Human Emotion and People in Groups
Feb 18th, 2010 by MrCult
My velociraptor is finished! Isn’t it weird the way people act in groups? They all get emotional, feeling the same things, and it all just gets exaggerated… It really is like sheep. You put them together and you can drive them wherever you want, whereas one sheep on its own can be a tad less predictable. Religion has an obsession with sheep, I guess it helps them brainwash people. Jesus herds sheep, and it seems Christians don’t know or care that they’re being messed with. I went to a Catholic girls school for 13 years, went to a few retreats. On one we got given letters from our parents who were writing to say how much they love us. I thought what my parents wrote was funny, and I already know and assume my parents love me even though the concept of love is so bizarre and alien… But whilst I was laughing away, everyone else was crying. WTF. I wonder if my teachers thought I was heartless? Nah, they all thought I was perfect at school. The fools :p Well this is all stuff I was thinking about on the bus to work this morning. Random but meh.
I just noticed this video is over a year old, so ignore my rambling if you want. I ran out or characters on the last message but I wanted to say that life really isn’t so deep. Religion, or lack of, isn’t worth obsessing over for even a minute. Live clean and do what’s right and you will be fine.
I had the same lack of understanding of what parents words really meant. It all sounded like “blah blah” to me too. Keep the notes your parents wrote about you & read them in 20 years. Then you’ll know it’s not just “blah blah” & you will see you have the ability to have deep emotions. Have some tissue ready cuz when you finally allow yourself to feel, it’s going to hit hard. Anyway, I found you cuz I was looking at guinea pig videos. Then I noticed your depression vids. I can relate. Rock on.
Well – of course interpreting the smells and sights from a large area needs brain too. So not much room for “intelligence”.
The tyrannosaurus brain could have been for decoration. There’s evidence of a similar phenomenon today – many humans seem only to have ornamental squishiness within their skulls…
I don’t think intelligence would be why t-rex replaced a lot of carnivores. It had a powerful bite, fantastic smell, and great vision (as far as we know). Perhaps it was just physically better at killing? Mmm… Killing…
But assuming t-rex was not wery social and had small “dinosphere” if any. What it used it’s brain for? Not for hand movements certainly. So maybe it did have ability to “think ahead”. And when you got 15 tons of mass you really cannot afford to run around on raw instinct. And of course hunting really dangerous cretacean herbivores might require “cunning” – even for a t-rex. When you got 15 tons of mass and only 2 legs you really don’t want to break a leg…
Well it’s the common idea that t-rex was just a brute – but I think it’s more based on appereance than scientific facts. I mean if it’s true that t-rexes replaced all other mid to large sized carnivores and that they evolved from earlier carnivorous dinosaurs it does not make sense that they’d have gotten much dumber. Relative brain size might be smaller than that of raptors. But google “monkeysphere” – they don’t talk about relative to body size brain size there – I think. So “dinospheres”??
As I got it vraptors were already extinct when T-rexes appeared. Raptors were around in jurassic period and t-rexes in cretaceous if I remember it right..
There has been some speculation about how well raptors could communicate. Also, their hands weren’t as good as ours, but pretty decent…
T-rex however, was just a brute.
Bjork is a singer/songwriter from Iceland. Yeah – she’s quite interesting persona..
Good humour value though…
Eh? Don’t raptors count as being in the middle?
Both…
I wasn’t referring to the spelling. I just love what it’s trying to say. Hehe.
Is misspelled because English is not my natural lenguage, I’m from Mexico and here we speak Spanish so thats why most of what a write is wrong. I’s good to know that you are used to read misspelled stuff.
Bjork as in who? or as in why?
And heck if t-rexes had a language of some sort. They might have had capability for abstract though. They could have actually negotiated over territories. Discussed about which prey animals should be hunted and which ones preserved – even herded. Ie they could have been “people”. But they had no hands so they could not build anything – so we cannot know. And WTF is a whale that gets stranded “thinking”. Is it a suicide or is the whale driven by curiosity – or are those just accidents. Who knows?
Well that makes sense. But what made me wonder when I watched BBCs walking with dinosaurs was that t-rex:ees were pictured as solitary predators. OK – they’re big and thus need large territory. But they still got big brains – what do they use those for. Maybe it’s because they probably ate so various prey – there were no mid size or other large predators around in their time. But what about half grown t-rexes? Of course whales have big brains and complex “songs”, maybe t-rexes had “songs” too.
although im a christian i can’t stand it when other christians try to say that the earth is 6000 years old. it’s absolutely absurd
They do think a lot of raptors stuck together. They were small predators, so it makes sense that they’d need help to bring down a big herbivore. Raptors are thought to be the smartest of the dinosaurs, which they’d need to be to co-ordinate their attacks.
Ah yes, herd mentality, thanks.
Bjork?
I have two problems with that:
1. The skeleton is cool too though, and
2. I don’t want to risk ruining it.
But at the fossil shop they do have a t-rex model made of plastic and very realistic looking. Although I think that was bones too. I think full flesh models propably look tacky because of the joints… I dunno. Will you find and send me one for Christmas? Hehe, lol.
But if vraptors were pack animals they might be tameable – at least one that you had from an egg might somehow “feel” you be e’s parent or packmember..
But AFAIK there is no predatory birds that hunt in packs – we’ll there’s buzzards and crows of course.. And of course vraptors had quite much larger brains than crows – and crows can be quite smart – but they don’t really hunt in packs – they just flock about.. So how would a vraptor flock act – we don’t have a clue. We’re mammals.
Well – explaining parental love to a child is probably pretty much futile thing to begin with. Try explaining your velociraptor f(r)iend how much you like it.
(assuming you do and imagining it’s a real live velociraptor.) Now the velociraptor just might get that you like it on some level and maybe even understand that you are trying to explain something to it – it’s a pretty smart bird after all. Then again – it might just eat you. 
I had the same model. It fits my early theories of hell and heaven + yin-yang + “All things in moderation”. Hell is extremes, and heaven is perfect moderation.
Oh god… so cold… that’s probably what they were trying to do! Break us down. Da bastids. Diabolical!
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Herd_mentality
(got to take out the spaces obviously)
you physically remind me of Bjork, no offense if it’s taken.
neat Velociraptor too ;p