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  • Re: World Rat Day

    From aye@user8028@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.philosophy.taoism on Sat Apr 4 10:13:44 2026
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    David posted:

    ... along the Conception Bay Highway, a large rat raced Olympic fashion rapidly to the edge of the road and made a flying leap to hit our car. We backed up to find it was dead and I dragged it off the road, and later thought that it had committed self-sacrifice and would be reincarnated
    in higher form after hitting the `car of ma.rCO rCL

    I was driving on an off ramp
    after going along the coasting line
    to visit my mom one time when a rabbit
    came shooting out of no where with no guns
    a blazing and smashed into the car.

    No idea what year it was.
    Arriving in mind is when deer
    or bugs like a butterfly or an other
    insect hits the windshield what that means.

    Prior, ontologically speaking, to there
    being meaning or no meaning may be a way,
    a dao as it were from which duality emerges.

    Before even non-duality more or less
    than unity and for me, it helps
    to explain a type of sense.

    Could be nonsense.

    - thanks! aye. Cheers!
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  • From aye@user8028@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.philosophy.taoism,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Sun Apr 5 12:09:32 2026
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    Dude posted:

    Finally, something interesting to debate! Thanks David. Good work.

    Purpose: The World Rat Day focuses on educating the public that rats are clean, smart, and endearing companions, not just pests.

    As a kid, I got what was thought
    to be a white mouse that grew up
    with a bit of a long tail and may
    have been a rat which I set loose.

    Can't recall what was on a mind then,
    if it was an idea about how to cage
    any form of life would be less than.

    As pets, people often keep them
    along with birds in different cages,
    fish, in tanks, horses with bits placed
    inside their mouths and ride on their backs.

    And, those who do might not have any type
    of thought about how those beings feel
    about being trapped, or set free.

    A fire horse sounds Way cool.
    Like a phoenix, or rocking horse.

    So, I did not know this, being so absorbed in living in the Year of the Horse, specifically the "Fire Horse," which starts on February 17, 2026,
    and runs until February 5, 2027.

    Apparently, Rat Day is celebrated annually on April 4th to honor rats as intelligent, social, and affectionate pets, aiming to dispel negative stigmas.

    Aye, didn't know t'hat either.
    Seams to have bin stitched in 2002.

    A google-bot said in its response:
    Rats don't, just carry disease.

    It could have gone on to say they
    may very well chew on wires inside
    your motorized vehicle, or house and
    could even accidently induce fire.

    They don't multiply, like rabbits,
    neigh, like horses as they laugh
    at silly people in their own Way.

    - thanks! aye. Cheers!
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