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Question:Like a predator or prey then ?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Like a predator or prey then ?

"Animal" as a predicate of Human has always been a topic of Philosophy. So has "Animal" as that which is not inanimate (such as gas, rocks, etc.)

But as a predicate of Human, I feel neither predator nor prey in my animalism.

As Curtis Edward Clark said, "I revel in my animalism. It gives me my senses, which give me my perceptions, which are processed by my animal brain into concepts, upon which my animal mind can reason upon and then my animal body can act on."

I feel like a chicken, a chicken in black.

Predator and prey, depending on what is happening.

I am an animal, a very pampered, sweet cat.

Some days, a flea. (predator- who is next to be bitten?)
Some days, a dog getting kicked around-(prey- life can be cruel sob)
Some days, a spider on the wall just watching (predator)
Some days, a human animal stretching and then curling back to sleep. (pretending to be a predator cat)

Sorry to tell the fact about all of us based on the Great classification made by the great saint of Tamil; Tholkappiyar in his Tholkappiyam (Thol means very very old & kappiyam means poems ). Tamil is the only oldest living longuage in the world .It was written before 1000 BC.

He classified all livingbeings in to six based sensing organ & consiscious development namely plants, shels & earth worms; mosquito type living beings ( without ears & eyes ); reptiles (with out ears) and other all animals with all five snsing organs. The human beings are clasified in to two groups based on their conscious development.consciously undeveloped mind people are included in the animal group only. As per his classification almost all people are animals only. persons with peace full mind only humannbeings.

We are all in essence animals. I see myself as neither prey nor predator, I don't hunt or attack others and at the same time, I don't let others do that to me.

Like a rat in a cage.