo is one of the most horrible substances in the world, whereas cats will, if properly trained (you can do that you know) will never excrete anywhere except in a litter tray or outside.
You also neglect to mention that cats were often kept to keep down vermin, a dog required a lot of care and needed to be deliberately set on an animal, but a cat kept around a farm, or ship, or simply a house, would keep rats and mice and other such vermin at bay. That is the capacity in which cats were domesticated. As for ancient Egyptians worshipping cats, that was mostly at least 335 years BC, so could hardly be put as a parallel to any threat to Christianity.
As for the Can Has Cheeseburger site, or however you spell it, it is a website entirely created to be humourous and silly. Not to be taken seriously at all. It is a number of people telling visual jokes exploiting comical pictures of cats with a funny caption. If you look for even a very short while, you will see people make similar pictures with both dogs, rabbits, hamsters… in fact almost any animal in the animal kingdom.
I do not believe in swearing and have always enjoyed a reasoned debate, so will stand in cat corner in their defense.
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“I don’t trust people who don’t like cats. You disrespect independence, lack subtlety, and are devoid of poetic sensibility.”… Dr. Steve Best
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You obviously know nothing about cats. Please refrain from spewing idiocy about something you know nothing about.
Cats don’t eat feces out of litter boxes. Dogs do. Remember that the next time your furry pooch licks your face.
A few quotes from Mark Twain:
Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
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3:49 pm
GET HELP.
you’re a hater. and certainly not a christian.
GET HELP.
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1:09 am
Your opinions are only that.
All animals carry diseases.
Including us.
I am married, have a child and three cats.
They teach my daughter not to take animals for granted, that good treatment recieves good reactions and bad treatment bad reactions.
They keep our house pest free – we have had several mice plagues here in Melbourne that simply didn’t bother our family.
Yes, they cause allergies, but so do strawberries. And in my case, evil wheat and wicked dairy, naughty fish and the greatest of all sinners…the malicious nut.
I do not worship my cats. I do adore them, the same as my friends adore their dogs or lizards. We are all part of this world and total baloney to your theory that we are set above animals, a man with a superiority complex wrote that part of the bible, not your god, who has yet to come here and physically put pen to paper.
I am SO glad I do not live in America, where the massive population allows nutters like you to slip through the mental health system.
And yes, this part is a personal attack, because your attitude of biblical justification and lack of responsibility towards living in this world as a harmonious part of it (You seem to prefer extermination instead of working together) offends me greatly.
May your future involve travel and education that will allow you to learn more about the world we live in and open your mind to views other than those you so “black and white”-ly have adopted.
My 3 Pussums shed in your general direction.
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8:16 pm
Since Billings mentions toxoplasmosis in this “article” I figured I’d re-type the powerpoint document that my teacher handed out to us in Parasitology yesterday. Hopefully it will clear up any misconceptions anyone has about toxoplasmosis.
Tracy Blais
Parasitology
Protozoans
Subphylum: Apicomplexa (Sporozoa)
1. Coccidians
Toxoplasma gondii
2. Hemosporidians
According to the CDC…
“Toxoplasmosis is considered to be the third leading cause of death attributed to food borne illness in the United States. More than 60 million men, women, and children in the U.S. carry the Toxoplasma parasite, but very few have symptoms because the immune system usually keeps the parasite from causing illness.”
Toxoplasma gondii
-Intracellular protozoan parasite
-1st recognized in 1908 in rodents
-1st feline case in 1942
-Life cycle defined in 1970
-Definitive host: cats ONLY
Cats are the ONLY known animal to excrete oocysts
-Other hosts: most warm blooded animals
Cats:
-Infected transplacentally or by ingestion of any of the infective stages (oocysts or tissue cysts)
Toxoplasma gondii Life Cycle:
Ingestion of paratenic host containing bradyzoite tissue cysts by the definitive host, cats:
-Bradyzoites (slowly dividing tissue stage are freed from paratenic into host (cat) tissue
-Penetrate epithelial cells of cat’s intestine
Enteroepithelial Cycle (ONLY in cats)
-Schizogony: 5 stages (generations) of asexual reproduction…
-Next gametes are formed during the sexual phase of Gametogony
-Results in production of unsporulated oocysts which are passed out of cat w/ feces
-Next Sporogony occurs in the environment ending with sporulated oocysts in as early as 24 hours (1-5 days)
-Infective oocysts can survive in the environment for several months
PREGNANT WOMEN ARE SAFE IF LESS THAN 24 HOURS HAVE PASSED FROM THE TIME OF ELIMINATION TO THE TIME OF LITTERBOX CLEANING, AS THE OOCYSTS ARE NOT SPORULATING YET
Shedding of oocysts ends within 1-3 weeks
SHEDDING DOES NOT USUALLY REOCCUR IN ADULT CATS; CATS CAN BE INFECTED AGAIN, BUT WILL ONLY SHED OOCYSTS ONCE
Life Cycle (continued):
Ingestion of oocysts or tissue cysts by paratenic hosts (by cats or by other hosts including people):
Extraintestinal Cycle:
-Ingestion of sporulated oocysts or tissue cysts
-Enter & invade intestinal epithelial cells becoming tachyzoites which rapidly disseminate via blood & lymph throughout the body
-Capable of crossing placenta
-Once an immune response is launched, the tachyzoites become bradyzoites & encyst in the tissues
-Next, assuming the immune system is normal, they form tissue cysts containing bradyzoites & once infected, the host stays infected for life
-Can be found anywhere but most commonly CNS, heart, retina, skeletal muscles & visceral organs
-These bradyzoites can only be reactivated causing clinical disease in people with immunosuppression, pregnancy (although human fetuses are safe from reactivated T. gondii), long term steroid use, neoplasia, or chemotherapy
-Extraintestinal toxoplasmosis can lead to clinical disease in any mammal including people due to the tachyzoite replication in the infected tissue
-Can be acute or chronic
-Clinical syndromes associated with toxo infected cats depend on immune system status and which part of the body is infected with tachyzoites
-Signs can include uveitis, fever, muscle hyperesthesia, lymphadenopathy, vomiting, cough, pneumonia, weakness, wt loss, anorexia, seizures, ataxia, icterus, hepatitis, and pancreatitis
Transplacentally Infected Kittens:
-Develop most severe form of toxoplasmosis
-Stillbirth or miscarriage is common
-If born, generally die of hepatic or pulmonary disease
-Kittens will shed oocysts at about 3 weeks of age for 1-3 weeks
Toxoplasmosis Infection
-Zoo animals are at particular risk of toxoplasmosis due to exposure from feral cats
-Infected organs are usually the brain, lung, and heart
-Death can occur rapidly, within 3-4 weeks
-Spontaneous abortions or still births may occur in infected pregnant animals
Incidence of Toxoplasmosis
-30-55% of cats and people are seropositive for toxoplasmosis
-However, only 15% of women of childbearing age are seropositive for toxo
-This means 85% of women of childbearing age are at risk of developing congenital toxoplas