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Pets and Our Devotion
00:03:43
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| Not nice. | |
| And so, it's the same thing with the ducks, right? | |
| The ducks were our pets, right? | |
| We have had dozens of ducks, and we've taken them from, you know, ducklings all the way to flying around. | |
| And if the ducks would be limping, oh, I have this, and I think it's common, right? | |
| And it's a bit of a white thing, right? | |
| That this is the real care for animals and so on. | |
| So pets, we bond with them very deeply and powerfully because they're essential for our survival. | |
| Like, we could not survive without pets. | |
| At least, not very well. | |
| I mean, you need cats, you need dogs, your livestock is essential, and you have to have that attachment and that connection to your pets. | |
| So, please understand, you're programmed that way. | |
| And that's not to say don't feel it, right? | |
| that's fine. | |
| That doesn't mean I can't enjoy a meal. | |
| But please understand, you're programmed that way. | |
| You're programmed to have devotion to your pets. | |
| Because if you have devotion to your pets, your pets will have loyalty to you and will be much more likely to protect you, to help you. | |
| You needed dogs for protection and warning. | |
| Herding sheep and so on, right? | |
| So we have a very strong attachment. | |
| And listen, the intellectual understanding of this, I don't mean this to diminish the passion and connection that you have with your pets. | |
| I don't mean that at all. | |
| At all. | |
| Like, enjoy it. | |
| Relish it. | |
| My daughter and I, was it yesterday? | |
| My God, the days are blurring. | |
| I have to ask my wife. | |
| The days are blurring. | |
| Yes, yesterday we go, we went to a shelter. | |
| You know, I give my donation and we go in and we play with the cats. | |
| And she loves cats. | |
| Loves cats. | |
| And they're great. | |
| They're wonderful, wonderful creatures. | |
| And we, you know, blood pressure goes down when you pet cats. | |
| And they just love dogs. | |
| They're wonderful. | |
| And, you know, to have something so excited when you come home is beautiful. | |
| And so to love your cat? | |
| Beautiful. | |
| Beautiful. | |
| But, you know, would you feel the same about an armadillo? | |
| Probably not, right? | |
| So, I mean, you have this connection to these creatures. | |
| I mean, what was it? | |
| I saw a video of somebody in Thailand flicking a cockroach off somebody's head. | |
| It turns out the cockroach was his pet or something like that. | |
| Like there are people who have pets that are completely incomprehensible to me. | |
| Every now and then there's some lunatic in Florida who has a freaking alligator in the bathtub or something, or people have... | |
| He always played some creepy guy, right? | |
| The comedian? | |
| And he was playing a creepy roommate who would feed dead rats to a snake. | |
| The fact that people have these pets, it's weird to me. | |
| It's weird to me when it evolved to have snakes as pets, at least not in Europe. | |
| So there's nothing wrong with your attachment and your affection and your... | |
| It's programmed in by our ancestors. | |
| In other words, those with greater affections. | |
| I mean, it's, again, Aristotelian mean, right? | |
| So those with no affection for their pets did not gain the protection and loyalty and survival bonus of having pets. | |
| Those who had too much attachment to their pets ended up not getting married and become the eponymous cat ladies, right? | |
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Symbiosis And Affection
00:00:51
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| Like I was talking to this woman at the cat shelter and she said, oh yeah, sometimes we'll come across. | |
| Crazy old women who've got like 100 cats. | |
| And then we've got a huge problem, right? | |
| Because where do you put them, right? | |
| So think of it as... | |
| It's kind of like a codependence or symbiosis or... | |
| I'm having a brain fight. | |
| I think it's symbiosis. | |
| Oh, embarrassing. | |
| Every now and then. | |
| That may but does not necessarily benefit each other. | |
| Symbiotic relationships, mutual benefit to mutual harm. | |
| Okay, but what is the one, I should know this, what is the one that is mutually beneficial, right? | |