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defacto7

(13,609 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:32 AM Mar 2019

My dog threw up on the floor today.

After which he went back and ate it which seems disgusting to me personally. But then I realized that his condition imparted a deep philosophical lesson. The holy bible says, "As the dog returns to his own vomit, so does the fool to his own folly." I think that's Ecclesiastes or maybe it's Proverbs I don't know. But then I realized something even more disgusting. My dog may not only be an evangelical but he may be a Republican as well.

OMG

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RockRaven

(16,261 posts)
1. Evangelicals and Republicans don't read, remember, or live by the Bible... so you're doggo is okay.
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:40 AM
Mar 2019

Unless you are wrong about that being in the Bible... if it is not, then you might have a dangerous dog on your hands.

defacto7

(13,609 posts)
2. Oh that's right. Illiteracy among the rw is quite high.
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:51 AM
Mar 2019

He must be safe then. I just wish he'd find something better to read.

3catwoman3

(25,432 posts)
3. Hey, at least it was the floor.
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 01:30 AM
Mar 2019

Our cats always head for the carpet - especially our single Oriental rug.

defacto7

(13,609 posts)
8. Well he's pretty indiscriminate actually.
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 05:00 PM
Mar 2019

This time he at least went toward the door rather than the carpet. But it doesn't happen too often.

Voltaire2

(14,701 posts)
4. Revulsion or disgust may be one of the few uniquely human
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 03:05 AM
Mar 2019

emotions.

It is interesting sort of, that it is mainly when vomit is fully externalized that eating it is taboo.

defacto7

(13,609 posts)
7. It's like spitting in a glass of water then trying to drink it.
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 04:54 PM
Mar 2019

I'd imagin it's an evolutionary response humans have picked up. If your body expels it there's a reason. Humans that re-ingested something the body rejected may not have survived as well as those who learned to fear it thus creating a natural revulsion to anything excretory.

And then there are the right wingers who keep returning to their own brain vomit. I definitely have a natural revulsion to their repetitive unhealthy mental state. Maybe they will devolve out of existance.

ROB-ROX

(767 posts)
6. THIS MAKES SENSE
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 10:10 AM
Mar 2019

Daily the republicans VOMIT on their DRONES and the idiots love to eat their PROPAGANDA. I got it correct without having to regurgitate in my mind thinking about DRONES eating SHITTY ideas.......

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